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Quotes from Tanks for the Memories : Floatation Tank Talks — John C. Lilly

1915–2001 United States

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At the highest level of satori from which people return, the point of consciousness becomes a surface or a solid which extends throughout the whole known universe.

Tanks for the Memories : Floatation Tank Talks (1995)

You must forget you're omnipotent and omniscient and take the game seriously so you'll engage in sex, have children, and participate in the whole human scenario.

Tanks for the Memories : Floatation Tank Talks (1995)

It was in this state that I experienced "myself" as melded and intertwined with hundreds of billions of other beings in a thin sheet of consciousness that was distributed around the galaxy. A "membrain".

Tanks for the Memories : Floatation Tank Talks (1995)

If you get into these spaces [non-ordinary states of consciousness] at all, you must forget about them when you come back. You must forget you're omnipotent and omniscient and take the game seriously so you'll engage in sex, have children, and participate in the whole human scenario. When you come back from a deep tank session — or a coma or psychosis —there's always this extraterrestrial feeling. You have to read the directions in the glove compartment so you can run the human vehicle once more.

Tanks for the Memories : Floatation Tank Talks (1995)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: John C. Lilly (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.