Aldous Huxley`s Hands: His Quest for Perception and the Origin and Return of Psychedelic Science, Symons Allene

This question sparked a journalists quest to understand what clearly seemed to be a little-known interest of Aldous Huxley. Through interviews, road trips, and family documents, the author reconstructs a time peaking in mid-1950s Los Angeles when Huxley experimented with psychedelic substances, ran afoul of gatekeepers, and advocated responsible use of such hallucinogens to treat mental illness as well as to achieve states of mind called mystical. Because the authors father had studied hundreds of hands, including those of schizophrenics, he was invited into Huxleys research and discussion circle.