Laura Huxley 1911-2007

I first came in contact with Laura Huxley working on the World Symposium on Humanity with Buckminster

Fuller and many other great minds...In 1978, based on what I learned at that Symposiums, I created and

produced The Tejas Symposium on Youth and Humanity on a wilderness resort north of Terlingua, Texas.

Laura joined some of the top people in the nation to discuss problems that children and youth were having

in these United States.  Years later we had chance to meet in Hollywood, where I spent some great after-

noons at her house in the Hollywood Hills in the house that she and Aldous Huxley lived.  During these times

I helped her build and launch her website www.children-ourinvestment.org

 

The letter below came to me via Karen Pfeiffer...read then visit Laura's website and hopefully give to

the work that she gave so much of her time and energy to...

 

Dear Friends and Family,

I am writing today to let you all know that Laura Archera Huxley
passed away on Thursday, December 13, 2007 at 10:17pm.  She was an
inspirational grandmother to me, a playful great-grandmother to my
daughter, Kaya and a wonderful spiritual teacher as well as friend to
many of you.

Please know that she died peacefully surrounded by people who love
her deeply.

I am very sorry to those of you who may have read of Laura?s
passing in the paper before receiving this email.

It was Laura?s wish that in lieu of flowers, people make
contributions to her organization, Children: Our Ultimate Investment
as a way of honoring her legacy.   Donations may be made at
www.children-ourinvestment.org or via mail at P.O. Box 1868, Los
Angeles, CA 90078.

I have included the obituary we wrote for her below.

Thank you all for everything you have done in support of Laura and
her vision.

Best wishes,

Karen Pfeiffer

OBITUARY FOR LAURA ARCHERA HUXLEY

Laura Archera Huxley was a visionary who touched the lives of
thousands of people and will continue to do so with her legacy for
many years to come. 

Born in Turin, Italy, in 1911, Mrs. Huxley embraced the study of the
violin very early in her life.  It soon became evident that she was
a child prodigy.  At fourteen she performed in front of the Queen of
Italy.

Later, in 1948, Mrs. Huxley sailed to the United States where she
made her debut in Carnegie Hall, playing Mozart?s violin concerto
n.5. During World War II, because the Nazis were bombing civilian
ships, she decided to remain in the United States as an ?enemy
alien?, but was cared for by many friends and stated she felt that
she had ?never been treated so well? in her life.

The illness of her close friend, Virginia Pfeiffer, prompted Mrs.
Huxley to conclude her musical career and to eventually donate her
Guarneri violin to Yehudi Menuhin and pursue her interests in
Psychotherapy and Health.

In 1948 Laura met Aldous Huxley and then wife, Maria and a wonderful
friendship blossomed.  In 1956, a year after Maria?s death, Aldous
and Laura were married.  During that time Aldous wrote Island and
Laura wrote You Are Not The Target, which became national bestsellers
and huge successes. The ?recipes for living and loving? contained
in Laura?s fabulous self-help book ask you to imagine attending
your own funeral, visualize your favorite flower, jump in another
person?s position, dance naked with music.  In later years she
also wrote Let?s Die Healthy, available online for free.

The Huxleys became prominent representatives of the Psychedelic
Movement, always advocating the use of psychedelics in a controlled
environment and for personal enrichment and always warning against
the dangers of the mindless and indiscriminate use of drugs.

Aldous Huxley died on November 22, 1963. Laura wrote about their life
together, and Aldous?s death, in her touching book, This Timeless
Moment. A favorite quote of Aldous? words is: ?One never loves
enough?.

Because of her career as a lay therapist and interest in the
realization of human potentialities, and, even more because of her
passionate love for children, Laura Huxley devoted herself in later
years to childhood, in her view, the most vulnerable and fertile time
of our life. In 1978 she started OUI (Our Ultimate Investment), later
to become COUI ? Children: Our Ultimate Investment. This Foundation
is dedicated to the best development of the ?possible human? from
before conception to the first years of life, with particular
attention given to unwanted teenage pregnancy - ?Love Before the
Beginning?.  Its central project, Teens and Toddlers, joins
teenagers with toddlers as part of the school curriculum, and is
presently carried out both in California and in the UK, effectively
preventing unwanted teenage pregnancy and so much more, transforming
the lives of many young people. In her ?Prayer of the
Unconceived? Laura wrote:

If you are ready to love and to be loved,
Invite us to this Earth
Of the thousand wonders,
And we will be born
To love and to be loved.

It was Laura?s wish that in lieu of flowers, all contributions be made to her foundation,

Children Our Ultimate Investment.


www.children-ourinvestment.org