This is a collection of Huxley's writings taken largely from the last decade of his life. He explores the brave new dawn of the psychedelic mind-altering drugs, mescalin and LSD. He discusses their political, medical and ethical implications and describes his own experience of them, in the fulness of life and at the hour of his death. These accounts, amplified and interpreted by his wife and others who knew him, tell the story of a great writer's personal journey down the elusive path to the ineffable.