Milton Erickson spent a day in 1950 at the home of Aldous Huxley. Huxley is the celebrated author of A Brave New World. Huxley did a form of self-hypnosis he called “Deep Reflection.” On that day Erickson and Huxley did some remarkable consciousness explorations. The two men had agreed to jointly publish a collaborative work on their findings. A decade passed, and Erickson was looking to bring the collaborative project to fruition when disaster struck. Huxley lost his home and all his notes and manuscripts in the great Bel-Air, California fire of 1961. Afterward, Huxley informed Erickson that he would not resume their collaboration—the loss was too great. What’s the story behind this disaster, and was Huxley specifically targeted with a backlash for his life’s work?

This is a perceptive question because it is recognizing a significant lost opportunity with the coming together of two great minds in a position to probe workings of the mind, and apply a high level of creativity and insight to better understand what is truly happening when consciousness not only solves problems but creates new ideas and offers new information not seemingly in existence yet. It is not that there was a unique process by Aldous Huxley that is now lost to history, it is that he was more highly intuitive and his process enabled his intuition to work effectively and to best advantage, and this could have sparked a much more aggressive exploration of the paranormal because this was pointing the way to the use of trance states in facilitating the intuitive reach of non-local consciousness that has all kinds of applications for learning and problem-solving, both. You are correct that the loss of his writings was indeed sinister. This was intended to be a setback for Huxley to further limit what he could do in the future as his work was truly prophetic. Huxley was tapping into the actual planning of the Extraterrestrial Alliance, and that is why people perceived it as "a grim prophecy of a future reality" and read his work with foreboding. It has never been truer than today that his classic, A Brave New World, has come into existing reality more and more with each passing year, and that is because the plans were laid during Huxley's lifetime, and before, and are only playing out according to plan. We have said before a number of times that there are no true secrets because everything is on record, and the reach of intuition quite powerfully able to see and learn all that is in existence, including what is still on the drawing boards but planned to happen, and therefore is being formulated and implemented in a future extension of the current timeline. That is why prophecy can be demonstrated in the first place, it is simply the viewing of an actual future in formation. That timeline is provisional, so the future projection can change, and this makes future events uncertain and confuses things greatly because even the best psychics will be wrong a significant part of the time, even in terms of major happenings. It is not their fault, it is because the future itself and its potentials have changed, because other things are moderating what truly plays out, so the prophecy became out of date and was replaced with a new set of potentials. So while we do not regard prophecy as an especially valuable application of intuitive reach, these phenomena are an extremely valuable clue about the importance of the paranormal—that consciousness is wide-ranging and able to reveal many important truths about the reality of existence people are unaware of and need to know to safeguard their future.