Dick, however, kept his faith in the esoteric significance of the experience and wrote a book about it, published posthumously With the medical knowledge available to us today, we would describe Dick’s metaphysical epiphany as a schizophrenic break from reality. Aside from not being a great person (he was abusive to his wives), late in life he underwent a inexplicable experience that he believed demonstrated a glitch in the matrix, or the unreality of time. It’s a mind-bending statement, no? Well, Philip K Dick was a mind-bending man. How to Build a Universe That Doesn’t Fall Apart Two Days Later, Philip K Dick, 1978 I have gazed at a constantly changing world and declared that underneath it lies the eternal, the unchanging, the absolutely real. Science fiction writer Philip K Dick was arguably the first person to propose that (interpreted and paraphrased by me), while each successive generation sees themselves as experiencing a different phase of history with different struggles and surroundings, in reality this is an illusion and we are all experiencing the same eternal present, and the same eternal struggle. Clara Bingham - Witness to the Revolution (2017)
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