Word: mescaline
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Dates: during 1954-1954
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...Writing in the British Dominican review, Blackfriars, Oxford's professor of Eastern religions and ethics, Robert C. Zaehner, takes apart Novelist Aldous Huxley's book The Doors of Perception, in which Huxley proclaims that a drug called mescalin produced in him something like a religious experience. "This is the [familiar] experience of union with nature; it is not union with God," writes Zaehner. "The Doors of Perception cannot ... be classed as a holy book; for holiness implies peace. There is no peace here . . ." Far from approaching the Beatific Vision, Huxley "came nearer than he knew to the gates...
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