The seeds of the LSD trip were planted a year earlier, in the summer of 1955. Aldous Huxley, recently widowed and struggling with his grief, came to stay with Matthew and Ellen.

These words, from Aldous Huxley ’s seminal book The Doors of Perception, signaled a crucial turn in the popular perception of hallucinogenic drugs and the direction of hallucinogenic drug research.

During the '20s, when British Novelist Aldous Huxley was writing sexy, sophisticated novels (Point Counter Point), the fashionable thing was humanistic materialism. By this week it was plain that ...