7/27/2003 12:53:35 PM|||Travis|||

What a great essay by Phillip K Dick, a man who I am convinced now is very prophetic in what he wrote about. The essay is about a dilema that he was confronted with in his life.

The essay is called "How to Build a Universe that Doesn't Fall Apart Two Days Later" and is about a book that he wrote in 1970. Apparently, this book started to take form around him in what he saw- the characters from his novel transcended into his life. Even the names of the characters was preserved down to a very fine level of detail- the lady, her husband and the police chief. It was all extremely odd, beyond the point of mere coincidence. The story he had written had become real.

So he goes to a priest to discuss this problem, and once the priest hears the story as described by PKD (Phillip K Dick) he almost fients- PKD is describing, down to detail, the book of acts. Starting to lose his voice, the priest tells PKD to go home and read the book of acts.

It is just as the priest described.... the book of acts is the same story. It seems that his "fiction" and so called reality are a story that has been told before, perhaps countless times.

He struggled with this strange experience, trying to create some sort of mental construction of reality that still made sense. It is as if his world was turned upside down all of the sudden and he could no longer look at things the same way. His story, which was a story from the Bible (he hadn't read the book of acts prior to the priest mentioning it) was simply like the story of everything that we are constantly living in the now.

Hmm, that last sentence was written after I stopped for a while and then came back. Things had changed..... I got to stop doing that- stopping while and idea is flowing out from my mind.

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