by Gouda » Thu Feb 16, 2006 8:58 am
Dick doth provide more than a few trinkets of relevance to the weirdness studied in this forum:<br><br>1). Dick was got to by Maitreya and his agents? See last page, last panel:<br><br><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://www.philipkdickfans.com/weirdo/weirdo8.htm">www.philipkdickfans.com/w...eirdo8.htm</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--><br><br>So the prophet Elijah enters Dick's world after his "religious experience" with the flaming fish, taking Dick in an altered-state to the <!--EZCODE UNDERLINE START--><span style="text-decoration:underline">middle east</span><!--EZCODE UNDERLINE END-->, murmuring to him in a feminine voice that "Christ" has returned and is ready to save us from the new roman persecutors; there is also a beheading theme ("I was in a roman dungeon, and they came and cut off my head, took a wire and garroted me..."); and then at his death, he tapped the Maitreya as the likely candidate for the returned Christ. <br><br>2). Re: <!--EZCODE ITALIC START--><em>Flow my Tears</em><!--EZCODE ITALIC END--> (on my 'to read' list), Dick describes this novel as his remembrance of a horrid police state which once existed, a reality/universe which is running in parallel with with our own sensed reality, ever-threatening to bleed over, take over again. He saw himself as one of the "secret Christians" who helped overthrow that state. <br><br>He discusses all this in a speech delivered at the second Festival International de la Science-Fiction de Metz, France, in September 1977:<br> <br>"If You Find This World Bad, You Should See Some of the Others" <br><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://www.greylodge.org/occultreview/glor_010/dick_world.htm">www.greylodge.org/occultr..._world.htm</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--><br><br>Dick speaks of a Programmer who <br><!--EZCODE QUOTE START--><blockquote><strong><em>Quote:</em></strong><hr>First and foremost... controls the objects, processes, and events in our space-time world...I have spoken of myself as a <!--EZCODE ITALIC START--><em>reprogrammed variable</em><!--EZCODE ITALIC END-->, and I have spoken of him as the Programmer and Reprogrammer. During a short period of time in March 1974, at the moment in which I was resynthesized, I was aware perceptually -- which is to say aware in an external way -- of his presence.<hr></blockquote><!--EZCODE QUOTE END--><br>More: <br><!--EZCODE QUOTE START--><blockquote><strong><em>Quote:</em></strong><hr>If I consider the term by which I designate him -- the Programmer and Reprogrammer -- perhaps I can extract from that a partial answer. I call him what I call him because that was what I witnessed him doing: He had previously programmed the lives here but now was altering one or more crucial factors -- this in the service of completing a structure or plan.<hr></blockquote><!--EZCODE QUOTE END--> He later links this to the experience of the Brahmin. <br><br>3). The buzzing thing again...have you ever been in a room full of charismatic christians all chanting/speaking in "tongues" together? "Tongues of fire" alight gently above the heads of those so gifted by the holy spirit. It is hypnotic - the collective sound of their voices creates this gentle, rythmic, undulating hummmmm....<br><br>Dick: <br><!--EZCODE QUOTE START--><blockquote><strong><em>Quote:</em></strong><hr>Why has he [The Programmer] cloaked himself as a plurality of unrelated objects and his movements as a plurality of chance processes? All the changes, all the permutations of reality that we see are expressions of the purposeful growing and unfolding of this single entelechy; it is a plant, a flower, an opening rose. <!--EZCODE ITALIC START--><em>It is a humming hive of bees.</em><!--EZCODE ITALIC END--> It is music, a kind of singing. <hr></blockquote><!--EZCODE QUOTE END--><br><br> <p></p><i>Edited by: <A HREF=http://p216.ezboard.com/brigorousintuition.showUserPublicProfile?gid=gouda@rigorousintuition>Gouda</A> at: 2/16/06 6:01 am<br></i>
