In ordinary perception, the senses send an overwhelming flood of information to the brain, which the brain then filters down to a trickle it can manage for the purpose of survival in a highly competitive world. Man has become so rational, so utilitarian, that the trickle becomes most pale and thin. It is efficient, for mere survival, but it screens out the most wondrous parts of man's potential experience without his even knowing it. We're shut off from our own world. Primitive man once experienced the rich and sparkling flood of the senses fully. Children experience it for a few months-until "normal" training, conditioning, close the doors on this other world, usually for good. Somehow, the drugs opened these ancient doors. And through them modern man may at last go, and rediscover his divine birthright..Tom Wolfe
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The statement above is the words of Aldous Huxley. It speaks of our current loss of contact with our senses. We are taught to block out most of the experiences that are available to us because of the fear that they will be overwhelming. We have become so focused on being "efficient" that we are not aware of the world around us. The author goes on to say that with the proper drugs, the doors of perception will open and allow us to experience a world that is far more pleasant than what is usually experienced.
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