John Lilly and the Earth Coincidence Control Office

Name: John Lilly and the Earth Coincidence Control Office
Duration: 1 h 29 min

1hr 29m

3.4/5 (482)

1hr 29m
3.4/5 (482)

A visionary neuroscientist explores the limits of consciousness through isolation tanks, communication with dolphins, and psychedelic experiments, transforming… More Details »

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Release Date:

Apr 2, 2026

Runtime:

1hr 29m

Synopsis

A visionary neuroscientist explores the limits of consciousness through isolation tanks, communication with dolphins, and psychedelic experiments, transforming himself from researcher to mystical explorer.

Moviegoers are saying

This polarizing documentary about psychonaut John C. Lilly divides viewers between those fascinated by his LSD-fueled dolphin experiments and those appalled by what they see as a whitewashed portrait of animal cruelty. While some praise it as a compelling character study of a misunderstood genius, critics slam it as an irresponsible puff piece that glosses over the ethical horrors of giving dolphins handjobs and hammering steel sleeves into their heads.

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Mind-Bending

Ethically-Questionable

Psychedelic-Science

Animal-Controversy

Counterculture-Chaos

Documentary-Disaster

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3.4

RATINGS 2 FANS

3.4

Apr 27, 2026

The legacy of 70s counterculture is mixed. On the one hand, these new wave types adopted a facade of vague, apolitical humanism to obscure how they were state-funded reactionaries redirecting and neutralizing the era's genuine radicalism while simultaneously setting the…

46 Likes

mdfmdf

Feb 25, 2025

“My body is my laboratory.” This documentary about John Lilly is really great. Lilly vouched for the intelligence of dolphins, but there were problematic things with his research (some are noted in the vegan alerts below). Please note that Lilly’s experimentations with LSD…

40 Likes

Allison M. 🌱

Feb 25, 2025

we got military funded experiments where freeloving hippies gave hand jobs to dolphins before GTA 6 😭

34 Likes

Mike Ordoñez
Aug 16, 2025

Man, boomers really got to do anything they wanted.

25 Likes

connor

Mar 1, 2025

Courtney Stephens, co-director of “John Lilly and the Earth Coincidence Control Office” said she thinks that the film has created a nuanced portrait of a controversial figure. According to her, the film equally weighs both sides of the perspective on his work with drugs and…

22 Likes

boo 🧟‍♀️

Mar 2, 2025

turns out with copious amounts of lsd and ketamine you can discover anything

21 Likes

aberdevine
Jul 3, 2025

"If you could have dinner with 5 famous people alive or dead, who would you choose??"... but make it "if you could be reincarnated with 4 other people into the consciousnesses of a sperm whale who would you choose??"

19 Likes

ɱ α ɾ ყ ʝҽαɳ

Feb 28, 2025

So long and thanks for all the LSD

19 Likes

Willy Evans

Oct 9, 2025

His life was so insane and he did so many genuinely unhinged things in his career, including so much quack science, that him being involved in a program that was brainwashing monkeys so that they could be used as sleeper agents against the Soviets is only a minor detail in…

15 Likes

Lucy :-)