In early 1990th I took a couple of times some hour in an isolation tank of a brain studio for mind expansion. It felt like becoming one with the cosm, and I liked it, although it didn't fully satisfy me, since I felt a little lost in the tank. Unfortunately the studio closed its doors already a year later, and there is no other location with isolation tanks nearby.

Although I own some vintage opto-acoustical mind machines, this is not the same, and in my small flat I have no space for a tank.

A year ago on an esoterics convention I found a friend who had a trance suit. The suit covered the whole body and was of very soft bluish latex. The brand name was something with "Orgon" in its name, but I don't remember well the rest. The head was covered by a hood of the same material; it had no eye holes and was inflatable like the rest of the suit. I had 2 times the occasion to try it out for a few hours in his single room flat, and I found this even much more satisfying than the tank. The sensation in this inflated suit on his bed was so wonderful gentle and mellow, where the tank gave only sheer void and emptiness. IMO this experience is far superior to isolation tanks. Another benefit of such a suit versus tank is that it fits in its small plastic container even into the smallest flat. The hood also contained 2 yellow LEDs in front of the eyes, those light shone though its beige inner latex skin; this way the hood could be connected to the cable of a mind machine, but the battery was dead, so I didn't use it. The friend explained that these suits needs to be washed and cared after use and then had to dry for some hours on the bed before putting it back into its box. But it is clearly worth the effort.

The suit was stored rolled up in a bluish plastic container, which was a kind of oval with round ends (between a big pill and a rugby ball) and had the golden brand logo on it. (It may have been something like "Orgon-!Ra", but the 2nd part may also have been foreign characters.) However my friend was a little strange; he seemed to be some kind of cultist, and after he moved to another city, I never heard of him again. Now I want to buy my own trance suit, but which one is best? I already googled for info, but all I found on the web was this FAQ about trance suit use in autism therapy: autismforum.net/forums/for...ewtopic.php


Which company makes nowadays the best trance suits?

I could not find a suit company named with "Orgon" - have they gone out of business? :( The closest looking suit to what my friend had is a model by Reactor Rubberwear with integrated mittens, which is ugly black with no feet and has the absurd name "Inflatable Slave bodysuit". But how durable are they? The FAQ does not recommend the company. Is their molded latex material really so much worse than Cocoon? The thing is pretty expensive, and before I pay too much, I look for more opinions. Is there perhaps a cheaper company that makes the same type of trance suits?

Years ago someone emailed me photos of a light pink trance suit variant that matches it even closer than the mentioned Reactor suit. See it in my gallery: www.hipgallery.com/photopos...llery.php

But does anybody know who made it? Or was this specimen completely custom-made?
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Ganymed
  • Thanks for the info. I will definitely keep my eyes peeled for this device. This device seems much different than floatation, though. You may be more drawn to the "orgon" but the mechanics of floatation can't really be recreated anywhere else. Closest would be the Dead Sea or the Great Salt Lake at the right time and season. 800 lbs of Epsom salt relaxes the body on a cellular level, this is a process of deautomatization and is the deepest state of relaxation that research has shown. All forms of relaxation are beneficial, so please chose one that you resonate with, but be mindful about claiming one as better than another because the art of relaxation is a subjective experience.

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    • Yes, "better" was certainly a very subjective term. It is the same like saying that the e-bass is better than the cello (or vice versa); both are too different to compare and fulfil different needs, and it depends on what music you like. To me the trance suit is e.g. superior to the tank because it takes no space when not in use, and I *like* that its isolation effect is not too perfect. Others may see this differently.

      Also with mind machines I e.g. like the old analog ones, where you could tweak the knobs while the program is running (which was not recommended in their manual). The difference between them an the later preprogrammed models is like between having an e-guitar and only a CD full of e-guitar music. The thing of the "Orgon-!Ra"(?) suit also had a kind of live controller. It resembled a big, semi-spherical failsafe button (or the old C64 computer's "Quickshot Joyball" controller) and it could be moved like an analog joystick (also through the inflated mittens of the suit). I think you could also push it down and turn it somehow to control your trip. Unfortunately the rechargable battery was bad and turned the unit off after a minute, so I couldn't really try it out.

      Do you know where to find such a suit? (Old mind machines are generally hard to find - yet there is no "vintage market" (unlike with musical instruments) for them. And when things are of latex, they have the tendency to be soon discarded once they start to decompose by wrong treatment or otherwise get damaged, which makes them even harder to find later.)