When the New York Times described Dr. John Lilly as “a walking one-man syllabus of Western civilization,” they were hardly exaggerating. A man who has worked extensively in medicine, neuroanatomy, psychoanalysis, delphinology, cybernetics, LSD research and such recent scientific adaptations of traditional mystic arts as the Gurdjieff and Arica consciousness-expanding systems, Dr. Lilly is one of the few people alive who actually know enough to have an intelligent opinion about the situation of planet earth in the year 1976.