Reducing Valve (Huxley)

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Definition

Aldous Huxley's idea, from 'The Doors of Perception' (1954), that the brain filters a vast universal 'Mind at Large' and lets through only a trickle so we can function day to day. Psychedelics or mystical states are said to open the valve.

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