About the Book: Moksha
Selected writings from the author of "Brave New World" and "The Doors of
Perception" on the role of psychedelics in society.
- Includes letters and lectures by Huxley never published elsewhere.
In May 1953 Aldous Huxley took four-tenths of a gram of mescaline. The mystical
and transcendent experience that followed set him off on an exploration that was
to produce a revolutionary body of work about the inner reaches of the human
mind. Huxley was decades ahead of his time in his anticipation of the dangers
modern culture was creating through explosive population increase, headlong
technological advance, and militant nationalism, and he