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Basilisk
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Posted : Nov 29, 2007 04:03
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Surely PKD must be big with some psytrance listeners... here are a few quotations from the man himself, or his works:
"My major preoccupation is the question, 'What is reality?' Many of my stories and novels deal with psychotic states or drug-induced states by which I can present the concept of a multiverse rather than a universe. Music and sociology are themes in my novels, also radical political trends; in particular I've written about fascism and my fear of it."
"Even if all life on our planet is destroyed, there must be other life somewhere which we know nothing of. It is impossible that ours is the only world; there must be world after world unseen by us, in some region or dimension that we simply do not perceive. Even though I can't prove that, even though it isn't logical - I believe it."
"Drug misuse is not a disease, it is a decision, like the decision to step out in front of a moving car. You would call that not a disease but an error in judgement. When a bunch of people begin to do it, it is a social error, a life-style. In this particular life-style the motto is "Be happy now because tomorrow you are dying," but the dying begins almost at once, and the happiness is a memory."
"Because today we live in a society in which spurious realities are manufactured by the media, by governments, by big corporations, by religious groups, political groups...So I ask, in my writing, What is real? Because unceasingly we are bombarded with pseudo-realities manufactured by very sophisticated people using very sophisticated electronic mechanisms. I do not distrust their motives; I distrust their power. They have a lot of it. And it is an astonishing power: that of creating whole universes, universes of the mind. I ought to know. I do the same thing."
"We hypostasize information into objects. Rearrangement of objects is change in the content of the information; the message has changed. This is a language which we have lost the ability to read. We ourselves are a part of this language; changes in us are changes in the content of the information. We ourselves are information-rich; information enters us, is processed and is then projected outwards once more, now in an altered form. We are not aware that we are doing this, that in fact this is all we are doing."
"I am a fictionalizing philosopher, not a novelist; my novel & story-writing ability is employed as a means to formulate my perception. The core of my writing is not art but truth. Thus what I tell is the truth, yet I can do nothing to alleviate it, either by deed or explanation. Yet this seems somehow to help a certain kind of sensitive troubled person, for whom I speak. I think I understand the common ingredient in those whom my writing helps: they cannot or will not blunt their own intimations about the irrational, mysterious nature of reality, & for them, my corpus of writing is one long ratiocination regarding this inexplicable reality, an investigation & presentation, analysis & response & personal history. My audience will always be limited to those people."
"The basic tool for the manipulation of reality is the manipulation of words. If you can control the meaning of words, you can control the people who must use the words."
"Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away."
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Kaz
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Posted : Nov 30, 2007 20:40
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And a some classic sci-fi movies have been based on his works, mainly/namely Blade Runner, Minority Report and A Scanner Darkly. |
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mk47
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Posted : Dec 4, 2007 07:26
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Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
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Posted : Dec 4, 2007 11:47
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On 2007-11-29 04:03, Basilisk wrote:
Surely PKD must be big with some psytrance listeners... here are a few quotations from the man himself, or his works:
"The basic tool for the manipulation of reality is the manipulation of words. If you can control the meaning of words, you can control the people who must use the words."
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You posted some of his work back in the day of 'ektoplazm' forums and I can never appreciate you enough for sharing it!
 "If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, then there'd be peace" |
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Posted : Dec 6, 2007 12:09
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Reality is whatever is there when U close your eyes..
".. You claim that this thing .. did not affect the larger part of your brain!! Then, how come everyone else describe you as an Extra fu.. terrestrial !!!
zzzzzzzzzzzzaaaaaaaannnng..."
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Basilisk
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Posted : Jan 10, 2008 03:27
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Goddess of Chaos, I have just made a connection with who you are  now I remember!
Context is everything.
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Goddess of Chaos
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Posted : Jan 11, 2008 14:16
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I miss some of the old members from Ektoplazm-- 'RabbitFrog' & 'BennyBen'  Just lost touch over time because I believe that was half a decade ago..
I'm glad you remembered though
"If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, then there'd be peace" |
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MercuryFall
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Posted : May 28, 2009 03:53
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I read and loved his writings loooooong before I got into psytrance )) It makes even more sense now )) |
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miEtek
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Posted : Jun 4, 2009 21:38
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I love this guy
Read everything he ever wrote.
ATM reading stories from 60-70 beautiful edition .thin crisp pages (I believe I am the first one to rent this from my local library) best of all the book dont look like but it does has over 1000 pages
na kopcu Kosciuszki za sterami Komandor.OrZech.. |
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DJ Milosz
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Posted : Jul 8, 2009 02:36
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I'm a huge fan of his writing. The first part of Valis is one of the most interesting novels I've ever written. Right now I'm reading a selection of stories from the 1950s/1960s.
What would you recommend from the period after 1974? |
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Axis Mundi
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shahar
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Posted : Nov 24, 2009 19:54
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hmmm... how come I haven't written anything here till now.
I'm a big PKD fan. Not all his books are good ones, of course, but when he's there he's great.
I love Ubik, The Man in the High Castle, A Scanner Darkly, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep and more.
A couple of years ago when I was in The States I discovered a very nice surprise I wasn't aware of- a collaboration he did with Roger Zealany, another favorite author of mine, called Deus Irae, a religious end of the world one- real nice.
There's also a nice tribute book by Mike Beashop called: "Philip K. Dick is dead, alas". Nice one for PKD fans.
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