Delving into the unfolding correspondence that fills these lovingly crafted pages affords pleasure and no small dollop of prophecy as they chronicle the great friendship that manifested during the last decade of Aldous Huxley’s life and Humphrey Osmond’s most fertile period of research. Topics run from both men’s fascination with opening the doors of the mind to explore the biochemistry of...
Much of the drama of A Culture’s Catalyst revolves around ‘The Night in the Tipi’, a legendary night on the Red Pheasant Reserve in the autumn of 1956 when Abram Hoffer, Humphry Osmond, Duncan Blewett and Teddy Weckowicz, accompanied by two other white men, Doug Skagi, a journalist, and Gordon Skogland, a photographer, both from the Saskatoon Star-Phoenix, participated in and documented a...