"We live together, we act on, and react to, one another; but always and in all circumstances we are by ourselves. The martyrs go hand in hand into the same arena; they are crucified alone. Embraced, the lovers desperately try to fuse their insulated ecstasies into a single transcendence; in vain. By its very nature every embodied spirit is doomed to suffer and enjoy in solitude. "
- 'The Doors of Perception' by Aldous Huxley
In spite of seventy years of mescalin research, the psychological material at his disposal was still absurdly inadequate, and he was anxious to add to it. Thus it came about that, one bright May morning in the Spring of 1953, I swallowed four-tenths of a gramme of mescalin dissolved in half a glass of water and sat down to wait for the results.
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