Does the name Albert Hofman mean anything to you? If not, have a read of this interview marking his 100th birthday. Tim Leary was only the marketing guy for acid, the Ray Kroc of enlightenment. Mr Hofman was the one who asked the right question in the first place and found a spiritual experience more powerful than a hundred masses, Flanagan.
I hope that when I'm dying of lung cancer, someone will do me the same favour Aldous Huxley got from his wife.