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.”
