ode to sensory deprivation – the world I see holds nothing that I want
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.
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Ra from the Law of One: “the isolation tank is a gadget”
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: