Science/Biography
288 pp
32 photos
Bibliography of 125 publications
by John Lilly
ISBN 0-914171-72-0
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"Guard your copy of The Scientist. It's
a precious
relic of our wonderful, incredible age."
 -Timothy
Leary
"If there is a
cartographer
of altered states of consciousness - of the highways and byways of the
inner trip - it is John Lilly, a rare combination of scientist and
mystic."
-Psychology
Today
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The Scientist
A Metaphysical Autobiography
New Edition
John C. Lilly, M.D.
Foreword by Timothy Leary
 he scientist
is John Lilly, M.D., pioneer in electronics, biophysics,
neurophysiology,
computer theory and neuroanatomy, the researcher who served as the
basis
of the films Day of the Dolphin and Altered States. The author of Mind
of the Dolphin and Center of the Cyclone tells the story of his
astonishing
discoveries -- from his early experiments mapping the brains of monkeys
and communication with dolphins to his awesome breakthroughs with
consciousness
expanding drugs and isolation tanks.
In The
Scientist, John Lilly tells his behind-the-scenes story about
teaching
dolphins to talk and about his discoveries with LSD and in flotation
tanks.
This is an expanded edition of with "bubbles" of consensus reality -
text
and photos - in the hyperspace narrative. It includes an introduction
by
Timothy Leary, along with biographical and bibliographic information.
The
Scientist includes an update on John Lilly's work with
human/dolphin
communication and the results of reintroduction of captive dolphins and
other cetaceans to the wild.
John Lilly Memorial
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