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Record Nr.

UNINA9910790637903321

Autore

Lilly John Cunningham <1915-2001.>

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

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

ISBN

0-89556-503-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (331 p.)

Collana

Consciousness classics

Soggetti

Consciousness

Sensory deprivation

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

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 -- Operator -- 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.