The Book of Floating: Exploring the Private Sea

by Michael Hutchison, Lee Perry

A thorough and absorbing summary of the healing and therapeutic uses of the floatation tank invented by Dr. John C. Lilly, the celebrated neuroscience researcher. This edition includes a new foreword by Lee Perry, additional illustrations, and updated information.

282 pages, Kindle Edition

Published April 1, 2017

About the author

My first novel, "Ozone" was the winner of the James Michener prize awarded by the Copernicus Foundation, but sadly was destroyed in a fire before it could be published.After that I traveled throughout Central America which was then in the midst of revolutions and dictatorships which operated death squads. On two occasions I was arrested by government operated death squads and escape execution by sheer good fortune. I traveled with the revolutionary Sandinistas and participated in the overthrow of the Nicaraguan dictator Somoza and remember shooting an AK-47 at his helicopter as he escaped his famous "bunker." While most neuroscientists and all nonscientists thought the human brain stopped growing when it reached maturity, my now-classic "Megabrain" was the first book to reveal the recent scientific discovery that the human brain possessed "neuroplasticity," and could continue to grow (given the proper stimulation) until death. This revelation led to the publication of numerous books of how to make your brain grow larger, smarter, and more complex. While most people still believed that male and female brains were identical, my book "The Anatomy of Sex and Power" revealed that for evolutionary reasons male and female brains have numerous and substantial anatomical differences. This led to the publication of popular books like "Men are like Mars, Women like Venus."
My books have always been on the cutting edge or ahead of their time.