Cool!
I concur.
In the zone is quiet time.
For ALL the voices in my head.
Parallels the Tin Cup coaching.
For me the zone is far more than a quiet time. Trying to describe it gets into some areas that some see as hokum. Those that have never been in the third and possibly highest level of the zone sometimes have a hard time believing it. Expanded consciousness is part of it but along with the expanded consciousness is an expanded ability to use all of the information coming in that aids the situation while effortlessly sorting out the things that aren't needed for later consideration.
A man that I didn't know well had a bad stage at a pistol match. Afterwards he told me that his senses all exploded and he was overwhelmed by the additional information coming in. I started to explain to him that he was a few degrees off from pure gold but he didn't know me well enough to hear it from me.
One of the common beliefs by those experiencing the zone is that you can't experience it on demand. I'm not too sure about that. I have entered the zone on demand, used it to set a record that had been chased for fifteen years. Something I just read lately indicates that surgeons that routinely do long and difficult surgeries enter the zone during surgery although I haven't seen the state called the zone in relation to surgery.
One place I was always able to enter the zone was circle track racing, the same thing repeated over and over with slight variations. If a person can enter the zone on demand it would be huge not just for competitors but surgeons, fighter pilots, all the things that demand maximum output. The zone is one more thing that some consider supernatural that will be considered quite natural when it is better understood.
Hu