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John C. Lilly Quotes

Total quotes: 4
“The human computer operates in such a way as to make signals out of noise and thus to create information out of random energies where there was no signal.”
— John C. Lilly, Programming and Metaprogramming in the Human Biocomputer: Theory and Experiments
Tagged: Identity Creation, Create Yourself
“Respect for the Unknown is hard to come by.”
— John C. Lilly, Programming and Metaprogramming in the Human Biocomputer: Theory and Experiments
Tagged: What We Don't Understand, unknown
“While I was writing this work, l was a bit too fearful to express candidly in writing the direct experience, uninterpreted. I felt that a group of thirty persons' salaries, a large research budget, a whole Institute's life depended on me and what I wrote. If I wrote the data up straight, I would have rocked the boats of several lives (colleagues and family) beyond my own stabilizer effectiveness threshold, I hypothesized.”
— John C. Lilly, Programming and Metaprogramming in the Human Biocomputer: Theory and Experiments
Tagged: Dangerous Ideas
“One projects one's expectations of God onto the white noise as if the noise were signals; one bears the voice of God in the Noise.With a bit of proper programming under the right conditions, with the right dose, at the right time, one can program almost anything into the noise within one's cognitive limits; the limits are only one's own conceptual limits, including limits set by one's repressed, inhibited, and forbidden areas of thought.”
— John C. Lilly, Programming and Metaprogramming in the Human Biocomputer: Theory and Experiments
Tagged: White Noise, Programming, Programming in the Empty Grain of Projection, LSD
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