Mesacalin and Schizophrenia

Huxley and his contemporaries were quite ground-breaking in their study of the brain; particularly how it can be affected by adrenaline and mescaline and its relationship to schizophrenia. Chlorpromazine was a drug used in the 1950s to treat schizophrenia as a tranquilizer, and later became a way to stabilize patients in order to psychologically treat them, where before therapists were not even able to communicate with them at all. "Tripping" as it has been called, is a form of treatment for some patients with this disease, but as Huxley used it, it was a way for him to escape, a retreat he always sought even in his childhood. It was interesting to discover that he actually died while on LSD. LSD didn't cause him to die, but he requested an injection of the drug on his deathbed, too weak even to speak. He was dying of throat cancer and did not want to suffer the convulsions within his neck and throat and had his wife supply him with a dose as a way to avoid the pain. Interesting and sad too. In Doors of Perception, I found myself wondering why this brilliant person was so infatuated with escaping by means of a hallucinogenic toxin; surely he must have had other issues at work which drove him to such an extreme. I like Josh Coleman's response as well, and likened it to my own. Why did he 'force' his mind open?