The Religious Experience of Philip K. Dick by R. Crumb
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The Religious Experience of Philip K. Dick by R. Crumb
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Re: The Religious Experience of Philip K. Dick by R. Crumb
#2I'm Thomas.
Re: The Religious Experience of Philip K. Dick by R. Crumb
#3I stumbled across PKD in a Borders; I bought a collection of his short stories with "The Short Happy Life Of The Brown Oxford" on the cover. I had never seen this before, so thank you for that. These two weirdos were practically made for each other.
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#4Interestingly enough, Kanye West had a nearly identical religious experience and breakdown, down to witnessing a divine pink beam.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/philip-k-dick...
Re: The Religious Experience of Philip K. Dick by R. Crumb
#5I think this is a passage from Valis. Was Dick being slyly autobiographical in that book?
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#6I think this is a passage from Valis. Was Dick being slyly autobiographical in that book?
It was anything but sly. He occasionally writes "I, I mean, Horselover Fat..." and never once concretely states that he and Fat weren't the same person.
Valis was part of Dick's attempt to interpret and come to terms with that experience
Re: The Religious Experience of Philip K. Dick by R. Crumb
#7Interestingly enough, Kanye West had a nearly identical religious experience and breakdown, down to witnessing a divine pink beam. https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/philip-k-dick...
Maybe PKD didn't travel backwards in time to the era of Jesus but forwards in time to the era of Yeezus...
Perhaps it was rather sideways.
VALIS
Re: The Religious Experience of Philip K. Dick by R. Crumb
#8I think this is a passage from Valis. Was Dick being slyly autobiographical in that book?
It was anything but sly. He occasionally writes "I, I mean, Horselover Fat..." and never once concretely states that he and Fat weren't the same person. Valis was part of Dick's attempt to interpret and come to terms with that experience
Philip --> derived from the Greek Philippos, meaning: lover of horses. Dick --> German for fat.
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#9Deducing the existence of soul through reasoning and reflection, on the mind and states of consciousness: https://www.swami-krishnananda.org/brdup/brhad_IV-03.html
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