Earth Coincidence Control Office (ECCO)

The Earth Coincidence Control Office (ECCO) is, according to John C. Lilly, a governing body devoted to managing of coincidence in the lives of beings on Earth, described as "one of God's field offices," and further broken down as a sub-unit of the Solar System Control Unit (SSCU), itself under the Galactic Coincidence Control (GCC), all ultimately under the jurisdiction of the Cosmic Coincidence Control Center (CCCC).

E.C.C.O. Regulations

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If you wish to control coincidences in your own life on the planet Earth, we will cooperate and determine those coincidences for you under the following conditions:
 * 1) You must know/assume/simulate our existence in ECCO
 * 2) You must be willing to accept our responsibility for control of your coincidences.
 * 3) You must exert your best capabilities for your survival programs and your own development as an advancing/advanced member of ECCO's earthside corps of controlled coincidence workers. You are expected to use your best intelligence in this service
 * 4) You are expected to expect the unexpected every minute, every hour of every day and of every night.
 * 5) You must be able to maintain conscious/thinking/ reasoning no matter what events we arrange to happen to you. Some of these events will seem cataclysmic/catastrophic/overwhelming: remember stay aware, no matter what happens/apparently happens to you.
 * 6) You are in our training program for life: there is no escape from it. We (not you) control the long-term coincidences; you (not we) control the shorter-term coincidences by your own efforts.
 * 7) Your major mission on earth is to discover/create that which we do to control the long-term coincidence patterns: you are being trained on Earth to do this job.
 * 8) When your mission on planet Earth is completed, you will no longer be required to remain/return there.
 * 9) Remember the motto passed to us (from GCC via SSCU): "Cosmic Love is absolutely Ruthless and Highly Indifferent: it teaches its lessons whether you like/dislike them or not."

Of Interest

 * Lilly's dolphin work served as an inspiration for the video game Ecco the Dolphin (and subsequent sequels), a series which involves a bottlenose dolphin (Ecco) battling hostile extraterrestrials. The creator of the game has reported that the name Ecco is not derivative of ECCO, being purely coincidence, as you might expect.