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’ ...

One bright May morning, Mr. Huxley swallowed four tenths of a gram of a drug called mescalin — the active principle of peyote, long used by the Mexican Indians in their religious rites — to test its ...

“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 ...

When Aldous Huxley emerged from a mescaline trip that veered from an obsession with the folds in his trousers to wonder at the “miraculous” tubularity of the bamboo legs on his garden chairs, he ...

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 ...

heard of The Doors? People are Strange, Riders on the Storm, Break on Through (to the Other Side)... Turns out The Doors comes from Aldous Huxley's book "The Doors of Perception." The 1954 book was a ...

The Quote of the day by Aldous Huxley is still relevant because it captures a central dilemma of modern life: how to maintain agency in a world shaped by forces beyond individual control.

In a time of endless war and triumphant cynicism, I found myself the other day unexpectedly walking through the doors of perception. Yeah, those doors. “You know the day destroys the night/Night ...

Psychedelic Science begins again this week, with our second guest of ψ Series: Alexander Randall V. Heard of The Doors? People are Strange, Riders on the Storm, Break on Through (to the Other Side) ...