Aldous Huxley’s first book on psychedelics, through conservative historian Russell Kirk’s review of it, originally got me interested in chemical neuro-programming. Aldous was a personal friend of Jano and Alan Watts, and of Tim Leary. Aldous died on the same day as John F. Kennedy. Kerry Thornley, widely believed among Garrisonite conspiracy buffs to be “the second Oswald,” named his son Aldous Wilson Thornley — after Aldous and me. And Aldous had originally been turned on to peyote by Aleister Crowley in 1929.29
