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Tanks for the Memories: Floatation Tank Talks
A definitive series of talks by two acknowledged masters of consciousness exploration on uses of the flotation tank.
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208 pages, Paperback
First published June 1, 1995
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November 15, 2016
"Because consensus reality programs us in certain destructive directions, we must experience other realities in order to know we have choices."
March 24, 2024
far out
this was a three star for me until i got to ej gold’s talks
this was a three star for me until i got to ej gold’s talks
February 15, 2021
People who haven’t given five stars clearly are not familiar with Lillys work or the wider style of R A Wilson and alike
December 8, 2014
Frustrating reading for scientists. Potentially dangerous in the hands of casual psychonauts, seekers, and other impressionable/open-hearted tabula rasas.
"I am a sucker for helping others" (viii) - what does this say about the speaker?
On p. 13, Lilly uses a personal anecdote to extrapolate that LSD definitively limits and constricts and would "contaminate the experience" of a tank session. (I'm not expressing that I agree or disagree, just saying that he didn't use rigorous methodology to arrive at that non-scientific statement.)
"Finding where gravity is, and in what direction, and computing how you can move and not fall takes up about 90% of your neural activity" (18) - this is blatantly incorrect, and I'm not sure that the statement is entirely justifiable by the difference in understanding of the brain between 197x and 2014.
"The experience of different types of Satori, or enlightenment, begin [sic] at level 24" (22) - don't get me started.
"Level 3 [...] fusion with the Universal Mind or Good [...] I experienced 'myself' as melded and intertwined with hundreds of billions of other beings in a thin sheet of consciousness that was distributed around the galaxy. A [italicized:] membrain" (23) - NOPE! And double-nope to the pun! NB: this passage is from one of Lilly's talks, so the pun is an inside joke with himself.
"This is the most turned-on country the world has ever seen. The rest of the world is way behind" (23) - way to be an ass, dude! And not even accurate! So not with-it!
You see where this is going.
"I am a sucker for helping others" (viii) - what does this say about the speaker?
On p. 13, Lilly uses a personal anecdote to extrapolate that LSD definitively limits and constricts and would "contaminate the experience" of a tank session. (I'm not expressing that I agree or disagree, just saying that he didn't use rigorous methodology to arrive at that non-scientific statement.)
"Finding where gravity is, and in what direction, and computing how you can move and not fall takes up about 90% of your neural activity" (18) - this is blatantly incorrect, and I'm not sure that the statement is entirely justifiable by the difference in understanding of the brain between 197x and 2014.
"The experience of different types of Satori, or enlightenment, begin [sic] at level 24" (22) - don't get me started.
"Level 3 [...] fusion with the Universal Mind or Good [...] I experienced 'myself' as melded and intertwined with hundreds of billions of other beings in a thin sheet of consciousness that was distributed around the galaxy. A [italicized:] membrain" (23) - NOPE! And double-nope to the pun! NB: this passage is from one of Lilly's talks, so the pun is an inside joke with himself.
"This is the most turned-on country the world has ever seen. The rest of the world is way behind" (23) - way to be an ass, dude! And not even accurate! So not with-it!
You see where this is going.
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