Integratron Amazingness

When I went to the Integratron with our class last weekend I tried to go with an open mind. I was actually really excited about the unknown which typically isn’t how I feel. When we drove up to the gate I was sort of surprised there was no type of civilization around. This building full of experiences that draws large amounts of people is literally in the middle of nowhere. I started thinking about the origins of the building and how it started with a man being visited by aliens from Venus. When our class was told more about the history I was shocked that Howard Hughes funded a random building in the desert with no metal in the framing. I dwelled on that thought for a while only being able to picture a young Leonardo DiCaprio trying to build this huge installations while storing his pee in a number of bottles.

                When we went inside, it was cooler that I expected (temperature wise). We all took off our shoes and left our technology and climbed up the steepest stairs I have ever seen. I was honestly so afraid of falling and dying. However, when I reached the second story it was like a whole other world. The air was somehow thinner than before and the architecture was breathtaking. For some reason I didn’t expect the inside to resemble the shape of the outside structure but it actually took exactly the same shape which I really enjoyed. We all played around for a couple of minutes talking to each other to fully grasp the amazingness involving the acoustics. At one point a student was talking to me and I began to move closer to her in the center of the room and as I did her voice became so apparent that it felt like she was talking in my head. Her speech was as strong as my own personal thoughts. Experiencing that was amazing but also kind of freaky.

                We all began to lay down and prepare for the quartz bowl sound bath and as it began, I was just so amazed at how beautiful the bowls sounded. They were so strong and loud! I cannot stress that enough. The Bowls were SO POWERFUL I felt like they were commanding my attention so much that even if I wanted to think of something else, I couldn’t.  As the sound bath went on, I began seen a tunnel of mostly blue and black but with other random cool colors. Kind of like the movie Contact which I linked below.

:52 and on but I was going backwards and there were more definite stripes of color

here is another tunnel space scene from Interstellar

2:45 and on

As I was going backwards I tried to will my mind to see the tunnel going forwards but I couldn’t change it. I just kept falling backwards. I think I began to go in and out of consciousness because I didn’t notice the change from Quartz bowls to music and then the session was over. When I sat up, my body felt really light, like I had been resting for a really long time. I felt like this somehow related to my chakras. In past and current acting classes at Chapman, we have worked and done exercises involving our chakras so this was such a special experience to share with non-actors.