10.05.2001

Pretty well-organized gobs of information here, courtesy of the WSJ and MSNBC.

10.04.2001

Ken Kesey, he of Merry Prankster Fame, on The Real War. (Was Dubya listening....??)
In memoriam

    September 27, 2001

    It is with great sorrow that we announce the death of the co-founder and Chairman of the Board of the Albert Hofmann Foundation, Dr. Oscar Janiger. Oscar Janiger died early in the morning of August 14, 2001, surrounded by his two sons and a few close friends. Kidney and heart failure were the causes of death.

    "Oz," as his friends and associates like to call him, was a scientist, psychotherapist, and author, most noted as one of the early dedicated investigators of LSD and other psychedelic substances. He made very important contributions in this field, and his very active, searching mind took him into many additional areas of study. For a more detailed account of his interests, activities, and contributions, see the Hofmann Report in MAPS dedicated to him. A personal report from Oscar Janiger may be read here.


    Two Friends

    Honolulu Advertiser, Tuesday, October 2, 2001
    John Cunningham Lilly, 86, Brain Researcher

    By Timothy Hurley
    Advertiser Main County Bureau

    John C. Lilly of Maui, a brilliant but controversial brain researcher who went on to champion dolphins and interspecies communications died Sunday at age 86.

    Lilly died of heart failure at Cedars of Lebanon Hospital in Los Angeles. A memorial service will be held Thursday in Los Angeles, with a memorial service on Maui to be scheduled later.

    "His many friends will miss him," said his former wife, May Lilly of Ha'iku. Their interest in him kept him alive."

    Lilly was born in St Paul, Minn., on Jan. 6, 1915. He attended the California Institute of Technology, Dartmouth College Medical School and the University of Pennsylvania Medical School.

    During World War II, he conducted high-altitude research at the Johnson Foundation for Medical Physics. After the war, he trained as a psychoanalyst and worked on mapping the brain for the U.S. Public Health Service.

    Lilly pioneered scientific research in the areas of electrical brain stimulation, sensory deprivation and human-dolphin communication. He invented the isolation tank in the 1950s and began using psychedelics such as LSD and ketamine in the solitude of the tank about a decade later.

    In 1959, he established the Communication Research Institute in the US Virgin Islands to study the vocalizations of bottle-nosed dolphins. He later established the Janus Project in San Francisco to do further research on dolphins.

    Lilly retired to Maui in 1992.

    He is the author of 19 books and hundreds of scientific articles, and was the inspiration for two Hollywood films, Altered States and Day of the Dolphin.

    He is survived by two sons, John Jr. of Zacatecas, Mexico, and Charles, of Ha'iku, a daughter Cynthia Cantwell of Paradise, Calif.; a brother, David of St. Paul, Minn.; and Barbara Clarke-Lilly of Kihei and Philip H. Bailey of Kula, both of whom Lilly adopted as adults.

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Rest in peace, wise psychonauts, friends, free thinkers.