Is ordinary waking consciousness the only form available to you?

<p><strong>PART 1 </strong></p><p>In 1953 Aldous Huxley looked at three flowers and saw what Mahākāśyapa saw when the Buddha held up the lotus on Vulture Peak — the tathatā, the suchness, the bare reality of things before the mind's reducing valve filters it back into the ordinary.</p><p>In Part 1 we follow the thread from Henri Bergson's reducing valve philosophy through Huxley's mescaline afternoon to Robin Carhart-Harris's 2014 neuroimaging at Imperial College London. Three descriptions. One mechanism. And a question: the Tibetan tradition had been working with this same mechanism for a thousand years before any of them — not describing the valve from the outside, but dissolving it from the inside. How?</p><p>That question is where Part 2 begins.</p><p>Part 2: [link] Six Yogas of Naropa: quantumawareness.net/six-yogas-of-naropa/ Quantum Awareness: quantumawareness.net</p><p><br /></p><p><strong>CHAPTERS</strong> </p><p>00:00 Los Angeles, May 1953 </p><p>02:40 The Man in the Room — Who Was Aldous Huxley? 05:44 The Flower Sermon and the Flowers — Tathatā </p><p>13:20 The Reducing Valve — Bergson, Huxley, Carhart-Harris 16:20 The Question — How Do You Dissolve It Without Chemistry?</p>