The reseach for this book began with my PhD thesis, and so I want to start by thanking my supervisor Michèle Barrett. James Sexton has immeasurably improved the Huxley scholarly apparatus and treated me like a colleague from the first Huxley conference I attended in Los Angeles – for which I am very grateful. The work of Jeffrey J. Kripal has been tremendously helpful and inspiring, and has switched me on to new fields of scholarship. He has also proved to be a generous advocate of my work and graciously commented on early drafts of this book. Chris Megson has not only been a great friend but has offered shrewd academic advice and encouragement. Thanks also to Rob Linton, James Leavey, Julie Chajes, Victoria Walker and Huw Marsh. I’d also like to thank Tessa Schild and Marco Pasi at Brill, for their help and advice. Special thanks to my mother and Ayako, for their love, support and understanding.
Parts of Chapter 2 first appeared in my article “Beyond the Subliminal Mind: Psychical Research in the Work of Aldous Huxley”, in Aries 15 (2015). Parts of Chapter 6 have been adapted from my introduction to Altered Consciousness in the Twentieth Century (Routledge, 2019). A few passages in Chapter 4 first appeared in "'God-Intoxicated’: An Essay on Jiddu Krishnamurti and His Relationship with Aldous Huxley’, in Aldous Huxley Annual 9 (2009).
For permission to quote from Huxley’s works, I’m grateful to James W. Spisak at the Aldous and Laura Huxley Literary Trust and to Cora Markowitz at Georges Borchardt, Inc., Literary Agency.