PSYCHEDELIC HUXLEY

PSYCHEDELIC HUXLEY
   Aldous Huxley wrote Brave New World in 1932, and his vision of a future world was original, funny, and shocking.In the book, drugs were presented as an unqualified evil. Soma, the drug of choice, was used by the authorities to tranquilize humanity into euphoric complacency.But Huxley himself spent the last decade of his life exploring consciousness-altering drugs with a lot more sympathy. He experimented with mescaline in 1953 and tried LSD several times during the 1950s, writing about his experiences with great enthusiasm and, as he said," an unspeakable sense of gratitude for the privilege of being born into this universe."Huxley died on November 22, 1963, the day John F. Kennedy was assassinated. A few hoursbefore Huxley’s death, he requested LSD. As the doctor and nurses who were attending him were clustered around the television, Huxley passed away, under the influence.

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