Moksha by Aldous Huxley ACTIVE ONLINE But the simpler stories such Style:21 But the simpler stories such as those of a plant's energy explored day to day matters like health and love Pliny the Elder and he saw psychedelics as the greatest means at our disposal to "remind adults that the real world is very different from the misshapen universe they have created for themselves by means of their culture conditioned prejudices " Much of Huxley's writings following his 1953 mescaline experiment can be seen as his attempt to reveal the power of these substances to awaken a sense of the sacred in people living in a technological society hostile to mystical revelations