John C. Lilly Quotes

• 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.

  John C. Lilly

  Believe, Mind, Limits

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• All human beings, all persons who reach adulthood in the world today are programmed biocomputers. No one of us can escape our own nature as programmable entities. Literally, each of us may be our programs, nothing more, nothing less.

  John C. Lilly

  World, May, Today

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• As I say at the beginning of my workshops, 'Everything I say here is a lie -- bullshit, in other words -- because anything that you put in words is not experience, is not the experiment. It's a representation -- a misrepresentation.

  John C. Lilly

  Lying, Bullshit, Experience

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• Presumably there are energies, to which each human is sensitive, that we cannot yet detect by means of our instruments. Built into our brains and our bodies are very sensitive tuneable receivers for energies that we do not yet know about in our science but that each one of us can detect under the proper circumstances and the proper state of mind. We can tune our nervous systems and bodies to receive these energies. We can also tune our brains and bodies to transmit these energies.

  John C. Lilly

  Mean, Brain, Mind

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• The miracle is that the universe created a part of itself, to study itself,
and that this part in studying itself finds the rest of the universe in its own natural inner realities.

  John C. Lilly

  Reality, Miracle, Study

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• In the mind, there are no limits...

  John C. Lilly

  Mind, Limits, Provinces

  "The Human Biocomputer". Book by John C. Lilly, 1974.

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• The experienced, wise, energetic, intelligent individual functioning in a loose coalition with others in a wide network is far more effective than he is in a tightly organized group.

  John C. Lilly

  Wise, Intelligent, Groups

  John C. Lilly, Antonietta Lilly (1976). “The Dyadic Cyclone: The Autobiography of a Couple”

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• Cosmic love is absolutely Ruthless and Highly Indifferent: it teaches its lessons whether you like/ dislike them or not.

  John C. Lilly

  Love Is, Religion, Lessons

  John C. Lilly, Antonietta Lilly (1976). “The Dyadic Cyclone: The Autobiography of a Couple”

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• There are no mistakes, there are only correctable errors. There are no errors, there are only alternate programs.

  John C. Lilly

  Mistake, Errors, Program

  John C. Lilly, Antonietta Lilly (1976). “The Dyadic Cyclone: The Autobiography of a Couple”

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• I believe in our culture we need certain socially accepted places where we don’t answer the telephone, we don’t have to answer questions or agree with anyone on anything

  John C. Lilly

  Believe, Needs, Culture

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• In the centre of the cyclone one is off the wheel of Karma, of life, rising to join the Creators of the Universe, the Creators of us. Here we find that we have created Them who are Us.

  John C. Lilly

  Karma, Cyclones, Rising

  John C. Lilly, Antonietta Lilly (1976). “The Dyadic Cyclone: The Autobiography of a Couple”

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• You don't have to suffer continual chaos in order to grow.

  John C. Lilly

  Order, Suffering, Chaos

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• As the LSD began to take effect, I suddenly said in a very loud voice, while pounding on top of a file, “Every psychiatrist, every psychoanalyst should be forced to take LSD in order to know what is over here.”

  John C. Lilly

  Loud Voices, Order, Lsd

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• The fear that the universe is not what you assume it to be is very basic, especially when you know damn well it isn't what you assume it to be.

  John C. Lilly

  Assuming, Damn, Wells

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• All laws are simulations of reality.

  John C. Lilly

  Reality, Law, Simulation

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• I call God ECCO (Earth Coincidence Control Office) . It's much more satisfying to call it that. A lot of people accept this and they don't know that they're just talking about God. I finally found a God that was big enough. As the astronomer said to the Minister, My God's astronomical. The Minister said, How can you relate to something so big? The astronomer said, Well, that isn't the problem, your God's too small!

  John C. Lilly

  Talking, Office, People

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