PHILIP K. DICK DOCUMENTARY PART 5 OF 9

[sagan1976]

I'd like to know what's up with PKD and pottery. I found the connection in VALIS between him and his sister, i understand his view on reality and how we perceive it and change/are changed by it. But the pottery theme leaves me confused.

[650monza]

@sagan1976 I'm curious about that too. "Galactic Pot Healer" was one of his novels. I read it many years ago - must read it again.

[snakespot]

was this the same Paul Williams who wrote for the Monkees and appeared in the orginal Planet of the Apes movies?

[TruthSeekinOne]

Tim Leary claimed he was continuing Alister Crowley's work...

[vettedreams]

pass this along Nataraja13........your an idiot who took 1 class to many

[13thfloor18]

@vettedreams Maybe so but indeed we look at reality in our own way, there is no 'real world' just a vision of what the world is about dreamed up by some other hack.

[dwaynedibbly]

That guy whos his 'ex exucutor' sitting hunched in a dark room in that chair is in POOR shape! Whats up with the guy?

[baruyero]

Paul Williams is an absolute genius. He wrote great books on Philip Dick and Bob Dylan. A great rock journalist. I suggest you look for information about him, a very very interesting man.

[sinandacceleration]

@baruyero righto! Paul Williams is great.

[pathoplastic2]

@dwaynedibbly

Yes, it's the great journalist/writer & PKD champion Paul Williams...He was hit by a bicycle in 1995 and suffered a traumatic brain injury...so sad...prayers to him and his family.

[pmcmanus420]

@dwaynedibbly Williams has a degenerative neurological disorder.

[lijkert]

reality may be a loose thing, but it's still important to have a tight concept of it. believing/perceiving strange or unusual things isn't a problem at all until your ideas start to become so different from eachother that it becomes hard to integrate them into a cohesive whole. pkd had a real problem with this, and though it inspired him to do these great stories, it was probably not a very pleasant experience for him personally.

[13thfloor18]

@lijkert Reality is full of strange unbelievable things, look at what people actually do believe in, I think his paranoia is just as is ours but obviously it can get the best of you. All I mean is that we should not assume to know all about 'reality' or to even accept it as a real concept because if it completely gets taken from beneath us it will much more traumatic,

[13thfloor18]

@lijkert As you say we need some concept to hold onto, something to stop us falling into the dark abyss of mind, it must of really frightened him and too see reality and everything youve been told is real to suddenly crumble into emptiness for anyone that would be traumatic and life changing. People that think and think deep will always live on the edges of sanity, it's a shame the phobia we have with such people, with madness in general, people end up like martyrs in a sense.

[13thfloor18]

@lijkert Just humble ramblings, I am not crazy just interested.

[TheToocold]

BULLSHIT!

[Nataraja13]

reality is a fallacy. everyone interprets the world through their own "reality tunnels"....which is simply the information our neurological systems are able to interpret from the "real world".

cheers brethren....pass it along.

[lemac]

wow i had never thought about that

[trisky1234]

@Nataraja13 that doesn't mean reality is a fallacy, just that our interpretation is subjective and that we are not all-knowing..

[daboognish88]

@trisky1234 Thank you! precisely what i was thinking.

[nephildevil]

@Nataraja13 exactly!

[daboognish88]

Just because we all experience reality in a different way doesnt mean there is no reality.

[timone1002]

@daboognish88 reality is a definite term, and since it only exists through a conscious perciever and can be interpreted in many ways and is experienced in many ways, than reality is indefinite and therefore there is no such thing as reality, other than the reality that nothing is definite. so there is and there is not such thing as reality... simutaneuosly, the true nature of reality trancends description because desciption attempts to make definite (or define) the indefinite.