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Lilly, John - The dust bowl universe
Identifier
014582
Type of Spiritual Experience
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A description of the experience
from John Lilly: Altered States Interview with John Lilly by Judith Hooper
Jan 1983 Omni Magazine
Lilly
Have I told you about the "Dust-bowl God"?
OMNI
No. What is the "Dust-bowl God"?
Lilly
In my new book I have a theory called the Dust-bowl God. God got bored with this universe and the distribution of intelligence in it. So He made a dust bowl out beyond the galaxies. In this dust cloud, every particle is intelligent; on the atomic level, each particle is as intelligent as a human being.
The dust particles made themselves into stars and planets and animals and humans and everybody knew everybody; everything was totally aware of everything around It. Now the problem is, If every particle is equally intelligent and greater assemblages are even more intelligent, what are the traffic rules for relations between, say, humans and elephants? It would be nice to see such a universe, wouldn't it -- the Dust-bowl Universe?
OMNI
How would it differ from ours?
Lilly
Right. How would it?