• The Mystic in the Float Tank - Spontaneous Awakening & Integration w/ Beni Summers

  • Sep 13 2022
  • Length: 1 hr and 2 mins
  • Podcast

The Mystic in the Float Tank - Spontaneous Awakening & Integration w/ Beni Summers

  • Summary

  • So you’ve had a psychedelic or psychedelic adjacent experience. What comes next? This week we sit down with Beni Summers, Rabbinic Intern at Shefa: Jewish Psychedelic Supports, to discuss psychedelic integration, float tanks, Buddhist psychology, and Jewish mysticism as we cultivate a deeper understanding of ecstatic states and the fruits they bear.

    "Something that floating taught me was that I have, or that we as people, have the whole keyring with every key attached to our being. I used to think that you had to go out and find the keys, in a book, in a pill, in a song - and yes, they're out there but they are already inside of us." - Beni Summers
     

    Jewish Psychedelic Integration

    • Rachel intros Shefa and the Jewish Entheogenic Society and how it supported her during her psychedelic explorations
    • Aaron shares his early experience with floating and how it reminded him of his first mushroom journey
    • Beni explains Shefa’s origins in a John Hopkins study where high doses of psilocybin were given to clergy of different faiths


    Beni’s Story of Awakening

    • Beni shares an early experience of spontaneous awakening that occurred after getting lost in the Sahara desert
    • Beni’s horrific experience with hash cookies and how it led to a deep curiosity around the nature of consciousness
    • How Beni turned to the contemplative arts of mindfulness and meditation in order to integrate his experiences of expanded consciousness


    Floating into Revelation

    • Beni’s introduction to float tanks, his initial disappointment, and the opening he discovered after his third float
    • How Beni became interested in altered states of conscious through doing research on Dr John Lily, the investor of the float tank
    • How the Buddhist orientation to the mind describes what is happening to the self when we have spontaneous endogenous awakenings
    • How the sensory deprivation of the float tank allows the mind to focus on areas that are normally attention deprived areas and allow for personal revelation
    • Beni shares his advice on how to have a powerful float tank experience
    • Rachel and Aaron share their own experiences of spontaneous awakening
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