NP Misc. on psychedelic: I dind't know this,didjuu?......(from probably a reliable source)
Mark Kohut
markekohut at yahoo.com
Mon Jan 24 10:42:11 CST 2011
"To make this trivial world sublime," Aldous Huxley wrote to the psychiatrist
who had handed him a pinch of a peyote cactus's juicy bits, "take half a gram of
phanerothyme."
The word the poet coined there at the end for perception-altering drugs, alas,
did not stick; Humphrey Osmond, the psychiatrist, wrote back: "To fathom Hell or
soar angelic, just take a pinch of psychedelic."
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