Book · 1977 · Psychology
The Deep Self
Profound Relaxation and the Tank Isolation Technique
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If you've never done it, it's meditation times 100.
Joe Rogan · The Joe Rogan Experience · Mar 2015 Listen at 2:10:22 What they say about it
- Contains tank building instructions“directions on how to make a tank”3
The best things said about it
The Deep Self has directions on how to make a tank, shows you how to make it.
Joe Rogan The Joe Rogan Experience · Sep 2010 The Deep Self is really interesting, and the Deep Self I think the Deep Self is the one that also has diagrams on how to build a tank.
In it he talks about the benefits of the tank, a detailed construction on how to make your own tank.
Joe Rogan The Joe Rogan Experience · Jun 2014 Well I grew up reading John Lily and in the 1971 actually the Deep self did you read that one.
Rick Doblin The Joe Rogan Experience · Jul 2013 4 people who brought it up
Why people recommend it
The Deep Self by John Cunningham Lilly is a pioneering exploration of sensory deprivation, consciousness, and self-discovery through isolation tanks. Joe Rogan repeatedly mentioned the book on The Joe Rogan Experience, noting during one episode that reading it felt like meditation multiplied by one hundred, and emphasizing on another occasion that the volume contains detailed, practical instructions for building a home isolation tank. Rogan also referenced Lilly's work when discussing consciousness research with guests like Reggie Watts, while other podcast participants such as Phil Demers and Ethan Nadelmann recounted reading the text and highlighted its diagrams for constructing flotation tanks. Additionally, Rick Doblin brought up the 1971 publication when discussing his history of reading about flotation therapy. Across multiple appearances, speakers emphasized the text both as a practical manual for tank construction and as a profound philosophical guide to exploring the inner recesses of the human mind through sensory isolation.
Every mention
Joe Rogan read John Lily's book The Deep self and um if you've never done it it's it's meditation times 100 4
“lily wrote a bunch of books on it like the center of the cyclone the deep self”
“read John Lily's book The Deep self and um if you've never done it it's it's meditation times 100”
“and it's uh the Deep self and in it he talks about the benefits of the tank a detailed construction on how to make your own tank”
“he's got a great book where he actually shows it's got um the Deep self has directions on how to make a tank shows you how to make it”
Ethan Nadelmann I've read that I read uh the Deep self 1
“I've read that I read uh the Deep self”
Phil Demers I read the deep self the deep self is really interesting and the deep self i think the deep self is the one… 1
“I read the deep self the deep self is really interesting and the deep self i think the deep self is the one that also has diagrams on how to build a tank”
Rick Doblin well I grew up reading John Lily and in the 1971 actually the Deep self did you read that one 1
“well I grew up reading John Lily and in the 1971 actually the Deep self did you read that one”
