The Deep Self

Michael Shannon is a prolific ambient and space artist on archive.org . I like about 25% of his work.

* Domestic Tranquility is not bad

* Icicles on Bells is not bad either. Thing is, it has a lot of movement and change which make it somewhat hard to float to.
but mainly I am grateful for him pointing me to some free software to compose ambient music. if you read his music overviews, he points you to IXI Software and Jungulator.

Thank you Michael.

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Do yourself a favor and do NOT purchase an Arbaco Portable Furnace.

The risk-free policy for the portable furnace states “There is absolutely no risk, and your satisfaction is guaranteed. ” and the return policy page states ” Leave box with product for return at any shipping company and send product to the following address.”

but the customer has to pay return shipping costs… My issues with this:

• they do not state that the customer has to pay return shipping
• they promise ‘risk-free’ and ‘satisfaction guaranteed’ but you run the risk of paying return shipping… which not risk-free
• One of their salespeople and one of their customer service reps hung up in my face when I attempted to discuss this issue with them.

On top of all this, the furnace simply did not work. It was noisy and did little to heat my bedroom after 4 hours of continuous use.

And I can’t forget the “Inspected By” certificate inside… when I tried to open the metal casing the head of one of the screws was stripped out, forcing me to do one of two things. Go through another wait period or bend back the casing to install the lamps.

Oh well, at least I get my money back for returning it!

Time for some Laughter Yoga.

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I was browsing sound photosynthesis for Lilly material and noticed something titled “Floating Yoga” by Jack Scarfatti. I googled around for floating yoga and ran across a site by a relative of the Perry family. Her definition of asana is at odds with mine. Asana is simply a posture in which you can remain still for a long time. However she says that asana is “the practice of body exercises.” Also, she thinks that pranayama involves breathing. Actually pranayama has to do with controlling the prana and only uses breathing in certain cases.

I tried a few postures anyway in the spirit of experimentation.

They did open up my body in a gross way very quickly. Normally the water works gently and slowly. Adopting postures as a form of intervention got things stretching quickly. But without the wisdom of gravity and water combined. And I certainly was not stilling my mind but rather constantly focused on the sensation of trying to pull my body into a position.

Near the end, I tried for a fetal posture. I fell over onto my side and water shot into my nose, creating a lot of pain.

Conclusion:

Yoga is about stilling the body and mind. It is not about twisting into elaborate positions. The default “posture” in the tank is analogous to shivasana, the last posture in almost any physical yoga set and the place where the real relaxation begins.

For me, the yoga of floating involves adopting shivasana and allowing the body and mind to die and the ever awake Atman to shine forth.

I have no interest in ever trying those poses again.

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This was a powerful float. Overall, I now know that sleeping in a tank is 10 times more powerful than waking state floating. Why is this? Well, in the sleep state, you automatically shutout the outside world. Also, YOU are out of the way of the body when sleep comes on. Anyway, on to this most pivotal float: neck scapula communication Mother water did her best to improve the communication between my neck and my left scapula and arm. She patiently and gently stretched and strengthened this area, working me towards reconnection and improved use of this area. anus I thought we were talking 1/2 year to 1 year before anything loosed up in the anus area. But really, the same thing is happening there as happened in my upper back. My upper back started out as hard as a rock. And now things are getting fluid there. And then the anus was the same way but it began to flow easily… but not before releasing a ton of psychologically impacted matter primarily of a sexual nature – I am talking floods of release, both physical and mental happened this time. And all without me doing anything. I also know that the regular release I receive in the lower back can be prevented if I simply start loading into my thighs instead of locking out my lower back as shown here: A very impressive session… from a very impressive tool!

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In “The Quiet Center” Lilly says that no system of concept manipulation is of use in discovering reality. He was well-versed in mathematics, logic, and semantics, but made it clear that they had no value in discovering reality. On the other hand, to build the float tank required mathematics, logic and engineering. The very devices which could not discover reality were used to build the float tank to discover reality!

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I listened to Jeffrey Thompkin’s “Gamma Meditation” during this float. I still got a wealth of body extension while integrating sensory input. Mother Water setup a point-counterpoint sonata in my spine tonight. She would open up the right rear thoracic area. Then the right rear sacrum. Then back to thorax. Then she spread open a triangle from sacrum to thoracic area. And then she worked on my right shoulder.

Finally, she showed me how chronically tensed my anus is, with the promise that time will open even that area.

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For some reason, floating seems to lower my need for eating. Of course, due to education and fear, I still shove something down my throat, preferably raw as cooked food is starting to appear more and more senseless every day.

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So, I keep noticing these lines of tension letting go. It seems to me that they are where I was struck as a child.And they just keep letting go at their own pace. This floating thing is truly amazing. A perfect blend of technology and Mother Nature. A perfect blend of help from others (Mother Nature) and work on self.

When you try to work on yourself, you can throw tie yourself in knots… shoot yourself in the foot. Miss crucial points because you cant see your whole self objectively. When others work on you, they miss things because they see things differently than you.

Here, we have Mother Nature in water and salt, who never misses the perfect chance to wash away debris, add more salt, dissolve more tension. She is your perfect therapist, setup brilliantly by Dr. John Christopher Lilly! God bless his soul!

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2.68 DEMO: There is a difference between WISHING for a thing and being READY to receive it. No one is ready for a thing, until he believes he can acquire it. The state of mind must be BELIEF, not mere hope or wish. Open-mindedness is essential for belief. Closed minds do not inspire faith, courage, and belief. DEMO: In this case THING is a thriving floatation tank center. I have _wished_ for such a center many times. I have looked with envy at Tim Strudwick’s center. I have heard the rave reviews of Frank and how many clients he was able to bring in. Now all of that _wishing_ was a way of looking at it as something I simply could not have. What they had was ->there <- and I was here… Now, on the other hand, completely unlike *wishing* we have *ready to receive*… when we are ready to receive, we BELIEVE! It is not -> over there <- it is OWN ITS WAY TO ME!!!!

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It’s the fact that we can create whatever we WANT.

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