r/philipkDickheads

Just some thoughts, a quick follow up to my previous POET article. I have a lot more to lay out and analyze, i will probably continue this week. I hope that everyone is crushing it.

I rent in Ohio and my building just replaced all the regular deadbolts with smart locks.

At first I thought it was fine because whatever, keypads are convenient. But then we got an email saying after the first 30 days there will be a $9.99 monthly access fee added to rent for the app and maintenance of the lock system.

The weird part is we never asked for this. My old key worked perfectly. Now the front door to the building, my unit door, and even the laundry room all use this app. They said they can issue a physical backup code but the monthly fee still applies because the building upgraded.

It is not a huge amount of money and I can afford it because I do Kick livestreams but its the principle. I hate how rentals keep adding these tiny fees that you cant really opt out of. Like am I really paying a subscription to enter the apartment I already pay rent for?

Has anyone dealt with this before? Can they just add a tech fee mid lease if the lease only says rent plus utilities?

One day in 1974, Philip K. Dick woke up from a nap and shouted that his son needed medical attention.

A pediatrician had examined the child shortly before and stated that there was nothing wrong.

However, Dick insisted that his son had a right inguinal hernia and was in a critical condition. Upon examination in the hospital emergency room, the doctor gave the exact same diagnosis as Philip K. Dick.

This is an anecdote that Philip K. Dick frequently mentioned to prove that he was not crazy.

I would like to know if there are any third-party accounts (such as from the pediatrician, his son, or the ER doctor) regarding the incident where Philip K. Dick identified his son's illness before the doctors, aside from his own interviews

Edit:

i want to know this, because if Philip K. Dick's own account is the only testimony for this incident, it could be a lie. And if it is a lie, it's highly likely that he was suffering from mental illness. 

However, If this had actually happened and supported by third-party testimony. well, I don't know exactly what it would be, but it would require a different explanation.

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I don’t have the book in front of me but I was always struck by Joe Chip’s loyalty to Runciter.

First, Runciter recognizes that predators are necessary for his operation. The psis are good for business. He has zero incentive to fix the problem; in fact, their sudden disappearance (great for humanity, bad for business) is the catalyst for his visit to Ella. While there, she attempts to disclose something of divinity to him at which point he abruptly switches the subject to the worldly concern that totally preoccupied him. This to a dead woman on the verge of rebirth. That life continues beyond death, and not just in the cryo-bardo-whatever, is small potatoes to a man with money on the mind. Incidentally, the same thing happens with Pat. After demonstrating her power, some of Runciter’s ‘Associates’ are understandably given to metaphysical speculation. Chip says something like, ‘Yep, that’s Pat’ putting an end to further discussion. Again and again the miraculous is ignored for the mundane.

Second, his employees are largely disgruntled. I can’t remember the exact figures but he secures somewhere in the order of billions of dollars from Mick’s agent while paying his employees a pittance to undertake a mission from which they very well might not return. He doesn’t even seem too concerned about his lapdog, Joe Chip. What is the general economy like in this world? Pat ostensibly repaired telephone lines for better wages, but that was on a kibbutz.

Runciter is a vicious profiteer, but what were Mick and Stanton really up to? I assume they wanted to destroy their chief rivals so that Stanton could freely employ Hollis’ psis to gather information for future speculative investments. Presumably, Mick and Stanton would then control the world.

And even less relatedly, when Pat is reordering the past, where is she in time? While she is authoring, is she moving forward in time? I got the sense that she was evil, certainly, but also that she was ancient. That she had lived many and perhaps all possible lives and emerged utterly corrupted, never tired of playing. Did she fail to react in time to the explosion? Or was she compelled by sheer curiosity to experience the freshness of death?

I died and came back again. Things were never the same. The above vid is a stream of consciousness reflecting on various things from over a decade of isolation, introspection and examining the shadows depth. I ref Jung's book colored red and PKD Exegesis as well for they both pointed at the same thing:

Reality is far stranger than most think.

From Carl's encounters with fully realized beings within that knew more than him to Philip surfing through time to write the world in which we're about to live along with what I've termed the square watermelon effect, why nobody has clicked that all the schiz's have one weird trick in common and a load of other bits.

Take a peek if you wish and let me know what you think.

Chapters for your consideration:

0:00 Peering beyond the veil (Article)

1:58 What happened to your Inner Sense?

3:44 The only true adventure

5:31 Asking better questions

6:45 It all began when I died (Article)

10:00 True reality feels alive

11:38 Magic, movies, myth and the Matrix (Article)

13:55 The schizophrenic whisperer (Article)

14:54 If god is imagination does that make school the Devil? (Article)

16:50 Schizophrenia and the Industrial Revolution

18:11 Square watermelons (Article)

19:59 How supermarkets killed communities and your health (Article)

23:07 Inside out vs Outside in thinking (Article)

24:11 Wilhelm Reich and the Emotional Plague (Article)

25:00 Generational trauma (Article)

27:07 The question about schizophrenia nobody has ever asked

29:10 Rocky Balboa and the Heroes Journey (Article)

31:11 How can you be the voice in your head when you are that which listens? (Article)

32:37 The Timeline Process (Article)

34:55 The sex robots are coming! (Article)

36:50 Say Hi to your Reality Tunnel (Article)