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aliases:
- Aldous Huxley
- Aldous Huxley
category: "Belgium Scandals"
tags:
- Person
- Author
- Philosopher
- Psychedelics
- Consciousness
- Parapsychology
- Round_Table_Foundation
- UK
- Mescaline
- Counterculture
- Belgium
summary: "Aldous Huxley (1894–1963) was a renowned English writer and philosopher, best known for his dystopian novel *Brave New World*."
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Aldous Huxley (1894–1963) was a renowned English writer and philosopher, best known for his dystopian novel *Brave New World*. He had a keen interest in the [[Consciousness|trance state]] and its potential as a means of gathering unseen information about the natural world, a fascination that led him to experiment with psychedelic substances and observe the work of [[Andrija Puharich]][^1].
Huxley's personal experiences with mescaline, the principal hallucinogenic agent in peyote, were documented in his 1954 book, *The Doors of Perception*. This work explored the expansion of consciousness through drug use and met with both controversy and widespread readership, influencing counterculture movements[^1].