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Re:2049 and the dreams of Philip K. Dick by okareaman on Sunday December 05, 2021 @06:29PM (#29454400)
Same here. I have bipolar disorder and am a former alcohol and drug addict, so I am aware to watch out for natural and drug induced manic states, but I had my spiritual experience completely sober and medicated for bipolar. I really tuned into PKD afterwards because he was open to "The Great Beyond" as R.E.M. called it. Not just PKD, but others as well.

“A coincidence is a small miracle when God chooses to remain anonymous”

― Albert Einstein

“We often dream about people from whom we receive a letter by the next post. I have ascertained on several occasions that at the moment when the dream occurred the letter was already lying in the post-office of the addressee.”

― C.G. Jung, Synchronicity: An Acausal Connecting Principle

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synchronicity https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collective_unconscious

“My brain is only a receiver, in the Universe there is a core from which we obtain knowledge, strength and inspiration. I have not penetrated into the secrets of this core, but I know that it exists.”

― Nikola Tesla

“All matter originates and exists only by virtue of a force which brings the particle of an atom to vibration and holds this most minute solar system of the atom together. We must assume behind this force the existence of a conscious and intelligent mind. This mind is the matrix of all matter.”

― Max Planck

Re:2049 and the dreams of Philip K. Dick by User23 on Sunday December 05, 2021 @08:31PM (#29455190)
VALIS is where PKD gets really trippy. I wonder if his Exegesis will ever be published in full.
Re:2049 and the dreams of Philip K. Dick by melonbar on Monday December 06, 2021 @12:59AM (#29456651)
I was fortunate enough at uni to have a professor who edited Dick’ Exegesis and had a wonderful talk on it. During the process, which took many, many years, he said it would often become a task not to get so wrapped up in it all. At moments biting and prescient; others unreadable, schizophrenic runoff. I imagine if he struggled through it perhaps some of it is simply unreadable. I know he mentioned having to work with PKDs estate and of the excerpts I have read it does have a much different feel then his other works. The professor was brilliant, turning me on to other treasures like William Gibson. Just thought I’d share, cheers!