The word "psychedelic" was invented during a poetry battle. Aldous Huxley proposed "phanerothyme" with the line: "To make this mundane world sublime, take half a gram of phanerothyme." Psychiatrist Humphry Osmond countered: "To fathom Hell or soar angelic, just take a pinch of psychedelic." Osmond won. He debuted the word at the New York Academy of Sciences in 1957. We almost ended up calling them "phanerothymes."