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In the province of the mind, what one believes to be true is true or becomes true, within certain limits to be found experientially and experimentally. These limits are further beliefs to be transcended.

— John C. Lilly The Human Biocomputer (1974)

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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)

These limits are further beliefs to be transcended. In the network's mind there are no limits.

The Human Biocomputer (1974)

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)

As the LSD began to take effect, I suddenly said ... : ’Every Psychiatrist, every psychoanalyst should be forced to take LSD in order to know what is over here.’ What I meant was that anybody who has anything to do with the human mind and care should be trained in these spaces.

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