This is hilarious. And depressing! It reminds me of a point I made last year: that while "AI is Weird," that weirdness is always in a complex relationship with the banal. Weird and Banal are the new polarity!
Dick definitely references and knew about Thomas as well as Henry. He also read a lot of Jung so almost certainly came across that discussion. He also probably first read about "gnosticism" in Jung.
wonderful piece, did he also reference Henry's twin, Thomas Vaughan? Also curious to know if Jung's alchemical understanding of the Jesus fish would have influenced him, thanks!
This piece made me get PKD in a new way. I hadn't seen the 'spiritual subversive' in him before... I guess he oscillated between some kind of ragged faith (of the 'negative capability' variety) and
a despairing nihilism...But I had mainly felt more the latter in his work...Thank you!
PKD's mature religious orientation did have a ragged and subversive quality, as he empathized with the underdog. In other ways his faith was a kind of auto-generated fiction that attempted to lift him out of despair. Lots going on, for sure, but he was never a mere nihilist.
This is hilarious. And depressing! It reminds me of a point I made last year: that while "AI is Weird," that weirdness is always in a complex relationship with the banal. Weird and Banal are the new polarity!
Great summation of his theology and ethics.
Always so good!
love this article. thanks for sharing it
Dick definitely references and knew about Thomas as well as Henry. He also read a lot of Jung so almost certainly came across that discussion. He also probably first read about "gnosticism" in Jung.
wonderful piece, did he also reference Henry's twin, Thomas Vaughan? Also curious to know if Jung's alchemical understanding of the Jesus fish would have influenced him, thanks!
Apropos of the recent 3 Stigmata class: https://www.sublationmag.com/post/wonka-in-simulacraland?fbclid=IwAR1osfwvn_hpVMm1wUsBMIwUpL5wobPpkTSf7Jfsq1KN1Agoc7-NiJ3GxzM
Palmer Eldritch?
https://www.businessinsider.com/willy-wonka-experience-house-glasgow-who-is-the-unknown-2024-2
This is just far out! PKD has such an amazing imagination. Always my favorite SCI Fi author, he molded my mind in such grand
novelty, I not recovered yet. 😆
Glad you enjoyed it. I love that phrase: a mind molded in such grand novelty....
This piece made me get PKD in a new way. I hadn't seen the 'spiritual subversive' in him before... I guess he oscillated between some kind of ragged faith (of the 'negative capability' variety) and
a despairing nihilism...But I had mainly felt more the latter in his work...Thank you!
PKD's mature religious orientation did have a ragged and subversive quality, as he empathized with the underdog. In other ways his faith was a kind of auto-generated fiction that attempted to lift him out of despair. Lots going on, for sure, but he was never a mere nihilist.