In May 1953, Huxley 1st experimented with mescaline, supplied to him by a going to British psychiatrist, Humphry Osmond, then working in Weyburn, Sask. On his deathbed - he died the exact same working day John F. Kennedy was shot - Huxley was doing work on an post known as "Shakespeare and Religion," anything Brave New World ’s John Savage may well have appreciated.