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We are living in a computer programmed reality, and the only clue we have to it is when some variable is changed and some alteration in our reality occurs. We would have the overwhelming impression that we were reliving the present, déjà vu. Perhaps in precisely the same way, hearing the same words, saying the same words.
I submit that these impressions are valid and significant, and I will even say this: such an [clears throat] impression is a clue that at some past time point a variable was changed, reprogrammed as it were, and that because of this an alternative world branched off, that some of my fictional works were in a literal sense true. I wrote out these dreams in novel after novel, story after story. To name two in which this prior ugly present obtained most clearly, I cite *The Man in the High Castle* and my 1974 novel about the US as a police state called *Flow My Tears the Policeman Said*. I'm going to be very candid with you. I wrote both novels based on fragmentary residual memories of such a horrid slave state world. People claim to remember past lives; I claim to remember a different, very different present life. I know of no one who has ever made this claim before, but I rather suspect that my experience is not unique. What perhaps is unique is the fact that I'm willing to talk about it. [music]
The only clue we have to it is when some variable is changed and some alteration in our reality occurs. We would have the overwhelming impression that we were reliving the present, déjà vu. Perhaps in precisely the same way, hearing the same words, saying the same words. I submit that these impressions are valid and significant. And I will even say this, such an impression is a clue that at some past time point a variable was changed. Because of this, an alternative world branched off.
>> We are indeed living in a computer simulated computer world, as our topic, the great prophet of our time, said. He was mocked in 1977 during a conference in France, and well, who's laughing now? Well, I think we're all crying because we all know it's true and it's accepted. But so it is, and so it is. Welcome, everybody, to the Black Iron Prison Intercept. Very appropriate in this topic, as we'll be discussing the man who coined the term. And as always, it is full for all YouTube members, Patreons at Patreon, and AB Prime members. But for everybody else, you get the unlocked shorter version. As always, my name is Miguel Conner, and I am always so happy to see you here, you shining crazy diamonds. You veterans of a thousand psychic wars. You followers and lovers of Sophia. And before we get started, I don't really want to get too much into some housekeeping because, again, excited about the show. I did a poll a while back to Patreons and people on YouTube, and number one was the demiurge and his archons. Number two was Philip K. Dick. So, so now I'm honoring my second one. Number three, we shall see. I think I've got a good surprise for you next month in July, in the month of Julius Caesar. Uh, and again, I know I haven't been doing too many updates with my issue with the spinal issues issue, but I want, I don't want to take up too much time. I have done the test. There were some doctors want, and the radiologists want me to do a little bit more. They want me to do some blood work and some more x-rays, if you would, so we can. There's something that's still a little bit off. It's not good news. It's not bad news, but I will do an update for you when I get the, take the ultrasounds and the blood work done next week. Although I must say, some of your ideas have really helped. Some of the herbs and other holistic treatments have made the pain from unbearable to bearable. So for that, I am very grateful. But again, I will, I promise I will keep you in the loop next week, or perhaps right after the 4th of July, depends when the tests all come in. Other than that, before we even get to my presentation, I wanted to pull up some quotes to get us started, to get us all in the mood, in the mood for Dick. My, one of my favorite quotes is always, of course, from *Valis*: "The Empire is institution, the codification of derangement. It is insane and imposes its insanity on us by violence, since its nature is a violent one. To fight the Empire is to be infected by its derangement. Whoever defeats the Empire becomes the Empire. It proliferates like a virus. Thereby it becomes its enemies." And to me, that's probably one of the most uh important quotes by Mr. Philip K. Dick, because you see it today, you see it throughout history. Orwell himself always said, "The problem with revolutions is that you always become the oppressor on the other side of the of the revolution, if you would." And today, I see it so much. People want to fight what they hate, whatever side you're on or whatever the issue is, and all you're doing is becoming what you hate and in a way feeding the loop of violence and derangement. It's not a good thing to do, and of course, we can talk, I talk about issues here on Aeon Byte. I always want to honor Gordon, who always said, "Become invincible." Or as the Stoics said, "Become, or Aristotle, become unmovable, become somebody who is detached, who sees the whole picture, like an anthropologist, seeing everything, and then the answers will come to you on how to defeat the empire." But today, I see the old fight, the old warning also by Nietzsche: "Fight not ye monsters, lest you become a monster. And if you look into the into the abyss, the abyss will look right back at you." So, but I don't think people will heed, will heed, whether on the streets, on social media, or on the internet, people want to fight directly the empire, and they wonder why nothing gets changed, why it's "meet the new boss, same as the old boss," and why we are stuck in the same uh software story of the hologram. And again, I've spent many years at Aeon Byte giving you the solutions on how to do it. Knowledge is power, the inner journey frees you. Everything goes into cycles, and you must become the standing one, like Simon Magus, above it all. And as always, to help the least of your brothers. The person right next to you goes a long way. And of course, starve the empire, detachment, non-participation. If we all did it, it would make a big difference. Love and kindness feed those Archons loose, because if we all fed love to the Archons, to the Archons, I mean Yaldy Baldi might transform into something better. But I don't want to get too much into that. I want again to explain the ideas of Philip K. Dick and how he really saw the universe and how he saw things going and how did he come to these situations? Because sometimes it's hard. For those of you who read *The Exegesis* and his works, it seems he's always going around in circles, and his ideas are always Byzantine, but he actually did have a, a structure, and surprising nobody, a very Gnostic structure, if you would. So, let's not waste any more time and get into it. I will advance, if you, the demiurge, the slight, so demiurge, if you want to get us going, I will get us started. There you go. So, Philip K. Dick: Gnostic Visions and Cosmology. A journey through the mystical visions, Gnostic cosmology, and metaphysical obsessions of one of science fiction's most extraordinary minds. And as I said, the great prophet of our times. There are a few others, but few would surpass Mr. Philip K. Dick. My resources, I took from the majority from three books. One is Stuart Douglas, *The Apocalypse of the Reluctant Gnostics*, where he does an excellent job of comparing, contrasting, and showing the similarities of the Gnosticism of Carl Jung and Philip K. Dick. Short book, but great book. The other one is by Erik Davis, *High Weirdness*, where he gives us biographies of Raw, Terence McKenna, and Philip K. Dick, and all three of them in one book are excellent. And the last one is from my own book, *The Occult Elvis: The Mystical and Magical Life of the King*, where I dedicate a whole chapter showing the eerie parallels between Philip K. Dick and Elvis, and how they were people of their times, had similar influences, similar lives, and in a way, they had similar destinies, including creativity and self-destruction. So, those are my three main sources, and again, uh, can't speak for *The Occult Elvis*, but the other two books are worth your read.
So, who was, whoa, moving here a little bit. >> [clears throat] >> So, uh, who was Philip K. Dick? Well, the man, the meat sack, is he was named Philip Kindred Dick. 1928 to 1992. He was born in Chicago and raised in California. He began writing short stories in the 1950s, influenced by pulp magazines, before developing a highly original voice. He died of a stroke at 54. As far as, as far as his work, Dick published 54 novels and 121 short stories exploring dystopia, alternate realities, identity, consciousness, and technology's adverse effects on society. His only published literary novel was *Confession of a Crap Artist*. His later fiction was his vehicle for highlighting Gnostic thought to the world. And yes, he certainly played throughout his life with many types of philosophies and theologies. Uh, that wasn't uncommon for sort of the the sci-fi writers of the '60s and '70s, like uh Roger Zelazny, Brian Aldiss, Michael Moorcock, and so forth, to utilize different philosophies and religions to uh really fuel their philosophical science fiction and later on the cyberpunk genre. [clears throat] But uh, as we'll see later on, uh, Dick definitely leaned heavily to Gnosticism, and you'll see why.
Now, how influential was Dick to the world? Well, let's get to that, and that should be an obvious, easy answer. Some of the most important myth-making, cultural-changing films uh and TV series of our times uh are based on him. That includes Tom Cruise in *Minority Report*. I would say the last relevant uh Steven Spielberg film. Uh, I don't think the new one is that uh that great from what I hear, and he should retire, but yeah, *Minority Report* was very good, and it's also, and again, based on a short story by Philip K. Dick. The other uh, of course, we all know is a classic *Total Recall* with Arnold Schwarzenegger and a remake that I didn't like that much. I know Gordon White thought the remake was actually better, but that's one of our many arguments. But of course, *Total Recall* is another very influential film for the for modern times. Then we have *The Man in the High Castle*, the very popular series on Amazon, and where you have this alternative timeline where the Nazis and the Japanese actually won World War II. I didn't include *Next* with Nicholas Cage, 'cause that movie often gets blasted. It gets, it doesn't get a lot of love. I don't think it's that bad, but still. But you got to admit, it's incredible how many stars had no problem embracing Philip K. Dick vehicles, big-time stars. Then we have, speaking of big-time stars, we've got *A Scanner Darkly*. And that, well, look at that cast. Robert Downey Jr., Keanu Reeves, Woody Harrelson, and Winona Ryder. And that one, yeah, that some say that's probably one of the most loyal ones to Philip K. Dick, although *Radio Free Albemuth* I don't point it out here, but that one also follows very much his book, but um, good, good film. Then we've got Matt Damon, Matt Damon and Emily Blunt in *The Adjustment Bureau*. And that came out, I forgot when it came out, but also a good flick where you have these beings who basically control all of humanity. Humanity has no free will, and a couple people figure it out and try to overcome these, I don't know, benign Archons? The other one, this might surprise people, and this came out in 1995, and that's *Screamers*. It's a Canadian film, and it stars Peter Weller, Mr. Robocop himself, and it's based on the short story "Second Variety," and I think it's a very good science fiction film, too, but most of missed it. I've watched it a couple times, so if you ever have some time, check out *Screamers* and some of the other films if you've missed it. So, he certainly has a footprint on our modern mythology and psyche and culture. Of course, the most famous one of them all, yes, it has to be *Blade Runner*, right? Ridley Scott's *Blade Runner* with Harrison Ford and Sean Young. >> [clears throat] >> *Blade Runner* often appears in the top five best science fiction films of all times, and for many critics, for many people, I'm sure people listening to this would have them on their list. Wasn't a big hit, but man, oh man, it really, you might say, changed the imagination of science fiction and culture itself, and it's still, I would say, relevant today. So, I put it here. Um, I put it here in the on the the title of his prophetic visions, Philip K. Dick's fictional foresights.
So, beyond his game-changing stories that became movies and television adaptations, and I should uh, I think there's the other Amazon series, too, *The Man in the High Castle*, which is okay, but that's yet another one. But anyway, let's look at some of Philip K. Dick's predictions, or how he saw the future. And one of them is ubiquitous surveillance and data mining. He saw governments and corporations constantly monitor citizens, influencing behavior and predicting actions, much like depicted in works such as *A Scanner Darkly* and *Minority Report*. Advanced AI synthetic beings, the creation of artificial intelligence and androids indistinguishable from humans, raising profound questions about identity and consciousness, a central theme in *Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?* Now, I should mention that Dick disagreed with Ridley Scott. He never thought that any android or replicant could ever be sentient. To Dick, the divine spark was simple. It's called empathy. He thought that what made us, what made us truly human was our ability to have empathy towards others, and machines could never replicate this in a thousand years or a million years. So, he would have disagreed with Ridley Scott if uh, uh, thinking Sean Young could be sentient, or Roy Batty, or if Harrison Ford was really a replicant, that he would be human or be sentient in any sort of autonomous way, if you would. But, that's what he thought, and he stuck to that through his works. And I'm sure he would say the same thing about ChatGPT or Claude or any of those other players in our modern world.
Now, uh, Dick was also incredible with simulated realities and virtual worlds. The blurring of lines between what is real and what is manufactured, leading to existential confusion, confusion as explored in *Ubik* and underlying concepts of *Total Recall*. He also wrote about corporate control and consumer manipulation. The pervasive influence of mega corporations and advertising designed to shape desires and control society, a recurring motif across many of his novels.
Now, and also, and it should be mentioned too, and my next bullet points is societal decay and pop culture influences, that it wasn't so much what he predicted, but how, or the atmosphere that he got right, the texture of our late 20th century and early 21st century. That's why he's such a genius, because he really nailed it how we had become today. For example, one of the themes we see a lot is decay. And you see that a lot today. It seems like, as you see in in *Blade Runner*, you've got the, you've got the Tyrell Corporation with this beautiful pyramid, but outside it's all rotting, it's all broken down, it's all chaos. And you see that today in Silicon Valley, where you've got our tech lords living in their wonderful offices and mansions while the rest of San Francisco is just decaying. You see that in New York City with Wall Street, or in Chicago. It's that atmosphere, that dark, decaying atmosphere of pollution and despair and so forth, and Dick really nailed it too. Also, as mentioned here, the idea of pop culture and pop culture and advertising. Now, this is something that author Jason Pargin mentioned, but when you see science fiction, there's never really anything like pop culture, is there? You don't see like two Stormtroopers on an elevator, in an elevator, and one turns to the other and says, "Hey man, did you see the game yesterday?" Or, "Did you see that concert?" You don't see Captain Picard listening to some amazing song and saying, "Oh, look at this new hit, Data. This is amazing." But with Dick, it was, it was everywhere, and I think it's really more realistic as it is today. Pop culture is very relevant to our society, and of course, as Dick showed, it is another weapon of those in power to manipulate us, or sometimes for the artist to free other people. So, that he got right, I would say. Also, when you look at, when you look at the sci-fi shows like again, *Star Trek* or uh, any of them, you notice that everything is sort of uniform and the same color and the same, same style. It's uh, everything looks kind of nice and clean. But with Dick, it was always in his science fiction, it's like you've got uh consoles by this corporation, and the doors by another, and one's older and rotting, and everything is just a pastiche of all these different companies trying to sell you stuff, even though at the top, there's always often one again, authoritarian mind controlling this. Uh, there's even that part in *Ubik* where the protagonist uh is trying to leave his uh pastiche, pastiche, and disorderly apartment, but he hasn't paid the last installment of his door, of his electrical security door. So, he can't even leave his own apartment. He has to like, pay his installment, and the door will let him out of his uh, out of his apartment. Very much that could happen today with AI or something like that. So, again, the texture of the future, the feel, the tension, all that Dick, he really nailed it just uh perfectly, very, very well. And of course, he did get a lot of things right writing in the '50s, '60s, and '70s, like 3D printing, driverless cars, facial recognition, spray-on clothes, and other things. But, again, he did write a lot of short stories. He did write a lot of novels. It's like that joke where *The Simpsons* have predicted the future. Uh, well, that's because they've done hundreds of shows, so uh, you would think they would get some things right. I mean, if uh, let's say Vance and I decided we're going to write 100 short stories this year, I think about the future, I'm sure we would nail a few for what might the world look like in 20 years or 100 years. But, uh, on both ways, uh, uh, Dick was uh, he nailed a lot of things right, if you would. He definitely did.
Now, again, you can just look uh, I mentioned the decay. You can just look at *Blade Runner*, which Ridley Scott really captured uh well, uh, the idea of decay, decay, the idea of uh oppression and poverty, and the haves and have-nots uh uh just excellently done in *Blade Runner* and other films based on Philip K. Dick's work.
Now, uh, and also too, uh, what did Erik Davis also say? It's like uh, he was always great with relationships. It's like, you have a couple and they're like, "Ah, we just figured out we are in a uh, we are in a simulation. Oh, well, what do we do? Are we going to stop fighting? Are we going to stop having problems? Uh, yeah, just because you're in a simulation doesn't mean you're still stuck in your own programming as a person." And Dick was very good with dysfunctional relationships and the tensions of family and all that. So, uh, just brilliantly uh shows what our society was evolving to and what is, how is it become today? You've got that famous shot at the beginning of *Blade Runner* with the flying ship with Harrison Ford and the the Japanese lady, and it's just a classic.
The other thing I wanted to mention about uh >> [clears throat] >> Dick is, which isn't very popular. It used to be when I first started uh following, and that's the idea of kipple. Now, what is kipple? Well, kipple is the self-multiplying, I'm sorry, let me do that again. The self-multiplying clutter of useless, discarded objects. They reproduce when no one is looking. Low-key domestic versions of entropy. The idea that the universe is constantly moving towards toward a final state of absolute chaos and kippleization. No one can win against kipple. In other words, it's sort of an automatic hoarding that we have. Uh, Dick would call that, you know, wrappers and cards and uh records and all that that almost magically seem to grow and suddenly take over your house, and there's nothing you can do about it. I'm sure today we all have a lot of kipple in our house, and probably in our hard drives. We store stuff, movies and files and all that, and it seems just to create more entropy, more chaos. In a way, uh, kipple is sort of like a wetiko, a mind virus that exists uh out in the material world, as the Archon mind virus takes over our minds and installs more and more memories, false memories, and choices. Kipple is doing that out into the world. And to Dick, kipple was a real thing. It was part of the entropy, the decay of our universe, if you would, and it appears, of course, in so many of his movies. And I think it's more realistic than the clean look, again, that you see in *Star Trek* or *Stargate* or *Star Wars* or or any of those other popular sci-fi expressions. So, let's make kipple great again, shall we?
So, he um, before we get more into his life, uh, I would, a little side quest here, uh, something that's very popular today is the argument, do we live in an Orwell or a Huxley uh future dystopia? George Orwell or Aldous Huxley? But I would say I think we live in a Philip K. Dick dystopia. And let me read from the slide. "While debates often center on whether our reality leans toward Orwell's totalitarian surveillance or Huxley's pleasure-driven conformity, Philip K. Dick's vision offers a compelling synthesis. His worlds embody both. Societies where external control is enforced through constant surveillance and manipulation of information." That would be Orwell. "It simultaneously feature internal control achieved through manufactured realities, fragmented identities, and pervasive distractions that obscure truth and meaning." That would be Huxley. >> [snorts] >> "Dick's world suggests a more insidious dystopia, where the very nature of reality is fluid and the fight for authenticity occurs within a a mind besieged by illusions and forces alike, making his fictional worlds perhaps the most resonant with our contemporary anxieties." And I would agree with that. Again, with much of a Dick's world, there is somebody at the top, President Freeman or some alien that is in complete control over humanity, but at the same time, humanity's easily distracted. Huxley said, "Well, why do we have to ban books when people, we can make sure that people no longer want to read books. We've dumbed them down. We've infected their minds with drugs, so that's the way to do it." With Dick, you got both, the worst of both worlds, if you would. And again, pop culture was very important to Dick. The music we hear, the movies we watch, the stars we listen to, or the hosts, you know, the show host was always very important in Dick's novel, because this is the usually the biggest shyster that worked for the authoritarian regime, and you see it today very easily through many of the influencers or podcasters out there. So, that's my little vote that when you're wondering about Orwell or Huxley, say no more. We got both of them in this perfect satanic blend called Philip K. Dick and his prophecies of the future.
Now, we can get to his life. First, a little drink of water. And or back [clears throat] to his life to see what exactly what made Philip K. Dick into Philip K. Dick. Well, the main thing would be his twin sister, which would become the search for Sophia. Excuse [clears throat] me. Dick's twin sister, Jane, died shortly after birth, a tragedy that profoundly shaped his entire worldview. He viewed his life's work as a lifelong search for his lost soul projected onto her. He described her as his female counterpart or anima, and felt a constant need for reconciliation. His ashes were, after Dick died, his ashes were interred next to hers. Her tombstone had already been inscribed with his name alongside her own when she died. A final symbolic reconciliation in death that he had sought throughout his life. Uh, both can be found at Riverside Cemetery, Fort Morgan, Colorado. I haven't visited, but hopefully I can do that one of these days. In Gnostic terms, the soul is the daughter of Sophia. Dick's exegesis is described as an odyssey to reclaim his lost or neglected neglected soul. An attempt to restore the long suppressed feminine principle within his own psyche. As Dick himself said, "She, Jane, fights for my life and I for hers eternally. My sister's everything to me. I am damned always to be separated from her and with her in an oscillation very fast, both. I have her in, I have her in me and often outside of me, but I have lost her. Two realities at once, yin and yang. Don't forget that." And uh, needless to say, this was the most important event in his life that happened a few days after he was born. He was obsessed with Jane, and he was also very guilty. What uh, when asked about the death of his twin, he once said, "I guess I got all, all the milk. There's a terrible survivor's guilt with those who lose their twins." And I could, in my book, *The Occult Elvis*, I compare him to Elvis, 'cause also Elvis lost his twin brother, Jesse, and it became his biggest obsession for all his life. Everything that Dick did, everything he wrote, was to somehow make a connection with Jane, or to somehow try to understand her role in the universe, and when they might be reunited. And the idea of the twin is extremely important in mythology and psychology. I won't get into that, but I've done shows with James True, Sherrilyn Jones, uh Chris Knowles has written a lot about it. Uh, the twin motif, the dead twin and the live twin, in mythology is all over the place, and in a way, it became real with individuals like Philip K. Dick and Elvis, and I'm sure with us. I'm sure some of, we all, if we all have a higher self, perhaps we have a lower self that is dead and trying to influence our life. Now, again, this would, this would extremely uh influence Dick, and you wonder, was he projecting, or as sometimes happens, was he an expression of a powerful archetype? As above, so below, as they say. I'll leave you to understand that or figure that out, but uh, yeah, Jane was the most important event in his life, and everything you read about Dick, he probably had Jane in the background, at the back of his mind, perhaps at the forefront. And the same with Elvis. Every song he did, every interview he did, every movie he did, he probably had Jesse. And as I write, Jesse did appear to Elvis many times in visions and dreams and sort of guided him when he could.
Now, the other life-changing event with Dick was uh, the face in the sky, and most people missed that one, even though it's extremely important. Dick's first Gnostic vision occurred in 1963 at Point Reyes Station, California, during a personal crisis. His third marriage collapsing amid emotional abuse and amphetamine misamphetamine misuse. Walking to a rented shack to write, he glanced up and saw a terrifying apparition. As Dick wrote, "I looked up at the sky and saw a face. It was not a human face. It was a vast visage of perfect evil. It had empty slots for eyes. It was metal and cruel, and worst of all, it was God." Woo. He shared the vision with his psychiatrist and a priest, who identified it with Satan. Dick joined the Episcopal Church shortly after. The image became the titular character in his 1965 novel *The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch*, and many scholars see it as a direct encounter with the Gnostic Demiurge. And it's true. And I know later on, he sort of, we do, we do the same. He started saying, "Well, maybe I was just high. Maybe it was inside my head." We all have, we have a missed an obvious mystic experience, and then we try to rationalize it. But for me, at first, it was, it was a big deal to Dick. Not only did he join the Episcopal Church, but because of that image, he started also started studying Carl Jung. And because of the symbolism, he was trying to figure the symbolism in the Episcopal Church. He wanted to understand the idea of the, the communion and all that. So that led him to Jung, and then that shortly would lead him to the Gnostics. So, in a way, this evil sent him on a good path. And I should mention too, that um, Elvis, in my book, also had the same vision around that time. He had it in the Arizona desert, where he also saw the face of pure evil, and this vision sort of led Elvis to get closer to the cosmic Christ. So, interesting, interesting too, but this is a very important one for um, for his life. It really shaped his life and his view and his worldview.
Now, most of you know the famous 2-3-74, and how it led to really a powerful mystical experience and again, new worldview. Started uh, first started with the February 1974. Dick's apartment filled with a sizzling aurora of high-level radiation. He felt was alive and sentient. Later named VALIS, Vast Active Living Intelligence System. An emissary from the realm of light. Uh, then he had his pink light and fish pendant. On February 20th, 1974, a pharmacy delivery woman wore a golden fish pendant. A beam of pink light reflected off of it, triggering a sudden overwhelming anamnesis, the loss of forgetfulness. And that opened up, well, it lifted the, it lifted the veil, the hologram. Dick remembered a furtive life as a secret Christian named Thomas, hunted by Roman authorities. This led to his famous Gnostic conclusion: "The empire never ended." And later on, he had plenty of revelatory dreams. Hundreds of dreams followed, filling his personal journey, *The Exegesis*. It's, I'm sorry, his personal journal, *The Exegesis*. One dream of spinners, children going blind, symbolized humanity's inability to perceive the divine due to the blind Gnostic Demiurge. So, that undoubtedly was his second big one, and um, again, some have said that uh, VALIS is really Dick's prediction of the internet, because it is sort of this net of information that can reach so many people at once. Uh, in his novel *VALIS*, uh, yes, according to his mythology, we are frozen in time, 'cause the Roman Empire destroyed the Second Temple, and basically kicked God out of the universe, and now it takes, now it rules the world. But in *VALIS*, he, he needed a story, so time starts again when uh Richard Nixon is uh finally kicked out as president because of the Watergate issue, and now, I don't know what year we would be today, but again, this is part of VALIS. But a lot of his *Exegesis* appears in the story *VALIS*. In his novel *VALIS*, which is probably, it was definitely his greatest Gnostic expression. So, very important.
At the center of Dick was his idea of anamnesis, the loss of forgetfulness. For Dick, anamnesis was not the acquisition of new knowledge, but the rediscovery of truth already possessed, but suppressed. He equated it with Gnostic gnosis, spiritual insight that pierces the illusion of the material world. He believed humans are forgetful cosmocrators. Cosmocrator is the name for the, another name for the Demiurge in the Gnostic text. Divine beings who co-created the universe but became imprisoned in a space-time matrix after forgetting their true identities. The goal of life is to move from amnesia towards anamnesis, seeing through the quote satanic interpolation of material reality and recognizing one's eternal connection to the pleroma. So, as we have it, he had the trigger, which was the golden fish pendant and pink light beam. Then the flashback, memory of life as a persecuted Roman era Christian. And then the revelation, "The empire never ended." Rome's tyranny persists as the black iron prison. And what did Plato say, too? "All learning is remembering." We're not gathering stuff, but it's a matter of peeling back the programming to understand who we were, who we really are, and what reality is not, as I often say on Aeon Byte. Um, so, let's get into his actual cosmology, if you would. And it's simpler than you're going to, than you'll probably, you'll be surprised at how simple it is. But it's basically, if you title it, it's a diploid sack and the twins. Oh, twins. Again, is Dick projecting, or is he an expression of some archetypes, some higher revelation? But what we have here is the diploid sack, container with androgenous twins, yin and yang. Of course, outside of this all, we've got, yeah, the proverbial the monad, or the god above god, or the one, whatever you want to call it, right? One sentient mind, the Tao originating all. And who is within this diploid sack? Well, one, you've got the dark twin. Pre, pre, premature defective birth, introducing entropy and suffering, and probably a lot of kipple, right? That is perhaps Jane, or the the underground dark twin that you find in so many mythologies. But opposing that, you've got the wise twin. Full term emergence, sentient, vol, vol, volitional, without defect. Dick's universe originates from a single sentient monad. From it emerges a diploid sack containing twin principles, yin and yang. The dark twin's premature defective birth introduces entropy, suffering, chaos, and death. The wise twin, born at full term, remains sentient and without defect. Their dialectical interaction projects the holographic reality we inhabit. So that's it in a nutshell, or a diploid sack shell, if you would.
So, we [clears throat] we are in two hyper universes. One is um.
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