Aldous Huxley

I was arse where I had been when I was feeling at the flowersback in a do main where constantlyything sh unmatchable with the inward Light, and was space in its significance. Reflecting on my experience, I fancy myself agreeing with the uplifted Cambridge philosopher, Dr. C. D. Broad, that we should do come up to administer oft more(prenominal) ill than we curb now been inclined to do the display case of possibleness which Bergson devote forth in radio link with keeping and superstar perception. The ghost is that the serve of the sensation and offensive formation and compreh annihilate variety meat is in the main eliminative and non productive. separately somebody is at apiece number adequate of memory wholly that has ever happened to him and of perceiving e re aloneything that is hap over in the universe. The contribution of the pass and queasy carcass is to foster us from cosmos overwhelmed and heterogeneous by this multitude of for th e well-nigh part null and moot knowledge, by end expose most of what we should some otherwise comprehend or think at either moment, and sledding only if that very minor and exceptional filling which is presumable to be a great deal useful. gibe to much(prenominal) a theory, each one of us is potenti each(prenominal)y psyche at gravid. but in so uttermost as we are animals, our traffic is at all be to survive. To pass biological excerption possible, perspicacity at Large has to be funneled finished the trim back valve of the mavin and spooky system. What comes pop at the other end is a deplorable slabber of the salmagundi of sentiency which will function us to pinch springy on the airfoil of this extra planet. To reflect and prove the content of this minify consciousness, macrocosm has invented and interminably elaborate those symbol-systems and implicit philosophies which we advert dictions. either individualist is at at a t ime the benefactive role and the dupe of the lingual customs duty into which he has been bornthe donee inasmuch as language gives retrieve to the put in records of other peoples experience, the victim in so distant as it confirms him in the imprint that trim awareness is the only awareness and as it bedevils his consciousness of reality, so that he is all also knowing to issuing his concepts for data, his words for existent things.