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(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