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Dr. John Lilly
Born	January 6, 1915 Saint Paul, Minnesota U.S.
Died	September 30, 2001 (aged 86) Los Angeles, California, U.S.
Nationality	American
Alma mater	California Institute of Technology Dartmouth College University of Pennsylvania

Dr John Cunningham Lilly (January 6, 1915 – September 30, 2001) was an American physician, neuroscientist, psychoanalyst, psychonaut, philosopher, writer and inventor.

He was a researcher of the nature of consciousness using mainly isolation tanks,^[1] dolphin communication, and psychedelic drugs, sometimes in combination.

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• 1Early life and education
• 2Career overview
  • 2.1Research
  • 2.2Development of the sensory deprivation tank
  • 2.3S.E.T.I.
  • 2.4Exploration of human consciousness
  • 2.5Solid State Intelligence
  • 2.6Earth Coincidence Control Office (E.C.C.O.)
• 3Death
• 4In popular culture
• 5Bibliography
• 6See also
• 7Notes
• 8References
• 9Further reading
• 10External links

Early life and education[edit]

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Lilly was born to a wealthy family on January 6, 1915, in Saint Paul, Minnesota. His father was Richard Coyle Lilly, president of the First National Bank of St. Paul. His mother was Rachel Lenor Cunningham, whose family owned the Cunningham & Haas Company, a large stockyards company in St. Paul. Lilly had an older brother, Richard Lilly Jr., and a younger brother, David Maher Lilly. A fourth child, Mary Catherine Lilly, died in infancy.

Lilly showed an interest in science at an early age. At thirteen years old, he was an avid chemistry hobbyist, supplementing his makeshift basement laboratory with chemicals given to him by a pharmacist friend. Students at his parochial Catholic grade school called him "Einstein Jr."^[2] At age 14 he enrolled at St. Paul Academy, a college preparatory academy for boys, where his teachers encouraged him to pursue science further and conduct his experiments in the school laboratory after hours.

While at SPA, Lilly also further developed his interest in philosophy. He studied the works of many of the great philosophers, finding himself especially attracted to the subjective idealism of Anglo-Irish theologian and philosopher George Berkeley.

Despite his father's wish that he go to an eastern Ivy League university to become a banker, Lilly accepted a scholarship at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, California, to study science. He enrolled in 1933 and studied physics under such notable scientists as Robert Andrews Millikan, Paul Dirac, and Carl David Anderson. Lilly was a member of Blacker House.^[3] After his first year, Caltech learned that Lilly was from a wealthy family and cancelled his scholarship, forcing him to go to his father for help. Dick Lilly set up a trust fund to pay the tuition and eventually became a benefactor of the college. Lilly continued to draw on his family wealth to fund his scientific pursuits throughout his life.