“Who is this fuckin guy, what’s he doin up there, get him outta there”
A mean priest is a cross between a dry-drunk and Marshall McLuhan. Once you get past the cold demeanor, the voice of the angry priest feels ancient. A much different tone than the other priests: same book, same words, different message.
“I’m trying to get them on the cognitive pathway in an associative way but the bastards don’t get it. They haven’t even read the book”
“It’s ok. You have to buy the book, you don’t have to read it.”
TV tells you mental illness is normal
TV tells you don’t move
TV tells you what to consume
iPhone tells you mental illness is not normal
iPhone tells you to move
iPhone tells you what not to consume
Telephone explains what mental illness is
Telephone tells you to run
Telephone consumes everything
The angry priest overheard something that he wasn’t supposed to.
Something he had to keep to himself.
Something that would destroy the lives of the people that looked directly into into his eyes while consuming holy communion
Exodus
“21st Century students with learning disabilities using 20th Century technology in 19th Century classrooms”
19th Century
20th Century - Arcades banned near schools
21st Century - E Sports welcomed into schools
20th Century Classroom with an arcade?
Banned.
21st Century classroom with an arcade?
Banned.
21st Century school with E Sports confined to a four hour window in a single classroom?
21st Century news confined to a half hour window on a single broadcast?
Chess is not a video game bring back chess records
Has brain rot defeated the last outpost of the 90’s hippy uprising? Maybe the most surprising 4-night run since…well, was Magnaball 4 nights? I don’t know, but these boys serve top taco with plenty of sunshine sashimi for all. So what’s this? Jerry Penacoli discovers clouds of jaded neglect casting shadows over noobs and vets alike. On the next Access Hollywood
“I think of time as a spherical constant, which means that everything is happening all the time. Human beings take a linear approach to it, slice it in segments, and then hop from segment to segment to segment until they die, and to me that is a pretty inefficient way of preparing a mechanical ground base for physics. That’s one of the reasons why I think physics doesn’t work. When you have contradictory things in physics, one of the reasons they became contradictory is because the formulas are tied to a concept of time that isn’t the proper model.”
Frank Zappa to Matt Groening
“What I do is:
I think up a novel in my head and take notes (in this case Valisystem A about Hawthorne Abendsen and how it went later on after the Nazis got him, based on my life after Nancy left me, and also based on my ideas about my March experience that were early ideas; my plot of say around April to November 1974).
Then I forget the whole thing, motivated by not being motivated. Then I am bopping around, as in this case working on my Time Theory and iAhuasca Theory and trying to combine them — with no idea about the book or any book— and a new plot idea comes (see enclosed pages, which are further on To Scare the Dead).
I combine Valisystem A and To Scare the Dead.
Every novel of mine is at least two novels superimposed.
This is the origin; this is why they are full of loose ends, but also, it is impossible to predict the outcome, since there is no linear plot as such. It is two novels into a sort of 3-D novel.”
PKD, 1975
“Xenochrony means strange synchronizations.
Am I satirizing editing? I don't know whether the technical process of editing is enough of a commonly understood phenomenon that you could satirize it. You can't make a joke about something that people don't know exists. So, I would say that's not part of it.”
I think I've solved what's been in my head at night.
I'm seeing all the books and writing tablets, all the written materials night after night: the Qumran Scrolls. Gee. It finally fits together, all this stuff.
They're what people call the "Dead Sea Scrolls." I've been doing research. I'm positive. Hundreds have been unjarred, opened, and translated recently. In England and Israel.
The Qumran community of Essenes. Here, before the scrolls were found, is Will Durant's description of the Essenes:
“possibly they were infuenced by Brahamic, Buddhist, Parsee (which is Zoroastrianism, Pythagorean and the Cynic search for the honest man, ideas that came to the crossroads of trade at Jerusalem... They dwelt in homes owned by their community ... i.e. communistic ideas of property:
“A rich man is a thief"
They hoped that by piety, abstinence and contemplation they might acquire magic powers and foresee the future. Like most people of their time they believed in angels and demons, thought of diseases as possession by evil spirits, and tried to exorcise these by magical formulas; from their "secret doctrine" came some parts of the Kabbala. They looked for the coming of a Messiah who would establish a communistic egalitarian Kingdom of Heaven on earth; they were ardent pacifists and refused to make implements of war."
The Romans wiped them out, so the contents of the Qumran Scrolls would contain all the elements I've been entertaining in my mind, and scrolls equal books. The Essenes were into prophecy, or anyhow wanted to be. It's all there:
The numbers (Pythagoreanism), the weird semi-words (Kabbala). This is exactly what Jim Pike was into.
All of the above. See, Claudia?
The Essenes sent teachers to the various cities; these teachers concealed their Essene background and training. Jesus Christ is the best known example. (The Qumran Scrolls indicate he was indeed a "secret Essene.) Another example would be Appolonius of Tyana (died 98 A.D.).
Look him up, Claudia; you'll see what I mean. These Essene secret teachers fanned out into the Roman Empire and so-to-speak subverted it with their doctrines . After the Essene Community was wiped out around 70 A.D. such secret teachers as Appolonius of Tyana continued to spread their doctrines . These underlie — covertly — our world.
Nobody knew the source of these teachings until the Qumran Scrolls were recently found; no wonder Jim Pike and other theologians went crazy with excitement — saw Christianity in an entirely new light. It isn't a Jewish heresy, it is based on the sources I quote from Will Durant above. They were also into cypher (Tensor) and prophecy (Transformer)— and lots and lots of what probably are prophetic books (Seals).
And since Jim's death many more have been dug up and translated (which also means deciphered).
Query: If the Essenes were successful prophets not just trying and failing, did they anticipate their being wiped out, and anticipate leaving their entire doctrines and views and information as sort of time bombs which would remain hidden until today? Is it possible?
Very possible, I think. They hid all their stuff to be found later - much later. Once more to be reintroduced into the world as it was fading out.
