Self experimentation is one way to stay within some ethical boundaries of not experimenting on others, absolutely. John lily kept that throughout his entire life, like he would never do something on some one else that he would not do on himself first. And again, i think that's one of the reasons that he, like we toned earlier, regretted those dolphin autopsies and dolphin experiments early on. Later on, he viewed them as equivalent to humans. He had all kinds of interesting ideas about extra terrestrial communication and coincidence. But a, his, his thought was a little different than other people. Was when i meani's kind of going down that standard route of he we exist. There
In this episode, we chat with flotation enthusiast, consultant, and publisher Graham Talley on physician, neuroscientist, psychoanalyst, psychonaut, philosopher, writer, and inventor John C. Lilly, MD, author of over 125 scientific papers and 19 books including Programming and Metaprogramming of the Human Biocomputer and two autobiographies, Center of The Cyclone and The Scientist.
John C. Lilly, MD's delightfully antiquated web site
Beliefs Unlimited - YouTube, pdf
Our guest Graham Talley:
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“In the province of the mind what one believes to be true, either is true or becomes true within certain limits. These limits are to be found experimentally and experientially. When so found these limits turn out to be further beliefs to be transcended. In the province of the mind there are no limits. However, in the province of the body there are definite limits not to be transcended.”