文档介绍：The Center
of the Cyclone
The center of the cyclone is that rising quiet
central low-pressure place in which one can
learn to live eternally. Just outside of this
Center is the rotating storm of one’s own
ego, competing with other egos in a furious
high-velocity circular dance. As one leaves
center, the roar of the rotating wind deafens
one more and more as one joins this dance.
One’s centered thinking-feeling-being, one's
own Satoris, are in the center only, not out­
side. One’s pushed-pulled driven states,
one’s anti-Satori modes of functioning,
one’s self-created hells, are outside the cen­
ter. In the center of the cyclone one is off
the wheel of Karma, of life, rising to join
the Creators of the Universe, the Creators
of us.
Here we find that we have created Them
who are Us.
JOHN C. LILLY, .
The
Center
of the
Cyclone
An Autobiography
of Inner
Space
THE JULIAN PRESS, INC. NEW YORK
Contents
Introduction 1
Chapter 1 My first two trips: Exploring LSD
spaces and projections 6
Chapter 2 Near-lethal "accident”: “No experiment
is a failure” 24
Chapter 3 Return to the two guides: Tank plus
LSD 37
Chapter 4 Following instructions and going with
the flow 59
Chapter 5 A guided tour of Hell 84
Chapter 6 Another look at mysticism 107
Chapter 7 More mysticism: Mentations 117
Chapter 8 Group workshop at Kairos 123
Chapter 9 Group rhythm and group resonance
at the Kairos workshop 132
Chapter 10 My first trip to Chile: Oscar lchazo 139
Chapter 11 Second trip to Chile: Stales of consciousness
defined 145
Chapter 12 Physical barriers to positive stales:
Physical exercises 156
Chapter 13 State 48: The human puter 162
Chapter 14 State +24: The basic professional stale 173
Chapter 15 State +12: The blissful sharing body 176
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Chapter 16 State +6: The point as self 198
Chapter 17 State +3: Classical Satori: The Essence
as one of the creators 205
Chap