The Quiet Center presents the core of Dr. John Lilly's groundbreaking isolation
experiments, edited into an accessible format for a new generation to embrace
the revolutionary thinking of this fascinating scientist. It is a book that
distills the essence of Dr. Lilly's philosophies--higher consciousness, the
varieties of isolation experience, heightened awareness--and minimizes the
scientific jargon to make his theories and examples accessible to the general
reader who is searching for heightened conscious experience and serene
self-awareness. As a pioneer in the research of animal intelligence, altered
states of consciousness and isolation tank experiments, Lilly, like his peers
Timothy Leary, Alan Watts, Carlos Casteneda and Charles Tart, can and