Aldous Huxley

The writer, humanist, and oft quoted Aldous Huxley can really pour it strong, if you know what I mean. In his 1954 essay, The Doors of Perception, Huxley expounds on mescaline use. It's long and a little difficult to read, but interesting nonetheless.

"If we could sniff or swallow something that would, for five or six hours each day, abolish our solitude as individuals, atone us with our fellows in a glowing exaltation of affection and make life in all its aspects seem not only worth living, but divinely beautiful and significant, and if this heavenly, world-transfiguring drug were of such a kind that we could wake up next morning with a clear head and an undamaged constitution-then, it seems to me, all our problems (and not merely the one small problem of discovering a novel pleasure) would be wholly solved and earth would become paradise."