 Thanks, Ashconn, for letting me be here and all the people that float on putting on this conference. It's been a really beautiful weekend. So my name is Chas Rollins. I'm going to talk about putting float tanks in libraries. I work at Seattle Public Library and I'm currently going to school at the University of Washington for Library and Information Science. And I'm going to start with this quote by Terrence McKenna, which is, the present moment is the richest apex of being. What happens in the past shades into memory. What happens in the future shades into anticipation. And the idea behind this is that when we experience the present moment, it's the most clear representation of reality, the data that we pick up in our senses. And so a little bit of how I'm going to proceed. I'm going to talk about the guiding values of libraries and then why float tanks should be in libraries, why libraries should expand their services to include float tanks. And then how are we going to do this? So service is really our key value. It opens our door. If we didn't provide service, we wouldn't exist. And so it's the effort that we dedicate to human well-being. And by serving an individual fully and completely, we end up serving humanity fully and completely. And stewardship, another value of ours that helps guide our way. We think of a steward as someone who is responsible with ensuring the safety and orderly functioning of a house. And in this context, planet Earth is the house and we are the people. And libraries help us maintain order. And traditionally, we fulfill information needs. We try and find out what those needs are and how we can provide access to it. And part of that is eliminating the monetary barriers to that access. When libraries were first created, books were really expensive. And Benjamin Franklin and some of his friends said, hey, let's pool our resources and allow a greater amount of people to experience what we have the benefit of experiencing. And so libraries, I feel, have a blind spot, which is they haven't considered zero information experience. And the flow tank provides that. And I think it will provide a balance and an equilibrium to what library services provide. So flow tanks. A lot of people experience information overload. I haven't heard of someone experiencing that in a flow tank. I don't know about you guys. So this is a solution for that. And not only, people are not the only ones that can experience information overload. Problems can, like the institution of libraries. If you think you have information overload, try dealing with the entire universe of information. The library institution has overload. And a symptom of information overload is the inability to process all the inputs. It leads to breakdown. I mean, we wouldn't have the problems in society today if we were able to process everything that was going on. Another reason, I mean, when we're talking about libraries providing service to individuals, I mean, how best can we serve them? I mean, this flow-tation tank provides this holistic healing, mind, body, and spirit. We have something called the digital divide in libraries, a whole sector of society that won't enter a library because it's too much information. This is one way we can help encourage a number of people to come in who would never have even thought to, and for them to see the value of libraries in their own life. And now, libraries wish to remain neutral. They don't defend the content of what they provide. They defend the access to it. And flotation tanks are neutral. Lee Perry says the float tank gives you what you need. So this is a little mock-up, artist's conception of what something like this could look like. I mean, when you're having these insights in the tank, what better place to emerge from to be able to find the information that you need to help solve your problem than in a library. So we really, we can do this. We can meet donors halfway. We say, we have a plan set up. If you donate our tank, we'll let the public know who provided this. And it's a good investment for you. I mean, so many more people will be hearing about float tanks. People will want to float right now, but the waiting list would be like a year long. And so they're going to be wanting to support the local float centers. If they don't have a local float center, they might want to start one. They might want to buy their own tank for themselves. Another way is we can fundraise like Kickstarter style. Say we've got 30 days to raise this amount of money. If we don't make it, you get your money back. No risk. The amount of media coverage that float tanks would receive from this would be incredible. First library in the world to have a float tank. People would just be talking about it. And for the public to see that the library would be making these steps to benefit you as an individual would dramatically increase public support for libraries. More people will be coming. I mean, library tourism. So, I mean, as we have float tanks in libraries all around the world, what can we expect to happen on a personal level, I mean, inspiration that's a lot of the reason why so many people are here is because they've been inspired by their experience. I mean, as we have more and more people having this kind of, you know, deep feeling within them that spreads to their community. We have community-wide collaboration and creativity happening. More communities doing that, we can actually solve world problems by working together with this clarity, this clear thinking that comes from this. Greater problem-solving, decision-making, thought formation. It really, it brings you an inner peace and that feeling spreads. And it really is a logical conclusion that we would have world peace. Like, it's not a lofty idea, it just, it would happen. So I'm going to leave with the lesson of the caterpillar, which is once we learn how to slow down and stop, then what emerges is an entirely new being. And if you want to help, if you have questions, concerns, suggestions, please talk to me. Thank you.