Sublime

On 12 January 1981, PKD wrote a fascinating letter to Patricia Warrick describing in great detail what he terms his ‘Second Theophany’, which took place on 17 November 1980. PKD describes how at 11 am on that day he was standing in his kitchen with his friend Ray Torrence. PKD suddenly found himself in a powerful hypnagogic state: ‘I saw an infinit

It is too bad, Frink thought. But nevertheless it’s the truth. It’s a fact. I can’t get faith or enthusiasm by willing it. Deciding to.

In his science fiction novel The Man in the High Castle, Philip K. Dick imagined an alternative world in which World War II had been won by the Japanese and the Third Reich.8 In Dick’s fictional world, the Japanese occupation authorities introduced and legalized marijuana as one of their first moves at pacifying the population of California. Things

In his 1967 paper, Kozyrev proposed that time is a form of energy that enters material systems and that can transmit information anywhere. As such, PKD concludes that the source from which he based his own plots was from information drawn out of time (in this case his own future). This information was subliminally understood and acted as the stimul

The phrase ‘the Empire Never Ended’ was to have a profound effect on PKD during his 2-3-74 experiences. It became his mantra with regard to his belief that we were still under the yoke of ancient Rome and that the present world is simply an illusion disguising another world trapped in 70 AD. For example, it appears at least twenty times in his nove

During her three-week stay, PKD described his 2-3-74 experiences in detail.