Philip K. Dick interview

Philip K. Dick interview

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[QuantumLeap365]

After listening to this I came to the realization that it is entirely plausible that Jung got his idea of introvert and extrovert from Heraclitus' idea of idios kosmos and koinos kosmos. I know Jung was heavily influenced my Heraclitus but these similarities never occurred to me.

[theduderinok2]

great post! thank you!

[jimmietfreeway]

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[coldfusion12]

this is a gem, definitely worth sharing. Thank you for the upload.

[MsKestrela1]

@Lion117 Based on PKD's statement that Valis was about to be published, and finding the publication date of the book to be 1981, I surmise the date of the recording to be late 1980.

[JNathanK2011]

@amaxamon Yah, the problem with religious experiences is they're often subjective and fleeting, which doesn't work well for scientific inquiery. Even if he recorded it all on tape and documented it well, it would just be passed off as rare coincidence or anomaly. There'd really be no way of explaining it through a rationalistic frame work, since that has to do with objectivem repeatable models, so it would just be shelved and ignored.

[amaxamon]

@JNathanK2011 I've found that stories like these always fall apart when you examine them closely. We have only his & his wife's testimony (she was pretty young at the time, and was living in his "world") but none of these programs have ever produced any evidence. It's more likely that he said, "I have a bad feeling, let's take him to the hospital," the diagnosis came back, and the myth took form after. It's far more likely! And it happens often in life.

[JNathanK2011]

@amaxamon That might be the case, but the way he knew the birth defect in his son through that whole gnostic episode makes me wonder.

[JNathanK2011]

I think were exteneded from the creator, and teleologically, all the good and evil in us is reflected in it. God, like the self devouring ouroboros, is waging death, destruction, and suffering through its own being. Basically, God's mentally insane, and were His psychotic episode.

[JNathanK2011]

@LiarfromCrete 1:10:15

[amaxamon]

@JNathanK2011 RFA: That's the book that introduced me to the VALIS episode. I read it in 1986. When I was younger I actually kind of believed his story, now I can see that he had a history of delusions etc. Still a great author.

[peribenset]

@nicktheato Yes, that is noted on pp. 229-230 of Sutin's book.