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Earth Coincidence Control Office
Scientist John Lilly, best known for his pioneering
researches into dolphins and into altered
states of consciousness, was on an airliner
approaching Los Angeles when he had
his first communication from an intelligence
he would come to call Earth Coincidence
Control Office. He received a psychic message
that said, “We will now make a demonstration
of our power over the solid-state control
systems upon the planet Earth. In thirty seconds,
we will shut off all electronic equipment
in the Los Angeles airport. Your airplane will
be unable to land there and will have to be
shunted to another airport” (Lilly, 1978). Sure
enough, the power blackout occurred, forcing
Lilly’s plane to land at Burbank; another plane
crashed.
In a visionary experience not long afterward,
Lilly witnessed the future of the human
race. A solid-state intelligence, consisting of
all computers and electronic systems, will assume
control of everything and become too
powerful for human beings to do anything
about. By the 2500s this intelligence will be in
communication with its counterparts elsewhere
in the Milky Way.
Lilly believed himself to be in contact with
the water-based—as opposed to solid-state—
entities in the universe. The two intelligences,
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the latter always the creation of the former, are
in conflict all through the universe. Wa t e r -
based beings from elsew h e re are paying close
attention to developments on Earth and sending
humans constant telepathic messages that
usually re g i s t e r, at least where humans are concerned,
only on a subliminal level. These beings
(the Earth Coincidence Control Office, in
L i l l y’s phrasing) seek to influence human evolution
in such a way that humans do not become
enslaved to their technology. The other
intelligences that share our planet—dolphins
and whales—are more psychically attuned to
these messages and re c e i ve them clearly. Lilly
holds that “whales and dolphins quite naturally
go in the direction we call spiritual, in that they
get into meditative states quite simply and easi
l y. . . . Dolphins have a highly developed consciousness,
and a powe rful connection to
higher re a l i t i e s” (Lilly, 1972).
Beginning in the 1950s, Lilly had experimented
with sensory deprivation. He would
place himself in a tank of water in a totally
dark, silent room. In due course he would undergo
vivid hallucinations. To him these hallucinations
became more real than reality. He
came to believe that through them he entered
other dimensions of existence and grew aware
that this dimension and others harbor innumerable
varieties of intelligent entities.