Essential reading for anyone who wants to transcend into a state of greater happiness, openmindedeness, peace and creativity.

Aldous Huxley was clearly a man ahead of his time: imagine an English intellectual in the 1940's writing about mescaline and LSD, how they relate to psychology, sociology and religion in modern times.
This was not a cult leader or an Edgar Cayce/Aleister Crowley sort of philosopher: his essays were published in periodicals as varied as the Saturday Evening Post and Playboy Magazine (!). He was one of the ultimate explorers of the mind. Many of his thoughts from the 40's and the 50's still sound as relevant today as the day they were written.
His timeless thoughts are his genius. I recommend this book highly.

Una visión del mundo a través del consumo de psicodélicos, esto como catalizador de experiencias espirituales asociadas xon prácticas ancestrales, tanto en comunidades prehispánicas como del lejano oriente.

Huxley's writings, otherwise, find a deep connect within any reader and offer many things new. This one, when I read, brought many things new. Huxley's own experiences with himself and the material he used to 'awaken' his senses are pretty new, unsystematic and busy. A curious reader will certainly like them.

These writings provide some insight into Huxley's experiences with psychedelics, as well as some of the socio-cultural institutions that were experimenting with psychedelics in the fifties and early sixties. This book is important for understanding some of the intellectual trends, in and outside of the government, academia, private foundations, etc., that led to "The Sixties" a few years later.