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D
oors as gateways to perception are powerful symbols. A 1954 book by Aldous Huxley, “The Doors of Perception”, explores the effects of experiential values and symbols on understanding. The human mind is always filtering reality. This occurs because of inherent limitations in our biological sensors, because processing all details of incoming sensations would be impossible, and because of learned habitual responses. Huxley's book motivated Jim Morrison to name his rock band “The Doors”.
“The man who comes back through the Door in the Wall will never be quite the same as the man who went out. He will be wiser but less sure, happier but less self-satisfied, humbler in acknowledging his ignorance yet better equipped to understand the relationship of words to things, of systematic reasoning to the unfathomable mystery which it tries, forever vainly, to comprehend.” - Aldous Huxley
