The center of the cyclone

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• dwarman · Sep 19, 2013 · Recommends

  …Programming" - linked lists, state machines. Carlos Castenada's Don Juan series (yes, I know it was fiction) - "one has no choice but to believe. What matters is what you believe". John C. Lilly's "Center of the Cyclone". These three, all around early-mid 70's, ended up moving me from the UK to Los Angeles. Strangely, each adds a different understanding to the others. Together, I guess it just makes me a bit strange.…

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• Liquix · Nov 7, 2024 · Recommends

  …with figuring out how to communicate with them, going as far as flooding half of his house in the Carribeans to cohabitate. This is just the tip of the iceberg. I'd highly recommend his autobiography The Center of the Cyclone if any of this is intriguing, he's a fascinating guy

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• delbel · Nov 23, 2017 · Recommends

  Center of the Cyclone by Dr. John C Lilly

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• cnp · Apr 28, 2017 · Recommends

  The one you really need to read by him is "The Center of the Cyclone" ;) It is truly, truly incredible. This guy was a real-deal scientist. I first discovered him through reading this https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/the-ketamine-secrets-of-s... and then went on to…

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• PaulHoule · Nov 11, 2025 · Mentions

  …this movie last night https://thefilmstage.com/john-lilly-and-the-earth-coincidenc... but we had a visitor at home and enough to deal with. I read Lilly's books like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Center_of_the_Cyclone and they were a bit of a hoot as he nearly killed himself multiple times injecting LSD and then testified that LSD was perfectly safe. I've known a few people, all male, who took LSD and developed…

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