The trip's architect was Dr. Humphry Osmond, the psychiatrist who had first guided Aldous Huxley — the author of “Brave New World” and “The Doors of Perception” — in experiments with ...

Let’s Not Make It Harder In the foreword to his classic book Amusing Ourselves to Death, the cultural critic Neil Postman proposed that it was Aldous Huxley, and not George Orwell, who had more ...

Aldous Huxley isn't as famous as George Orwell is nowadays. We certainly don't speak about The World State or Mustapha Mond from Brave New World as often as we do about Big Brother and The ...