- "Tanks for the Memories"
- Floatation Tank Talks
John Lilly / E.J. Gold
c 1997 Gateways Books & Tapes, I.D.H.H.B., Inc. All rights reserved.
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Artista: E.J. Gold
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[Una recensione del libro]
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When you float on the warm saline solution in a sealed sensory deprivation tank, your
sight, hearing, touch, and other senses are deprived of
any sensory input. With all of
the physical senses turned off--the reasoning
goes--the inner workings of your mind are allowed
to come to the forefront. Many people experience incredibly real hallucinations
while in these tanks.
These floatation tanks were invented by John C. Lilly,
who also pioneered
human-dolphin communication and has made other major
contributions to the
understanding of consciousness. In this book, he and his
very private mentor--human
potential movement pioneer E.J. Gold--explain
the history and uses of the tanks and how the
tanks affect your state of being.
The first three chapters are by Lilly...one is a
lecture he gave in 1975 and two are
articles from an obscure magazine called Floatation. In
the first chapter, Lilly says: "All
the average person has to do is get into the tank in the
darkness and silence and float
around until he realizes he is programming everything that
is happening inside his head.
You are free of the physical world at that point and
anything can happen inside your
head because everything is governed by the laws of thought
rather than the laws of the
external world. So you can go to the limits of your
conceptions."
The other five chapters are transcripts of Gold's
lectures. Gold is--if anything--more
esoteric and mystical than Lilly. At one
point, he seems to be saying that you can use the tank
not just to experience other realities while you're in it, but to actually
change your day-to-day "non-tank"
reality. "You can get a better concept of the experience by
realizing that the tank is genuinely your
center, that you're going home when you go into the
tank. You're losing your imagery, you're ceasing to create a universe.
You move into the tank and you
think of another universe. You sit up, open the door and go out into
that universe, and if it's the same universe
as it is now for you, and it continues to be the same
universe, you had better take a look at yourself, at your ability to move
beyond the limits that you've set
up for yourself."
Other subjects that the Lilly and Gold cover include
energy sources to the brain, self
meta-programming, thinking in categories, other worlds,
beliefs, habits, identity, and
Alpha, Beta, Theta, and Delta states.
This a vital book for all reality hackers
and neuronauts.
Gateway Books; $12.50
1995; softcover; 152 pp
illus; 0-89556-071-2