My First Floatation Tank Experience: happyhealthyhomepage/2014/12/float-tank.html In researching my Atlantean Conspiracy book I learned about the entheogenic origins of world religions and how natural psychedelics such as magic mushrooms were used as religious sacraments in ancient traditions. For example, in the pre-Christian Mithraic religion, initiates ate mushroom sacraments as part of their worship. Just as Christians take communion and line up in church to receive the body and blood of Christ, so did initiates in the Mithraeum line up to receive the body and blood of Mithra. In the Mithraeum, however, instead of pews there were a series of inter-connected stone tubs where initiates would lay after taking the sacrament. The tubs were filled with super-saline water at body temperature, and mass was at midnight so it became completely dark and silent in the Mithraeum, creating complete sensory deprivation and inducing a collective out-of-body experience. Nowadays these religious rituals have been all but forgotten, but among a growing small group of conscious individuals, the practice of utilizing sensory-deprivation isolation chambers (with or without entheogenic sacraments) is making a come-back. Comedian and podcaster, Joe Rogan owns more than one floatation tank and constantly espouses the myriad of positive benefits gleaned from spending time in weightless isolation. I had been wanting to try for years and searching unsuccessfully to find a place where I could try it out, when a reader from Bangkok messaged me saying he and his friends had just opened a new float center right here on Sukhumvit 24! Theta State Float Center is a peaceful oasis of solitude right in the middle of busy Bangkok, providing a beacon for conscious tourists, expats and Thais to meet and float... (Read Entire Article Here: happyhealthyhomepage/2014/12/float-tank.html)
Posted on: Wed, 31 Dec 2014 10:08:05 +0000
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