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Title: Programming and Metaprogramming in the Human Biocomputer: Theory and Experiments.
Author: John C. Lilly, M.D.
Format: Vintage hardcover psychology and consciousness studies book with dust jacket.
Publisher: The Julian Press, Inc., Publishers, New York.
Publication details: Copyright 1967 and 1968 by John C. Lilly, M.D.; reissued in revised format 1972; Library of Congress Catalog Card Number 73-79777; manufactured in the United States of America.
Language: English; original language English.
Genre/Topic: Mind, body, and spirit; psychiatry; psychology and self-help; human biocomputer and metaprogramming; consciousness and self-analysis; sensory isolation and psychedelic research.
Narrative type and audience: Nonfiction theoretical and experimental work intended for adult readers, students, and researchers interested in consciousness studies, psychotherapy, and the interface between neuroscience, cybernetics, and inner experience.
Country of origin: Produced and printed in the United States of America by The Julian Press, Inc.
Physical details and features: Black hardcover boards in a black and gray typographic dust jacket repeating the words Programming and Metaprogramming, teal paper endpapers, and a traditional serif typeface printed on cream stock.
Contents overview: Includes a foreword and prefaces to the second and first editions, an introduction, and chapters on projection-display techniques in deep self-analysis with lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD-25), experiments in self-metaprogramming, the development of a personal metaprogrammatic language, metaprogramming in relation to fixed neurological programs such as migraine, potentially lethal unconscious survival programs, and the choice of attending persons during LSD-25 sessions for self-analysis.
Approach and themes: Presents Lilly\'s model of the brain-mind as a human biocomputer, distinguishing between programs and metaprograms and outlining methods for reprogramming one\'s own cognitive processes through altered states, sensory isolation, and systematic self-experimentation.
Background: Based on seminars given at Johns Hopkins University, the University of California at Los Angeles, the University of Minnesota, the Medical Seminar at Edgewood Arsenal, and the Conference on Science, Philosophy and Religion at the Jewish Theological Seminary in New York in 1966.
Additional notes: The back cover features a Whole Earth Catalog review praising the book as an internal guidebook for exploring and reconfiguring the human biocomputer, along with biographical information about Lilly and references to his related works including The Center of the Cyclone, Man and Dolphin, and The Mind of the Dolphin.
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