Huxley and the New Age

Abstract

Not long after Huxley had made some of his own observations, he began to read F.L. Kunz’s journal, Main Currents of Modern Thought, a sort of intellectual’s digest outlining interconnections between recent science and religion.¹ Huxley subscribed in 1943, but, though intrigued by some ideas, was not entirely convinced by what Kunz’s journal had to say. He described it to his brother Julian as ‘a very curious publication’ which suffered from a certain naïveté (Letters 488. 1943). Nevertheless, Kunz managed to gather an impressive array of contributors, including von Weizsäcker, Eugene Wigner, von Bertalanffy, Stockhausen, and Heisenberg (who in his later years was apparently known in some quarters as ‘the Buddha’).²