John C. Lilly

01Lilly received early funding from the U.S. Navy and NIMH for dolphin communication research while designing his first isolation tanks.
02During his ketamine period, Lilly reported contact with entities he called ECCO — the 'Earth Coincidence Control Office' — in published accounts.
03He injected ketamine inside a floatation tank while the tank itself was submerged in a swimming pool, compounding the dissociation.

01Koevoet members received a cash bonus for each confirmed SWAPO guerrilla killed; body parts sometimes served as confirmation.
02The unit operated under the South African Police, not the military, deliberately shielding it from the Geneva Convention's oversight.
03Koevoet's kill-to-contact ratio was the highest of any counterinsurgency unit in the Namibian bush war — approximately 1,000 kills per year at peak.

Wall Street during the bank panic in October 1907. Federal Hall National Memorial , with its statue of George Washington , is seen on the right.

Lilly invented the isolation tank, mapped dolphin cognition for the government, and spent stretches of the 1970s submerged in ketamine for weeks at a time — still publishing, still funded, still presenting at conferences. The line between experiment and subject dissolved.