THE DEEP STATE HISTORY JOHN C LILLY ISOLATION TANKS AND BRAIN STIMULATION (SUBS ESPANOL)

The Deep State History of John C. Lilly: Part 1, Isolation, Brain Stimulation, and Modified Human Agents

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19 de sep. de 2022
This series is about the controversial scientist, psychadelic pioneer, dolphin expert and possible CIA assett, Dr. John C. Lilly.

We talk about John C. Lilly’s privileged early life.

When he was young his family was involved in a high level St. Paul Minnesota power shake up with organized crime.

We discuss Lilly's years at CalTech, then Dartmouth, then Penn State.

We talked about Lilly’s ethic of not performing experiments on subjects without first having performed them on oneself. We also talked about Lilly’s willingness to perform almost any kind of experiment on himself, and his desire to one day insert thousands of electrodes into his own brain.

In order to fund his brain experiments, Lilly turned to Robert Swain Morison, the director of Medical Research at the Rockefeller Fund. Morison gave grants not only to Lilly, but to Donald Hebb and Ewan Cameron over at McGill University. Morison and Cameron were doing work on isolation experiments. At Morison’s suggestion, Lilly visited McGill and began conducting experiments of his own, and created the sensory deprivation tank.

We talk about the CIA’s interest in isolation, and how they had spread their tendrils out through ARTICHOKE and MKULTRA contracting scientists to conduct isolation research throughout the US and Canada and the UK.

We discuss the sensation that occurred when Lilly’s experiments were made public, and read his apology letter to Donald Hebb, who responded back with a letter that had a cryptic line in it that seemed to imply a belief that mass brainwashing was on the horizon.

We talk about how despite an insistence throughout Lilly’s work that he tried to distance himself from what he called “the covert intelligences” Lilly’s early career was dominated by military science, and he crossed paths with many characters who were knowingly working for the CIA or other intelligence agencies. These figure include Donald Hebb, Ewan Cameron, Lawrence Kubie, Harold Wolff, Louis Jolyon West.

Furthermore Lilly conducted Mind Control research and submitted proposals for Military Intelligence that were as extreme as any we’ve read about, other than the fact that he conducted his research either solely on animals, or on himself first and then whoever would volunteer afterwards.

One of these proposals was about the creation of “Modified Human Agents” using a combination of isolation and Ewan Cameron style psychic driving along with brain implants which could covertly stimulate the motivational areas of the brain to allow for total “master-slave control of one brain over another.”

At the end podcast, we talk about how the CIA took some of their isolation studies and put it in the Kubark manual, which is a famous torture manual that is still in use today, and how isolation continues to be used as form of torture at places like Guantanamo Bay.

Our story of John C. Lilly leaves off with him heading down to Florida to study Dolphins, while his research assistant, Jay Shurley, heads off to Oklahoma where he’ll be working in the psychology department headed by Lois “Jolly” West.