Floatation and Meditation

by Dr. John C. Lilly

For those who do meditation, it is also a definite aid. It turns out that the tank and its isolated environment do for one what one must do within one's own mind-body when meditating in the usual environment. While meditating, sitting cross-legged or on a chair, or lying in a bed, one examines the environment. Slowly but surely during the meditation, one can inhibit the responses of these patterns of stimulation and get deeper down inside one's own mind.

The tank eliminates the presence of these shifting physical input patterns and their changes and reduces the intensity of stimulation down to the most minimum level possible; this "reduced" environment allows one to start the meditation at the point only achievable outside the tank after some inhibitory work and some time spent doing that work. In the tank one need not do that work. Undistracted, one starts concentrating immediately upon one's inner perceptions and dives deep into one's mind (when one is trained on how to do this transform). "In the province of the mind, in the inside reality, what one believes to be true, either is true or becomes true within certain limits. These limits are to be discovered experimentally and experientially. When so determined these limits are found to be further beliefs to be transcended. Dr. John C. Lilly "The Deep Self"