SOURCE: "Aldous Huxley: The Quest for Synthetic Sainthood," in Modern Fiction Studies, Vol. 27, No. 4, Winter, 1981-82, pp. 601-612.
In the following essay, Gill discusses Aldous Huxley's experimentations with LSD as a means of reaching spiritual enlightenment, concluding that Huxley ultimately failed because of his inability to overcome his "intellectual baggage. "