Huxley Doors Of Perception

ALDOUS HUXLEY THE DOORS OF PERCEPTION It was in 1886 that the German pharmaeologist, Louis Lewin, pubhshed the first systematie study of the eactus, to whieh his own name was subsequently given. Anhalonium lewinii was new to seienee. To primitive rehgion and the Indians of Mexieo and the Ameiiean Southwest it was a friend of immemoriaUy long standing. Indeed, it was mueh more than a friend. In the words of one of the early Spanish visitors to the New World, "they eat a root whieh they eall peyote, and whieh they venerate as though it were a deity." Why they should have venerated it as a deity beeame apparent when sueh eminent psyehologists as Jaenseh, Haveloek EUis and Weir MiteheU…