You probably should have tried it on about 5 (dried) grams of psilocybic mushrooms or a good dose of ayahuasca instead of the acid. They're both much more suited to dark and quiet while acid seems to really like light and music. Really very different things -- McKenna wrote quite a bit about those differences, the tryptamines being mainly a connection to the Other, and acid a sort of instant psychoanalysis with little telepathic or interdimensional communication. I always prefer solitude and a nice warm quilt in a dark room with the first two, so a tank would probably be pretty groovy, although probably not after the sacrement wore off. And the barf would likely be a problem, especially with ayahuasca.
On Mon, Nov 25, 2002 at 03:15:01PM -0500, cubic-dog wrote: > On Mon, 25 Nov 2002, Major Variola (ret) wrote: > > > At 07:40 PM 11/24/02 -0600, Jim Choate wrote: > > >Bullshit. I (and several others) built a tank nearly ten years ago. > > >No big deal. Note that psychoactives (at least if you have any > > experience > > >with them) don't modify the experience a great deal either. Certainly > > not > > >to upset anyone this much, this fast. > > > > > >The biggest threat is wrinkled skin and bacterial infections. > > > > > >You've been watching way too many movies, you won't morph into a > > proto-ape > > >or glow like lave either ;) > > > > You were using the wrong psychoactives then. > > > Indeed. > > Don't think I turned into an ape, but for > about 30hrs (reconstructed) I'm not > sure what I was. > > PS, anything less than a full cycle in a tank > (16 hrs at least) is a bad place from whence to > judge. > > There were tanks and tanks. I used the one > at LSU back in the seventies. It was completely > illegal. The tank was properly ventilated, > completely mechanically isolated (not easy > to accomplish), anechoic and of course dark > to the point there was no visible light, even > to to the meters. > > There was some energy being devoted to the > concept that folks could set up shop > with these things, kinda like gyms. Go > to the strip mall and reboot yer head > in a hour kinda deal. Didn't really take > off. > > I fasted for a day before entering the tank, > I dosed with 300 mikes of LSD, cooked in > the LSU labs by buddy chem students in > 100 mike doses taken an hour apart, last > dose before stepping in. I was already > peaking badly when they shut the door. > > It was a baaaad weekend, I'll tell ya. > > Had a friend, aquaintence really, who did the tank at Ga Tech. > Yes, there was one. Done on the original > Doc John Lilly concept of full imersion with > a free flow full face mask with a blacked > out face plate. He stayed in for about > 22 hours, had a hard time talking coherently > about it. > > He was our inspiration to do our > set of experiments. I bailed on the > project after my time in. -- Harmon Seaver CyberShamanix http://www.cybershamanix.com "War is just a racket ... something that is not what it seems to the majority of people. Only a small group knows what its about. It is conducted for the benefit of the very few at the expense of the masses." --- Major General Smedley Butler, 1933 "Our overriding purpose, from the beginning through to the present day, has been world domination - that is, to build and maintain the capacity to coerce everybody else on the planet: nonviolently, if possible, and violently, if necessary. But the purpose of US foreign policy of domination is not just to make the rest of the world jump through hoops; the purpose is to faciliate our exploitation of resources." - Ramsey Clark, former US Attorney General http://www.thesunmagazine.org/bully.html
