John C. Lilly, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

John C. Lilly

American physician

Date of Birth: 06-Jan-1915

Place of Birth: Saint Paul, Minnesota, United States

Date of Death: 30-Sep-2001

Profession: writer, psychiatrist, psychologist, psychotherapist, neuroscientist, cetologist

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Capricorn

John Cunningham Lilly (January 6, 1915 – September 30, 2001) was an American physician, neuroscientist, psychoanalyst, psychonaut, philosopher, writer and inventor.
He was a member of a generation of counterculture scientists and thinkers that included Ram Dass, Werner Erhard and Timothy Leary, all frequent visitors to the Lilly home.
He often stirred controversy, especially among mainstream scientists. Lilly conducted high-altitude research during World War II and later trained as a psychoanalyst.
He gained renown in the 1950s after developing the isolation tank.
He saw the tanks, in which users are isolated from almost all external stimuli, as a means to explore the nature of human consciousness.
He later combined that work with his efforts to communicate with dolphins.
He began studying how bottlenose dolphins vocalize, establishing centers in the U.S.
Virgin Islands and, later, San Francisco to study dolphins.
A decade later, he began experimenting with psychedelics, including LSD, often while floating in isolation.
His work inspired two Hollywood movies, The Day of the Dolphin (1973) and Altered States (1980).