Altered States

'The tank itself was unusual in that it was vertical and looked like an old boiler. Inside the tank the subject wore a heavy glass bubble and you would have thought the whole contraption uncomfortable to say the least. It was however effective of the students tested only two found the experience unpleasant some even called it exhilarating a number of students hallucinate. Dr Jessup found the encephalographic evidence especially interesting and one Saturday afternoon in April 1967 he decided to try the experience for himself.'

'Some of these tank trips can get pretty creepy'

'How do you feel? Not bad. Hallucinated like a son of a bitch. A variety of dream states, mystical states a lot of religious allegory, mostly out of Revelation. You were in there close to five hours. It felt like an hour. I'd like to try that myself sometime.'

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'Are you okay? Beautiful. Beautiful. You wanna come down? No.'

'The tank itself was unusual in that it was vertical and looked like an old boiler. Inside the tank, the subject wore a heavy glass bubble, and you would have thought the whole contraption uncomfortable to say the least. It was however effective. Of the 23 students tested, only two found the experience unpleasant. Some even called it exhilarating. A number of students hallucinated.'

'He decided to try the experience for himself.'

'The way I feel I don't expect to go to sleep for a year. I'm on fucking fire.'

'The beginning of life'

'There is no final truth.'

'First you will see a spot. The spot will become a crack. This is the crack between the nothing, and out of this nothing will come your unborn soul.'