Huxley Footnote

In class we read an excerpt of Huxley's Doors To Perception. The theme we discussed in class was the need for everyone to occasionally have a chemical vacation. To experience a chemical vacation Huxley ingested mescalin mixed with water. This gave him a high in which he would experience abnormal thoughts and feeling. I feel though, that through use of a drug to experience a chemical vacation, you will not receive the full experience. Natural ways should be found to put your body on a chemical vacation. Events and activities that take your mind off events happening around you will definitely produce the chemical vacation experience that taking a drug like mescalin does, minus the need for a drug. For example, if a person sits down and listens to music and looses touch with reality for a bit, they have accomplished the same thing that Huxley was doing.