Heaven and Hell

I was informed in a previous class that the Catholic Church is still in the dominant position to identify certain books as dangerous. Heaven and Hell surely must be on their Black List. In the appendices, it explains that people in Biblical times suffered from vitamin deficiencies, causing the nervous system to be more vulnerable than other areas of the body. It goes on to say that the result of an inadequate diet lowers the efficiency of the brain, thus causing anxiety, depression and also visions. Most of the early visionaries experienced terrifying visions, like in Christian theology – the Devil revealing himself and the visions with GOD. I hate to say this, but this story points toward throwing the Bible out the door, therefore it would be very interesting to know if Heaven and Hell is condemned by the church. I can certainly understand why it would be on their list of condemned books.

On pages 116 and 117, of Heaven and Hell, Aldous Huxley talks about all the glut of chrome and nickel, of stainless steel and aluminum and the other new alloys. Heaven and Hell is copyrighted in the late 50s. At that time silver was the in thing! I can remember having a silver tree and all the balls and trimmings in shades of the silver too. It was really the style at that time, so I can see where Huxley is coming from in his description of this.

Also, I have one last comment. I had a dream last night and I dreamed throwing a red rubber bone to my dog. My dreams are in color.