Is ordinary waking consciousness the only form available to you?

PART 1 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.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?That question is where Part 2 begins.Part 2: [link] Six Yogas of Naropa: quantumawareness.net/six-yogas-of-naropa/ Quantum Awareness: quantumawareness.netCHAPTERS 00:00 Los Angeles, May 1953 02:40 The Man in the Room — Who Was Aldous Huxley? 05:44 The Flower Sermon and the Flowers — Tathatā 13:20 The Reducing Valve — Bergson, Huxley, Carhart-Harris 16:20 The Question — How Do You Dissolve It Without Chemistry?