A visionary neuroscientist explores the limits of consciousness through isolation tanks, communication with dolphins, and psychedelic experiments, transforming himself from researcher to mystical explorer.
A visionary neuroscientist explores the limits of consciousness through isolation tanks, communication with dolphins, and psychedelic experiments, transforming himself from researcher to mystical explorer.
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John Lilly and the Earth Coincidence Control Office (2026) is a psychedelic documentary profiling neuroscientist John C. Lilly, famed for isolation tanks, dolphin communication experiments, LSD research, and his "Earth Coincidence Control Office" (ECCO) theory of cosmic orchestration.
Directors Michael Almereyda and Courtney Stephens weave archival footage, home movies, interviews with Jodorowsky, Scott Walker, and Diana Reiss, narrated by Chloë Sevigny, capturing Lilly's wild psychonaut journey across Cold War science and '60s counterculture.
The 89-minute biography debuted at Rotterdam 2025, blending Lilly's SETI work, interspecies communication, and ketamine visions that inspired films like Altered States.