(Not) The Dark Side of the Moon

 

“Liberals can understand everything but people
who don't understand them.”

Lenny Bruce

“I have no hope.  I think if you have hope, what are you fucking seven?”

Marc Maron

Karma.  What is it good for?  Is it something that can be reduced to simple cause and effect, or is it one of those truths that reveals itself slowly.  Not over months or years, but decades and centuries.

“VALIS:  Set-ground. Camouflage.  

Macro-soma blended into the universe in countless ways, here and there: a glint here, a word on a page, plural objects and their causal

processes.   A ripple of wind in the weeds in the alley. 

VALIS is not the universe but is blended into it, as is Ubik. 

My problem is too much intellect and too little awe and reverence. What I have to realize is that both 2-3-74 and 11-17-80 are self-authenticating.  But consider the aspect of the ancient in VALIS.

 

The template was devised a long time ago but it applies to the now; that is the whole point — (1) it is ancient; and (2) it applies to the now — this is both the paradox and the revelation: the secret is here.  

How the ancient can be the now.  If you can understand this, you have the answer.”

PKD, December 1980

Helter Skelter Vol. 10: Thomas, Can You See Me?

There’s only one gnostic experience, you’ll never have it again.  Once you have it, you are having it every day.

You do not come by knowledge of your own volition.  When the student is ready, actually, it’s not when the student is ready, it’s when the pupil is ready, the Master appears.  And that Master is the first physical principle of reality, the birth of the Universe.  You see it in your mind’s eye, and in no way could I claim that I understood it when I first saw it.  It drove me into research, and some would say that I have come to a state of confirmation bias, but I know that it isn’t true, because like a foolish kid who is just joking around with a teacher, I actually sketched it out.  And I didn’t even remember doing that really until decades later.  After I had my gnostic experience, I realized I had already seen this dozens of times before.  I just didn’t recognize it for what it was.

Mark LeClair, 2012

"I shall choose you, one out of a thousand, and two out of ten thousand, and they shall stand as a single one." 

 

"When you make the two one, and when you make the inside like the outside and the outside like the inside, and the above like the below, and when you make the Vision and the Voice one and the same, so that the Vision not be Vision nor the Voice; and when you fashion eyes in the place of an eye, and a hand in place of a hand, and an ear in place of a an ear, and a meme in place of a meme; then will you enter the kingdom."

Let Me Finish My Code

 

“You know, it’s a strange thing to make the claim of complete gnosis, and I am making that claim.

I don’t believe there’s anything I can learn about reality that I don’t already know.  I can only learn details that always seem to fit perfectly into this picture.  This leads to problems with concepts of sanity, and confirmation bias and all that other stuff.  And that’s part of the reason I put my blog out there is because I want people to say to me, you know, “you are totally fucking crazy, dude”. And “What do you make of this, what do you make of this?” And you know, so far nobody’s been able to knock me off my perch.”

Mark LeClair, 2012