https://blog.georgefabish.com/tags/mescaline/ Recent content in Mescaline on George's Blog Hugo en-US Sun, 25 Dec 2022 00:00:00 +0000 https://blog.georgefabish.com/reviews/the-doors-of-perception-heaven-and-hell/ Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:32:36 -0500 https://blog.georgefabish.com/reviews/the-doors-of-perception-heaven-and-hell/ <p>This is essay was written documenting Huxley&rsquo;s psychedelic experience while being given Mescaline (the active ingredient in peyote). Huxley&rsquo;s theory was that the ego acts a &ldquo;reducer valve&rdquo; on consciousness and by taking a psychoactive drug he could thereby sidestep this valve and widen his experience of reality. According to the essay this is exactly what happened. He was administered the drug by a psychiatrist who had been studying the drug for some time before this event. This psychiatrist and Huxley&rsquo;s wife accompanied him for the 8hr trip with a tape recorder and some questions to help document the effects of the drug. While high Huxley looks at some fine art paintings and suddenly understands that the artist could see things the way he currently was seeing things and that he could tell his consciousness had been brought up to the level of &ldquo;visionary&rdquo;. Among other things he later makes an argument that the relationship of alcohol and Christianity should be abandoned and replaced with Mescaline. I feel like if you were to have that conversation the response would just be laughter, but to me it was an interesting argument. People/Aldous Huxley</p>