Philip K Dick :: Valis :: Part 01 :: Chapter 04 :: Audiobook
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- VALIS is a 1981 science fiction novel by Philip K. Dick. The title is an acronym for Vast Active Living Intelligence System, Dick's gnostic vision of one aspect of God.
It is the first book in the VALIS trilogy of novels including The Divine Invasion (1981), and The Transmigration of Timothy Archer (1982), VALIS represents Dick's last major work before he died.
Horselover Fat believes his visions expose hidden facts about the reality of life on Earth, and a group of others join him in researching these matters. One of their theories is that there is some kind of alien space probe in orbit around Earth, and that it is aiding them in their quest. It also aided the United States in disclosing the Watergate scandal and the resignation of Richard Nixon in 1974. There is a filmed account of an alternative universe Nixon, "Ferris Fremont" and his fall, engineered by a fictionalised Valis, which leads them to an estate owned by the Lamptons, popular musicians. Valis (the fictional film) contains obvious references to identical revelations to those that Horselover Fat has experienced. They decide the goal that they have been led toward is Sophia, who is two years old and the Messiah or incarnation of Holy Wisdom anticipated by some variants of Gnostic Christianity. She tells them that their conclusions are correct, but dies after a laser accident. Undeterred, Fat goes on a global search for the next incarnation of Sophia. Dick also offers a rationalist explanation of his apparent "theophany", acknowledging that it might have been visual and auditory hallucinations from either schizophrenia or drug addiction sequelae.
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I really love this book but his understanding of enlightenment is silly. He says "Buddha" is called the enlightened one because he remembered all his past lives in "the first watch" of his meditation, which is obviously just some vulgarized myth invented after his death. Buddha means the awakened one because he realized that the self is an illusion, that there is no real self and hence that reincarnation is meaningless because there's no real self to transmigrate. Anyway, what good would it do to remember a lot of past lives, it would just cause more regrets.
You're not acknowledging the growth that comes with experience. Even regrets can cause us to have greater empathy, or provide impetus to do better.
@@AS-gz8oe It's true that regrets could help us avoid (illusory but painful) rebirth/reincarnation in the after-death experience according to the Tibetan Book of the Dead: "The First Bardo is the stage of the afterlife that occurs immediately after death. At the beginning of the First Bardo, instructions are read in an attempt to help the dead accept what is called the Clear Light, which helps you understand that the universal void is the ultimate peace (om sweet om). If you forget all your regrets in life and let yourself be lured back into sensual fantasies, then you'll sink into the Secondary Clear Light and then move into the Second Bardo (which, as a transitional state, could therefore be called the "Bridge-it Bardo" - sorry, I couldn't resist).
@@2Hot2 'Bridget Bardo' haha I see what you did there, although it took me a second.
Tell me, do you believe reincarnation takes place on earth? I'm not keen on absolutes or presumptions that all life must be carbon based.
No sex organs. Thank you.
Who is the narrator supposed to be? Not the actual person reading the story but the character who is narrating?
Captain Philosophical The Narrator is Horselove Fat but he is writing from an outside “objective” point of view. I think something is mentioned about it at the very beginning of the book
Captain Philosophical also the narrator has been referred to as “Philip” so Fat may be an alter-ego of sorts. Just interesting and trippy how both of his personalities will be together physically with another person(Kevin)