On Automatic Writing

"Before John C. Lilly went cuckoo and started hacking the language of dolphins, he invented the sensory-deprivation tank and found out that the mind is a self-recursive black box returning images all by itself when its default interpretive mode is not called for. Automatic writing, as one application of automatism, predates Lilly as a longstanding technique of running the mind in self-unpacking freefall..."