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September 13 - September 25, 2024
Around 1960, Phil saw a vision of an iron mask on the horizon, lit up by the setting sun. He associated that mask with Wagnerian opera. It became the inspiration for his novel The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch.
He gave to the local Episcopal Church, “adopted” a child through the Christian Children's Fund and sent money every month, and gave to a variety of charities. He also established small trust accounts for his children.
In fact, most of the movies simply use Phil's stories as window dressing for explosions and car chases. The one shining exception is Radio Free Albemuth, which John Alan Simon and his wife produced on a shoestring budget. It tells a fascinating story and is well worth watching, despite the lack of blood and gore, bombs and bullets. That film, like the book on which it is based, tells us that we are living in a police state where we have no real choice in our own lives. The government controls our lives and our very thoughts. That was Phil's story, and the film tells it very well.
he did have some very real experiences. His house was smashed and trashed. He was abducted by men in black. And he did have what he termed the “pink light” experience. He did tell me, while he was in a trance of some sort, that our baby had a hernia.
we did take our son to the doctor, and the doctor did diagnose a hernia.
He also warned us of the police state in which we live. The Nazis won World War II, and the Empire Never Ended.
We must wake up and see the world as it is, not as the media present it to us.
Behind the propaganda, this world is all about control. Various factions that hold wealth and power are fighting for control. They...
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High Castle is more reality than fantasy. Through Operation Paperclip and other, lesser-known programs, about a thousand Nazis were brought to the United States. About the same number went to the Soviet Union. They infiltrated our intelligence agencies, and they concocted the Cold War to distract us from the Nazi takeover of our institutions of government and education.
it’s a common theme in my writing that a dark-haired girl shows up at the door of the protagonist and tells him that his world is delusional. That there is something false about it.
I cite The Man In The High Castle and my 1974 novel about the U.S. as a police state. I am going to be very candid with you: I wrote both novels based on fragmentary residual memories of just such a horrid slave state world.
“We are living in a computer programmed reality. And the only clue we have to it is when some verbal cue is changed and some alteration in our reality occurs.
“I believe,” says Vallee, “that there is a system around us that transcends time as it transcends space. I remain confident that human knowledge is capable of understanding this larger reality. I suspect that some humans have already understood it, and are showing their hand in several aspects of the UFO encounters.”
Charles Fort (1874 – 1932) who for all intents and purposes started the discussion when he said humans are but pieces on a cosmic chessboard and are being controlled by some outside influence.
Keel didn’t identify with the term “Matrix” cause it was still early on. But he did believe there was what he called a “Superspectrum” in existence all around us and that openings (he called them “window areas”) allowed a wide variety of otherworldly denizens to hop back and forth before taking the midnight train back to Magonia.
On the back cover of his book, The Eighth Tower, we learn that: “There is a single intelligent force behind all religious, occult, and UFO phenomena. Strange manifestations have haunted humans since prehistoric times. Beams of light, voices from the heavens, the ‘little people,’ gods and devils, ghosts and monsters, and UFOs have all had a prominent place in our history and legends. In this dark work, John Keel explores these phenomena, and ...
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What if all our destinies are controlled by this cosmic force for its own mysterious purposes? And what if UFOs and other paranormal manifestations are merely tools being used to manipulate us and guide us toward the cosmic role we are fated to play? Perhaps, after all, we are not independent beings but are instead the creations and slaves of the eighth tower.”
Utilizing Keel’s own words, we start to get a better picture of what he is trying to convey to us: “This is a hypothetical spectrum of energies that are known to exist but that cannot be accurately measured with present-day instruments. It is a shadowy world of energies that produce well-observed effects, particularly on biological organisms (namely people).
“This superspectrum is the source of all paranormal manifestations, from extrasensory perception (ESP) to flying saucers, little green men and tall, hairy monsters. It is hard to pin down scientifically because it is extradimensional, meaning that it exists outside our...
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Keel was “ahead of me” in shedding the shackles of the ETH (extrater...
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“Earth Coincidence Control Office.” After numerous such events Lilly concluded “that God really existed in me and that there is a guiding intelligence in the universe.”
Lilly did not see the various cosmic forces as all “groovy” and he pretty much believed that he had been chosen to combat negative powers and alert the world at large to the existence of those “solid state beings who are of evil intent.”
In short, Lilly claimed that the sensory deprivation tank allowed him to make contact with creatures from other dimensions and civilizations far more advanced than our own. He would forever refer to his very first encounter with entities from another dimension as “the first conference of three beings,” the details of which are recounted in Lilly’s books and on his website.
“Cosmic Love is absolutely Ruthless and Highly Indifferent; it teaches its lessons whether you like/dislike them or not.
“The fish pendant, on Dick’s account, began to emit a golden ray of light, and Dick suddenly experienced what he called, with a nod to Plato, anamnesis: the recollection or total recall of the entire sum of knowledge.
the direct perception by the mind of a metaphysical reality behind the screens of appearance.”
“The fact is,” Critchley writes, “that after Dick experienced the events of what he came to call ‘2-3-74,’ (the events of February and March of that year), he devoted the rest of his life to trying to understand what had happened to him. For Dick, understanding meant writing.”
Dick would go on to write more than 8,000 pages about his experience, often writing through the night and producing 20 single-spaced, narrowmargined pages at a go, mostly handwritten and littered throughout with strange diagrams and cryptic sketches. The unfinished mountain of paper was assembled posthumously into some 91 folders and was called “Exegesis.” For those unfamiliar with the term, “Exegesis” is an interpretation or critical analysis of a literary work and often refers to the Bible especially. For Dick, “My exegesis, then, is an attempt to understand my own understanding.” THE
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In Dick’s case, the divine is said to communicate through “information,” a persistent theme in Dick’s writing. He refers to the universe and even Christ as “information.” Dick also believed that time is not “linear,” or a sequence of now-points extending from the future through the present and into to the past, the lines of which stretch forwards and backwards into infinity. Instead, for Dick, time is a circle that contains everything, something he called “orthogonal time.”
Dick declares that orthogonal time will make it possible for the golden age to return, namely the time before the Fall and prior to original sin. He also claims that in orthogonal time the future falls back into and fulfills itself in the present. This is doubtless why Dick believed that his fiction was becoming truth,
“We appear to be memory coils (DNA carriers capable of experience) in a computer-like thinking system which, although we have correctly recorded and stored thousands of years of experiential information, and each of us possesses somewhat different deposits from all the other life forms, there is a malfunction – a failure – of memory retrieval.”
he “remembered’ all the recorded knowledge of the universe,” like he had suddenly recovered his library card to the Akashic Records.
VALIS informed him that his infant son was in mortal danger from an unnamed illness even though routine medical checkups had shown no trouble or worrisome symptoms. But Dick insisted that thorough tests be run to ensure his son’s health and was eventually able to get the doctor to make them in spite of there being no obvious problems. It was discovered that Dick’s son had an inguinal hernia and would have died without immediate surgery. The operation saved the child’s life, which Dick attributed to the “intervention” of VALIS.
At one point in the aftermath of 2-3-74, Dick was able to speak a form of Greek called “Koine Greek,” a language he had never studied. It also happened to be the language in which the New Testament was originally written. The phenomenon of speaking an unknown foreign language is called “xenoglossia.”
“In that instant, as I stared at the gleaming fish sign and heard her words, I suddenly experienced what I later learned is called ‘anamnesis’ – a Greek word meaning literally ‘loss of forgetfulness.’ I remembered who I was and where I was.
Dick believed that he, along with the rest of us, were all living simultaneously in the present day as well as the time of the first Christians in Rome. The political and economic structure of our modern world is really the BIP, or Black Iron Prison, which is opposed to the spiritual redemption offered by the PTG, or Palm Tree Garden.
“I experienced an invasion of my mind by a transcendentally rational mind, as if I had been insane all my life and suddenly I had become sane.”
I have often pondered whether synchronicity is one of the ways the Universe uses to try and keep us on our intended path. Possibly because we are literally trapped in linear time and a three-dimensional reality,
Nick Bostrom also imagined “stacked” levels of reality. “We would have to suspect that the post-humans running our simulation are themselves simulated beings; and their creators, in turn, may also be simulated beings. Here may be room for a large number of levels of reality, and the number could be increasing over time.”
Professor Richard Doyle, who held a class on Synchcast for PKD, warned his students that reading Dick’s novels could induce what he calls an “involutionary” affect — meaning one’s life might start getting taken up by synchronicities and uncanny moments.
‘Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.’
“Arnold’s experiences went well beyond that initial event in 1947,” Mike notes. “Arnold went on to see a number of other UFOs throughout his life; he reported that UFOs could read his mind; he and his family saw floating orbs in their home; he claimed his phone was tapped; he was threatened by the military to keep quiet about what he knew and he was fascinated with synchronicities. He came to see these events as happening to him for a reason and he eventually saw the whole thing as a spiritual experience.
He sensed these objects had the ability to change their density, seeing them as living organisms.”
“The impression I had after observing these strange objects a second time was that they were something alive rather than machines – a living organism of some type that apparently has the ability to change its density similar to [jelly] fish that are found in our oceans without losing their apparent identity.”
Some describe the afterlife as another dimension or universe where we move to. Quantum immortality is also an interesting theory. I think this. Most departed know it and are offered brief trips to see us or our ‘realm’ to say hello. Perhaps transcendental beings offer this? A many worlds tourist trip.”
“There were ‘thought packets,’ which at that time I wasn't very adept at unraveling into linear form yet, but could grasp only the general gist, which, in the case of her communications, was some sort of explanation (as I was immediately asking questions) of this being a state she ‘returned’ to, or otherwise went on to . . . though whether this state is actually physical (like if she was some sort of physical three dimensional entity up there) was not clear at all.”
“If one takes the testimonies of a number of UFO abductees at face value,” he answered, “we find that the abductees experience a number of paranormal phenomena in the aftermath of their abduction experiences. These include poltergeist phenomena, out-of-body experiences [OBEs], ghosts, apparitions, balls of light, psychic abilities, precognitive dreams, synchronisms, reception of telepathic messages, a feeling of being watched or monitored, etc. Is it coincidence or connection that these occur after a UFO experience? “Indeed, some, like OBEs and telepathy,” Fowler continued, “occur during some
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Jung then categorized the event as “acausal,” a term one encounters frequently when studying synchronicity that is just another way of saying there is no apparent or obvious cause. “Meaningful coincidences,” Jung writes, “are ‘thinkable’ as pure chance. But the more they multiply and the greater and more exact the correspondence is, the more their probability sinks and their ‘un-thinkability’ increases, until they can no longer be regarded as pure chance, but, for lack of a causal explanation, have to be thought of as meaningful arrangements.”
Jung did relate synchronicity to his belief in the “oneness of the universe” and thus the interdependence of objective and subjective perceptions of the observer or observers. He grouped synchronicity into his studies of other fields, like precognitive dreams, visions, telepathy, near death experiences and even the UFO phenomenon. They all pointed to a kind of “absolute knowledge” contained within the collective unconscious and demonstrated how nature and people are interconnected.
Jung’s third category of synchronistic phenomena is: “The coincidence of a psychic state with a corresponding, not yet existent, future event that is distant in time and can likewise only be verified afterward.”
