In November 1956, three people gathered in a converted Connecticut barn to take LSD, a powerful psychedelic drug that was legal at the time. The children had just been put to bed upstairs. In the ...

Google Aldous Huxley and The Doors of Perception. SOMA was designed to 'turn off the brain', while the psyadelic revolution, as it were, was interested in using LSD and its ilk to change perception ...

“I have not seen Dr. Leary at work on LSD since 1960, so cannot comment on his recent experiments. Prudence, unfortunately, is not one of his leading characteristics.” Letter to R.K. Brunner from ...

Picture this. It’s the 1950s and Clare Boothe Luce, Aldous Huxley and Cary Grant, titans in their respective fields, go on a very trippy journey together taking LSD in the backyard of Luce’s Malibu ...

Performances in N.Y.C. How’s this for an unlikely idea for a musical? Three 1950s celebrities, including Cary Grant, experimenting with LSD. Together. It happened, sort of. Tony Yazbeck, Carmen Cusack ...

The editor of this anthology concludes his arguments for wider distribution of LSD with the statement, "No social authority can successfully arrogate unto itself the right to dictate and fix the ...

This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. Aldous Huxley is best remembered for his dystopian novel ‘Brave New ...

Tue, August 20, 2019 at 4:00 PM UTC Additional casting will be announced later. As described by Lincoln Center, Flying Over Sunset, set in the 1950s, is a work of fiction inspired by the lives of ...

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’ ...