The Starmaker Simulations of God

by Lilly, John C.

• ISBN13: 9781579510794
• ISBN10: 1579510795
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2007-10-28
• Publisher: Ronin Publishing

Summary

Increasingly, people seem to be experiencing a longing for meaning. Such meaning is often found in spiritual pursuits-looking for God. Does he-or she-exist? If so, where and in what form? Or is this place called Earth the beginning and ending of our existence? These are questions usually addressed to theologists, while scientists side-step the issue. John Lilly, M.D. was a rare combination of scientist and mystic. He created a kind of laboratory for self-exploring these ethereal questions. The Isolation Tank, which he developed, was his lab where he spent hours in "non-ordinary" reality going to "far off places". Then he subjected these experiences to rigorous scientific analyses. Lilly's use of science as a lens for viewing these issues appeals to the now maturing Baby Boom Generation, who were raised to trust science and technology and who had their minds expanded to a broader perspective. Now as the Baby Boomers enter their "wisdom" years they are ever more longing for answers. In this book Lilly examines those simulations of God-those scenarios, those myths, those models of inner and outer reality that lie at the base of our thinking-feeling-doing. These "God" simulations are those simulations that are most important to an individual, a group, a nation, a world. The wellsprings of deep motivations are in the individual, the group, the nation or the world.