Reddit reviews Aldous Huxley: A Biography (Thomas Dunne Books)

Wow, the mental gymnastics you do to avoid feeling cognitive dissonance. "If you find sources that say I'm wrong, your sources are wrong, because I am right."

Sources confirming that Humphrey Osmond coined the term "Psychedelic":

• Tanne, Janice Hopkins 2004 Humphry Osmond. PMC/U.S. National Library of Medicine
  
  
  
• Murray, Nicholas 2003. Aldous Huxley: A Biography. Thomas Dunne ISBN 0312302371
  
  
  
• Erowid
  
  
  
• "I believe that there is a place for the use of these substances in the training of psychiatrists, psychologists, nurses, and others working with the mentally ill. I have linked these agents with recent work on the reduced and specialized environment by Hebb and Lilly, and I have discussed some psychological, social, and philosophical implications inherent in this inquiry, relating them to the newer work on perception. In view of all these considerations, I have suggested that "psychotomimetic" is far too narrow a generic term, and I have suggested several that imply alterations in the normal mind. Among these proposed designations are "psychehormic," "psycherhexic," and "psychezymic," my own preference being "psychelytic," or "psychedelic"--mind-manifesting." - Humphry Osmond, Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, Vol. 66(3), 1957, pp. 418-434