John C. Lilly
John Cunningham Lilly was an American physician, neuroscientist, psychoanalyst, psychonaut, philosopher, writer, and inventor. He was a member of a group of counterculture thinkers that included Timothy Leary, Ram Dass, and Werner Erhard, all frequent visitors to the Lilly home. He often stirred controversy, especially among mainstream scientists.
Background
- Born in
- Saint Paul
- Educated at
- California Institute of TechnologyPerelman School of Medicine at the University of PennsylvaniaGeisel School of MedicineSt. Paul Academy and Summit School
- Doctoral Advisors
- 🎓 Thomas Hunt Morgan
Trending & Selected Quotes
Trending topics shown first"If you get into these spaces 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,…"
"In the course of some experiments I conducted from 1954 through 1956 I was suspended in water for several hours at a time, and I noticed that my skin gradually became more and more sensitive to tactil…"
"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 transcend…"
"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 t…"
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Timeline
1915
Born
Birth2001
Died
Death
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