Quotes by John C. Lilly, The Center of the Cyclone: Looking into Inner Space

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altered-states ego emptiness self spirituality being creation existence nothingness soul void

“I am not my opinion of myself, I am not anything I can describe to me. I am only a part of a large system that cannot describe itself fully; therefore, I relax and I am in the point source of consc...”
— John C. Lilly, The Center of the Cyclone: Looking into Inner Space
altered-states ego emptiness self

“I am a thin layer of all those beings on [samadhi level] 3, mingling, connected with one another in a spherical surface around the whole known universe. Our "backs" are to the void. We are creating...”
— John C. Lilly, The Center of the Cyclone: Looking into Inner Space
being creation existence nothingness