On Tuesday, a new episode of the Web series "Hamilton's Pharmacopeia" appeared. Hamilton Morris is a chemist and general expert in the field of psychedelics and all things mind-bending. In past episodes, he has investigated rare hallucinogenic tree frogs in the Amazon, an abandoned missile silo in Kansas that became the world's most productive LSD lab and a Haitian drug that supposedly turned people into zombies.
The latest episode is about sensory-deprivation tanks, a k a isolation tanks, in which you are immersed in salt water, in complete silence and darkness, and you just . . . float. The complete lack of external stimuli is said to have various effects on the mind and body, ranging from stress relief to heightened states of consciousness.
Some people get really into the tank scene, especially in Boulder, Colo., where a place called the Cloud Nine Float Center houses "the Rolls-Royce of sensory-deprivation tanks." So that's where Hamilton goes.
The episode is in three parts. Part 1 provides the history and philosophy of sensory-deprivation tanks. Part 2, my favorite, begins with Morris's voiceover: "As I consume my last sip of water, I prepare for a long and grueling excursion into the terra incognita of the human mind." Soon, as he puts it, he is "reduced to nothing more than a kernel of pure awareness floating in the cosmos." He emerges from the tank not realizing that five hours have passed.
In Part 3, Morris comes up with a positive affirmation to focus on in the tank ("I will regard tasks I must complete with cheerful readiness"), drinks 10 kombuchas and then embarks on the longest float of his life, for which he is rewarded with powerful life revelations.
It's a fascinating (and hilarious) watch. Also, Morris's voice totally triggers an A.S.M.R. response, if you're into that sort of thing.
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