Frank Rodriguez’ slogan for his Aguasal Floatation tank center was: “stress dissolves in epsom salts” — just think about that… you ever been bored in a tank? Guess, what:
IT WILL DISSOLVE
But dont take my word for it. Cut out the bullshit 1 hour zazen sessions. Increase to 4 hour float sessions. Sleep in your tank. Kick ass. Rock and roll.
Funny isn’t it? We do and have in order to relax into blissful being.
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!
Watsu water therapy appears to be embraced by the occupational therapy community.
The thing about floating is that the body fixes itself. It seems sad that the only thing acceptable to insurance companies is something where a therapist has months or years of book learning… or maybe I am wrong. Is there a common medical practice that insurance companies cover where the body fixes itself?
The lack of a therapist is what I like about floating. Therapists have different levels of skill. And they can have an off-day. The water and salt never have an off day or reduction in skill level.
That being said, Harold Dull has a very comforting voice.
In my first float at spacetime tanks, the tank revealed to me all of my upper body tension. It was horrifying how clinched my entire body was. It only took the water showing me what i was doing wrong to fix it.
I am good. I am bad. I am weak. I am strong. I am health. I am disease. I am hope as well as despair. I am all that ever was, will be, and is RIGHT NOW. I am THAT I am.
When I see a person who looks this good (USE YOUR IMAGINATION)
You want to play the good guy. dip out of the zero sum game and be the positive. Ignore the fact that polarity drives everything, from procreation to electricity. But towards completeness I trek… for I AM ALLLLLLLLL……
1 – the Yoga sutras state that yoga is cessation of un-necessary mental activity. However, these same sutras list a number of abilities that accompany genuine enlightenment: many people have developed deep relaxation through floating and other practices but I wonder if their relaxation is the genuine deepest, given that there are very few people with the abilities…
I ran across Nicolai Levashov – http://www.levashov.info/Video/Telekinesis.zip
who in this video demonstrates moving a glass without touching it. he also claims to have stopped forest fires and more.
I’m watching his healing videos – they have stunning deep space visuals and 70s synth music backing his healing motions on the videos. You can download and watch them for free… be sure to finish session one because session two has even better deep space visuals… it only takes 10 days to finish the first session – http://www.levashov.info/Video/video-en.html
2 – The main reason I like scientology so much is that each level increases awareness but also requires an increase in ability: Scientology is about putting you at cause instead of at effect. And increase your ability to cause anything, including the creation of universes. So you move along the time track, through universes, towards first cause and along the way you regain your abilities and awareness of what you really are.
3 – Other systems (advaita, zen for instance) are quite content to say awareness is all there is. Me personally, I prefer objective yardsticks for how close my awareness is to the supposed initial causative awareness.
Moving on to the body, take a look at these photographs of body use:
http://www.easyvigour.net.nz/fitness/pAlexanderMonkey.jpg
http://www.spa.ex.ac.uk/drama/research/changingbody/dowling2.jpg
The alexander technique has very fixed rules about what constitutes correct body use (contrast with Feldenkrais, which is way more floatey (grin)) .. and workable results which improves people’s quality of life.
I’ve been wondering if I need something other than relaxation. If I really need to measure up to some standards of body and mind usage which show that I have truly truly improved.
When it comes to body use, I am into Alexander. When it comes to use of myself as a spiritual being, i am into (Freezone) Scientology. And both for the same reason: objective, graded criteria for improvement. Floating on the other hand, has only the Timothy Leary criteria: tune in, turn on, drop out 🙂
I spoke with a swimmer today. She said that she could float in a bathtub if she felt like it… while I need epsom salt to stay afloat, she says you just totally let go. If you tense any muscle, then you sink immediately. She doesnt hold her breath or anything.
I spoke with a swimmer today. She said that she could float in a bathtub if she felt like it… while I need epsom salt to stay afloat, she says you just totally let go. If you tense any muscle, then you sink immediately. She doesnt hold her breath or anything.
Right now, you *think* that YOU are reading this message. Later tonight, you will have a dream where you *think* that certain things are happening to you. So the thinker aware of these various YOUs is the only consistent viewpoint.