posted November 14, 2008 06:05 PM            

They are supposedly excellent for assisted meditation.

I know a Libra, a lawyer named William, who reads Aurobindo and floats.

I recently had a very pleasant intellectual and spiritual conversation with him.

He's a very generous man who let's a lot of younger people use his tank.

This one young man had been coming twice a week for six months.

He started with a half hour, and now he likes to float for 6 hours at a stretch.

He was extremely relaxed and smiled freely, and told us that, before using the tank, he was practically a different person.

He was so full of anger, and all this business with his father. "Now," he says, "my father loses it on me, and i just sort of smile and go on with my life."

They spoke of being very aware of what attachments arose within them, and how they could easily choose not to react and follow the impulses.

Because they were so relaxed, the habit energy didn't carry them away, and they could see that it was not themselves.

They were relaxed, and yet, things still arose... They understood themselves as the perceiving consciousness.

After a while, the habit energy just sort of began to exhaust itself and grow faint.

My best friend has a tank. William bought it for him! $4,000!! It was a time when Daniel really needed the help.

Also, Dan's father had done a good turn for him once and he meant to karmically repay the favor.

It looks as if I shall be taking advantage of this fortuneate contraption, after some lost time of imbecillic procrastination.

Jupiter is poised to enter my first house soon, and conjunct my Moon, so the signs are looking good for me!

posted November 17, 2008 05:27 AM            

I've only done it twice, for an hour each time.

While I was in there, I didnt feel like I was relaxing...

My thoughts poured steadily out all over the place...

I became aware of the slightest tension in my body...

But, when I got out, there was so much going on in my environment.

Then I realized how much the tank had centered and relaxed me.