As you may already know, I am on my way to becoming what some call an “influencer” on Instagram where I have amassed over 3 million views and 47,000 followers in just a few short weeks.
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A doctor based in Washington, Dr. Sunil Aggarwal, has asserted his right to prescribe psilocybin under "right to try" laws. We can hope that the 9th Circuit Court will uphold Dr. Aggarwal's interpretation. Stay tuned for my interview with Dr. Aggarwal, and send me your questions to ask him next week via social media.
This week, I’m inviting my listeners to share their most pressing unanswered questions about psychedelics. Send them via YouTube, or by commenting on this post.
Aldous Huxley, the renowned English writer, philosopher, and psychedelic explorer, spent the final months of his life in a state of unremitting pain and distress. In a letter to his brother Julian, Aldous’s wife Laura described her husband’s deteriorating condition and unceasing suffering in the days leading up to his death:
There is so much I want to tell you about the last week of Aldous’ life and particularly the last day. What happened is important not only for us close and loving but it is almost a conclusion, better, a continuation of his own work, and therefore it has importance for people in general.
When Laura wrote of the continuation of his work, she was alluding to her husband’s mission to aid humanity in “opening the doors of perception”—in large part through the conscious use of mind-altering substances.
Ten years after publishing his psychedelic autobiography The Doors of Perception, Huxley found himself on his deathbed. He had been battling laryngeal cancer for nearly a year, and despite rounds of treatments and a regimen of heavy medications, his condition continued to worsen. The disease had spread too far.
Huxley, who was unable to speak, scrawled a note on a tablet to his wife Laura, who was attending his bedside:
“LSD – try it. [Intramuscular] 100 micrograms.”
Huxley was asking Laura to administer him a sizable dose of his favorite psychedelic medicine to relieve his distress in a way the narcotics could not. He was hoping to gain “moksha”—a transcendent, mystical insight into the nature of existence—one last time before passing.
Though radical, Huxley’s request was not unfounded. He had spent decades researching psychedelic compounds and believed firmly in their potential for providing transcendence—even up to and including the passage into death itself. In his final moments, Huxley wanted to test this hypothesis for himself. His vision went far beyond his era’s thinking, yet he saw what we are now only beginning to grasp—that these powerful molecules may relieve anguish for the dying in a way conventional medicines can’t.
