Doors in the Wall

Posted by Kathryn Soper | August 23, 2007 | Comments Off

The function of the brain and nervous system and sense organs are in the main eliminative and not productive. Each person is at each moment capable of remembering all that has ever happened to him and of perceiving everything that is happening everywhere in the universe. The function of the brain and nervous system is to protect us from being overwhelmed and confused by this mass of largely useless and irrelevant knowledge, by shutting out most of what we should otherwise perceive or remember at any moment, and leaving only that very small and special selection which is likely to be practically useful. (quoted in Aldous Huxley’s Doors of Perception)

Read my thoughts on this at Times and Seasons 

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