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Soon after the publication of his book, Huxley wrote to Harold Raymond at Chatto and Windus that he thought it strange that when Hilaire Belloc and G. K. Chesterton wrote the praises of alcohol they were still considered good Christians, while anyone who suggested other routes to self-transcendence was accused of being a drug addict and perverter of mankind.

Later Huxley responded to Zaehner in an article published in 1961: " For most of those to whom the experiences have been vouchsafed, their value is self-evident.

By Dr. Zaehner, the author of Mysticism, Sacred and Profane, their deliberate induction is regarded as immoral.

To which his colleague, Professor Price, retorts in effect, ' Speak for yourself!

'".