The deep self [electronic resource] : consciousness exploration in the isolation tank / John C. Lilly.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lilly, John Cunningham, 1915-2001.

Series:

Gateways consciousness classics.

Consciousness classics

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Consciousness.

Sensory deprivation.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (331 p.)

Place of Publication:

Nevada City, CA : Gateways Books and Tapes, c2007.

Contents:

Physical isolation experience in the tank

The application of the sciences to

Floatation and physical isolation

Peace in physical isolation vs "sensory

Deprivation"

The search for reality

The self as the isolated observer-agent-

Operator

The domains of reality: the metabelief

The mind contained in the brain:

A cybernetic belief system

The mind unlimited: the deep self

Uncontained

Mental effects of reduction of ordinary

Levels of physical stimuli on intact, healthy

Persons (1956)

Experiments in solitude: in maximum

Achievable physical isolation with water

Suspension, of intact healthy persons (1961)

Standards for isolation tank manufacture

And use

Tank logs: experiences

Excerpts of published personal observations.

The development of the "contained

Mind" hypothesis

The contained mind metabelief:

Definitions of elements

C.n.s. energy sources for stimulations

And observer/operator with e.r. present

Hyperstability and physical isolation

Forcible indoctrination (coercive

Persuasion) and physical isolation

A useful metabelief about the internal

Reality (i.r.) program and simulation.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

0-89556-503-X

OCLC:

707092597