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Index
Title Page
Copyright Page
Preface to the Consciousness Classics Edition of The Deep Self
Prologue to the Gateways edition by John C. Lilly
Acknowledgments
Dedication
Table of Contents
Introduction
Foreword
CHAPTER ONE - Physical Isolation Experience in the Tank
CHAPTER TWO - The Application of the Sciences to Floatation and Physical Isolation
THE PHYSIOLOGY OF ISOLATION IN THE TANK
PSYCHOPHARMACOLOGY
SELF-METAPROGRAMMING IN THE TANK
THE USE OF TANK EXPERIENCES OUTSIDE THE TANK
CHAPTER THREE - Peace in Physical Isolation vs “Sensory Deprivation”
CHAPTER FOUR - The Search for Reality
CHAPTER FIVE - The Self as the Isolated Observer–Agent–Operator
CONCLUSIONS
CHAPTER SIX - The Domains of Reality: The Metabelief Operator
CHAPTER SEVEN - The Mind Contained in the Brain: A Cybernetic Belief System
CHAPTER EIGHT - The Mind Unlimited: The Deep Self Uncontained
LIMITS OF BELIEF TRANSCENDED
CHAPTER NINE - Mental Effects of Reduction of Ordinary Levels of Physical Stimuli on Intact, Healthy Persons
INTRODUCTION
AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL ACCOUNTS
EXPERIMENTAL ISOLATION
CHAPTER TEN - Experiments in Solitude, in Maximum Achievable Physical Isolation with Water Suspension, of Intact Healthy Persons
TECHNIQUE
SCIENTIFIC METHOD AND THE SELF-OBSERVER
CONCLUSIONS
CHAPTER ELEVEN - Standards for Isolation Tank Manufacture and Use
IDEAL PROPERTIES OF AN ISOLATION TANK
THE IDEAL ENVIRONMENT FOR THE TANK
RULES FOR TANK USE
CHAPTER TWELVE - Tank Logs: Experiences
A THOUGHT FROM THE TANK
TANK LOGS
FAR OUT: CONFRONTING THE PANIC AND PROMISE OF TOTAL ISOLATION, REPORTED BY ELEANOR LINKS HOOVER
CHAPTER THIRTEEN - Excerpts of Published Personal Observations of the Author
EXPERIENCES SELECTED FROM “PROGRAMMING AND METAPROGRAMMING IN THE HUMAN BIOCOMPUTER”
EXTRACTS FROM CHAPTERS 1 TO 5 OF “THE CENTER OF THE CYCLONE”
APPENDIX I - The Development of the “Contained Mind” Hypothesis
APPENDIX II - The Contained Mind Metabelief: Definition of Elements
APPENDIX III - C.N.S. Energy Sources for Simulations and Observer/Operator with e.r. Present
APPENDIX IV - Hyperstability and Physical Isolation
APPENDIX V - Forcible Indoctrination (Coercive Persuasion) and Physical Isolation
APPENDIX VI - A Useful Metabelief about the Internal Reality (i.r.) Program and Simulation Domain and Its Uses: P0
References for Chapter Nine
References for Chapter Ten
Bibliography
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