I've never tried flotation tanks because when they existed, there was a business fad for them a while ago that's kind of moved on to something else, they were beyond my budget ... but I'd like to. I see the logic in reducing brain/neural stimulation simply caused by the effects of gravity/old age etc alone.
I've never actually done LSD but I can see how Lilly's experiments must have been fun.
I wonder how this both would square with the new research being done with, say, depression and PTSD using microdosing with LSD/MDMA and other hallucinogenics.
Psychotherapy *inside* a flotation tank *while* microdosing the patient? With, obviously, the Psychotherapist *outside* the tank, talking them through it via a mic and speakers. Where do I apply for funding?
As "economy class" alternatives, I've been playing around with headphones and various 'Binaural' sound tracks. No idea where I found them, no idea the science behind or about them (I think it is suppose to be brainwave/subliminal something based), but I have to say they do knock me out to a deep sleep. Although it may just be from some simple noise cancelling effect.
I did read, however, research that debunks the idea of subliminal hypnotic suggestion during sleep having come to negative conclusions.
Continuing on the budget theme, there's been a bit of press and a bit of media on the practise of
shinrin-yoku or, literally, "forest bathing" with doctors starting to become aware of the value “Social prescribing”, prescribing sports and other activities instead of drugs or cosmically exaggerated solutions like BKism to what might just be simple, down to earth problems, like one's family or environment*.
Having purged myself of the fantasy of earning "yogi superpowers" or "becoming perfect" through BKism, I am thinking a content normal within a healthy environment is good enough.
It makes me wonder how much of the push factor towards BKism, is actually just the BKs exploiting the problems of the Indian relationships with their environments, whether urban or natural.
Trump got in trouble not so long ago for calling development nations "sh*tholes" but, in all fairness, it is not exactly untrue of many parts of the Indian urban and semi-rural sprawl; sh*tholes, dungheaps and middens to be precise.
How can one been happy and healthy within such environments?
Part of the cure is clearly fixing them, rather than "zoning out" of it ... which the BKs also sort of adopt as part of their marketing taking over public parks and turning them into tidy areas.
It's the clean and tidy (much of which is a product of wealth) that has much of the effect.
* There's been a good bit of solid science done on the curative effects of green and natural environments and it appears to support the commonsense conclusion.