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He's dead Jim! Err.... John! (on the passing of John Lilly)

 
 
Enamon
16:11 / 10.10.01
Jonh Cunningham Lilly b. January 06, 1915 - d. September 30, 2001

Did lots of stuff with the human brain/mind. Has webpage - http://www.johnclilly.com - it contains some interesting stuff so I would recommend one to d/l it as soon as possible as the future of the site is uncertain (at least to me).

[ 15-10-2001: Message edited by: grant ]
 
 
tom-karika nukes it from orbit
21:48 / 13.10.01
Hmm... no mention of the way he killed several of his lovely dolphins by electrocution then.
 
 
grant
17:58 / 15.10.01
...as well as overseeing cohabitation experiments (rooms flooded with three to four feet of water) which featured young grad students getting, errr, romantically involved with the dolphin roommates.

Lilly invented the isolation tank (think "Altered States"), and was I believe the first person to use ketamine as a psychedelic drug. He certainly experimented with it pretty thoroughly.

His ongoing quest was for communication with intelligences unlike our own.

Great scientist, in that regard.
 
 
Ria
09:51 / 22.10.01
Programming and MetaprogrammingI cannot have high enough praise for. I think that I first took LSD because of it. not enough people know about him.

his books reveal a bit more of him than I think he let on. this makes 'em more fascinating for that.

Mr. Karika, could you elaborate on that reference?
 
 
YNH
09:51 / 22.10.01
And being responsible for mapping quite a lot of the human brain.

Bye, John.
 
  
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