This is, quite simply, one of the best audiobook narrations I have ever heard. The work is is seamless, and the voice is effortlessly involving, captivating and never distracting. This is one of PKD's most complex and confounding novels. The narrator here does this worthy but difficult work of art a great service with his expert, sublime narration.
@@diecast-innracingleague9022listen, it is well documented that he was a drug user. Especially speed, and drug use is littered through his writings. It's not a good or bad thing. It's a fact. The man was a tortured genius. Like many before, and after him.
From the Valis opera in 1988 which I found yesterday, the Exegesis 2 has a subliminal message which is hard to decipher... Speaking French, I can understand the beginning and the ending. The message mentioned the end of the age of Iron and the beginning of the Golden age. It says that the process already started... open.spotify.com/track/4R1VOTHwSSIkPnPcIxkUR9
It evolved. (I forgot whom said this: "Just remember: Wherever you are in the world, you are equally, outside of, and within, the Empires grasp's") @1:10:03 "There is no way out. The maze shifts as you move through it. Because it is alive."
I miss the early 1970's, the whole crazy thing. Valis is bringing it back for me - except that I am still old, and not as I was in 1972. Something has gone wrong!
Hey at least you got to experience it in that time though! As a 29 year old I'm jealous. Something has definitely gone wrong compared to the vision of that time. But idk if I were you I would wait around to see what comes next.
I am incapable of reading at my age (56). Being an old school linguist and illustrator, I can now create while creation is downloaded into me. This is my third round of VALIS. I so love Dick. *~XDDD*
Read this when I was 17, and towards the end of the book mom decided we were going for a ride into the city for some more new shit for the house she can no longer enjoy since she's departed and all her shit is gone. That whole day road trip I had a neverending feeling of deja-vu that I have never felt again, it was totally uncomfortable and unreasonable. Still wish I could experience it again.
I recognize that experience, it was the first time I went to Vietnam. Before that I've never been outside of Europe so it was overwhelming that everything is so different from what I've been used to: vegetation, people, smells, architecture, transportation... - but then it suddenly felt oddly familiar; it almost felt like I came *back* home from somewhere else. Very weird. It was probably due to a combination of jetlag and malaria medication - back then we could only afford the cheap meds that gave you nightmares and shit, but that doesn't mean the experience wasn't real.
I have felt something similar. I was driving for Lyft after an NDE and I realized I recognized everyone I saw, like they were movie stars. Hundreds of people, everywhere I looked. It was cool at first, but then it got scary.
Wow, I feel like I will need to relisten/read multiple times until I get at the shades of this book. It just casually throws around psychedelic epiphanies and magnifies itself on life’s hard truths. What a great thinker, and also what a fantastic narration of it.
100% not on any level. My man was very much plagued with bought with paranoid thoughts and hard drug use. He gets lumped into all the LSD and hippy drippy shit from the 60s and gets associated with the counter culture, but in reality he used amphetamines and was seriously mentally ill. This one is semi autobiographical as you can tell and also is an attempt of a very very highly intelligent but deeply damaged brain.
@@blackflag66Fight Club... The things you own, ...end up owning you - Funny how this story is very Fight Club on the split-personality psychosis - I am Jacks flowing Tears
Perfectly read! AI doesn't even come close to the nuanced understanding of this reading and probably never will. Amazing ability to read aloud like this. If there were an Oscar for reading aloud, this fellow would win it. I'd like to know what other books he has read for. 'All understanding is a form 'remembering'.
He is the late Tom Weiner (sometimes credited as Yyner). He's narrated over 250 books, won 15 Earphones Awards and received countless nominations throughout his career.
This isn’t science fiction. This is real. This book aligns so much with what I discovered but could not fully explain from a heroic shroom trip I had a few years ago. I was told over and over “you just need to remember” and I felt like I was in a hologram and that reality was this pure bliss state and the world is a test we put ourselves through to learn how to love more deeply. It felt like the universe was two beings playing endlessly, floating it felt like. I became telepathic with my boyfriend like we were nodes in this mind that held us both. I even had a dream I was in a basement and jack Skelington from nightmare before Christmas was stirring a cauldron of “noodles of darkness” with his 3 long bone fingers. Like how Philip says he went down an elevator in his dream and there was a giant pot of spaghetti with a trident in it. AND another weird thing, but I don’t wanna sound like “ oh I’m the savior” but it is strange coincidence that the little girls name is Sofia. I was supposed to be named Sofia before I was born but it was a complicated birth and at one point they couldn’t hear my heart and my mom had died for a while, she had an out of body experience watching them cut me out of her. When it was over we were fine and she called me Janeen instead because it means Gods grace. Weird lol Sofia died in me too
@@rayhill5767I too have experienced the gnosis through sacred conscious use of psychedelic medicine, so maybe you just don’t truly understand what “high and tripping” actually entails for the initiated my friend. Be that as it may..God bless you my friend
I'd understand if I was just a crazy person who heard voices in their head and thought it was a divine feminine spirit named Sophia. But why do I keep finding other people with the same delusion? I notice small differences for sure. And I notice similar sources as well. People who think this is crazy definitely have valid points I can't clearly answer. But I've seen what I've seen. For those with ears to hear: If you're having this experience take good care of yourself. Find some sort of grounding. What the divine feminine spirit wants now is integration and actualization. She is always with us. 🩵
31:24 - laying the groundwork for understanding the struggle of humanity living in amnesia of their true being. 58:15 - reminds me of a quote by Arthur Young, (paraphrasing) "man is a machine and I'm not sure there was ever a machine that didn't have a purpose." 3:03:15 - the story of the form one and of the creation of Sophia. 3:15:04 - stimulating the collective memories of humanity & remembering form one. (anamnesis) "Learning is a form of remembering" - Plato 4:03:17 - assembling the idea of multiple timelines & multiple past lives occurring simultaneously while seemingly separated by space, not time. (oxymoron). Perhaps visitors are our descendants visiting the past with apex technology (third eyed beings - awakened mental consciousness)
I believe he confesses the same themes in all of his later writings, the grief, falling in and out of realities, maybe more but definitely a scanner darkly as well as Ubik, and Lies Inc
I remember reading this about 20 years ago. I enjoyed it at the time. But, listening to this is next level. I’m enjoying much more and getting way more out of it than when I read it before. It’s deep, resonant, and I’m laughing me arse off. 😂 Thank you for this.
This narrator's voice is the perfect accompaniment to Dick's riveting material. I wish they would have put his name in the notes, so that I could fish around more for other books he's done.
That would be the late Tom Weiner (sometimes credited as Yyner). He's narrated over 250 books, won 15 Earphones Awards and received countless nominations throughout his career.
I didn't understand this book until I understood Terrence McKenna's talks on alchemy and the first 40 episodes of Mystery Babylon. The empire never ended, just ask Jordan Maxwell.
Eight minutes into it I already begin to suspect PKD of knowing rather well what he's talking about in terms of drugs and going nuts. I'm going to enjoy this soooo much :D
They were both in the bay area too. Makes you wonder, to borrow a phrase from McKenna, did one part of town know what the other part of town was up to?
Look it up on here for a speech PKD gave in the 70s in France about "Simulation Theory" PKD is literally the first to talk about "Simulation Theory" & much more material directly related to the Matrix's core, makes me wonder how much Wachowski credits to him, if at all. I wonder MANY things 🤔
"The universe is information and we are stationary in it. Not three dimensional and not in space or time. The information fed to us we hypothesize into the phenomenal." Yaldabaoth, the jealous chaotic blind god of the Old Testimate is the creator of this real-life allegory of the cave. Only shadows can be seen in this holographic matrix of wavelength possibility.
@@TiTSxxMcGEE oh yeah I am subbed to them, the only problem is there's allot of filler, or time wasting, at least in the episodes I've watched. But I could watch them in a higher speed.
He gave voice to "the "Eureka" (We have found it!) cry of the nineteen seventies. We found It, but we can't agree on what we found, but it's sooo coool!
Wow, what a reading, what a novel! Beats the hell out of anything Samuel R. Delaney was able to write. PKD must have known true genius and true madness to be able to turn out something like this. For some reason, the last 2 chapters are repeated after the appendix. Is this deliberate or accidental? I'm frankly not sure! And it would be nice to know the reader's name. Aside from that, I don't know what else to say except I'm dazzled.
The game Valis brought me to this man, and there is no doubt in my mind that the developers of the game came from this man himself: Phillip K. Dick. 40-50 years ahead of its time.
This book has, is & probably forever will be the most important thing I ever read 💯 Please drop a comment if you can relate, I want to meet people who have read this, especially this amazing audiobook of it. I almost wasn't sure it was even real at times 😅
Having someone who sounds like the narrator for the Sidney Lumet film Network was a great choice although the accent work was sometimes confusing. I was impressed at how Dick took a possibly boring topic and somehow made it into a edge of one's seat potboiler.
how sure are we that its not pkd's tweeker vibe that everyone is really attracted to.. i can start spinning myself if i listen to or read too much of his work.. maybe people just dont recognize the feeling..
Thought about John 1:1 today. How it begins with "In the beginning was the Logos" which is usually translated as word. I thought, hmm this word logos is much deeper that. In the beginning was the mind of God is a more accurate way to translate it. And sure enough here is that word. Right where he left it. Incomprehensible.
The Greeks had a word for the mind of God, it was nous. Logos is more like the speech or manifested will of that mind (nous). Nous is the Father, the one mind. The Logos is his son because he first exists in the mind of God and then is created when the Father (nous) speaks (creates).
@@justice576 Yeah good point, well said. I'll describe it as the "voice of God" next time I try to articulate this. I went with mind because I'm trying to get across that it's more of an intelligence than just the information itself. Which is what I think translating the text into "word" is leaving out.
So 60s were like a big party ideologically fueled by Robert Heinlein and Ken Kesey and 70s were like a big hangover that was narrated by PK Dick? Do I understand it correctly?
William Gibson took over in during the 80's...followed briefly by Douglas Coupland (etc.). David Foster Wallace held sway for a while. And now...we seem to be cycling back into PKD.
PKD was never really on that utopian future scfi band wagon... Especially in the 60s.... That's why he was so poor and underrated. He refused to write the typical Heinlein, Azimos, Clarke space operas of his time... The French knew his genius tho, and if not for them he would've gone completely broke and hungry
Not *entirely* correctly, but everyone has to start somewhere. Once you have understood "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas" by Hunter Thompson, you'll understand the 60s and 70s, not to mention parties and hangovers, much better. Then read Martian Time-Slip, it will help you make sense of VALIS.
@ExplicitnessLab I'm over 50 and was well aware at an early age; I would say correct for the very small populations the modern narrative suggests had sway. As for the diatribe casting dispersions on you,,, what a dick.
From what I understand the opining line of the book, about his psychiatrist claiming he was on dope, was actually from Philips personal life, were in by his psychiatrist claimed he was a drug addict.
Could be Blue Beam... Rather than Pink haha. Maybe we are in the version of reality where VALIS reveals itself, and everyone laps it up. Or, it's the one where we jumped ship.
@@codeismePerhaps, but it seems that the age of the black iron prison and the triumph of the savior are cyclical. According to pkd the savior only gains advantage incrementally. Who would know when a resolution would be reached? In the end, according to VALIS we can only save ourselves. We reveal ourselves by the time of our death as part of the empire or the one, and will be annihilated or reincarnated accordingly. The empire has already been destroyed in eternity and we are witnessing the process of fixing/excising it's influence throughout a sequential experience of the holographic universe. We are not in the drivers seat. We can simply choose to sit in the car of love which drives on the road or the car of disaster which drives through the guardrail and off the side of the cliff. It is an individual choice with immortal consequence in the context of a battle which has already been fought, in which we choose eternity or annihilation.
the two psychologists, Stone and Maurice, represent Heraclitus and Parmenides, Yin and Yang ☯️ 🔘 the rhipidion society, kevin david phil and fat, are all in one person, pkd. only one actual person visits the Lamptons. this is the origin of the _fight club_ twist. 6:04:14
This book is in comprehensible if you don't understand half of the philosophers teachings he refrences in the book. It took me a few reads to fully grasp it. Crazy shit tho regardless.
Good narration. I like the people speaking and their thoughts. This subject matter, not so much. I like the outer space science fiction, without gobs of fights.
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This is, quite simply, one of the best audiobook narrations I have ever heard. The work is is seamless, and the voice is effortlessly involving, captivating and never distracting. This is one of PKD's most complex and confounding novels. The narrator here does this worthy but difficult work of art a great service with his expert, sublime narration.
It was pretty good until the British accent became a bungled Australian mix.
1:07:19 this audiobook is a _theophany_ - an _inbreaking_ of God into the world.
Phil Gigante on the audible version is really good too. He’s done quite a few PKD novels on there.
@@dunsbroccoli2588 wtf are you talking about?
@@cgleck780 The British rock star has an Australian accent. It threw me too
“Gloria, in her measured way, talked herself out of existence - word by word.”
I think he is one of the best creative writers that ever lived
@@tamsintarshish3905 that's untrue Phil was not an acid head. That's a rumor that has been greatly exaggerated. I should know I know his ex-wife Tessa
ghgtp
@@diecast-innracingleague9022 nothing wrong with a little mind expansion in a good cause
@@diecast-innracingleague9022listen, it is well documented that he was a drug user. Especially speed, and drug use is littered through his writings. It's not a good or bad thing. It's a fact. The man was a tortured genius. Like many before, and after him.
@@joshlasky8138Philip k dick was schizophrenic. This was enough to cause hallucinations.
THE EMPIRE NEVER ENDED
The Empire Never Ended.
The Empire Never Ended but it is time for a change...
From the Valis opera in 1988 which I found yesterday, the Exegesis 2 has a subliminal message which is hard to decipher... Speaking French, I can understand the beginning and the ending. The message mentioned the end of the age of Iron and the beginning of the Golden age. It says that the process already started... open.spotify.com/track/4R1VOTHwSSIkPnPcIxkUR9
Oops I deleted my comment, but you probably saw it
It evolved. (I forgot whom said this: "Just remember: Wherever you are in the world, you are equally, outside of, and within, the Empires grasp's")
@1:10:03 "There is no way out. The maze shifts as you move through it. Because it is alive."
great voice for narrating audiobooks
perfect for PKD
I miss the early 1970's, the whole crazy thing. Valis is bringing it back for me - except that I am still old, and not as I was in 1972. Something has gone wrong!
Hey at least you got to experience it in that time though! As a 29 year old I'm jealous. Something has definitely gone wrong compared to the vision of that time. But idk if I were you I would wait around to see what comes next.
White knuckle your way through all this. We need the older folks who know better! Keep communicating!
Same here. I think a dose of Dr Sardonicus always helps.
This is one of my favorite books. So much knowledge being dropped. I wish I could talk to you PKD. “Once god starts talking to you, he never stops.”
I am incapable of reading at my age (56). Being an old school linguist and illustrator, I can now create while creation is downloaded into me. This is my third round of VALIS. I so love Dick. *~XDDD*
@@KozmicKarmaKoala Amazing for you :)
The HGA lol
. in sync with xcp. tappd into xÿx^
Never..?
Read this when I was 17, and towards the end of the book mom decided we were going for a ride into the city for some more new shit for the house she can no longer enjoy since she's departed and all her shit is gone. That whole day road trip I had a neverending feeling of deja-vu that I have never felt again, it was totally uncomfortable and unreasonable. Still wish I could experience it again.
I recognize that experience, it was the first time I went to Vietnam. Before that I've never been outside of Europe so it was overwhelming that everything is so different from what I've been used to: vegetation, people, smells, architecture, transportation... - but then it suddenly felt oddly familiar; it almost felt like I came *back* home from somewhere else. Very weird.
It was probably due to a combination of jetlag and malaria medication - back then we could only afford the cheap meds that gave you nightmares and shit, but that doesn't mean the experience wasn't real.
I have felt something similar. I was driving for Lyft after an NDE and I realized I recognized everyone I saw, like they were movie stars. Hundreds of people, everywhere I looked. It was cool at first, but then it got scary.
Wow, I feel like I will need to relisten/read multiple times until I get at the shades of this book. It just casually throws around psychedelic epiphanies and magnifies itself on life’s hard truths. What a great thinker, and also what a fantastic narration of it.
This is an astonishing work of prophecy. Insight into deep humanity and prophesy. May God bless the soul and mind of Philip K. Dick.🙏🕯🐟
I've heard this era of Dick's writing referred to as his "crazy period". I think he finally went sane.
100% not on any level. My man was very much plagued with bought with paranoid thoughts and hard drug use. He gets lumped into all the LSD and hippy drippy shit from the 60s and gets associated with the counter culture, but in reality he used amphetamines and was seriously mentally ill. This one is semi autobiographical as you can tell and also is an attempt of a very very highly intelligent but deeply damaged brain.
It's very much interesting and also very deep. But it isn't sane by any means
You obviously don’t understand the razor thin line between insanity and enlightenment
@@JoshuaMichael1122
👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽
@@joshlasky8138 life is the worst, vile pointless drug...
There wasn't a sane person left in northern California, it was time to go.
@Pee Cock Ditto!
. etc- alo.jest^
PKD is dangerous to my sanity....he adds another dimension to the proclamation; "we are all one".
Hi me.
How is that going?
Joel....Fantastic !!! *~;)
@@blackflag66Fight Club... The things you own, ...end up owning you - Funny how this story is very Fight Club on the split-personality psychosis - I am Jacks flowing Tears
Hi -other- me.
There is no you. I am me...all of me...all are me...all of me are me.
I stumbled upon this audiobook last year while in Romania, and got hooked to the very end. PKD is one of a kind.
This isn't science fiction but it is amazing.. a marvel of the creative process.
Perfectly read! AI doesn't even come close to the nuanced understanding of this reading and probably never will. Amazing ability to read aloud like this.
If there were an Oscar for reading aloud, this fellow would win it. I'd like to know what other books he has read for.
'All understanding is a form 'remembering'.
I love the detachment of his voice, it’s perfect for pkd’s stories
He is the late Tom Weiner (sometimes credited as Yyner). He's narrated over 250 books, won 15 Earphones Awards and received countless nominations throughout his career.
@@davistalhone9482 Thanks for responding to my comment and especially for the background on the reader, Tom Weiner, whom I knew nothing about!
This isn’t science fiction. This is real. This book aligns so much with what I discovered but could not fully explain from a heroic shroom trip I had a few years ago. I was told over and over “you just need to remember” and I felt like I was in a hologram and that reality was this pure bliss state and the world is a test we put ourselves through to learn how to love more deeply. It felt like the universe was two beings playing endlessly, floating it felt like. I became telepathic with my boyfriend like we were nodes in this mind that held us both. I even had a dream I was in a basement and jack Skelington from nightmare before Christmas was stirring a cauldron of “noodles of darkness” with his 3 long bone fingers. Like how Philip says he went down an elevator in his dream and there was a giant pot of spaghetti with a trident in it. AND another weird thing, but I don’t wanna sound like “ oh I’m the savior” but it is strange coincidence that the little girls name is Sofia. I was supposed to be named Sofia before I was born but it was a complicated birth and at one point they couldn’t hear my heart and my mom had died for a while, she had an out of body experience watching them cut me out of her. When it was over we were fine and she called me Janeen instead because it means Gods grace. Weird lol Sofia died in me too
wow that's some genuine cracked thought right there
You were high and tripping.
There- I simplified it.
@@rayhill5767believing everything during a trip or disbelieving everything from a trip is the same.
@@rayhill5767I too have experienced the gnosis through sacred conscious use of psychedelic medicine, so maybe you just don’t truly understand what “high and tripping” actually entails for the initiated my friend. Be that as it may..God bless you my friend
I'd understand if I was just a crazy person who heard voices in their head and thought it was a divine feminine spirit named Sophia. But why do I keep finding other people with the same delusion?
I notice small differences for sure. And I notice similar sources as well. People who think this is crazy definitely have valid points I can't clearly answer. But I've seen what I've seen.
For those with ears to hear:
If you're having this experience take good care of yourself. Find some sort of grounding. What the divine feminine spirit wants now is integration and actualization. She is always with us. 🩵
probably his greatest work. even better as a book on tape.
I've had the book for decades and tried to read it many times. This is the first time I remember understanding it.
Re. 'greatest work'. At least as it is read by the man who is reading it
What a masterpiece and a masterclass of narration
31:24 - laying the groundwork for understanding the struggle of humanity living in amnesia of their true being.
58:15 - reminds me of a quote by Arthur Young, (paraphrasing) "man is a machine and I'm not sure there was ever a machine that didn't have a purpose."
3:03:15 - the story of the form one and of the creation of Sophia.
3:15:04 - stimulating the collective memories of humanity & remembering form one. (anamnesis) "Learning is a form of remembering" - Plato
4:03:17 - assembling the idea of multiple timelines & multiple past lives occurring simultaneously while seemingly separated by space, not time. (oxymoron). Perhaps visitors are our descendants visiting the past with apex technology (third eyed beings - awakened mental consciousness)
no
Yes
@@RepairRenovateRenew I'm just being an angry asshole.. Don't mind me.
Perhaps
Perhaps not.
Thank you for posting this full book!
So much of this I can directly identify with.
yep
VALIS is very much my favorite novel by Dick. Easily in my top ten of all time!
I just finished A Scanner Darkly, and this feels almost like an extension of that story.
Great book
I believe he confesses the same themes in all of his later writings, the grief, falling in and out of realities, maybe more but definitely a scanner darkly as well as Ubik, and Lies Inc
I remember reading this about 20 years ago. I enjoyed it at the time. But, listening to this is next level. I’m enjoying much more and getting way more out of it than when I read it before. It’s deep, resonant, and I’m laughing me arse off. 😂
Thank you for this.
This narrator's voice is the perfect accompaniment to Dick's riveting material. I wish they would have put his name in the notes, so that I could fish around more for other books he's done.
That would be the late Tom Weiner (sometimes credited as Yyner). He's narrated over 250 books, won 15 Earphones Awards and received countless nominations throughout his career.
@@davistalhone9482 That explains why he's so good! Thanks for letting me know. I will seek out other books narrated by him.
dude this book i such a trip.
Our life is a trip bruh
. nod etc- cörePupil’23^
Holy moly this book is amazing, the story isn't an easy read but when you stick it out it's absolutely worth it!!
I didn't understand this book until I understood Terrence McKenna's talks on alchemy and the first 40 episodes of Mystery Babylon. The empire never ended, just ask Jordan Maxwell.
I really wanted to listen to Grateful Dead after the first chapter❤
oh man ...but this is real for him ...he “recreates reality”... his one..our one..all of ours🙏🏼
Toking a little trainwreck strain, listening to a little Philip K. I recommend both.
Eight minutes into it I already begin to suspect PKD of knowing rather well what he's talking about in terms of drugs and going nuts. I'm going to enjoy this soooo much :D
Master Carbuncle you obviously know a lot about PKD and that's cool, but do you have to be such a dick about it?
Madness is fascinating. Try some Terrence McKenna sometime. Similar burnout genius.
@@rayhill5767these people you speak of are not burnouts. They are drug addled. But not burnouts
They were both in the bay area too. Makes you wonder, to borrow a phrase from McKenna, did one part of town know what the other part of town was up to?
Phil was a tortured genius. He was also really darkly funny. This had me laughing out loud.
And sometimes childish too
I absolutely love Philp’s work I’ve read a a lot of his novels but this one..
Great Voice! And a genius work of art.
this book is a masterpiece 🎖
2 hours in, that is how we heal each other
you share a name with the good doctor :)
A masterclass mind would be a tremendous disservice to this truly original mind.
Awesome, thanks for posting!
step 1: drop axcid
step 2: listen to VALIS
step 3: find your way back to earth
Thankyou, ❤️ luv your selections. More please
After listening to this i realized The Matrix is an adaptation of this book.
Pkd talked about a women in all black. Telling him about the world and reality. This women is like trinity in the matrix
Marla from fight club is obviously adapted from Sheri in this book
Look it up on here for a speech PKD gave in the 70s in France about "Simulation Theory" PKD is literally the first to talk about "Simulation Theory" & much more material directly related to the Matrix's core, makes me wonder how much Wachowski credits to him, if at all. I wonder MANY things 🤔
What a great work!
🔉🔊 It's true 🎼It's all true🎵🎶
🔑GENIUS🗝
"The universe is information and we are stationary in it. Not three dimensional and not in space or time. The information fed to us we hypothesize into the phenomenal."
Yaldabaoth, the jealous chaotic blind god of the Old Testimate is the creator of this real-life allegory of the cave. Only shadows can be seen in this holographic matrix of wavelength possibility.
Where can I learn more about the stuff and hear other references to it?
@@ryandlion6961 Æon Byte Gnostic Radio has PKD as their patron saint>..
@@TiTSxxMcGEE oh yeah I am subbed to them, the only problem is there's allot of filler, or time wasting, at least in the episodes I've watched. But I could watch them in a higher speed.
Autobiographical... as Seen Thru his Own Remarkable Mind... King Felix LIVES!
🤍💗✨
"In the normal sense Stephanie never thank at all. She arrived at decisions"
Mckenna brought me here
Me too !
same here
Nick Zavakos follow every tiny little reference that Terrence makes as far as you can - eventually you learn to think like he did 😱
And me, though I meant to get round to it for research on Gnosticism!
Same 😎
I think PKD would like the idea that people call him prophetic. A Prophet.
Thank you for this upload 🙏🙂
He gave voice to "the "Eureka" (We have found it!) cry of the nineteen seventies. We found It, but we can't agree on what we found, but it's sooo coool!
Ch.3 48:04
Ch.4 1:15:22
Ch.5 2:02:00
Wow, what a reading, what a novel! Beats the hell out of anything Samuel R. Delaney was able to write. PKD must have known true genius and true madness to be able to turn out something like this. For some reason, the last 2 chapters are repeated after the appendix. Is this deliberate or accidental? I'm frankly not sure! And it would be nice to know the reader's name. Aside from that, I don't know what else to say except I'm dazzled.
thought about that also...no fukin idea why but i listened any way
@@bobthorney7478 yep 😂
Who's Samuel R. Delaney?
Excellent 💝💝
It's jobs Time. 💜
😘
The game Valis brought me to this man, and there is no doubt in my mind that the developers of the game came from this man himself: Phillip K. Dick.
40-50 years ahead of its time.
Fascinating!
Never thought PKD would be so funny!
Not a huge PKD reader then? Try a scanner darkly. Any of his later works has a dry insane humor always.
Fuck that part where sophia talks to the society. Fucking touched my soul and put me at peace.
This book has, is & probably forever will be the most important thing I ever read 💯
Please drop a comment if you can relate, I want to meet people who have read this, especially this amazing audiobook of it. I almost wasn't sure it was even real at times 😅
I can't tell if I already listened to this or I am experiencing retro casa ality
Having someone who sounds like the narrator for the Sidney Lumet film Network was a great choice although the accent work was sometimes confusing.
I was impressed at how Dick took a possibly boring topic and somehow made it into a edge of one's seat potboiler.
Holy shit this is a great book
Amazing Work
how sure are we that its not pkd's tweeker vibe that everyone is really attracted to.. i can start spinning myself if i listen to or read too much of his work.. maybe people just dont recognize the feeling..
Why is the ending a repeat?
Thank you for this!
well spoken
Sounds like most of Terrence McKenna's lectures are rooted in this book.
The two both fan of Jung
. makes sense tbh.-
Yes... Marin County in the 1970's... 😂😂😂
Is the Mother Goose movie supposed to be David Bowie in The Man Who Fell To Earth? That's what it reminds me of.
Yes
It should be a great as a movie adaption
Thought about John 1:1 today. How it begins with "In the beginning was the Logos" which is usually translated as word. I thought, hmm this word logos is much deeper that. In the beginning was the mind of God is a more accurate way to translate it. And sure enough here is that word. Right where he left it. Incomprehensible.
The Greeks had a word for the mind of God, it was nous. Logos is more like the speech or manifested will of that mind (nous). Nous is the Father, the one mind. The Logos is his son because he first exists in the mind of God and then is created when the Father (nous) speaks (creates).
@@justice576 Yeah good point, well said. I'll describe it as the "voice of God" next time I try to articulate this.
I went with mind because I'm trying to get across that it's more of an intelligence than just the information itself. Which is what I think translating the text into "word" is leaving out.
So 60s were like a big party ideologically fueled by Robert Heinlein and Ken Kesey and 70s were like a big hangover that was narrated by PK Dick? Do I understand it correctly?
William Gibson took over in during the 80's...followed briefly by Douglas Coupland (etc.). David Foster Wallace held sway for a while. And now...we seem to be cycling back into PKD.
PKD was never really on that utopian future scfi band wagon... Especially in the 60s.... That's why he was so poor and underrated. He refused to write the typical Heinlein, Azimos, Clarke space operas of his time... The French knew his genius tho, and if not for them he would've gone completely broke and hungry
Not *entirely* correctly, but everyone has to start somewhere. Once you have understood "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas" by Hunter Thompson, you'll understand the 60s and 70s, not to mention parties and hangovers, much better. Then read Martian Time-Slip, it will help you make sense of VALIS.
@ExplicitnessLab I'm over 50 and was well aware at an early age; I would say correct for the very small populations the modern narrative suggests had sway. As for the diatribe casting dispersions on you,,, what a dick.
great observation
The algorithm using these tricks 2024
Chapter 2 20:00
Chapter 3 48:02
My favourite book
From what I have read of his life this book seems to very autobiographical.
Philip is Greek for horse lover , Dick is German for fat.
My life
From what I understand the opining line of the book, about his psychiatrist claiming he was on dope, was actually from Philips personal life, were in by his psychiatrist claimed he was a drug addict.
It's all his life.. even if he didn't know it yet.
Because he was.
A beautiful thing
After some of this go listen to part 3 of Bernardo Kastrup's More than Allegory. The Other sounds quite familiar.
Kevin´s dead cat.
Legend has it Kevin is still holding up his dead cat to God.
Kevin loved tearing down Fat's theories
Ahura Mazda vs. Ahriman Palm Tree Garden vs. Black Iron Prison
Anyways how do we know the cat is still dead. Forvthat matter where is PKD?
Owen Walker meanwhile the cat has been reborn as a god.
California is deranged, if only he had not been born in Berkeley, not taken drugs, and not gone to head doctors.
Does anyone have thoughts about why the intelligence that should be VALIS in our world has not yet emerged publicly?
Maybe it has and only some have seen it?
Could be Blue Beam...
Rather than Pink haha.
Maybe we are in the version of reality where VALIS reveals itself, and everyone laps it up.
Or, it's the one where we jumped ship.
@@codeisme You have a good point. Maybe you're right.
@@codeismePerhaps, but it seems that the age of the black iron prison and the triumph of the savior are cyclical. According to pkd the savior only gains advantage incrementally. Who would know when a resolution would be reached?
In the end, according to VALIS we can only save ourselves. We reveal ourselves by the time of our death as part of the empire or the one, and will be annihilated or reincarnated accordingly. The empire has already been destroyed in eternity and we are witnessing the process of fixing/excising it's influence throughout a sequential experience of the holographic universe.
We are not in the drivers seat. We can simply choose to sit in the car of love which drives on the road or the car of disaster which drives through the guardrail and off the side of the cliff. It is an individual choice with immortal consequence in the context of a battle which has already been fought, in which we choose eternity or annihilation.
the two psychologists, Stone and Maurice, represent Heraclitus and Parmenides, Yin and Yang ☯️
🔘 the rhipidion society, kevin david phil and fat, are all in one person, pkd. only one actual person visits the Lamptons. this is the origin of the _fight club_ twist. 6:04:14
Pretty sure only hlf and pkd are shared personalities. Aren't the rest just pseudonyms for pkds actual real life friends?
This is an absolute gem. Holy shit.
Uplifting 😄
I can't figure out if no one noticed how broken the recording is (chapters repeated and out of place), or if it has recently become broken.
As in, the last say, 25% repeated? Cause I'm literally having a deja vu moment at the last 95% right now haha
This remains my favorite
7:19 - 7:30
Hey, thanks. Nice book
This book is in comprehensible if you don't understand half of the philosophers teachings he refrences in the book. It took me a few reads to fully grasp it. Crazy shit tho regardless.
7: 19 BOOKMARK
That is quite an Australian-sounding Brit.
Is it true that if you add and reduce Fib #'s, they repeat after every 24th?
Im asking because I'm no mathematician by a long shot.
Good narration. I like the people speaking and their thoughts. This subject matter, not so much. I like the outer space science fiction, without gobs of fights.
4:19:11 yup..
9 hours? 😱
Omg thank you!