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by meindnoch 426 days ago
>A woman named Margaret Howe Lovatt lived full-time with the Dolphins attempting to learn a shared language between them.

She also had sex with a male dolphin called Peter.

>He would take LSD and place himself in the tank and believed he was psychically communicating with the Dolphins.

He eventually came to believe he was communicating with a cosmic entity called ECCO (Earth Coincidence Control Office). The story of the Sega game "Ecco the Dolphin" [1] is a tongue-in-cheek reference to this. I recommend watching the Atrocity Guide episode on John C. Lily and his dolphin "science" [2]. It's on par with The Men Who Stare at Goats (the non-fiction book [3], not the movie).

He has a website that looks like it's been untouched since his death, 2001: http://www.johnclilly.com/

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecco_the_Dolphin

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UziFw-jQSks

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Men_Who_Stare_at_Goats