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The Book of Floating: Exploring the Private Sea (Consciousness Classics) Paperback – June 15, 2017
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A thorough and absorbing summary of the healing and therapeutic uses of the floatation tank invented by Dr. John C. Lilly, the celebrated neuroscience researcher. This edition includes a new foreword by Lee Perry, additional illustrations, and updated information.
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"A superb book for initiates into the tank.” —Dr. John C. Lilly, author, The Deep Self "If everyone on the planet floated everyday there would be no war, no poverty, no crime, no hunger—and nobody on the streets." —E.J. Gold, author, The American Book of the Dead
Michael Hutchison (1945-2013) was a journalist, author, and researcher of brain/mind devices. Lee Perry is the co-founder of the Samadhi Tank Company, which built the first commercial floatation tanks according to Dr. John Lilly's guidelines.
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This book is about float tanks. If you have seen the movie Altered States, that is a float tank. It is an isolation tank where you float in a body temperature saline solution to remove as much stimulation as possible. This book details the research done (up to about 1983) on float tanks, and its health benefits. The book is essentially a commercial for float tanks. The primary benefit is related to the fact that float tanks make it much easier to reach states of consciousness normally reserved for experienced meditators - lower stress, more creativity, general well-being, pain reduction, improved learning (this one I am sceptical, because there is a large body of evidence that recall is tied to the state of consciousness you are in, so learning in the theta brainwave state doesn't translate to the beta state effectively), recreational hallucinations, peak mystical experiences, etc.
Great introduction to isolation/sensory deprivation tank floating. I had been aware of tanks for quite a while before I went ahead and floated myself. Not only did I become instantly hooked on floating, but every time I read this book, I get something out of it. Hutchison gives scientifically-backed accounts of the benefits of floating as well as practical advice for those interested in floating. A definite primer on the topic.
Excellent summary with an inviting balance between the basics, history, practice, and science. Highly encouraged for the first-time floater and experienced sensei. I particularly liked the New York saltiness + excellent exposition of scientific references, all done in good taste. One of a kind.
Beautiful book, just as described, & delivered so quickly
Floating is awesome and I can't wait to find the time to read this book that came highly recommended.
I really liked the content and the amount of scientific references as opposed to new age speculation. I did get the feeling this was an infomercial from the 'Tank' industry, overall good resource to those wanting to float!
very informative book on flotation tank
Floating changed my life. This book is a great intro to the history and gives you some tips and other folks' experiences to learn from. Please try it a few times if it seems like something that you think would help you.
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Now it all makes sense..
Brilliant book which tells you everything you need to know about "Floating" as I own a floatation room, it is very helpful to know what you are experiencing and not imagining! I need to buy more for my clients, I always recommend this book
Very comprehensive. Everything you would want to know about floating is in here :-)
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This was for a present for a friend, who was really pleased with it. Arrived quickly in great condition - thank you
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Broken spine
Was delivered in good time but I am quite disappointed that the spine is broken.
Excellent book for those interested in floating and consciousness. A detailed overview written brilliantly.
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LESS IS MORE — THE SENSORY RESTRICTION TRADITION
The Discovery of the Blind Pew Effect
I was about four when I had my first experience of the nature of sensory deprivation. My father was reading me Robert Louis Stevenson's Treasure Island. We'd reached the exciting chapter in which Jim Hawkins and the sea captain are seated in the Admiral Benbow Inn; suddenly Pew, a blind beggar, comes in, finding his way hesitantly, tapping a cane, until he reaches the captain, whereupon he gives him a message bearing the dreaded Black Spot and races out of the inn. "But wait", I said: "How can this blind man, who could barely find his way into the inn without tripping over chairs and tables, now race out of the tavern so easily?" My father explained that blind people, because they had to rely on senses other than sight, were able to develop those other senses to a very high degree. Blind Pew, he assured me, could certainly find his way out of any place he entered, because as he found his way in he was unconsciously visualizing the floor plan in his head. It is, he said, like a sixth sense.
I immediately decided I would keep my eyes shut and pretend I was blind until I could make use of that sixth sense. In the coming days I spent a lot of time stumbling into chairs, tripping over curbs, and sitting in the total darkness of an empty refrigerator box I'd discovered in the garbage, but no matter how hard I tried I couldn't seem to generate that elusive inner sense. Then, while sitting in the coal bin in the basement, I realized that I was anticipating the tuna casserole mother was making for dinner. Hold on — I hadn't even known what she was cooking! Then I understood that real knowledge had come to me unconsciously through my nose and ears. Excitedly I paid attention, heard my mother talking to herself upstairs, and every pot clanking, every floorboard squeaking, every odor took on meaning. I could visualize her every movement. I was the blind Pew of my coal cellar! I could hear the sounds, and from the sounds create an inner vision: of my friends playing stickball amid the traffic outside and flipping baseball cards on the front stoop, my sisters chattering as they put on their roller skates, the baseball game on the radio from across the street. The world was going on outside me, and without seeing it I could experience it inside me more clearly than I usually did with my eyes open ... and suddenly I opened my eyes.
There I was in the dim cellar sitting on a pile of hard coal. Somehow the sounds seemed to have been turned down; all the richness and timeless complexity of the noise of a whole neighborhood went away. But I was thrilled. I had an image of my mind as something like a balloon — if you squeezed it in one place it swelled up someplace else. I had made a discovery that must be one of the first every child makes, and one of the earliest realizations of our ancient ancestors: When one or more senses are restricted, the sensitivity of the other senses is expanded.
Such experiences are probably universal. Dr. Andrew Weil believes they flow from an innate human drive. As he wrote in The Natural Mind: "Human beings are born with a drive to experience modes of awareness other than the normal waking one; from very young ages, children experiment with techniques to change consciousness. Such experiences are normal."
But though this universal drive to alter consciousness is a source of great pleasure to children, it is not mere child's play. Weil sees it as "evolutionary," representing an "innate capacity of the nervous system," and concludes: "It is valuable to learn to enter other states deliberately and consciously because such experiences are doorways to fuller use of the nervous system, to the realization of untapped human potential, and to better function in the ordinary mode of consciousness."
This need to alter consciousness, then, is not some frivolous desire to escape, but rather one of the most fundamental of human characteristics — perhaps, in fact, the characteristic that has led to our development of culture and civilization. The point is at once so obvious, so important, and so easily forgotten: To be human is to explore and make use of altered states of consciousness.
Probably the most satisfactory and popular way of altering consciousness — a method that humans have developed over literally millions of years of testing and exploring — is to restrict the operation of one or more of their senses, that is, to put themselves into a state of sensory deprivation. One of the main assumptions of this book is that the floatation tank makes use of this sensory deprivation effect to bring about a gentle, pleasant, controllable, and temporary shift in consciousness in anyone who floats. Among the ideas proposed here is that this shift in consciousness is healthy, that it is educational, and that it can be manipulated, explored, and used in such a way as to cause changes in attitude, physiology, and behavior that persist even after one emerges from the tank.
Floating in Artist's Garret, Polar Icecap, and Monk's Cell
The float tank is a valuable specific tool for cutting down the amount of external stimuli that reach our senses, probably the best sensory deprivation device ever created. But humans have been using tools and techniques of various sorts for exactly this purpose for thousands, probably millions of years. The following are just a few of the most common:
Preparation for the Hunt. In primitive societies, like those our own civilization has evolved from, men prepare themselves before going out on a hunt by withdrawing from normal activities and "purifying" themselves through fasting, silence, steam baths, and/or isolation, either within a small shelter or alone in some spot away from village life. They believe that this sensory restriction improves their hunting abilities; and recent tests, demonstrating that short periods of sensory deprivation increase acuity of smell, taste, sight, and hearing, show that the ancient hunters knew what they were doing.
Rites of Passage. In every premodern society an important ceremony marks the passage from childhood to acceptance into adult society. These rites of passage gain much of their power from the inclusion of more or less arduous sensory deprivation as part of the preparation. Some young people are confined for days or weeks to darkened huts, or undertake fasts. In many cultures the boys are expected to go out alone into the wilderness for long periods until they have experienced their spiritual coming of age, by confronting demons, ghosts, ancestral spirits, or dreams — the dream quest. Whatever the sensory deprivation technique used, it works in part by making the young people more open to new experience, new wisdom, new responsibility, by making them more sensitive and aware, so that the experiences they undergo will be intensified, momentous, unforgettable.
Spiritual Withdrawal. In every culture some sort of sensory deprivation experience has been considered essential in the training of spiritual leaders. Shamans, witch doctors, monks, priests, gurus, fakirs, yogis, priestesses, mediums, mystics, and other spiritual seekers endure frequent and often rigorous periods of total silence, fasting, retreat into small cells or caves or dark rooms, withdrawal to mountaintops or deserts or islands where isolation can be combined with restricted or monotonous sensory input. Like the desert anchorites or "withdrawers" mentioned by John Cassian in the quotation that opened this section, hermits, monks, and seekers of enlightenment have always found sensory restriction — either the actual isolation of desert, monastery, or cave; or the mental equivalent of such isolation, attained through concentrative/restrictive meditation and prayer techniques — an important part of a
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