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Hey, ladies and gentlemen, for many of you who've heard this podcast before, you're aware of a thing that I'm really into called the sensory deprivation tank.

And the sensory deprivation tank was invented by a guy named John

Lily who was a scientist and a real freak like a guy who is just really out

there really fascinating guy and he wrote a book that I picked it up on I think

like Amazon.com like the used books that they'll sell you like people sellers

individual sellers are selling and it's the

deep self and in it he talks about the benefits of the tank it detailed

construction on how to make your own tank he's got like diagrams in it and just really really fascinating guy and he was into all sorts of weird altered states of consciousness and one of the things that he wanted to figure out

was how to separate the body from the senses and he came up with a bunch of

different designs. There's a movie altered states that's kind of very loosely based on you know the idea of a guy like him

Going completely haywire and becoming like a monkey just that's how I got into sensory deprivation tanks. I saw altered states and they were

historically fairly accurate in the design of the tanks. The initial one that you saw in

altered states showed what Lily at first came up with which was like a

glass scuba helmet that sort of suspended him in regular water and he would

actually poop and pee into it.

He had like some crazy filtration system

so he could stay in there and not have to defecate or urinate

so it would go through some system that he had created.

I mean, this dude was gone. He was off the deep end. I mean he's about as

off the deep as ever but his big thing was to try to figure out how you can get the

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