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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"
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