Aldous Huxley recollected

aldous huxley studied hinduism and practised it for a good fifteen years before he attempted his moment of what he called gratuitous grace the ability through mescaline to see a different way.

And so I anchor Huxley in Hollywood and then the subsequent book, Aldous Huxley Recollected, both of which are still bouncing around somewhere, with the unalterable trope than the way that a plant seeks light and will change its development and growth to obtain that light.

In his case, it was to see.

And that quest for sight took him indeed to psychedelic experiences, but it took him to inner sight, to meditation, to understanding how mystics have spoken time to the unspeakable but the visualizable So for Huxley, I think there's a progression of seeking raw sight in the physical sense, in moving to France and Italy where the sun was strong and he could see, to in his last home in the Hollywood Hills on famous Mulholland Drive, where he moved into and remodeled a house with Laura Huxley, his second wife, which had a two-story wall made of glass.