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John Cunningham Lilly

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John Cunningham Lilly
John Cunningham Lilly
(January 06, 1915 - September 30, 2001)


        Dr. John C. Lilly, M.D. was a physician and  psychoanalyst specializing in biophysics, neurophysiology, neuroanatomy, electronics and computer theory. He made significant contributions to psychology, brain research, delphinlogy, and interspecies communication.

        He invented the isolation tank in the 1950s. There he with absence of light and sound in the specially warmed water (appr. 34
°C) was traveling through the changed states of reality. In the early sixties,  Lilly encountered LSD and took his experiments with this substance to the isolation tank.

        Lilly was the first to begin several scientific revolutions, including the theory of internal realities, the hardware/software model of the human brain/ mind, and the initiation of worldwide efforts at interspecies communications with large-brained dolphins. He  lived in the company of Nobel physicists Richard Feynman and Robert Milliken, philosophers Buckminster Fuller,  Aldous Huxley,  and Alan Watts, psychotherapy pioneers R.D. Laing and Fritz Perls, spiritual teachers Oscar Ichazo and Baba Ram Dass and others.

        "In the province of connected minds, what the network believes to be true, either is true or becomes true within certain limits to be found experientially and experimentally. These limits are further beliefs to be transcended. In the network's mind there are no limits."

 

 
Books by John Lilly:
1. Man and Dolphin, (1961)
2. The Dolphin in History, University of California, (1963)
3. The Mind of the Dolphin, Doubleday & Co, (1967)
4. Programming and Metaprogramming in the Human Biocomputer: Theory and Experiments The Julian Press, (1967)
5. The Scientist The Julian Press, (1968)
6. The Center of the Cyclone: An Autobiography of Inner Space The Julian Press, (1972)
7. The Dyadic Cyclone, Simon & Schuster, (1976)
8. Lilly on Dolphins
9. Simulations of God: The Science of Belief Simon & Schuster
10. The Deep Self: Profound Relaxation and the Tank Isolation Technique Warner Books, (1977)
11. Communication between Man and Dolphin, Crown Publishers, (1978)
12. John Lilly, so far..., (1990)
13. Tanks for the Memories, (1995)
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