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One of the consequences of Huxley’s mescaline experience was for him to agree with the British philosopher C. D. Broad, who - inspired by HenriBergson’s theory on memory and sense perception - posited that the human brain operates as avast reducing-valve: the primary function of the brain, the nervous system and the sense organs is to regulate the overwhelming flow of information and perception we are constantly subjected to, and keep only what is necessary on a “practical” level. Thus, a great deal of information never reaches us: “what comes out at the other end is a measly trickle of the kind of consciousness which will help us to stay alive on the surface of this particular planet” (“Doors” 23). Huxley, as seen above, also believed that this state of consciousness was too often taken for the only valid one. His mystical experience caused by mescaline was the proof that other states of consciousness could be attained. The mind could be freed from these hindrances to attain what he referred to as “Mind at Large”—the mind expanded beyond its purely “survivalist” function.
One of the consequences of Huxley’s mescaline experience was for him to agree with the British philosopher C. D. Broad, who - inspired by HenriBergson’s theory on memory and sense perception - posited that the human brain operates as avast reducing-valve: the primary function of the brain, the nervous system and the sense organs is to regulate the overwhelming flow of information and perception we are constantly subjected to, and keep only what is necessary on a “practical” level. Thus, a great deal of information never reaches us: “what comes out at the other end is a measly trickle of the kind of consciousness which will help us to stay alive on the surface of this particular planet” (“Doors” 23). Huxley, as seen above, also believed that this state of consciousness was too often taken for the only valid one. His mystical experience caused by mescaline was the proof that other states of consciousness could be attained. The mind could be freed from these hindrances to attain what he referred to as “Mind at Large”—the mind expanded beyond its purely “survivalist” function.