Pataphysics Research is a privately funded R&D lab located in Kauai.

Eric Gullichsen is the founder and principal investigator at Pataphysics Research. Prior to his work in ultrasonic neuromodulation, he founded several software and Internet companies including the pioneering Virtual Reality firm Sense8 Corporation, Warp Ltd. and Tonic, the Tongan Network Information Center.

He has worked as a consultant to industrial and defense-related laboratories, including the MCC Consortium, Advanced Decision Systems,  and government research labs in Canada.

Eric is the author of over 20 publications in the areas of hypertext, logic programming languages, digital logic, neural networks, and Virtual Reality, and holds 5 US patents.

"Now, Samadhi, whatever it is, is at least a state of mind exactly as are deep thought, anger, sleep, intoxication and melancholia. Very good. Any state of mind is accompanied by corresponding states of the body. Lesions of the substance of the brain, disturbances of the blood supply, and so on, are observed in apparently necessary relation to these spiritual states. Furthermore, we already know that certain spiritual or mental conditions may be induced by acting on physico- and chemico-physiological conditions. For instance, we can make a man hilarious, angry or what not by giving him whisky. We can induce sleep by administering such drugs as veronal. We can even give him the courage of anaesthesia (if we want him to go over the top) by means of either, cocaine and so on. We can produce fantastic dreams by hashish, hallucinations of colour by anhalonium Lewinii; we can even make him "see stars" by the use of a sandbag. Why then should we not be able to devise some pharmaceutical, electrical or surgical method of inducing Samadhi; create genius as simply as we do other kinds of specific excitement?"
- "Confessions", Aleister Crowley (1929)