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."
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