John Cunningham Lilly citations

John Cunningham Lilly, né le 6 janvier 1915 à Saint Paul dans le Minnesota et mort le 30 septembre 2001 à Los Angeles en Californie, est un médecin, neuroscientifique, neuropsychologue, psychanalyste, psychothérapeute, cétologue, mammalogiste, inventeur et écrivain américain.

Il est surtout connu pour être un pionnier dans l'étude de la conscience, avec ses outils propres : le caisson d'isolation sensorielle, la communication avec les dauphins et la recherche de leur intelligence, et les expériences avec les substances psychédéliques.

Il fut un membre important de la contre-culture californienne à la fin des années 1960 et au début des années 1970. Il était proche de personnes telles que : Ram Dass, Allen Ginsberg, Carlos Castaneda, Werner Erhard, Richard Feynman, Gregory Bateson, Alan Watts, Alejandro Jodorowsky, Oscar Ichazo et Timothy Leary. Wikipedia  

✵ 6. janvier 1915 – 30. septembre 2001
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John Cunningham Lilly: Citations en anglais

“It was in this state that I experienced "myself" as melded and intertwined with hundreds of billions of other beings in a thin sheet of consciousness that was distributed around the galaxy. A "membrane".”

John Lilly

Tanks for the Memories : Floatation Tank Talks (1995)<!-- . Nevada City, CA: Gateways -->
Contexte: At the highest level of satori from which people return, the point of consciousness becomes a surface or a solid which extends throughout the whole known universe. This used to be called fusion with the Universal Mind or God. In more modern terms you have done a mathematical transformation in which your centre of consciousness has ceased to be a travelling point and has become a surface or solid of consciousness... It was in this state that I experienced "myself" as melded and intertwined with hundreds of billions of other beings in a thin sheet of consciousness that was distributed around the galaxy. A "membrane".

“You must forget you're omnipotent and omniscient and take the game seriously so you'll engage in sex, have children, and participate in the whole human scenario.”

John Lilly

Tanks for the Memories : Floatation Tank Talks (1995)<!-- . Nevada City, CA: Gateways -->
Contexte: If you get into these spaces [non-ordinary states of consciousness] at all, you must forget about them when you come back. You must forget you're omnipotent and omniscient and take the game seriously so you'll engage in sex, have children, and participate in the whole human scenario. When you come back from a deep tank session — or a coma or psychosis —there's always this extraterrestrial feeling. You have to read the directions in the glove compartment so you can run the human vehicle once more.

“These limits are further beliefs to be transcended. In the network's mind there are no limits.”

John Lilly

The Human Biocomputer (1974) <!-- London: Abacus -->
Contexte: In the province of the mind, what one believes to be true is true or becomes true, within certain limits to be found experientially and experimentally. These limits are further beliefs to be transcended. In the mind, there are no limits... 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.

“At the highest level of satori from which people return, the point of consciousness becomes a surface or a solid which extends throughout the whole known universe.”

John Lilly

Tanks for the Memories : Floatation Tank Talks (1995)<!-- . Nevada City, CA: Gateways -->
Contexte: At the highest level of satori from which people return, the point of consciousness becomes a surface or a solid which extends throughout the whole known universe. This used to be called fusion with the Universal Mind or God. In more modern terms you have done a mathematical transformation in which your centre of consciousness has ceased to be a travelling point and has become a surface or solid of consciousness... It was in this state that I experienced "myself" as melded and intertwined with hundreds of billions of other beings in a thin sheet of consciousness that was distributed around the galaxy. A "membrane".

“In the province of the mind, what one believes to be true is true or becomes true, within certain limits to be found experientially and experimentally. These limits are further beliefs to be transcended.”

John Lilly

The Human Biocomputer (1974) <!-- London: Abacus -->
Contexte: In the province of the mind, what one believes to be true is true or becomes true, within certain limits to be found experientially and experimentally. These limits are further beliefs to be transcended. In the mind, there are no limits... 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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