![]() “At the end of these days, your opinions are just receipts of your stupendous ignorance… these experiences are outside of your capacity to understand, and forever outside your tiny prejudices.”ĭoesn’t make it a truth. He was not some literary King Midas, turning everything he touched into gold. Yes, Phil had great ideas and some good stories. ![]() Duck’s works, including VALIS, Divine Invasion and the Transmigration, and I’ve no idea where you’re coming from. I’ve no doubt that Dick experienced these things authentically, and that in the matter that all his writing suggests, even an unreal experience is no less real… reality is superimposed with inter-dimensional paradoxes and linear thinking will fail to sort out these threads every time. Even as a passionate lover of PKD’s writing, a lot of it is just beyond my intelligence. There’s a lot of noise makers on this board, casting their judgments about schizophrenia, “wisdom”, mental “illnesses”, and the validity of “mystical experience.” At the end of these days, your opinions are just receipts of your stupendous ignorance… these experiences are outside of your capacity to understand, and forever outside your tiny prejudices. It does not represent PKD’s best work, but his most mysterious and personally layered writing. This was enough, as it covers everything the Crumb comic covers and then some… Horselover Fat meets with the young Maitreya before severe tragedy strikes… it ends on note of defeatism, but it’s interesting enough that I would like to get around to the final two books which take the story further, The Divine Invasion, and The Transmigration of Timothy Archer. ![]() These spiritual revelations and occurrences are writ out fairly accurately in his final trilogy, of which I’ve only read VALIS. It is verrry easy to tell that 90% of the commentators here have not read, or have little exposure to, the work of Philip K. ![]() But in our countries, such people would not dare to speak about their experiences, unless they know that you will respect their testimonial, not consider them as crazy, not judging them, and that you will not consider their experience as some kind of “fashion stuff”. I’ve met many over time, in various countries, and I was not even looking for it: at first I didn’t take them seriously.īut when it came to 2 close friends of mine, I became less ironical and discovered over time that, actually, many people have unusual experiences. And when it comes to spirituality, for those who face for true such “special” experiences, there’s no such way of thinking left. I dare to think that we are more than that. What he wrote indeed reveals that he considers that a male is nothing but a megalomaniac phallus, wanting to have sex with as much women as possible (the last ones being then considered as objects), no matter the way to get it (for example, by becoming rich at any price, no matter how much destruction it can involve). The worst comment is the one of “Jorge”, whose vision of the male gender is totally extreme: he reduces men to the most basic beings (or even “things”). It seems that many of the above mentioned are written by basic men speaking about spirituality as a fashion, some kind of fun “stuff”. The real mystery is why you find the speculation of others so personally unsettling – apparently reading FAR too much into even the most offhand, tongue-in-cheek statements – that you feel compelled to lash out angrily and aimlessly at anyone who dares give utterance. You don’t have to ignore his vast library or work – I’ve been able to collect about half his output thus far – to find 3-4-74 interesting, especially since it dominated the last eight years of his life. It’s profoundly bizarre how you patronizing deride me for allegedly not reading PKD’s Exegesis (I have) while not recognizing the dissonant notion of simultaneously deriding everyone else for being “fixated” on 3-4-74. As it stands, Zap #1 isn’t quite as old as I am, though I’ve no idea just what that is or is not supposed to prove to you, or why you have this perception that everyone else is clueless about PKD’s issues with undiagnosed mental illness – or how you can diagnose him post facto with “late onset schizophrenia,” for that matter. Not so sure what you’re afflicted with, William, but it’s not wisdom.
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