Evil Neuroscience Part 2: ECCO Chamber (Premium E336) Sample

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Julian Feeld, Travis View & Jake Rockatansky

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4.3 • 4.6K Ratings

🗓️ 17 May 2026

⏱️ 10 minutes

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In part 2 of this 2 part episode, this continued examination of John C. Lilly's life leads Jack into a sensory deprivation tank. Building upon the research done by Canadian psychologist Donald Hebb, Lilly's use of sensory deprivation tanks (and a lot of hallucinogens) led him to develop the concept of the Earth Coincidence Control Office (ECCO). ECCO would ultimately consume Lilly, dramatically altering the course of his life and he would later attribute it to nearly ending it on a few occasions. Along the way, prolonged isolation of graduate students who need to be "toileted", elements of Lilly's research end up in a CIA interrogation manual, "Tron is us", and rules for humans such as: You are expected to expect the unexpected every minute, every hour of every day and of every night. Subscribe for $5 a month to get all the premium episodes: www.patreon.com/qaa Check out our new podcast series network Cursed Media! All episodes of Spectral Voyager Season 2 are out now! Binge the entirety of Truly Tradly Deeply by Annie Kelly and Megan Kelly as well as Science in Transition by Liv Agar and Spencer Barrows: cursedmedia.net Produced by Liv Agar & Corey Klotz. Theme by Nick Sena. Additional music by Pontus Berghe and Jake Rockatansky. Theme Vocals by THEY/LIVE (instagram.com/theyylivve / sptfy.com/QrDm). Cover Art by Pedro Correa: (pedrocorrea.com) qaapodcast.com QAA was known as the QAnon Anonymous podcast.

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0:00.0	I'm
0:02.0	Oh,
0:03.0	Oh,
0:04.0	Oh,
0:05.0	Oh,
0:07.0	Oh,
0:08.0	Oh, If you're hearing this, well, done. You're hearing this. Well done. You found a way to connect to the internet.
0:35.6	Welcome to the QAA podcast Premium Episode
0:38.0	336, Evil Neuroscience Part 2, Echo Chamber. As always, we are your host, Jake Rakitansky,
0:46.2	Jack LaRoche, Julian Field, and Travis View. I'm standing naked in a small, brightly lit room
0:53.2	with questionable small paintings of beaches on the walls.
0:57.0	The building is next to both a busy freeway and a bridal shop.
1:01.0	It's the least sketchy location that could take me on such short notice.
1:05.0	I'm wondering if this is a good idea.
1:08.0	Brad was all enthusiasm when I talked to him about it, but I'm having second
1:12.2	thoughts. I'm not entirely sure there aren't cuts on my skin, given that I handle critters
1:17.3	on a regular basis, along with a husky that jumps now and then. The lights in the room flicker,
1:22.6	and then dimmed down to what's meant to be a soothing ambient glow. What the hell? I step into the sensory deprivation
1:29.5	tank. I immediately slip, but I catch myself on the oh shit handle. I realize, after I lay down in the
1:36.9	mix of Epsom salt and 93 degree water, that I forgot to put earplugs in. I hit the switch to turn
1:43.1	the lights off, then immediately fumble for an embarrassingly long period of time in absolute darkness
1:49.0	to hit the switch that turns the music off.
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