tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4683970826895755480.post4230321167991325731..comments2024-03-28T21:32:26.550+00:00Comments on Bruce Charlton's Notions: Time and being - William Arkle's description of a mystical experience of 'Absolute consciousness'/ a glimpse of divinizationBruce Charltonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09615189090601688535noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4683970826895755480.post-30912098088836544202014-09-13T05:49:47.047+01:002014-09-13T05:49:47.047+01:00@NF - " It is a sense of wholeness, totality ...@NF - " It is a sense of wholeness, totality in an instant - an intimate, encompassing and unbound perfection. "<br /><br />But in the absence of recognizing the validity of a metaphysical system which reveals to you its import; a sensory deprivation tank experience is at best merely a sensory thrill, and the feelings induced are just a meaningless fake. Bruce Charltonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09615189090601688535noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4683970826895755480.post-85606551407528670112014-09-12T13:48:36.015+01:002014-09-12T13:48:36.015+01:00He also describes almost perfectly what the experi...He also describes almost perfectly what the experience of being in a sensory reduced tank is like. Remove almost all outward stimulation and the mind enters this type of state in less than an hour. The subjective sense of time is elongated as moments stretch into streams of bliss, and imagination freed from the moorings of outer stimulation roam the oceans of naked inspiration. It is a sense of wholeness, totality in an instant - an intimate, encompassing and unbound perfection. Nicholas Fulfordnoreply@blogger.com