John C. Lilly

Puffer Fish

Puffer Fish

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Hello Travelers and Kids of all ages ...
I enter this thread into HS circulation as it demands to be shared.

This will be a wiki ...'Ripp' ... a frequency you might want to tap into ...
Revolutionary stuff to say the least ...



John Cunningham Lilly
(January 6, 1915 – September 30, 2001) was an American physician, neuroscientist, psychoanalyst, psychonaut, philosopher and writer.
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He was a researcher of the nature of consciousness using mainly isolation tanks,[1] dolphin communication, and psychedelic drugs, sometimes in combination.
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Exploration of human consciousness

During the early 1960s he was introduced to
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psychedelic drugs like and (later) LSD ketamine and began a series of experiments in which he ingested a psychedelic drug either in an isolation tank or in the company of dolphins. These events are described in his books Programming and Metaprogramming in the Human Biocomputer: Theory and Experiments and The Center of the Cyclone, both published during 1972. Following advice from Ram Dass, Lilly studied Patanjali's system of yoga (finding I. K. Taimni's Science of Yoga, a modernized interpretation of the Sanskrit text, most suited to his goals). He also paid special attention to Self-enquiry meditation advocated by Sri Ramana Maharshi, and was reformulating the principles of this exercise with reference to his human biocomputer paradigm (described in Programming and Metaprogramming in the Human Biocomputer: Theory and Experiments and The Center of the Cyclone). He later traveled to Chile and trained with the spiritual leader Oscar Ichazo (whose attitude to metaphysical consciousness exploration Lilly characterized as "empirical" in his book The Center of the Cyclone). Lilly claimed to have achieved the maximum degree of Satori-Samadhi consciousness during his training.
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Development of the sensory deprivation tank

During 1953, he began a job studying
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neurophysiology with the US Public Health Service Commissioned Officers Corps. At the NIMH during 1954,[3][4][5][6] with the desire of isolating a brain from external stimulation, he devised the first isolation tank, a dark soundproof tank of warm salt water in which subjects could float for long periods in sensory isolation. Lilly and a research colleague were the first to act as subjects of this research.
He later studied other large-brained mammals and during the late 1950s he established a facility devoted to fostering human-dolphin communication: the Communication Research Institute on St. Thomas in the Virgin Islands. During the early 1960s, Lilly and co-workers published several papers reporting that dolphins could mimic human speech patterns.[7][8] Subsequent investigations of dolphin cognition have generally, however, found it difficult to replicate his results.[citation needed]
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SETI

Lilly was interested in the Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence (SETI). During 1961 a group of scientists including Lilly gathered at the
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Green Bank Observatory to discuss the possibility of using the techniques of radio astronomy to detect evidence of intelligent life outside our Solar System. They called themselves The Order of the Dolphin after Lilly's work with dolphins. They developed the Drake equation to estimate the number of extraterrestrial civilizations in our galaxy.[9]
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canndo

canndo

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No, we were all in love with Casteneda and Lilly and even Leary. All my friends had sensory isolation tanks and we traded empsom salts for shwag pot. Then we figured we had to learn how to make a living and have kids and look conventional. That conventional stuff never really took though.
 
Puffer Fish

Puffer Fish

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So are you !

It terms of the work started and accomplished ... he's done quite a bit of interesting stuff.
It was the woman that killed him ....... my theory.

:)

They always do kill you in the end.
I am a fish and can not communicate with dolphins ... perhaps he found something I don't know or am to realize ?
 
DarthD3vl

DarthD3vl

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HAHAHAHA time, you must read more... his details are in that first post by puffer, i only know him as the guy or one of the guys responisble for dep tanks, and him and george lucus had a freindship...
 
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mihjaro

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He get's a nod in the Oysterhead song, 'Oz Is Ever Floating.' Here's the lyrics....

Oz is always floating,
ever drifting,
sometimes doting
over things that mean the world to
Doctor John C. Lilly

In the tank he's grooving,
ever sifting, sometimes smoothing,
of the things that mean the world to
Doctor John C. Lilly

(Are you still floating Doctor John C. Lilly?)

Drifting as the time goes by
Across the inner cosmos he is calling.

His tank is isolating.
In his mind, he's elevating
All the things that mean the world to
Doctor John C. Lilly

(Are you still floating Doctor John C. Lilly?)

In the liquid he will ride,
Rehearsing for the final act of time.

(Oz is everfloating)
Doctor John C. Lilly


I loved that band. Definitely my favorite "supergroup." Trey Anastasio, Stewart Copeland, and Les Claypool. What a tour.
 
Puffer Fish

Puffer Fish

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timeismoney1 said:
What is this guy famous for?
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Time ... how can something like this for example ... not interest you of all people.

During the early 1960s he was introduced to psychedelic drugs like and (later) LSD ketamine and began a series of experiments in which he ingested a psychedelic drug either in an isolation tank or in the company of dolphins. These events are described in his books Programming and Metaprogramming in the Human Biocomputer



Man, do I have to Bold/Red for all our ADD friends ?

 
ndangerspecimen101

ndangerspecimen101

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Puffer Fish said:
So are you !

It terms of the work started and accomplished ... he's done quite a bit of interesting stuff.
It was the woman that killed him ....... my theory.

:)

They always do kill you in the end.
I am a fish and can not communicate with dolphins ... perhaps he found something I don't know or am to realize ?
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Woman are a chore, much maintenance is required to keep our own health sane ;)

Do the sounds of Nietzsche ring through :D
 
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