John Lilly, So Far...

Excellent reading, even more interesting than his proper autobiographies I would say. What an intriguing man he was!

John Lilly, So Far.. is not an objective biography. Nor is it a critical assessment of his life's work. It is, however, a engaging account of one fascinating man's personal journey. As we follow Lilly from childhood through his later years (up to about a decade before his death), we meet an extraordinary cast of characters--from doctors and scientists to LSD explorers and the gurus of the human potential movement to dolphins and beings who may or may not have existed outside Lilly's head. Although the book is written from Jeffrey's third-person perspective, it clearly relies on Lilly's own account and assessment of his life. Perhaps this is appropriate in a book about a scientist who experimented so much on himself, but it makes for an awkward and often unsatisfying narrative style. So, there may well be a better biography of Lilly to be written. But, all the same, I couldn't put this one down.

a wonderful, very well-written biography at the caliber of Flashbacks, by Timothy Leary. It is similarly designed, which is also nice.This book provides great insights and highly interesting forays that lend respect to a man so worth it.Lilly was a visionary, a true genius at the cutting edge of science. His influence in the world of human-dolphin communication, environmentalism, physics, psychology and philosophy shall be felt for the duration of this troubled species.Lilly gave us such hope and wisdom through which, in addition to enhancing our communications with higher mammals, taught us how to relate to one another and our very selves.I highly recommend the purchase of this sorely underappreciated book and then go tell all your friends. They will thank you in immense ways.