Swimming pools and altered states of consciousness

[Beltane]

Maybe I'm a water nymph, and am further blessed to be in Los Angeles where everyone, inluding me, has a swimming pool at their aparatment. I've been "getting wet" 3 times a day lately.

The experience has all the hallmarks of your average profound drug experience. It's truly _altering._ SWIM has recentle realized that that's what he looks for in the substrances he chooses to dabble in.

You're standing there, next to the pool, naked depending on time of day/night and/or modesty level. In that moment you're dry. Deep breath and dive (SWIM was a swim team captain so he suggests everyone else be very carerful,) and the next minute you're UNDER WATER. This is an entirely different and new state from standing dry next to the pool.

No matter how long you linger or what you do in the pool, in that moment, you are profoundly altered. And it's free (here.) And it's healthy! It's like being baptized 3x per day.

SWIM can't believe that for his first 3 months in LA he didn't take advantage of the pool. It's blissful.

- Beltane