The Quiet Center

By John C. Lilly and Philip Hansen Bailey Lilly

Book Overview

This work presents the core of Dr John Lilly's isolation experiments. It cover higher consciousness, the varieties of isolation experience, and heightened awareness - and minimizes his scientific jargon to make his theories and examples accessible to the general reader.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1579510590
• ISBN13: 9781579510596
• Release Date: May 2003
• Publisher: Ronin Publishing (CA)
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 0.43 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.4" x 8.4"

Customer Reviews

Altered States Of Perception

A great overview of Dr. John C. Lilly's work and ideas. The book includes practical advice on how to create your own void space, an environment isolated from sensations, without investing a lot of money in a floatation tank. However, I don't think it is really necessary to isolate oneself from sensation in order to find one's inmost self. This can be done in sensation rich environments where there is something to experience on all levels. But sensory deprivation in a floatation tank is probably a good way to exerience an altered state of perception without the use of psychoactive drugs or a lifetime of meditation practice. Dr. Lilly also had interesting ideas about how to liberate ourselves from our belief systems in order to expand our mental horizons. It is amusing to find such "thinking outside the box" advice coming from someone who pioneered research into a sort of isolation box but that is precisely what the floatation tank experience is meant to be, sending the mind on a journey outside the tank. Unfortunately, this book has many annoying typos and gives the impression of being a self-published title by his surviving relatives.