Huxley, De Quincey, Baudelaire, Bowles, Ginsberg, Burroughs: Literature of Substance

In his essay The Doors of Perception, Aldous Huxley describes his experiences after taking a dose of mescaline. At the end of the book, he makes this observation:
… Read the restThat humanity at large will ever be able to dispense with Artificial Paradises seems very unlikely. Most men and women lead