Other Books by John C. Lilly, M.D.

Simulations of God: the Science of Belief

Man and Dolphin

The Mind of the Dolphin

Programming and Metaprogramming in the Human Biocomputer

The Center of the Cyclone

Lilly on Dolphins: Humans of the Sea

The

Dyadic

Cyclone

The Autobiography of a Couple

SIMON AND SCHUSTER : NEW YORK

PHOTO BY STEVE

John Lilly and Antonietta Lilly

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The author gratefully acknowledges permission from the following sources to reprint material:

Encyclopaedia Britannica, 14th edition, for material from "Gnosticism,” copyright © i960, Encyclopaedia Britannica.

Farrar, Straus & Giroux, Inc., for material from This Timeless Moment by Laura Huxley, copyright © 1968 by Laura Archer`a Huxley.

The Julian Press, Inc., for material from The Center of the Cyclone: An Autobiography of Inner Space by John C. Lilly, copyright © 1972 by John C. Lilly, M.D.; from Programming and Metaprogramming in the Human Biocomputer by John C. Lilly, copyright © 1967, 1968 by John C. Lilly, M.D.; from The Laws of Form by G. Spencer-Brown, copyright ©

1972 by G. Spencer-Brown; all titles also published in paperback editions by Bantam Books; and for material from The Philosophy of Consciousness Without an Object: Reflections on the Nature of Transcendental Consciousness by Franklin Merrell-Wolff, copyright © 1973 by Franklin F. Wolff; from Pathways Through to Space by Franklin Merrell-Wolff, copyright ©

1973 by Franklin F. Wolff.

Penguin Books, Inc., for material from Stewart Brand's review of The Laws of Form in The Updated Last Whole Earth Catalog, edited by Stewart Brand, © 1971, 1974 by Point.

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Erma Sims for the use of her poetry.

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Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data Lilly, John Cunningham, 1915-The dyadic cyclone.

Bibliography: p.

1. Marriage. 2. Consciousness. 3. Interpersonal relations. I. Lilly, Antonietta, joint author.

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HQ734.L565 158'24 75-45307

ISBN 0—671—22218—X

Dedication

To the author, director and actor Burgess Meredith, who has given unstintingly of his time, energy and wise counsel at critical times in our dyad. His professional advice has furnished us with a realistic context for our rather unconventional forays into experiments into transforms of the conventional media of communication of mood, of ideas, and of the "inexpressible" content of mystical experience. His own inner experiences of these domains and his representations of them have aided us in expressing our domains to others. Sharing his performances with us (Ulysses in Night Town, both the original off-Broadway and the recent Broadway productions, as director; The Little Foxes, as actor; his autobiography, as author), he has exemplified a model of talent and professional competence that has given us new insights into the how of communicating deep human experience through the theater, the motion picture and the written word.

Contents

10 Contents

Chapter Seven Bodily Limits vs. Mind Unlimited in

Appendix Four The Metabelief Game: A Metabelief Operator

I tell you, as long as l can conceive something better than myself I cannot be easy unless 1 am striving to bring it into existence or clearing the way for it. This is the law of my life. That is the working within me of Life's incessant aspiration to higher organization, wider, deeper, intenser self-consciousness and clearer self-understanding.

Man and Superman George Bernard Shaw