A Course in Miracles lesson 128 hits hard:
When comes to the isolation tank, the Monk or the Magician are the primary paths. This is a monk-statement if I’ve ever seen one.
The Law of One is a book of channeled messages. The messages were transmitted to Carla Rueckert. She channeled mesages from a 6th density entity named “Ra”. Ra, being sixth density, is more evolved than us earthlings, who exist in 3rd density. The particular messages that come from Ra are answers to questions posed by a 3rd person – Don Elkins.
In verse 43.30, Elkins starts a line of inquiry about aids to meditation:
You stated that the key to strengthening the will is concentration. Can you tell me the relative importance of the following aids to concentration? I have listed: silence, temperature control, comfort of body, screening as a Faraday cage would screen electromagnetic radiation, visible light screening, and a constant smell such as the use of incense for strengthening your concentration in meditation. In other words, an isolation-type of situation. You mentioned that this was one of the functions of the pyramid.
Ra responds:
I am Ra. The analogies of body complex to mind and spirit complex activities have been discussed previously. You may consider all of these aforementioned aids as those helpful to the stimulation of that which in actuality aids concentration, that being the will of the entity. This free will may be focused at any object or goal.
My commentary on this verse is that Elkins mentions a 6 aids to concentration, of which 4 (silence, temperature control, comfort of body, visible light screening) are found in the isolation tank
In 43.31 Elkins continues the line of inquiry:
I was really trying to get at whether it would be of great importance to construct a better place for our meditations. We have distractions here of the types which I mentioned, and I know that it is our total free will as to whether we construct this or not, but I was just trying to get at the principles. For instance, the Faraday cage would be quite a big construction and I was wondering if it would be of any real value?
Ra responds (emphasis is mine):
I am Ra. Without infringing upon free will we feel it possible to state that the Faraday cage and the isolation tank are gadgets.
The surrounding of self in a sylvan atmosphere, apart from distractions, in a place of working used for no other purpose, in which you and your associates agree to lay aside all goals but that of the meditative seeking of the Infinite Creator is, shall we say, not gadgetry but the making use of the creation of the Father in second-density love, and in the love and support of other-selves. Are there any brief queries before this working is at an end?
My commentary on this verse is that when Ra refers to the isolation tank as a gadget he is saying that it a useless toy that has no place in authentic spiritual elevation from 3rd density to higher densities.
You may listen to the actual channeling here:
The red circle with the text “A novel” ruins this book cover. Nonetheless, this son-of-a-gun can write. He has a way of hooking you into sentence after sentence with how he unfolds his plot. I could learn a lot from curling up with this book.
I went ahead and removed the part of the art that was bothering me. Enjoy:
Reddit Forum – https://www.reddit.com/r/AWSIM/
Overview post – “floatation, sleep and dream yoga”
Historical post – https://www.richardbonk.com/new-page-awsim
First interview – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3T8gmz6GM38
I sometimes practice with the Kwan Um School of Zen in South Florida. Yesterday, I asked the president about the various levels of “achievement” in Kwan Um Zen. Here is what he said:
like me, I just come there but have no level of attainment or responsibility.
Some people take the 5 precepts
This is a minimum of 2 years and involves reading and learning. You have to complete 8 weekend retreats.
Based on an additional resource, once one becomes a Dharma Teacher, you take 5 more precepts.
After a minimum of 5 years and taking the 16 precepts, you are now in a position of service to the temple.
This person has:
Zen Master occurs based on a relation between the master and their student.
Although this blog is about isolation tanks and isolation, I will be blogging about Kwan Um Zen at some point
I was driving from the Broward Spiritist Society one day and just as I made a right onto Copans from Powerline I saw the above at the Westview Community Cemetary.
Wouldnt that be nice way to go? I mean we have green burials, so why not tank burials?
I spent the morning working on a blog post related to floatation and also building up the database of isolation tanks. I was enjoying learning about new tanks and filtration systems.
Finally, I felt it was time to float so I hopped in.
Multiple times, I had the senation of not having enough air. So I popped open the flap on my tank each time.
Then something very unusual occurred: I kept having thoughts of Canada float tanks and USA float tanks. Then I started to think: “oh my god, I’ve got to get out of this tank … I’m being electrocuted, something has malfunctioned and I must get out” … but I couldnt get out. My arms were paralyzed. So I began creating the intent of getting out and bobbing my body up and down to create momentum in the arms. I managed to get one arm up to the lip of the tank.
That was when I realized I was having a floatmare – a nightmare in a floatation tank.
While surfing the web, I had some nagative feelings about the float room builder in Canada. I did not like my interaction with him and I felt his products were way overpriced. The electrocution bit comes directly from the marketing hype of my tank about being safe from electrocution.
Masaru Emoto was a pioneer in the research on how psychic intention can affect molecular structure of water. A few videos illustrating the power of words to affect water positively and negatively are:
I had some conversations with Shane Stott when ZenFloatCo was active about this topic. He had never heard of it before. As you can see, I am on a mission to be happy and am imprinting my floatation tank water with such a vibration:
I have a few other irons in the pot to achieve happiness. For instance, I do laughter yoga barefoot on the earth for 30 minutes – this allows negativity to drain out of the body.
As I float daily, I am dropping into deeper and deeper bliss. I can only imagine how having positively structured water is going to affect me in and out of the tank.
best listened to with headphones, I was taken into this track deeper than I expected. iAwake Technologies has a huge range or audio tracks and programs designed to catapult you into the deeper recesses of your mind-space. I’ve never used ear pods in an isolation tank, but if I did, this is one track that I would definitely cue up.
What’s funny is that I was scrolling through my old posts and noticed that I posted on this very same track about a year ago!
