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(*I don't know if this John Kemp has to do with the equal named inventor of the modern bicycle. I found the info on the Rubberworld exhibition site, where they mentioned his book found in the British Library.)
Today many small and tiny companies build costly latex suits and other special equipment for that scene; most of these things are handcrafted, often custom made and usually tremendously expensive. There are e.g. people those are fascinated by the feeling of wearing inflatable latex suits, and there is also a device known called an inflatable "bodybag"; into such a bag a person can put itself, and after it gets inflated, it gently squeezes the body together everywhere with equal pressure in a way that the person inside can't move anything (like a wrapped mummy) - only the head remains outside for breathing. To restrict their breathing by a certain amount, such people often additionally wear gasmasks or other, specially designed latex breathe masks/ face hoods. (A picture says more that 1000 words - visit the site of Mr.Blowup to see what I mean.)
There are many prejudices against the rubberist scene; common herd people easily demonize things like this as "pervert" and think these bizarre looking objects would be intended as a possibly very cruel kind of sado- maso/ bondage sex stuff - perhaps even to torture people by choking. Although such fatal abuses may exist (I have no guess how many) and the equipment is usually yet marketed as a variant of sexual fetishism, the genuine main motivation for wearing such unusual looking things is something completely different; it may sound perhaps unbelievable for unknowing people, but when such equipment is applied correctly, the person inside realizes not cruelty, but much rather a powerful feeling of harmony, and many people enjoy the experience of using this kind of equipment even in non- sexual contexts. But due to the bad public image of this latex scene (see "About this site"), most of these people don't talk about it, and therefore these things are publically still nearly unknown.
This site is a piece of pioneer work - it is the first site that cares about detailedly explaining the psychedelic aspects of latex equipment.
To clear up what's going on, let us now take a closer look at the effects that inflatable suits and bodybags produce. One main effect of such equipment is that it shields the person inside more or less entirely from all external impressions, and by sweating it causes a warm and humid feeling.
When we ignore prejudiced mockers against such "full- body condoms", but stay in a common psychological view, then it can doubtlessly be argued with regarding many of these things as tools for creating sensorial conditions to remind people back into a quasi- embryonic mental state of security. Therapies basing on such principles are said to have many positive, harmonizing effects, and already many books have been written about this topic (though I won't discuss this more detailedly here). Transpersonal psychology found out that the psychological trauma of a hard and painful birth seems to be even one of the major factors those determine whether a person will later tend to abuse brutality for solving conflicts; by consciously processing the trauma of their own hard birth later, such men can be freed from these dangerous tendencies again. A technology that enables human beings to re-realize the conditions of embryonic states and their own (possibly hard) birth is therefore in no way anything bad or "pervert", but in the opposite a very valuable contribution to the development of the man and the human race.
But as soon I saw such equipment on Mr.Blowup's
site, by my knowledge in psychedelics
I immediately recognized some other very important aspects of this technology;
I know too well about the effects of shamanic sweat rituals and the principles
of breathe control (which mainly balances the ratio between oxygen and
CO2) for creating alterated states of mind, though the general working
principles of such inflatable suits and face hoods with their breathe restricting
effects are something very obvious and familiar for me. Presumingly also
the same very particular vibration intensification effects are present
with this equipment those are known from the resonator
technology (see there).
| In the yoga breathing and the flow and perpetual motion of air are even a central mystical metaphor for how the man participates in the cosmos and how our mind/ soul forms an integral part of the all- comprehensive cosmic consciousness (called Brahman there) which contains all of the universe. Though it is in no way something primitive or pervert to be fascinated by such things, but it's just the deep mystical need to feel the unity of the man with the great spirit of the universe he is part of. |
I didn't wear inflatable latex suits or tried those "bodybag" things yet, but from my own research and what I read on Mr. Blowup's site, I would definitely not classify them in a category of sexual, but of clearly psychedelic equipment - much similar to the Samadhi tank* used for meditation.
(*A Samadhi tank (floatation tank, sensory deprivation tank) is a dark, closed, air- conditioned box filled with salt water of body temperature, in which a person can float completely decoupled and insulated against any disturbing signals from outside for a long time to make it possible to easily reach a deep meditation state (also see here).)
I am not sure yet if I will really like the feeling of wearing an inflatable latex suit, but from my experiences with resonators I can very well imagine this. Possibly sometime in future I will even build my own, but I'm not sure yet; I read that the care for the material to prevent it from disintegrating would be very costly. (Buying such a thing would be impossible for me anyway; they cost more than I earn in a year. As a plastic shamen it would also have mystical reasons for me to build it by myself.) If I sometime build such a thing successfully, I will add do-it-yourself instructions for such projects to this site.
(I own already a quite large collection of other very special equipment for (in the widest sense) mind expansion purposes; I spend much of my life here in a laboratory full of strange technical devices and machines - many of them capable to create alterated states of mind in various ways. But most of my equipment was built and developed by myself , and though much of it is barely working, has technical problems, tends to fall apart :)or is just not really useful yet due to certain central components still need to be developed ... )
Anybody who is interested in technical details about building things of latex foils or how to care for latex equipment should also urgently take a look at the site of RubberHans - he made the best latex do-it-yourself and information site I know yet.
| Breathe control is no toy - use it wisely! |
| Breathe control is a key element
in many forms of drugfree psychedelics, but restricting breathe too much
by force can get extremely dangerous. Only the oxygen vs. CO2 ratio may
be varied a little, but in no case the oxygen supply must get interrupted
entirely and also the CO2 level must not be risen way too high. The neurons
(nerve cells) of the brain contain a self- repair system that continuously
needs to repair all the damages those continuously happen to their few
atoms thin membranes by the neuron's own strong electric force field and
the entropy. This repair mechanism perpetually needs a certain amount of
oxygen, water and nutrition to do its job. In a state of suffocation
or
total exhaustion this system fails, which dooms the brain neurons
to get destroyed within few (ca. 4) minutes (the higher the body
temperature, the faster!). The releasing neuro- transmitters of the destroyed
neurons then causes a chain reaction that destroys even much more neurons
by overloading them.
Our body inhales oxygen and transforms it into CO2 for gaining energy. When breathe gets slowed down, more CO2 accumulates in the body. The CO2 needs to be exhaled, because with way too much CO2 this process wouldn't work anymore. Therefore the body uses CO2 as a neurotransmitter with the code of signal damping. Though a rising CO2 level is a command for the nervous system to turn down the energy consumption of the body by inducing relaxation and for the brain to reduce the brain wave frequency, which makes alterated states of mind accessible. The more the body gets relaxed, the less oxygen it needs, though in a state of relaxation the breath speed can get even more reduced. Reducing the breath speed/ restricting the oxygen supply instead by force without enough previous relaxation is dangerous. Proper breathe control can be a blessing for mind and body, but breathe control that causes headache, unpleasant dizziness or nausea is is performed wrongly and leads to brain damage. |
Unlike a yogi's breathe frequency in pranayama, gasmasks and similar gadgets are too stupid to notice how relaxed the body already is, though their air throughput must be sufficient for an unrelaxed person. Intentionally reducing the air throughput of a breathe masks by technical manipulations below this limit is dangerous and should never be attempted.
A breathe control gadget must never be misconstructed or abused in a way that it can block the breathe or oxygen supply completely and need a manual operation to enable the oxygen supply in time again before brain damage occurs. Because as soon the user of such a gadget waits too long with manually re- enabling his own oxygen supply, he will faint, and as soon he got unconscious, he will not be capable anymore to free his oxygen supply at all, and though within few more minutes he will die.
(To sado- maso people those may come in mind to play with choking for some kind of torment games or intend to combine extremely breath restricting or fault prone breathe control gadgets with anything bondage- like I therefore can only speak out a serious warning not to attempt this.)
Also never use caffeine (coffee, tea , cola etc.) or similarly up- pepping substances in combination with forced breathe control. Caffeine hinders the brain from reacting on CO2 with turning down its energy and oxygen need in the desired way; though under this condition restricting the oxygen supply by force instead easily leads to brain damage.
For people those love the feeling of wearing gasmasks etc. I can only seriously recommend to learn the pranayama of the yoga - it's a great feeling and permits a much higher degree of control over the state of mind.
Do to the bad public image of the rubberist scene, people easily imagine that these very strange looking inflatable latex hoods would be designed to be an intrinsically painful sado- maso thing. To solve this mystery, I performed a little self- test.
Due to I had no access to such hoods, to verify the effect I instead tried to pull a thin surgery latex glove over my head (leaving mouth and nose free for breathing), which gets stretched into the upper 2nd range in this state and though by its high strain assumingly squeezes at the face at least as strong or even stronger than those latex hoods do. Although I found the intensity a bit too high to be pleasant, against my expectation I astonished discovered that this squeezing is nothing considerably painful (at least not more than the sensation of bodily strain of some average advanced yoga postures). I had no problem to spend ca. 1h relaxing in this state, and the only slightly painful thing was that especially the rim of the glove was pressing much on my nose (like badly fitting spectacles) and also my ears got squeezed a bit uncomfortably.
The situation of the experiment can certainly be mostly compared with a non- inflatable hood; by the thin glove noises got slightly shielded (ca. reduced to half loudness?) and one can mainly just see bright and dark through its membrane. (By pressing my ear against an inflated resonator (made from the same glove sort), I could verify how this shields noises.) The feeling inside is warm (not hot) and a little sweaty, and by the vibrating latex membrane over the ears one can clearly hear ones own heartbeat. (I also inflated the glove by my nose a few times, which feels interesting on the face.) Generally the feeling is rather pleasant, secure and gentle then something painful. Due to the strong squeeze, my skin's nervous system was locally slightly maladjusted afterward, which disappeared soon (after < 1h). As a result I could well imagine to find it indeed pleasant to wear a less squeezing real latex hood over my head.
A cheap (but not perfectly fitting) latex hood can be made from a latex swimcap by cutting a round breathing hole into its left or right edge (avoid any jags to prevent tearing); the hood is a little unpleasantly tight at the chin but works well. To reduce squeeze, the swimcap can be pre- stretched by first building a resonator from it and performing elastAyama before making a hood from it. Never use silicone swimcaps; they are likely very toxic! (See here.)
(I also tested to pull a pair of long latex household rubber gloves over my feat. Unlike my expectation, the material rather increases than decreases the bodily awareness there, and the sensation is interesting and pleasant; only when they get pulled very tight it becomes unpleasant and the awareness decreases.)
| Attention: Keep the intensities low! |
| In any forms of psychedelics
one thing is crucial: the dynamic range of the nervous system is
limited. A general rule is therefore that attempts to simply continuously
increase the sheer intensity of any (also sexual) kinds of stimulation
cause maladjustments of it and lead to harmful and very unpleasant consequences.
(Yes, I have personal experience with this.)
A decreasing sensitivity of any area of the nervous system caused by a maladjustment can not be compensated by simply increasing the intensity further. Doing so only results in signal distortion and other unpleasant side effects leading to even more maladjustments, though the only correct measure after sensitivity decay is not to increase, but to decrease the input intensity to that area, or better to temporary stop it at all to enable the nervous system to regenerate and readjust itself again; everything else causes sufferance. Therefore, unlike done in certain sado- maso circles, the only way of staying on a path of lasting happiness is to keep all intensities rather low - never rape your body. |
Important in this context is especially not to do things those lead to a state of entire bodily exhaustion., because this maladjusts and easily damages the nervous system and is harmful for the entire body. It is crucial to understand that bodily health is the necessary basis for lasting happiness. Healthiness and happiness belong together - damaging the own body will sooner or later result in serious sufferance.
Increasing the body temperature is a common classical element of drugfree psychedelics (e.g. well known from shamanic sweat rituals and fast trance dances). The main effect of this principle is based on the extreme temperature dependency of the signal conduction speed within the nervous system. Though a higher body temperature changes the relative signal travel speeds among various brain areas (neurons in warmer areas transmit signals faster), which influences the data processing in many complex ways. An other effect is that the brain attempts to reduce its energy consumption to prevent overheating, which makes it turn down the brain wave frequencies (similarly like the effect of a high CO2 level).
Important for the application is that psychedelic methods those already rise the body temperature by other means must not be carelessly applied in a too hot environment to prevent the body from overheating. It must always be regarded that by no circumstances the brain temperature must rise higher than 42°C, because otherwise the brain will get immediately destroyed. Therefore psychedelic latex suits and similar body enclosing devices should not be applied for longer in a too hot environment.
(More health tips for the use of latex equipment can be found here.)
Please regard: These tips were not intended to deter any people from using psychedelic latex equipment, but in the opposite to keep you all healthy and therefore enable you to realize many more joyful and interesting experiences with this fascinating form of psychedelics technology.
When applied correctly, drugfree psychedelic methods can be a valuable tool for self- realization, the gain of creativity, psychological therapies and spiritual development. A psychedelic technology based on latex rubber is especially interesting, because latex has many very particular qualities those in this combination don't exist in any other material. (More about this later.)
Due to certain physiological effects, psychedelic devices based on this principle may possibly even lead to a technological breakthrough in the research on methods for what we yogi call enlightenment. Enlightenment is a brain activation process that enables to sovereignous holistical understanding and makes people creative and wise. To find effective methods to make this available for everyone is a greater challenge than the travel to the moon, because success will result in a dramatical boost in the development of the human race. (In later chapters I will discuss this more detailedly.)
The device is called a "vacuum rack" (also known as "vacuum bed") - consisting of a bag of thin, typically clear latex foil with an air tight zip at its top rim. The bag is stretched over a rectangular, flat frame inside to keep its outer shape rectangular. By an external vacuum pump (e.g. vacuum cleaner) a human being within the bag can be shrink- wrapped between the bag's upper and lower latex foil (like in a vacuum sealed food package), which immobilizes him almost completely at maximum vacuum strength; breathing stays possible through a hose (typically connected to a latex mask). Due to the immobilizing nature of the construction and the relatively high risk of choking in the case of failures, the device can only be operated safely with the help of a 2nd person.
This is in excerpt of what the person writes:
I stumbled on your site through latexpajamas.com.I find that the technology of vacuum racks looks quite risky, and by physical reasons I can't imagine well that it has good decoupling properties (although it certainly also somewhat influences bodily vibrations), therefore I personally find the concept of inflatable psychedelic equipment more promising. For more details (and pictures) about vacuum racks take a look at the site Caught-In-The-Act. (The site operator has admitted that he also likes my work.)
I have to say that I was rather intrigued by the information myself. I am a celibate 23 year old male. I am celibate because I am gay and it conflicts with my religious beliefs so I have found other ways to keep myself sane so to speak. First off, I am aware that you are not interested in latex sexually and this is not the purpose of this e-mail. I recently purchased a latex vacuum bed. Granted my use of it was meant to be purely sensual but I discovered something very interesting in my experiences with it. The harmony and/ or relaxation is extremely satisfying. It's probably the most relaxed I've ever been. But my purpose is to basically recommend deflatables as well as inflatables. The pressure is not uncomfortable and probably induces the same womb- like feelings you were speaking of. If you are interested in seeing these devices, I will be glad to point you in that direction. I very much enjoyed your site. I wasn't aware of these possibilities with meditation. I thought I just enjoyed it too much...
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My experience with the vacuum bed has been mostly pleasurable. Numbness hasn't been a problem but I usually do not stay in it for more than an hour at a time. You do need someone to help you with it as it has to be zipped up and the vacuum turned on. But the danger of suffocation is not that much of a worry. My friend who helps me zips it shut, turns on the vacuum, and leaves the room. The tube that runs to your mouth is rather large so it is not likely to be blocked. The only pain I have felt from it has been my jaw getting a little sore due to the pressure around my mouth, but it is not bad at all. The membrane thickness of mine is a medium grade and the vacuum I have is very powerful, something like 2.5 hp. I have a few lines in various place on my body when I exit it, but they usually go away after an hour or so. I have sustained no bruises from it at all.
things those need to be said...
When applied correctly, meditation with latex
can create a wonderful feeling of harmony. The fascination for sensual
experiences with latex is something that doesn't deserve to be treated
as pervert. I hope this page will help to open people the eyes that there
is much more than just some kind of sexual stupidity behind latex. On this
planet yet only hardcore sex people seem to dare to out themselves as latex
enthusiasts, though I also hope that my site can encourage some of the
many non- confessing rubberists of this planet those were deterred by that
scene to come out and admit their fascination for latex too. The desire
sometimes to sleep in a latex pyjama to realize its energies is nothing
evil. Let there be a completely different culture of latex friends - a
society far away from sado- maso clichés and all the grubby internet
pornography stuff - instead interested in meditation, self- realization
and spiritual development. Latex can do much more than most people may
expect.
Possibly already soon I will start to build my own inflatable latex equipment similar like the above reported rubberist technology.
Let's stay on the air...
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