who don't understand them.”
“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
