00:01Science has been tantalized for years at the prospect of talking to the most intelligent creatures on earth, which may
00:08not be human beings.
00:14We are a talking animal.
00:18The dolphins and the whales are talking animals.
00:21They are communicating in physical parameters outside of our experience.
00:27And I just want to talk to such ancient characters and find out, you know, if they have any wisdom
00:32for us.
00:35John Lilly's lifelong preoccupation, in the words of one historian, was to get his hands on the steering wheel of
00:42consciousness.
00:44Can you see it? It's right here in front of me right now.
00:47People kept urging me to take the LSD. I said, no, I want a physiological baseline for my isolation work.
00:53And currently there is somebody inside this tank so that you can see what it's like.
00:58I think he was in here. Yes, there he is.
01:10In the dark, I injected the acid in my thigh and went in and floated on the surface.
01:15I became non-human and the terror became energy, total, pure, primitive energy.
01:20The goal is to transcend human perspective, leading to places where science and science fiction merge.
01:28What does this all mean to you?
01:31The sudden shift in my own consciousness that took place at that point was a very bizarre and weird feeling
01:38that for the first time I was meeting another species worthy of our attention, our compassion, and our respect.
01:48Most of us do not dare step outside what we consider to be the consensus simulations.
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