With the publication of Aldous Huxley’s mescaline-induced musings in “The Doors of Perception” in 1954, the spiritual and mystical groundwork for the psychedelic revolution of the following decade was ...
Author of Brave New World and The Doors of Perception, Aldous Huxley was born on July 26, 1894 and died on November 22, 1963—exactly 56 years ago today. In his memory, we’re republishing Jay Stevens’ ...
It's been a half-century since Timothy Leary, a research psychologist at Harvard University, swallowed some magic mushrooms down in Mexico and decided that America was ready to embark on a long, ...
Mescaline: A Global History of the First Psychedelic. By Mike Jay.Yale University Press; 304 pages; $26 and £18.99. MESCALINE IS THE drug that launched the modern fascination with hallucinogens. It is ...
Happy birthday, Aldous Huxley! The author of “Brave New World,” a classic of dystopian literature, was born 123 years ago Wednesday. The British novelist and intellectual, and longtime Southern ...
The cover of the Incredible String Band’s second LP, released in 1967, showed psychedelia’s influence on music and art (Jeff Morgan/Alamy) The Beatles wrote songs about them and Aldous Huxley said ...
What would you see if you could look inside a hallucinating brain? Despite decades of scientific investigation, we still lack a clear understanding of how hallucinogenic drugs such as LSD (lysergic ...
LOS ANGELES — Laura Archera Huxley, a lay therapist and author who was the widow of Aldous Huxley, died Thursday at her home in the Hollywood Hills. She was 96. The cause was cancer, said Dan Hirsch, ...
“You shall know the truth,” Aldous Huxley once said, “and the truth shall make you mad.” You’d be hard-pressed to find a quote more emblematic of the late English author, who was born 122 years ago ...
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