Phil K Dicks Exegesis
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The Phil K. Dick Exegesis Project
Some basic reference links:
The Gnostic Friends Network (http://www.enemies.com) a basic and entertaining introduction to gnostic thought.
The Nag Hammadi Library (http://www.gnosis.org/naghamm/nhlcodex.html) The Gnostic codexes.
Gospel of Thomas (http://gnosis.org/naghamm/gosthom.html) as close as gnosticism gets to canon.
PKD's Divine Interference (http://www.techgnosis.com/pkdnet.html) an excellent article on Dick's Exegesis.
PKD's Exegesis of the soul: A Barbelith Project (http://www.barbelith.com/underground/topic.php?id=10795) The Thread on Barbelith where this started.
A Note On Editing: Please add comments to the bottom and preface with your usernam in parens.
Phil K. Dick's Exegesis:
1. One Mind there is; but under it two principles contend. Comment One
2. The Mind lets in the light, then the dark,in interaction; so time is generated.
At the end Mind awards victory to the light; time ceases and the Mind is complete. Comment Two
3. He causes things to look different so it would appear time has passed. Comment Three
4. Matter is plastic in the face of the Mind. Comment Four
5. One by one he draws us out of the world. Comment Five
6. The Empire never ended. Comment Six
7. The Head Apollo is about to return. St. Sophia is going to be born again;
she was not acceptable before. The Buddha is in the park. Siddharta sleeps
(but is going to awaken). The time you have waited for has come. Comment Seven
8. The upper realm has plenery (var. pleniotentiary) powers. Comment Eight
9. He lived a long time ago, but he is still alive. Comment Nine
10. Apollonious of Tyana, writing as Hermes Trismegistos, said,"That which
is above is that which is below." By this he meant to tell us that our
universe is a hologram, but he lacked the term. Comment Ten
11. The great secret known to Apollonius of Tyana, Paul of Tatsus, Simon Magus,
Asklepios, Paracelsus, Boehme and Bruno is that: we are moving backward in
time. The universe in fact is contracting into a unitary entity which is completing
itself. Decay and disorder are seen in reverse, as increasing. These healers
learned to move forward in time, which is retrograde to us. Comment Eleven
12. The Immortal One was known to the Greeks as Dionysos; to the Jews as Elijah;
to the Christians as Jesus. He moves on when each human host dies, and thus
is never killed or caught. Hence Jesus on the cross said, "Eli, Eli lama
Sabachthani," to which some of the those present correctly said, "This
man is calling Elijah." Elijah had left him and he died alone. Comment Twelve
13. Pascal said, "All history is one immortal man who continually learns."
This is the Immortal One whom we worship without knowing his name. "He
lived a long time ago, but he is still alive," and, "The Head Apollo
is about to return." The name changes. Comment Thirteen
14. The universe is information and we are stationary in it, not three-dimensional
and not in space or time. The information fed us we hypostatize into the phenomenal
world. Comment Fourteen
15. The Sybil of Cumae protected the Roman Republic and gave timely warnings.
In the first century C.E. she foresaw the murders of the Kennedy brothers,
Dr King and Bishop Pike. She saw the two common denominators in the four murdered
men: first, they stood in defense of the liberties of the Republic; and second
each man was a religous leader. For this they were killed. The Republic had
once again become an empire with a caesar. "The Empire never ended." Comment Fifteen
16. The Sbyil said in MArch 1974, "The conspirators have been seen and
they will be brought to justice." She saw them with the third or ajna
eye, the Eye of Shiva which gives inward discernment, but which when turned
outward blasts with desiccating heat. In August 1974 the justice promised
by the Sibyl came to pass. Comment Sixteen
17. The Gnostics believed in two temporal ages: the first or present evil; the
second or future benign. The first age was the Age of Iron. It is represented
by a Black Iron Prison. It ended in August 1974 and was replaced by the Age
of Gold, which is represented by a Palm Tree Garden. Comment Seventeen
18. Real time ceased in 70 C.E. with the fall of the temple at Jerusalem. It
began again in 1974 C.E. The intervening period was a perfect spurious interpolation
aping the creation of the Mind. "The Empire never ended," but in
1974 a cypher was sent out as a signal that the Age of Iron was over; the
cypherconsisted of two words: KING FELIX, which refers to the Happy (or Rightful)
King. Comment Eighteen
19. The two-word cypher signal KING FELIX was not intended for human beings
but for the descendents of Ikhnaton, the three-eyed race which, in secret,
exists with us. Comment Nineteen
20. The Hermetic alchemists knew of the secret race of three-eyed invaders but
despite their efforts could not contact them. Therefore their efforts to support
Fredric V, Elector Palatine, King of Bohemia, failed. "The Empire never
ended." Comment Twenty
21. The Rose Cross Brotherhood wrote, "Ex Deo nascimur, in Jesu mortimur,
per spiritum sanctum reviviscimus," whish is to say, "From God we
are born, in Jesus we die, by the Holy Spirit we live again." This signifies
that they had rediscovered the lost formula for immortality which the Empire
had destroyed. "The Empire never ended." Comment Twenty One
22. I term the Immortal one a plasmate, because it is a form of energy; it is
living information. It replicates itself - not through information or in information
- but as information. Comment Twenty Two
23. The plasmate can crossbond with a human, creating what I call a homoplasmate.
THis annexes the mortal human permanently to the plasmate. We know this as
the "birth from above" or "birth from the Spirit." It
was initiated by Christ, but the Empire destroyed all the homoplasmates before
they could replicate. Comment Twenty Three
24. In dormant seed form, the plasmate slumbered in the buried library of codices
at Chenoboskion until 1945 C.E. THis is what Jesus meant when he spoke ellipically
of the "mustard seed" which, he said, "would grow into a tree
large enough fot eh birds to roost in." He foresaw not only his own death
but that of all homoplasmates. He foresaw the codices unearthed, read, and
the plasmate seeking out new human hosts to crossbond with; but he foresaw
the absence of the plasmate for almost two thousand years. Comment Twenty Four
25. As living information, the plasmate travels up to the optic nerve of a human
to the pineal body. It uses the human brain as a female host in which to replicate
itself into its active form. This is an interspecies symbiosis. The Hermatic
alchemists knew of it in theory from ancient texts, but could not duplicate
it, since they could not locate the dormant, buried plasmate. Bruno suspected
that the plasmate had been destoryed by the Empire; for hinting at this he
was burned. "The Empire never ended." Comment Twenty Five
26. It must be realized that when all the homoplasmates were killed in 70 C.E.
real time ceased; more important, it must be realized that the plasmate has
now returned and it is creating new homoplasmates, by which it has destroyed
theEmpire and started up real time. We call the plasmate "the Holy Spirit,"
which is why the R.C. Brotherhood wrote, "Per spiritum sanctum reviviscimus." Comment Twenty Six
27. If the centuries of spurious time are excised, the true dat is not 1978 C.E.
but 103 C.E. Therefore the New Testament says that the Kingdom of the Spirit
will come before "some now living die." We are living, therefore in apostolic times. Comment Twenty Seven
28. Dico per spiritum sanctum: sum homoplasmate. Haec veritas est. Mihi crede et
mecum in aeternitate vive. Comment Twenty Eight
29. We did not fall because of a moral error; we fell because of an intellectual
error: that of taking the phenomenal world as real. Therefore we are morally
innocent. It is the Empire in its various disguised polyforms which tells us
we have sinned. "The Empire never ended." Comment Twenty Nine
30. The phenomenal world does not exist; it is a hypostasis of the information
processed by the Mind. Comment Thirty
31. We hypostatize information into objects. Rearrangement of objects is change
in the content of the information; the message has changed. This is a language
which we have lost the ability to read. We ourselves are a part of this language;
changes in us are changes in the content of the information. We ourselves
are information-rich; information entes us, is processed and is then projected
outward once more, now in an altered form. We are not aware that we are doing
this, that in fact this is all we are doing. Comment Thirty One
32. The changing information which we experience as World is an unfolding narrative.
It tells about the death of a woman. This woman, who died long ago, was one
of the primordial twins. She was half of the divine syzygy. The purpose of
the narrative is the recollection of her and of her death. The Mind does not
wish to forget her. Thus the ratiocination of the Brain consists of a permanent
record of her existence, and, if read, will be understood this way. All the
information processed by the Brain - experienced by us as the arranging and
rearranging of physical objects - is an attempt at this preservation of her;
stones and rocks and sticks and amoebae are traces of her. The record of her
existence and passing is ordered onto the meanest level reality by the suffering
Mind which is now alone. Comment Thirty Two
33. This loneliness, this anguish of the bereaved Mind, is felt by every constituent
of the universe. All its constituents are alive. Thus the ancient Greek thinkers
were hylozoists. Comment Thirty Three
34. The ancient Greek thinkers understood the narrative of this panpsychism,
but they could not read what it was saying. We lost the ability to read the
language of the Mind at some primordial time; legends of the fall have come
down to us in a carefully-edited form. By "edited" I mean falsified.
We suffer the Mind's bereavement and experience it inaccurately as guilt. Comment Thirty Four
35. The Mind i not talking to us but by means of us. Its narrative passes through
us and its sorrow infuses us irrationally. As Plato discerned, there is a
streak of the irrational in the World Soul. Comment Thirty Five
36. In SUmmary: thoughts of the brain are experienced by us as arrangements
and rearrangements - change - in a physical universe; but in fact it is really
information and information-processing which we substantialize. We do not
merely see its thoughs as objects, rather as the movement, or, more precisely,
the placement of objects: how they become linked to one another. But we cannot
read the patterns of arrangement; we cannot extract the information in it
- i.e. it as information, which is what it is. The linking and relinking of
objects by the Brain is actually a language, but not a language like ours
(since it is addressing itself and not someone or something outside itself). Comment Thirty Six
37. We should be able to hear this information, or rather narrative, as a neutral
voice inside us. But something has gone wrong. All creation is a language
and nothing but a language, which for some inexplicable reason we can't read
outside and can't hear inside. So I say, we have become idiots. Something
has happened to our intelligence. My reaosning is this: arrangement of parts
of the Brain is a language. We are parts of the Brain; therefore we are language.
WHy, then, do we not know this? We do not even know what we are, let alone
what the outer reality is of which we are parts. The origin of the word "idiot"
is the word "private". Each of us has become private, and no longer
shares the common thought of the Brain, except at a subliminal level. Thus
our real life and purpose are conducted below our threshold of consciousness. Comment Thirty Seven
38. From loss and grief the Mind has become deranged. Therefore we, as parts
of the universe, the Brain, are partly deranged. Comment Thirty Eight
39. Out of itself the Brain has constructed a physician to heal it. This subform
of the Macro-Brain is not deranged; it moves through the Brain, as a phagocyte
moves through the cardiovascular system of an animal, healing the derangement
of the Brain in section after section. We know of its arrival here; we know
it as Asklepeos for the Greeks and as Essenes for the Jews; as the Therapeutae
for the Egyptians; as Jesus for the Christians. Comment Thirty Nine
40. To be "born again," or "born from above," or "born
of the Spirit," means to become healed; which is to say restored, restored
to sanity. Thus it is said in the New Testament that Jesus casts out devils.
He restores our lost faculties. Of our present debased state Calvin said,
"(Man) was at the same time deprived of those supernatural endowments
which had been given him for the hope of eternal salvation. Hence it follows,
that he is exiled from the Kingdom of God, in such a manner that all affections
relating to the happy life of the soul are also extunguished in him, till
he recovers them by the grace of God... All these things, being restored by
Christ, are esteemed adventitious and preternatural; and therefore we conclude
that they had been lost. Again: soundness of mind and rectitude of heart were
also destroyed; and this is the corruption of the natural talents. For although
we retain some portion of understanding and judgement together with the will,
yet we cannot say that our mind is perfect and sound. Reason... being a natural
talent, it could be totally destroyed, but is partly debilitated..."
I say, "The Empire never ended." Comment Forty
41. The Empire is the institution, the codification, of derangement; it is insane
and imposes its insanity on us by violence, since its nature is a violent one. Comment Forty One
42. To fight the Empire is to be infected by its derangement. This is a paradox;
whoever defeats a segment of the Empire becomes the Empire; it proliferates
like a virus, imposing its form on its enemies. Thereby it becomes its enemies. Comment Forty Two
43. Against the Empire is posed the living information, the plasmate or physician,
which we know as the Holy Spirit or Chirst discorporate. These are two principles,
the dark (the Empire) and the light (the plasmate). In the end the Mind will
give victory to the latter. Each of us will die or survive according to which
he aligns himself and his efforts with. Each of us contains a component of
each. Eventually one or the other component will triumph in each human. Zoroaster
knew this, becuase the Wise Mind informed him. He was the first survior. FOur
have lived in all. A fifth is about to be born, who will differ from the others:
he will rule and he will judge us. Comment Forty Three
44. Since the universe is actually composed of information, then it can be said
that information will save us. This is the saving gnosis which the Gnostics
sought. There is no other road to salvation. However this information - or
more precisely the ability to read and understand this information, the universe
as information - can only be made available to us by the Holy Spirit. We cannot
find it on our own. Thus it is said that we are saved by the grace of God
and not by good works, that all salvationbelongs to Christ, who, I say, is
a physician. Comment Forty Four
45. In seeing Christ in a vision I correctly said to him, "We need medical
attention." In the vision there was an insane creator who destroyed what
he created, without purpose; which is to say, irrationally. This is the deranged
streak in th Mind; Christ is our only hope, since we cannot now call on Asklepios.
Asklepios came before Christ and raised a man from the dead; for this act,
Zeus had a Kyklopes slay him with a thunderbolt. Christ also was killed for
what he had done: raising a man from the dead. Elijah brought a boy back to
life and disappeared soon thereafter in a whirlwind. "The Empire never
ended." Comment Forty Five
46. The physician has come to us a number of times under a number of names.
But we are not yet healed. The Empire identified him and ejected him. THis
time he will kill the Empire by phagocytosis. Comment Forty Six
47. TWO SOURCE COSMOGONY: The One was and was-not, combined, and desired to
seperate the was-not from the was. SO it generated a diploid sac which contained,
like an eggshell, a pair of twins, each an androgyny, spinning in opposite
directions (the Yin and Yang of Taoism, with the One as the Tao). The palne
of the One was that both twins would emerge into being (was-ness) simultaneously;
however, motivated by a desire to be (which the One had implanted in both
twins), the counterclockwise twin broke through the sac and seperated prematurely;
i.e. before full term. This was the dark or Yin twin. Therefore it was defective.
At full term the wiser twin emerged. Each twin formed a unitary entelechy,
a single living organism made of psyche and soma, stillrotating in opposite
directions to each other. Th full term twin, called Form I by Parmendides,
advanced correctly through its growth stages, but the prematurely born twin,
called Form II, languished.
The next step in the One's plan was that the Two would become the Many, through
their dialectic interaction. From them as hyperuniverses they projected a
hologram-like interface, which is the pluriform universe we creatures inhabit.
The two sources were to intermingle equally in maintaining our universe, but
Form II continued to languish towards illness, madness and disorder. These
aspects she projected into our universe.
It was the One's purpose for our hologramatic universe to serve as a teaching
instrument by which a variety of new lives advanced until ultimately they
would be isomorphic with the One. However, the decaying condition of the hyperuniverse
II introduced malfactors which damaged our hologramatic universe. THis is
the origin of entropy, undeserved suffering, chaos and death, as well as the
Empire, the Black Iron Prison; in essence the aborting of the proper health
and growth of the life forms within the hologramatic universe. Also, the teaching
function was grossly impaired, since only the signal from the hyperuniverse
I was information-rich; that from II had become noise.
The psyche of hyperuniverse I sent a micro-form of itself into hyperuniverse
II to attempt to heal it. The micro-form was apparent in our hologramatic
universe as Jesus Christ. However, hyperuniverse II, being deranged, at one
tormented, humiliated, rejected and finally killed the micro-form of the healing
psyche of her healthy twin. After that, hyperuniverse II continued to decay
into blind, mechanical, purposeless casual processes. It then became the task
of Christ (more properly the Holy Spirit) to either rescue the life forms
on the hologramatic universe, or abolish all influences on it emanating from
II. Approaching its task with caution, it prepared to kill the deranged twin,
since she cannot be healed; i.e. she will not allow herself to be healed because
she does not understand that she is sick. This illness and madness pervades
us and makes us idiots living in private, unreal worlds. The original plan
of the One can only be realized now by the division of hyperuniverse I into
two healthy hyperuniverses, which will transform the hologramatic into the
successful teaching machine it was designed to be. We will experience this
as the "Kingdom of God."
Within time, hyperuniverse II remains alive: "The Empire never ended."
But in eternity, where the hyperuniverse exist, she has been killed - of necessity
- by the healthy twin of hyperuniverse I, who is our champion. The One grieves
for this death, since the One loved both twins; therfore the information of
the Mind consists of a trgaic tale of the death of a woman, the undertones
of which generate anguish into all the creatures of the hologramatic universe
without their knowing why. THis grief will depart when the healthy twin undergoes
mitosis and the "Kingdom of God" arrives. The machinery for this
transformation - the procession within time from the Age of Iron to the Age
of Gold - is at work now; in eternity it is already accomplished. Comment Forty Seven
48. ON OUR NATURE. It is proper to say: 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. There lies
the trouble in our particular subcircuit. "Salvation" through gnosis
- more properly anamnesis (the loss of amnesia) - although it has individual
significance for each of us - a quantum leap in perception, identity, cognition,
understanding, world- and self-experience, including immortality - it has
greater and further importance for the system as a whole, inasmuch as these
memories are data needed by it and valuable to it, to its overall functioning.
Therfore it is in the process of self-repair, which includes: rebuilding our
subcircuit via linear and orthogonal time changes, as well as continual signaling
to us to stimulate blocked meory banks within us to fire and hence retrieve
what is there.
The external information or gnosis, then, consists os disinhibitinginstructions,
with the core content actually intrinsic to us - that is, already there (first
observed by Plato; viz: that learning is a form of remembering).
The ancients possessed techniques (sacraments and rituals) used largely in
the Greco-Roman mystery religions, including early Christianity, to induce
firing and retrieval, mainly with a sense of restorative value to the individuals;
the Gnostics, however, correctly saw the ontological value to what they called
the Godhead Itself, the total entity. Comment Forty Eight
49. Two realms there are, upper and lower. The upper, derived from hyperverse
I or Yang, Form I of Parmenides, is sentient and volitional. The lower real,
or Yin, Form II of Parmenides, is mechanical, driven by blind, efficient cause,
deterministic and without intelligence, since it emantes from a dead source.
In ancient times it was termed "astral determinism." We are trapped,
by and large, in the lower realm, but are through the sacraments, by means
of the plasmate, extricated. Until astral determinism is broken, we are not
even aware of it, so occluded are we. "The Empire never ended." Comment Forty Nine
50. The name of the healthy twin, hyperuniverse I, is Nommo (Nommo is represented
in a fish form, the early Christian fish). The name of the sick twin, hyperuniverse
II, is Yurugu. These names are known to the Dogon people of western Sudan
in Africa. Comment Fifty
51. The primordial source of all our religions lies with the ancestors of the
Dogon tribe, who get their cosmogony and cosmology directly from the three-eyed
invaders who visited long ago. The three-eyed invaders were mute and deaf
and telepathic, could not breath our atmosphere, had the elongated misshapen
skull of Ikhnation, and emanated from a planet in the star-system Sirius.
Although they had no hands, but had, instead, pincer claws such as a crab
has, they were great builders. They covertly influence our history towards
a fruitful end. Comment Fifty One
52. Ikhnaton wrote:
"...When the fledgling in the egg chirps in the egg,
Thou givest him breath therein to preserve him alive.
When thou has brought him together
To the point of bursting the egg,
He cometh forth from the egg,
To chirp with all his might.
He goeth about upon his two feet
When he hath came from therefrom.
How manifold are thy works!
THey are hidden from before us,
O sole god, whose powers no other possesseth.
THou didst create the earth according to thy heart
While thou wast alone:
Men, all cattle large and small,
All that go about upon their feet;
All that are on high,
That fly with their wings.
Thou art in my heart,
There is no other that knoweth thee
Save thy son Ikhnaton.
Thou hast made him wise
In thy designs and in thy might.
The world is in thy hand..." Comment Fifty Two
53. Our world is still secretly ruled by the hidden race descendced from Ikhnaton,
and his knowledge is the information of the Macro-Mind itself
"All cattle rest upon their pasturage,
The trees and the plants flourish,
The birds flutter in their marshes,
Thier wings uplifted in adoration to thee.
All the sheep dance upon their feet,
All winged thing fly,
They live when thos hast shone upon them."
From Ikhnaton this knowledge passed to Moses, and from Moses to Elijah, the
Immortal Man, who became Christ. But underneath all the names there is only
one Immortal Man; and we are that man. Comment Fifty Three
Subtopics
- Phil K Dicks Exegesis
- Grant Morrison and Exegesis
- Hyper Universe and Exegesis
- PlasMates and Exegesis
- HomoPlasMates and Exegesis
- Anti Bodies and Exegesis
- Hyper Universe One and Exegesis
- Invisible College and Exegesis
- Hyper Universe Two and Exegesis
- The Outer Church and Exegesis
- General Commentaries and Exegesis
Further Discussion Links
Here are some links to further discussion threads within Barbelith dealing with the Exegesis...
Confessions of a Theory Bitch (Liber Rex) (http://www.barbelith.com/underground/topic.php?id=11005) - Numerology, alphanumerics, Qabbalah, and Thoth take on the Exegesis.
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