Philip K. Dick Discloses the Matrix in 1977

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Re: Philip K. Dick Discloses the Matrix in 1977

Postby justdrew » Thu Nov 01, 2012 2:56 am

justdrew wrote:yeah, quite the find :yay

Hopefully there's at least another couple such interviews out there to be unearthed.


well, here we go... This first one was just uploaded earlier this month...

In this rare audio, Greg Rickman Interviews Philip K Dick about his studies and thoughts on philosophy and theology and about Dick's works. Some topics include simulated reality, causality's non-existence, the illuminati as god and as benign conspiracy theory, friendship with Robert Anton Wilson, Rosicrucianism and Parmenides, Jung and psychological projection, Dick's exegesis, the dream state and the unconscious, Spinoza, Schopenhauer, entropy and the will to survive, Greek myth and the god Pan, the works Ubik, Valis, Maze of Death, and a lot more.




Mike Hodel In Conversation With Philip K. Dick, Which Aired On The Science Fiction Themed Radio Show Hour 25. Recorded In 1977, Just Before The Release Of A Scanner Darkly. For More Infomation Plz Check Out


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Re: Philip K. Dick Discloses the Matrix in 1977

Postby justdrew » Sat Aug 10, 2013 9:53 pm

So how was it P.K. Dick seemed to be intimately familiar with N. A. KOZYREV’S CONCEPTION OF TIME, in the mid 70s or earlier?

I can only assume he was somehow getting his hands on stuff smuggled out of the Soviet Union. There were considerable scientific "back-channels" and the whole Sakharov thing. Could USgov have been using him to review "intel" ?

Maybe someone remembers KOZYREV being more well known in the US than I'm aware of?

http://www.chronos.msu.ru/EREPORTS/levich_substan_inter/levich_substan_inter.htm
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Re: Philip K. Dick Discloses the Matrix in 1977

Postby Hammer of Los » Sun Aug 11, 2013 6:39 am

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In this rare audio, Greg Rickman Interviews Philip K Dick about his studies and thoughts on philosophy and theology and about Dick's works. Some topics include simulated reality, causality's non-existence, the illuminati as god and as benign conspiracy theory, friendship with Robert Anton Wilson, Rosicrucianism and Parmenides, Jung and psychological projection, Dick's exegesis, the dream state and the unconscious, Spinoza, Schopenhauer, entropy and the will to survive, Greek myth and the god Pan, the works Ubik, Valis, Maze of Death, and a lot more.


I will have to listen to this later when I get the chance.

Thanks guys!

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Re: Philip K. Dick Discloses the Matrix in 1977

Postby elfismiles » Tue Sep 24, 2013 5:25 pm

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Philip K. Dick’s VisionsThe surveillance state’s complicated prophet
Ken Layne from the October 2013 issue

Burned out from 20 years of speed and an increasingly fragile soul, science fiction writer Philip K. Dick is still bleary from getting his wisdom teeth removed when he answers his door to find a smiling delivery girl sent by the pharmacy. Her fish pendant—hippie Christians adopted the mystic symbol in the early 1970s—catches his eye, and a stream of pink light enters his mind.

Dick could never decide if the beam lasted only for a few seconds or was just the beginning of a series of connected visions and foggy revelations that went on for most of February and March of 1974, but he spent the rest of his life trying to interpret this religious experience. He had a persistent hunch that our world—his sunny and prosperous California—was a kind of Reality Overlay under which was a Black Iron Prison. That’s where we really lived, under constant surveillance, dulled by a virtual reality of free will.

The pink ray of light, with its throbbing, Google Image slideshow-style visions of modern paintings and ancient knowledge, predicted our modern world of fiber-optic cables pulsing with the light of our collective thoughts, images, desires, and transactions. When the National Security Agency (NSA) asked telecommunications companies for a tap into this collective consciousness in 2003, the intelligence shop was given its own room, 641A, at the vast SBC/AT&T data-switching center in San Francisco, where “beam splitters” rout the flow of information.

Precognition is a common ability in Dick’s worlds, where chronological time seems more a necessary structure to keep his middle- and working-class heroes semi-sane than a hard reality. Information flows in unpredictable directions, and all parties and interests seek control of it. Business executives, real estate speculators, police, journalists, spies, god-children, clergymen, con artists, drug dealers, advertising agencies, androids, generals, and presidents struggle to understand and predict the consequences of the data they collect.

The race is to get the stuff first. Like the institutional investor hooked to a Bloomberg terminal for 10 hours a day or the psychic homunculi bobbling in the fluid of the police pre-crime station in “The Minority Report” (1956), the NSA/FBI/Silicon Valley surveillance of the data trails we create day and night reflects the usual desire of management to control the situation. To fans of Dick’s paranoid Nixon/Hoover-era fiction and the modern myths it helped inspire—everything from The X-Files to The Matrix—the most recent NSA scandals confirm what has long been a given: constant surveillance by sinister government forces.

There’s no way to legislate out of this, because security isn’t a government monopoly. The fact that the most advanced eavesdropping operation in history finds it more effective just to demand a backchannel into private-sector Internet traffic is one sign that “signal intelligence” has grown far beyond any agency’s ability to control. Now any company can be an intelligence operation. Any individual can be an intelligence operation, as Julian Assange has shown. If the NSA doesn’t siphon and store the information, another entity will. The most important part of the Edward Snowden story is that Silicon Valley and Washington intelligence people move back and forth professionally and consider themselves to be in the same industry.

Philip K. Dick rarely comes up in political debate. He’s got no motivational market theory for libertarians, no gung-ho troops fighting giant insects for armchair fascists, no identity empowerment for liberals. His main policy interest was the drug war. But as always for a writer who routinely rewards his heroes with more uncertainty, Dick spreads the guilt around equally to dopehead, dealer, and cop.

In The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch (1965), the U.N. sells a monopoly in drug paraphernalia on its Mars colonies while tolerating the black market sales of the drug itself, but it’s the drooling “CAN-D” addicts stuck in boring off-world underground housing who come off worst. In 1977’s A Scanner Darkly, the protagonist is both addict and vice cop, and his salvation comes from a Scientology-style drug treatment center that also grows and distributes product.

Philip K. Dick really was a prophet, and like all true prophets he often couldn’t figure out what the visions meant. His description of impossible-to-block pop-up ads in 1964’s The Simulacra is perfect, even though he sees them as talking flies. The pink informational light pulses of 1981’s VALIS, the Vast Active Living Intelligence System, are not a god but the sum information of humanity. That’s what is pulsing through the fiber optic lines. And that’s what any entity seeking control will tap into, for as long as we use this type of informational exchange and voluntarily create “profiles.” (Did an intelligence agency force modern cameras and mobile phones to geo-tag every photograph we take? The answer hardly matters, because we bought it as a new feature.)

Leaks and mass sabotage can make the dragnet less effective. To end electronic surveillance, though, requires evolution in communication.

“We’ve come a long way since the Rothschilds got dirty rich from signals reflected on mirrors across the channel to France,” William S. Burroughs wrote in the early 1990s, long after he’d lent the title Blade Runner to Ridley Scott’s adaptation of Dick’s 1968 book Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? “One is way beyond primitive cause-and-effect modes of communication. In fact, the whole concept of communication is antiquated.”

What replaces current communication methods for those spies and criminals and other multinational interests with a desire for speaking in code? Messages could be grafted onto DNA strands and delivered through a messenger’s hair, or in the stuffing of a certain kind of IKEA throw pillow. Whatever the method, as soon as it is proven to exist, all players will race to figure a way to decode or tap the information streams. Attempts to legislate this evolutionary process will fail.

This could be just the kind of low-grade oppression and claustrophobia necessary to force humanity to colonize other worlds. Only when a power is impotent to do anything about a perceived threat will surveillance lose its power. Philip K. Dick’s lonely colonists on distant worlds had that much comfort, at least.



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Re: Philip K. Dick Discloses the Matrix in 1977

Postby slimmouse » Sat Dec 28, 2013 11:04 am

Heres a great listen for fans of PKD.

Its a red Ice radio interview with Anthony Peake. See below for details....

Anthony Peake is an author, speaker and a member of the Institute of Noetic Sciences, The Scientific & Medical Network and the Society for Psychic Research. He is known for his hypothesis that suggests that human consciousness survives the physical death of the body by falling out of time. He calls this process "Cheating The Ferryman" and also his hypothesis that all human beings consist of two centers of consciousness. Borrowing from Gnostic terminology he calls these "The Daemon" and "The Eidolon." He returns to discuss his latest book, A Life of Philip K Dick - The Man Who Remembered the Future. Philip K. Dick was a hugely influential writer who drew upon his own life to address the nature of drug abuse, paranoia, schizophrenia, and transcendental experiences of all kinds. In the first hour, we discuss the many films inspired by Dick's stories, such as Blade Runner, A Scanner Darkly, Total Recall, and Minority Report. We'll talk about Philip's strange life experiences such as his reported theophany and his visionary experiences documented in the Exegesis of Philip K. Dick. Peake explains Philip's orthogonal time idea and presents fascinating evidence that Dick may have been, as he termed the state in many of his novels and short stories, a "precog" - a person that can see the future. In the member's hour, we'll hear about Sibyl, a being that would come to Philip K. Dick. We'll talk about how Philip considered himself a starchild and abductee. Anthony also discusses Dick's unpublished novel that he was writing during the time of his death called, The Owl in Daylight.


One thing revealed by Peake in this interview, is that PKD actually prophesised his own death????

Fascinating insight into the man overall.

link. http://www.redicecreations.com/radio/20 ... 31218.php#
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Re: Philip K. Dick Discloses the Matrix in 1977

Postby seemslikeadream » Sat Dec 28, 2013 12:29 pm

thanks!



You better take your time
You know there's no escape
The future sends a sign
Of things we will create
Baby it's alright
And so have faith
Oh yeah, you invent the future that you want to face

How many people sit home at night
Wondering if they will be here tonight
Wondering if children will he bring to the light
Inherit the world, or inherit the night
Wondering if neighbors are thinking the same
All of the wild things tomorrow will tame
Talking of journeys that happen in vain

And I know I'm not the only one
To ever spend my life sitting playing future games

Future games...


I know I'm not the only one...
Mazars and Deutsche Bank could have ended this nightmare before it started.
They could still get him out of office.
But instead, they want mass death.
Don’t forget that.
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Re: Philip K. Dick Discloses the Matrix in 1977

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Re: Philip K. Dick Discloses the Matrix in 1977

Postby Laodicean » Thu May 08, 2014 9:19 am

Check Out The Latest Trailer For Philip K. Dick’s ‘Radio Free Albemuth’


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ovH_-mQxCok

If you’ve been wondering how ‘Radio Free Albemuth’ would look as a film you may wonder no further! John Alan Simon might be new to both directing and writing but he is taking on a big project to start off with as he adapts Philip K. Dick‘s novel ‘Radio Free Albemuth’ for the big screen. You may have heard about the film years ago and promptly forgot about it as it was shot in 2007 with no word on it since it was complete. Now, it is finally getting a release through Freestyle Releasing and Freestyle Digital Media (FDM) who have obtained the DVD and VOD rights to the movie which has a June 27th 2014 release date penciled in.

The film takes place in an alternate 1985 where Berkeley record store clerk Nick Brady, played by Jonathan Scarfe (‘Perception’,’The Sheldon Kennedy Story’), starts to have strange visions that he claims are sent by aliens called VALIS. He moves with his family to LA and starts a successful music career with ulterior plans to overthrow the U.S. Government who is run by President Fremont, played by Scott Wilson (‘The Walking Dead‘,’The Last Samurai’). He has the backing of his best friends, a science fiction writer and mysterious woman, and falls into a conspiracy that will blow everyone away.



http://sciencefiction.com/2014/05/06/ch ... -albemuth/
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Re: Philip K. Dick Discloses the Matrix in 1977

Postby Wombaticus Rex » Thu May 08, 2014 1:45 pm

justdrew » Sat Aug 10, 2013 8:53 pm wrote:Maybe someone remembers KOZYREV being more well known in the US than I'm aware of?

http://www.chronos.msu.ru/EREPORTS/levich_substan_inter/levich_substan_inter.htm


Yes, and the culprits there are the same West Coast band of weirdo physicists who permeate the Uri Geller and UFOlogy/Aviary mythos.

As for PKD and Kozyrev, this is of interest...

Via: http://www.philipkdickfans.com/mirror/w ... achine.htm

Man, Android and Machine
Philip K. Dick, 1975

...

I hope you realize the importance of this. Time is real, both as an experience in the Kantian sense, and real in the sense which the Soviet Dr. Nikolai Kozyrev expresses it: that time is an energy, and it is the basic energy which binds the universe together, and upon which all life depends, all phenomena draw their source out of and express: it is the energy of each entelechy and of the total entelechy of the universe itself.

...

What I have said, too, is that time is actually as Dr. Kozyrev in the Soviet Union supposes it to be, and in UBIK time has been nullified and no longer moves forward in the lineal fashion which we experience. As this has happened, due to the deaths of the characters, we the readers and they the personæ see the world as it is without the veil of Maya, without the obscuring mists of lineal time. It is that very energy, Time, postulated by Dr. Kozyrev as binding together all phenomena and maintaining all life, which by its activity hides the ontological reality beneath its flow

...

Well, I hate to admit it, but it is possible that there is (one) such a thing as telepathy; and (two) that the CETI project's idea that we might communicate with extraterrestrial beings via telepathy is possibly a reasonable idea -- if telepathy exists and if ETIs exist. Otherwise we are trying to communicate with someone who doesn't exist with a system which doesn't work. At least that'll keep a lot of us busy for a long, long time. But understand now that a Soviet astronomy bunch, evidently headed by the same Dr. Nikolai Kozyrev who developed the time-as-energy theory I mentioned previously, has reported receiving signals from an ETI within our solar system. If this were true, and our people are saying that the Soviets are just monitoring stale, flat and unprofitable old signalas from our own discarded satellites and other junk ships -- well, suppose these ETI entities or corporate mind are within, say, the great plasma which seems to surrond Earth and is involved with solar flares and the like; I refer of course to the noösphere. It is ETI and TI at once, and possibly bears a strong resemblance to what Ms. Le Guin has written about in Lathe. And as every SF fan knows, my own works deal with similar themes...


Google Books indicates the Exegesis mentions K. at several points, I will look that up tonight at home.
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Re: Philip K. Dick Discloses the Matrix in 1977

Postby justdrew » Fri May 09, 2014 1:35 am

apparently he read (a translation I assume) of K.'s work in 1974, per a footnote in "In Pursuit of Valis - Selections from the Exegesis"
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Re: Philip K. Dick Discloses the Matrix in 1977

Postby Wombaticus Rex » Fri May 09, 2014 9:22 am

justdrew » Fri May 09, 2014 12:35 am wrote:apparently he read (a translation I assume) of K.'s work in 1974, per a footnote in "In Pursuit of Valis - Selections from the Exegesis"


Thank you for sparing me the slog.

PM me if anyone wants that section typed out, though, I'm a fool for that transcription shit. Good meditation.
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Re: Philip K. Dick Discloses the Matrix in 1977

Postby elfismiles » Fri May 09, 2014 11:30 am

Thank you for this info
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Re: Philip K. Dick Discloses the Matrix in 1977

Postby TheDuke » Fri May 09, 2014 6:42 pm

Laodicean » Thu May 08, 2014 8:19 am wrote:
Check Out The Latest Trailer For Philip K. Dick’s ‘Radio Free Albemuth’


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ovH_-mQxCok

If you’ve been wondering how ‘Radio Free Albemuth’ would look as a film you may wonder no further! John Alan Simon might be new to both directing and writing but he is taking on a big project to start off with as he adapts Philip K. Dick‘s novel ‘Radio Free Albemuth’ for the big screen. You may have heard about the film years ago and promptly forgot about it as it was shot in 2007 with no word on it since it was complete. Now, it is finally getting a release through Freestyle Releasing and Freestyle Digital Media (FDM) who have obtained the DVD and VOD rights to the movie which has a June 27th 2014 release date penciled in.

The film takes place in an alternate 1985 where Berkeley record store clerk Nick Brady, played by Jonathan Scarfe (‘Perception’,’The Sheldon Kennedy Story’), starts to have strange visions that he claims are sent by aliens called VALIS. He moves with his family to LA and starts a successful music career with ulterior plans to overthrow the U.S. Government who is run by President Fremont, played by Scott Wilson (‘The Walking Dead‘,’The Last Samurai’). He has the backing of his best friends, a science fiction writer and mysterious woman, and falls into a conspiracy that will blow everyone away.



http://sciencefiction.com/2014/05/06/ch ... -albemuth/


I hope I'm wrong. I hope it's just a poor trailer. But gee that really looks amateurish despite having a few very recognisable faces. It has that indefinable (for the layman) but unmistakable straight to video look.

Being a huge fan of Dick I'll still be watching.
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Re: Philip K. Dick Discloses the Matrix in 1977

Postby slimmouse » Sat May 10, 2014 4:16 pm

Time is energy.


The modern capitalist will tell you that time is money.

Which ultimately suggests that money is energy.

Didnt some "fake" document called silent weapons for something or other, go into extensive detail about how money is energy?
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Re: Philip K. Dick Discloses the Matrix in 1977

Postby Wombaticus Rex » Sat May 10, 2014 5:57 pm

slimmouse » Sat May 10, 2014 3:16 pm wrote:
Time is energy.


The modern capitalist will tell you that time is money.

Which ultimately suggests that money is energy.

Didnt some "fake" document called silent weapons for something or other, go into extensive detail about how money is energy?


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