Aldous Huxley’s psychedelic Los Angeles life

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/jacketcopy/2011/06/aldous-huxley-psychdelic-los-angeles.html

ldous Huxley is best remembered for his dystopian novel “Brave New World,” depicting a future conformist society in which happiness is mandated and medicated. Huxley, who was born into a family of British intellectuals, was already an established critical thinker when the book was published in 1932.

So he might seem like an unlikely candidate for going to the Southern California desert to take a hallucinogen like mescaline — but that’s exactly what he did.