Intro to Phillip K. Dick
For those who don’t know, Phillip K. Dick was a prolific author. He died in 1982 at the age of 53. Many movies were made based on his novels, such as Blade Runner (1982), Total Recall (adapted twice: in 1990 and in 2012), Screamers (1995), Minority Report (2002), A Scanner Darkly (2006), The Adjustment Bureau (2011), and Radio Free Albemuth (2010).
Beginning in 2015, Amazon Prime Video produced the multi-season television adaptation The Man in the High Castle, based on Dick's 1962 novel; and in 2017 Channel 4 produced the anthology series Electric Dreams, based on various Dick stories.
The entry video gets cut off at the end, but I found an mp3 on archive.org. Below, in audio only, is the last few minutes missing from the entry video.
Excerpt on some of Dick’s prophetic thinking
I suggest watching the entire entry video and prophetic blurb, or my commentary next won’t make total sense.
If I’m understanding Dick correctly, he postulates something that I had considered myself. I wrote about the concept, in my typical parable-metaphor way, in the below post.
The parable of quantum leaping
In the year 2301, a man named Dennis was home one evening watching virtual reality television (VRT) alone. This type of entertainment allowed putting on a special helmet, which caused temporary amnesia in the wearer, and full immersion of living the life of a character in the program. Upon removal of the helmet, amnesia lifted and the wearer retained me…
Christ said the Kingdom of God is within you. The Nag Hammadi adds to this, in the gospel of Thomas, when Christ says the Kingdom of God is both within you AND without. Sounds a lot like the hermetic principle of “as above, so below, as within, so without”.
The things our 5 senses detect outwardly are indicative of inward patterns/truths. Has some unexpected thing ever happened to you, whether positive or negative? Happens to everybody, right? Then Dick expounds on the Biblical concept of how Christ (ie Truth) comes suddenly, like a thief in the night.
I feel like Truth returned, in an abstract (and sudden) sense, after the rollout of the 2020 nonsense. But I continue to go deeper all the time. If you read that previous blue-link-post, it starts off with a video about the 2001 nonsense, the year that the whole world seemed to slip (for me anyway) into some sort of fantastically odd space journey.
2001 is also the year in the title of the movie, “2001: A Space Odyssey”, which dealt with human evolution, technology, artificial intelligence, and the possibility of extraterrestrial life, themes I often write about. These ideas also seem to be increasing, especially AI technology being rolled out, open government admissions about UFOs, etc…
Specifically, in the Space Odyssey movie, the artificial intelligence called HAL is also the name that the Gnostics gave to the demiurge’s (ie the Archonic “devil’s”) simulation technology; they called it HAL simulation ability, and the Gnostics described HAL as an actual thing over 2000 years ago, wielded by literal invisible alien Archonic beings, aka demons.
Dick had some personal experiences with other dimensions and timelines, as he discusses in the video. To save the skeptics some effort, I’ve already researched some of Dick’s mental illnesses, so it’s easier for my readers to dismiss him, if you want to.
"I am a fictionalizing philosopher, not a novelist; my novel and story-writing ability is employed as a means to formulate my perception (Exegesis [75:D-9])".
Note: this website author can relate to that statement by Dick. It’s a writer thing. :-)
But regarding dismissing Dick, I gotta say ……
Federation Captain Maxwell ALSO seemed crazy, as he attacked Cardassians, for reasons that seemed like mental delusions at first.
If Picard came to realize that he should “NOT dismiss him” (Maxwell), I’m not going to either.
Clif High thinks that the Ontology (ie his name for a deistic “God”) is experimenting with creating novelty around contention regarding space aliens. I consider that is probably true, but also the novelty involves a type of medical cure, regarding mental illness in general.
1Dick discerned the “matrix-computer-generated” world meme LONG before “The Matrix” movie made it popular. He uses various analogies, such as the changing picture analogy, and game analogies, such as chess, where you can be taken off the board, so to speak, coming onto a different board, sort of like the pawn promotion move, where a pawn can be transformed into any other piece, usually the Queen. For sure, entering a better world is good, as becoming a Queen, the most powerful piece, is better than simply being taken off the board permanently.
His idea of moving laterally from our current perceptual reality, into different realities, some higher, then some lower, until final destination, sounds a lot like my post on quantum immortality. And it could explain the Mandela Effect.
Dick mentioned board games, in general, and his words inspired me to think of the one called “Snakes and Ladders”, where you can go up, then down, then up again, until hopefully (eventually) winning the game; humans are like game pieces being moved by invisible hands, with only vague speculative understanding about why.
Dick postulates that a good God (whom I call Originator-Creator-Overoul, aka OCO) keeps moving an individual in many ways, timelines, realities, until your Higher Self ultimately wins against some sort of unseen opponent.
Perhaps OCO groundhog dazes us until, as Dick speculates, we finally exit into an ideal reality, none the wiser.
From our point of view, transitioning into this final reality happens before physical death, and any traumatic memories are mercifully erased. We slip into this reality, memories of friends/family erased, and, in fact, our family and friends’ memories about us are wiped too (assuming they are real and destined to continue in their reality for a while more).
I do sense life is probably like this. If true, others forget you entirely, like you never existed, yet you continue on in an ideal reality, none the wiser yourself. I heard a rumor that Dick claimed to know that he had had an opportunity to leave our current standard reality in such a manner, but “missed the bus”.
Nonetheless, if Dick is correct, he didn’t die in 1982, from his point of view, anyway. Rather he cycled back to another version of himself, a lateral move into an alternate dimensional reality, variables were changed, more experimenting going on, up a little, down a little, snakes and ladders fashion, but eventually making it back “home”, whatever & wherever that is.
From our point of view, we are none the wiser either. We have death records here that say Phillip K. Dick died in 1982 at the age of 53.
Apparently, extreme realities exist, such as the Black Iron Prison and the opposite, bliss. Christ taught about these things and methods to transition, but these secrets were eventually crushed. Nonetheless, Dick claims to have somehow temporarily entered a reality where Christ returned. I dramatize this idea at this spot in one of my short stories. However, after having entered an ideal reality, Dick was only there briefly, because he fell laterally and found himself back in this hell reality.
Dick wanted to believe in a good OCO, so he postulated that, from the observer’s point of view, you would ultimately only perceive constantly going upwards in consciousness. How to explain then, that life is a series of both ups and downs? Dick didn’t say, but I gotta say …… I fucking love this guy’s wild imagination!
Let me take a stab at completing his thoughts, because I feel like we are “two peas in a pod”. Similarly to Dick, I sense that I might have crossed a terminal point during the 2020 nonsense; like the characters in my novel, I found my compatriots, and together, we defeated the bad space aliens (as Clif High might say), and I am now living out an alternate less intense ending to “my movie”.
If Dick was on to something, we live an infinite number of parallel lives, in which both ups and downs are experienced, but the good ups are only ultimately recorded into the NPC “coming alive consciousness” that ultimately becomes your eternal RPC. In the end, all the bad stuff is discarded, like the unneeded ugly scaffolding once the beautiful building is complete.
We are left with only good memories of coming into existence ex nihilo, going from good, to gooder, to better, to best, thinking only positively about ourselves, others, OCO, reality, etc… along the way. After all, in infinite parallel realities, with infinite ability to shuffle time forwards and backwards, and with infinite ability to alter any variable(s) along the way, to produce the perfect outcome, some version/bit of myself will have done an ideal choice for every choice. Collate all those bits and we get an “it from bit” that even John Wheeler would have been proud of.
The final product is totally comfortable & content with eternally existing in a 100% scripted reality, scripted by the true OCO; we become alive & sentient, but not really, and totally comfortable with that. But right now, people find such an idea repulsive. Click HERE to test yourself on the idea of determinism, to confirm whether or not the idea kind of turns your stomach.
The final product is also a composite of all the good stuff, with the bad stuff deleted, none the wiser myself, nor anybody else. OCO, of course, will always know all things, but you have been organically programmed along the way to trust OCO 100%, and no longer hide, due to the fear, guilt, shame, scenario, nor does OCO have to hide his “face” from you.
What happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas, as the saying goes, because the distant memories have actually become deleted memories.
Well, I think that’s what Phillip K. Dick might have said, if he had completed his thoughts from the video. :-) I’ll let my readers decide if my imagination is as good as Dick’s.
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I challenge my subscribers to read “The Unveiling: the story about open contact“ and tell me if s/he thinks it is a Dick type novel. Remember, he said:
"I am a fictionalizing philosopher, not a novelist; my novel and story-writing ability is employed as a means to formulate my perception (Exegesis [75:D-9])".
Dick said his novels frightened him. Mine kinda does too, and if you read it, you will see why. One woman, who I had an intimate relationship with, said “It scared the hell out of her”. And she wasn’t religious, so to use the word hell shot some scary vibes back at me!
Dick thought that he didn’t live past March 1974 in some other reality, but rather he was finishing a version of himself “here”, under a lighter tyranny. Dick discerned that OCO controls all processes, objects, and events in reality; the OCO programmer/re-programmer will adjust variables until the outcome I discussed above.
Dick admitted that he couldn’t prove the things he was saying, or make it sound rational, but he became willing to speak about it publicly. The room went silent, but the lady who came to his door in 1974 was decidedly NOT silent, when she confirmed Dick’s novels were, in some sense, literally true. Was she just making shit up? Was she an hallucination?
Pretty much all of Dick’s novels were illustrating the midgard position, hovering between Black Iron Prison and God’s Kingdom. I feel pretty confident he made it “home”, and we’ll have a chat someday, even though I won’t recall a reality in which he died in 1982.
Dick thought that we had all previously lived in a spiritual garden of Eden type world, thousands of years ago, and were happy. But we lost it and now live here, falling into energy-soul realms.
Negative emotions have a tendency to do that, as Spock discovered below
Dick claimed to have transitioned into the “ideal” world for a period of time, about 6 hours, in his perception of time, before falling back into our cursed reality. He was left with vague memories and a bitter sense of loss, preferring to stay with the naked goddess Aphrodite, whom he found in this ideal reality. Sounds pretty ideal to me anyway! Weren’t Adam and Eve naked in the garden but not ashamed?
I’ll be joinin’ ya soon, Dick, b’cause naked gals sure do motivate me ta get to the good place!
If my reader(s) enjoyed this post, I suggest check out an associated post on my other substack, available below:
Final note: I had another synchromystic event (or we could call it qualia, as schizophrenic Clif High likes to say), while working on this post. Ain’t nothin more cool than a little hint from the universe that I’m going in the correct direction.
Here it is: a person from one of my telegram groups posted an instagram blurb about Phillip K. Dick, available HERE …… I think that’s a good place to leave things … ya just can’t make this shit up.
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