 Because of the personal experiences with these drugs Leary and his many outstanding colleagues, Aldous Huxley ("The Doors of Perception") and Alan Watts ("The Joyous Cosmology") believed that these were the mechanisms that could bring peace to not only the nation but the world.As their research continued the media followed them and published their work and documented their behavior, the trend of this counterculture drug experimentation began.Leary made attempts to bring more organized awareness to people interested in the study of psychedelics.