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    [For those who may have missed it the first time, here is a copy
    of an article I wrote last year. It originally was published in
    Crash Collusion magazine, no. 5. Copies may be had for $4 from
    Box 49233, Austin, TX 78765. Issue 7 is due very soon, and
    features an article by Adam Gorightly called "PKD, the Unicorn,
    and Soviet Psychotronics". It's also $4. For those of you who saw
    this article last time I posted it, note that this is a
    cleaned-up copy with all scanning errors and typos removed. Feel
    free to distribute it elsewhere. As always, your comments are
    welcome.]

    Philip K. Dick: The Other Side

    Paul Rydeen

    ... the group had taken an active interest in their situation,
    viewing it as a manifestation on an earthly plane of certain
    super-terrestrial forces.

                                        - Jack Isidore (1)

    My first exposure to the mind-bending fiction of Philip K. Dick
    was in early 1981. It must have been January or February because
    I remember it still being quite cold. To my surprise, a friend of
    my dad's had given him a recent issue of Playboy, which I eagerly
    perused whenever I had the chance. On one such occasion I needed
    to prove to myself a maturity beyond the pictures of naked
    ladies, so I commenced to read the magazine's various features.
    It turned out to be the December 1980 issue; one feature was
    Phil's story "Frozen Journey" (2). Although this high-school
    senior had been reading science fiction for a decade or more, I
    must confess I was confused by the shifting realities portrayed
    in "Frozen Journey". Further readings did little for my
    comprehension.

    By the time graduation rolled around, I had seen Phil's books
    recommended repeatedly in the columns of Heavy Metal magazine. I
    picked up a used copy of The Man in the High Castle (3). It was
    quite good, and a whole lot easier to understand than "Frozen
    Journey" had been. Soon after, VALIS (4) hit the stands. I bought
    it. I enjoyed it immensely, but was still unable to fully realize
    the implications of Phil's speculations. Next I found the Gregg
    Press hardcover reissue of Time Out of Joint (5) in a little
    science fiction bookstore that had just opened off-campus. At
    last I understood; what I had read of the false or illusory
    nature of reality while studying Hinduism and Buddhism now made
    sense on a personal level. As I matured, my appreciation for Phil
    grew. I started college that fall, and frequented that bookstore
    often. I scoured almost every used bookstore in the Minneapolis
    area, spending months in search of elusive PKD titles. I found
    many rare first editions this way, and still have dreams wherein
    I continue the search. When Phil died in March of 1982, I owned a
    copy of nearly every book he had written. I considered his death
    a personal loss.

    To understand Phil, one must grapple with his unique emotional
    states, and his unique interpretations of same. Most importantly,
    in February and March of 1974 Phil had a series of "mystic"
    experiences. When he died eight years later he was still unsure
    of their origin or meaning. Left behind was his so-called
    Exegesis, an 8,000-page, one-million-word continuing dialogue
    with himself written late, late at night (6). Though Phil never
    did solve the puzzle to his satisfaction, I believe he enjoyed
    the pursuit of the answer for its own sake much more than he
    would have enjoyed resolving the problem. In fact, I don't think
    any answer would've been entirely acceptable to him for very
    long. By its very nature this mystery had no rational solution.

    Phil had suffered several personal setbacks during the time
    immediately preceding these experiences. Stress over his wife and
    new son, a severe case of writer's block, an unexplained
    break-in, lingering problems with drugs (mostly prescribed
    medications), and worries over his political actions all played
    their part. So did the loss of several close friends. He even
    worried over whether he had inadvertently published high-level
    government secrets in his novels (see KING FELIX discussion
    below). The usually self- reflective Phil became much more
    introspective than normal. His depression turned his thoughts to
    suicide more than once. The impetus for this particular
    experience was the severe pain Phil was suffering as a result of
    having an impacted wisdom tooth removed. Phil called his oral
    surgeon, who promptly phoned in a prescription for some codeine
    to a local pharmacy (or Darvon; accounts vary).

    When the delivery girl arrived, Phil took one look at her and
    became mesmerized by the golden fish dangling between her
    breasts. When asked, the girl told Phil that this was the
    primitive Christian ICHTHYS symbol, ICHTHYS being the Greek for
    "fish". The fish was chosen in part because ICHTHYS was taken to
    be an anagram for "Iesous CHristos, THeou Yios, Soter" (Jesus
    Christ, Son of God, Savior). "The girl and I are secret
    Christians, in hiding because of the Roman persecution. The only
    way we can identify ourselves to each other is the
    innocent-looking fish symbol, a harmless pendant in the eyes of
    most. This secret ally brings not only medicine to heal my sore
    tooth, but spiritual medicine as well. After all, is not Christ
    the Great Physician?" He accepted the package and bade the girl
    good-bye. Phil found himself transported back to first-century
    Rome -- the time of the founding of the Church amidst much
    persecution. The vision of another reality superimposed upon this
    one lasted weeks. Phil had a hard time deciding which one was
    true, and which the illusion. During this period of uncertainty,
    he found himself "trapped" (figuratively, I would imagine) in a
    Black Iron Prison -- a Gnostic symbol of our fall into History. It
    is deceptively referred to as the Cave of Treasures. Phil used
    this concept obliquely in "Strange Memories of Death" (7),
    wherein he refers to his apartment complex as having been
    prison-like until the new developers made it appear like a
    garden. From his further description it is quite obviously still
    a prison, despite its Edenic appearance.

    In Freudian terms, the tooth can be a symbol of libido (not
    necessarily sexual). Dreaming of the loss of a tooth, for
    example, can represent a fear that one may lose one's standing in
    some way -- physically or emotionally -- or be a warning from the
    subconscious that this is threatening to happen. Note that one of
    Palmer Eldritch's three stigmata was his artificial teeth (8).
    Phil's impacted wisdom tooth was like his latent Gnosis, awaiting
    the proper stimulus to trigger his anamnesis. Another symbol of
    libido is the phalliform fish, whose sleek shape glides silently
    through the deep waters of the subconscious. As ICHTHYS, Christ
    strengthens our libido, our "psychic" energy, and asks nothing in
    return. He is UBIK, a negentropic force in a universe that is
    forever running itself down (9).

    The Hebrew for "tooth" is shin, which is also the name of the
    twenty-first and penultimate letter of the Hebrew alphabet. (The
    reader familiar with Phil's novel The Penultimate Truth (10) may
    do well to ponder the connection.) The English equivalent to shin
    is "S" or "Sh". Perhaps because of its trident shape (literally,
    "three-toothed") and sibilant pronunciation, the kabbalists
    associated this letter with the element fire. Compare Phil's
    trident dream at the end of VALIS, after Fat departs again for
    the Greek islands. Shin also appears somewhat like a descending
    dove, so it should come as no surprise that a relationship
    between it and the Holy Spirit exists. That the numerical value
    of both the letter taken by itself and the Hebrew phrase RUACH
    ALHIM ("the Spirit of God", usually translated "Elohim") is 300
    serves to solidify the connection. The Spirit is often
    represented as a flame, one example being the tongues of fire
    that came to rest on the apostles' heads on that first Pentecost.
    Many spirits and other air elementals have been associated with
    fire as well.

    Later Christian kabbalists (namely, Pico) and the Theosophists
    attempted to justify their doctrines by showing that the union of
    God as Yahweh/Jehovah (YHWH) and the Holy Spirit (Sh) was Jesus
    (YHShWH). The four letters of the ineffable name represent the
    four natural elements of the ancients, while the fifth element --
    spirit -- fills out the fifth point of the pentagram, a symbol of
    man. The triple-pronged shin was taken to be representative of
    the Trinity. YHShHW is usually translated "Yeheshuah", of which
    the English form is "Joshua". "Jesus" is from IESOUS, the Greek
    version of this name. This formula seems especially valid if one
    considers the esoteric doctrine of the Holy Spirit as the
    feminine counterpart of God. Certain kabbalists have maintained
    the Hebrew RUACH is of the feminine gender; if so then this has
    been translated out of most versions of the Bible. In some
    Gnostic systems, the consort of God is Sophia, Phil's Holy Wisdom
    (see the biblical Book of Proverbs).

    The Babylon whom St. John of Patmos tells us is "fallen, fallen"
    is usually identified with first-century Rome (11). The Hebrews'
    subjugation under the Romans was every bit as resented as it had
    been under the Babylonians six centuries earlier. John's prophecy
    of Rome's fall was certainly wishful thinking, penned sometime
    after the destruction of the Temple in 70 AD. I identify John's
    Babylon with the Gnostic Sophia, a symbol of the world in its
    fallen state. The Land of the Dead -- Egypt -- was a similar
    symbol for later Gnostic sects. The implication of Phil's vision
    is that we still live in Roman times, i.e. a "fallen" state.
    Gnosis must come from the outside. Chokmah is the Hebrew for
    "wisdom"; her position on the kabbalistic Tree of Life is the
    second or penultimate one (representing a less than perfect
    reality) -- but here she is given a masculine identity, despite
    the references to Holy Wisdom in the Scriptures. The Greek for
    "wisdom" is Sophia; a cognate term is Gnosis, "knowledge". Like
    Sophia, Chokmah is one step removed from the true Godhead. I
    equate Sophia with John's Babylon and the traditional Chokmah,
    the same yin principle which Phil took to be his anima in the
    form of his long-dead twin sister Jane (she had died aged five
    weeks). Her avatar has appeared previously in the form of Simon
    Magus' Helen, to cite a Gnostic example. In Phil's case, he
    sought her in each woman with whom he had an adult relationship
    -- a reunion of the divine syzygy, as it were. His yearning for
    the sister he never knew did more to inspire his world-view than
    any other single factor; the appearance of twins throughout his
    work is ample testimony to this state of affairs. The encysted
    twin in Dr. Bloodmoney (12) is one of many such examples.

    There is a kabbalistic tradition in which one sees oneself
    relating events from the future. The kabbalists' reticence to
    record autobiographical experiences, especially those of an
    ecstatic nature, has obscured this fact. Phil had a hypnogogic
    experience as a boy in which he saw himself as an adult standing
    at the foot of his bed. In later life he relived the experience
    from the "time traveler's" standpoint. The Persian Mani (founder
    of the gnostic Manichean religion) had the same thing occur to
    him when he was 12, and once more as an adult. He recognized this
    doppelganger as his Higher Self -- the Divine Adam and called it
    in Arabic "al-Tawm", the twin. It guided him and gave him comfort
    throughout his life, and he was said to be gazing upon it in the
    cell just before he died. Despite Phil's Valentinian Sophian
    cosmology, I have often felt he was more akin to the Manichean
    school on a practical level.

    In 1975 a two-word cypher was "sent forth"; the phrase KING FELIX
    appears in the juxtaposition of two adjacent lines in Phil's
    novel Flow My Tears, The Policeman Said (13). It was only later
    that he happened upon its significance. The fact that Army
    Intelligence bought multiple copies of that one book perplexed
    him greatly. In VALIS one of the Lamptons tells him that the
    phrase has kabbalistic significance. I assume they refer to
    gematria, the practice of assigning numerical values to
    individual letters within a word and taking their sum. "King" is
    English, so should it be translated into Latin? "Felix" is the
    Latin for "happy" (literally, "fruitful"). "Rex" is the Latin for
    "king" so FELIX REX adds to 256 when transposed into Greek
    enumeration. This is the eighth power of two, which perhaps is
    the Gnostic ogdoad pointing back to a duality -- Phil's
    Two-Source Cosmogony. "Basileos" is Greek for "king"; I'm not
    sure what the proper translation of "felix" would be, or even if
    Greek is the proper language to use. This practice existed in the
    Hebrew language before Greek became the common language of the
    Mediterranean area, and in other Semitic languages before that.
    The little girl, Sophia, reads from the Sephir Yetzirah when the
    Rhipidon Society visits her at the Lamptons' -- establishing a
    Hebrew link -- but she also tells them the Lamptons are insane.
    This issue remains unresolved.

    At one point Phil experimented with a megadose of vitamins he had
    read about in Psychology Today. This mixture was being used by a
    certain doctor to stimulate simultaneous neural firing in both
    hemispheres of the brain. While the original experiments were
    strictly designed for split-personality patients, Phil concocted
    a batch and swallowed it down. He says it worked. The right side
    of the brain is often identified with the dark, irrational,
    "feminine" component of our minds; the parallel to the imperfect,
    premature Sophia is obvious. Speculation has arisen that the
    voices heard by prophets and madmen originate in the right-brain
    (14). Usually drowned out by the day-to-day noise of the more
    verbally active left-brain, under certain circumstances it may be
    heard. At one time in our not-so-distant past, this may have been
    far more common than it is today. This is one of many
    possibilities considered by Phil, probably no more right or wrong
    than any of the others.

    Another possibility I'd like to briefly consider is that one
    possible subconscious influence was the "Roman" episode of the
    old Star Trek TV series. I've long forgotten the show's title,
    but it involved a planet similar to twentieth-century Earth with
    the exception that Roman rule still existed. Rome never fell --
    the Empire never ended -- and secret followers of "the Son" were
    preaching peace and brotherhood rather than tyranny. This in no
    way lessens the import of Phil's vision, nor does it explain
    anything away. I merely find it an intriguing idea to ponder. Who
    can say what psychic debris forms the foundations of our
    subconscious?

    As the image of first-century Rome persisted, Phil began seeing
    St. Elmo's fire almost everywhere he looked. He had purchased his
    own ICHTHYS sign to hang in the picture window of his apartment;
    admittedly his staring at the sunlight had much to do with the
    earliest manifestations. However, the pink light was even visible
    at night, when Phil would sit up in bed unable to sleep, enjoying
    the show. In A Scanner Darkly (15) he describes it as a
    rapid-fire succession of Paul Klee, Kandinsky and other modern
    artists. He also describes the times the St. Elmo's fire took on
    the shape of a doorway proportioned to the Golden Mean
    (representing perfection). This was a doorway to the Other World.
    The character in the book regrets having never thought to step
    through the doorway after the apparition finally disappeared. The
    nightly visions continued, often taking the form of incredibly
    complex dreams which Phil saw at once were unlike his usual
    sleeping habits. He called them "tutelary" dreams because of
    their information-rich content. In many he was actually shown
    texts, which he was able to read and transcribe their contents
    upon awakening. This is another kabbalistic tradition, the
    ability to read holy texts on the astral plane. Always for Phil,
    the pink beam of light was prominent.

    Admittedly, the idea one is being shot with a beam of energy is
    typical to many schizophrenics. So are the discarnate voices
    which haunted Phil's unplugged radio at night, telling him how
    terrible a person he was (his then-wife Tessa heard them too).
    The one difference here is that Phil perceived it as a healing
    light rather than a further descent into madness. He credited it
    with taking charge of his life, recovering a lot of income due
    from unpaid book royalties, and even re-margining his typewriter.
    He never decided what the beam's source really was. Guesses
    included the Rosicrucian Society, Soviet scientists experimenting
    with "psychotronics", and an alien satellite orbiting a distant
    star. One message came from the "Portuguese States of America",
    leading Phil to contemplate the possibility of parallel
    universes. He also thought it might have been God. The Roman
    Sybil in her later Christianized form was a particular favorite
    of Phil's; her similarity to Jane as Phil's "protectress" was the
    attraction. VALIS even quotes the Sybilline Oracles. Note also
    that the much-sought product UBIK in Phil's novel of the same
    name is depicted on the dustjacket of the original as spraying a
    pink substance. Coincidence? The connection is further made in
    VALIS when Phil and friends mistake a model of the satellite for
    a can lying in the gutter (in the movie-within-a-book). Does
    this refer to a can of UBIK as well?

    In some of his dreams, Phil saw Soviet scientists rushing around
    behind the scenes to keep the alien satellite functioning. Phil
    originally thought VALIS was from Fomalhaut, which he called
    "Albemuth" (from the Arab Al Behemoth, "the whale"). Fomalhaut is
    the fish's mouth; Phil apparently mistook "behemoth" for
    "leviathan", two Hebrew words from the Old Testament. It is the
    latter which actually refers to the whale, according to most
    sources. What matters most is Phil's beliefs on the matter; if
    his subconscious mind processed "behemoth" as "whale", then
    "whale" it is - for him. At any rate, the fish symbolism is
    obvious, as is the reference to Jonah. Phil must have read Robert
    K.G. Temple's The Sirius Mystery (16) before writing VALIS,
    because he relocated the satellite to there. This brings in a
    host of occult references too involved to go into here. Suffice
    it to say that the dark companion of Sirius represents "occult"
    or hidden knowledge, as does Sirius' position as "the sun behind
    the Sun" (as Kenneth Grant calls it). Neither Phil nor Temple
    seem to have known this when they wrote their books. Phil
    cleverly tied in the dualist Dogon philosophy described by Temple
    with his own Gnostic beliefs, though as narrator of VALIS he
    ascribes this revelation to Fat and tells us this is the point at
    which Fat's madness became complete. Madness or not, VALIS stands
    as a classic on many levels. The three-eyed aliens had pincers
    like a crab where hands should be, just like Palmer Eldritch and
    his artificial hands. These "improved" hands seem to denote an
    elevated status as cosmic artificer or demiurge, while also
    indicating an inherent flaw of some sort. The beings were also
    deaf and mute; they communicated amongst themselves by means of
    telepathy. One could say their inability to hear or speak
    reinforces the notion of an imperfect demiurge, as well as it
    helps conceal his true nature. Then again, their physical
    handicap may be the results of a personal sacrifice undertaken to
    enhance their mental faculties.

    Phil was consistent in documenting his major influences within
    the works they influenced. VALIS was no exception. Curiously,
    there are two which went uncredited, and to my knowledge no
    researcher has yet uncovered them both. The first is Robert K.G.
    Temple's aforementioned The Sirius Mystery. Temple documents the
    Dogon people of Africa and their precise astronomical data which
    predate telescopes. Their legends say that this knowledge was
    given to them by three-eyed crab-clawed beings from Sirius.
    Temple goes on to trace the Dogon's ancestors back to migrating
    Egyptians who continue a tradition well-documented in the
    Mysteries of Isis and Osiris. Certainly Phil read Temple's book
    after writing Radio Free Albemuth; why else would he have moved
    VALIS from Fomalhaut to Sirius?

    The other major influence which went uncredited may be more of a
    surprise. It is not a scholarly influence like Temple's, but
    rather a little known facet of popular culture. The whole idea of
    an immortal and all-powerful race who build universes out of
    boredom, fall into them and become trapped because they forget
    who they are is indeed gnostic in flavor, as many have said. It
    should be noted, however, that this is exactly what Scientology
    teaches about the Thetans. WE ARE THE THETANS and we don't even
    know it.

    Palmer Eldritch had three stigmata: his artificial eyes,
    artificial teeth and artificial hands. The cover of the original
    edition combines these to show the classic eye-in-palm design
    used by fortune-tellers to indicate occult wisdom. The all-seeing
    eye is a common motif in Masonic lore as well; at one point Phil
    challenged God to show himself and saw the Ark of the Covenant
    opened to reveal the eye-in-the-triangle. Esoteric tradition
    among the Masons identifies this occult eye with the star Sirius
    -- named for Osiris, the dead and risen Egyptian savior who
    adumbrated Christ by centuries. It is also the eye of the cyclops
    and the third or ajna eye of Shiva, which Phil (as Fat)
    attributes to Ihknaton and his followers in the Tractates
    appended to VALIS. Others have placed a sexual interpretation
    upon it as well, but that's beyond the scope of the present work.

    While listening to the Beatles' "Strawberry Fields Forever" one
    day, Phil heard the lyrics change into a prophetic warning: "Your
    son has an undiagnosed right inguinal hernia. The hydrocele has
    burst, and it has descended into the scrotal sac. He requires
    immediate attention, or will soon die." Phil rushed him to the
    hospital and found every word to be true. The doctor scheduled
    the operation for the same day. Once again, the healing power of
    Phil's vision comes to the fore. In a sense the boy was "reborn",
    which was to have great consequences for Phil's subsequent
    actions. For a while Phil thought the spirit of Elijah had come
    upon him, much as the followers of John the Baptist felt about
    their Master. He even identified with a certain first-century
    Christian he called Thomas, whose thoughts Phil heard while
    falling asleep. There's someone inside of me, and he's living in
    another century. This Thomas was eventually garroted, which
    provides the connection to John the Baptist. "Thomas" is a Greek
    name meaning "twin"; whose twin was he if not Phil's? (Mani's
    twin was also called "tawm"; extant Greek Manichean texts refer
    to him as "syzygon".) Phil saw fit to baptize and confirm his
    infant son at this time (he was Episcopalian). Phil then gave his
    son a secret name which has never been divulged. In the
    posthumously-published Radio Free Albemuth (17) - the first
    version of what finally became VALIS -- "Nicholas Brady"
    christened "Johnny" with the secret name "Paul". Since Phil saw
    himself as Elijah or John the Baptist, my best guess is that Phil
    told his son he was the Savior incarnate, and named him
    "Emmanuel", a Hebrew name meaning "God with us". His son's birth
    name was in fact Christopher, from the Greek for "Christ-bearer".
    Indeed, Radio Free Albemuth ends with the imprisoned Phil taking
    consolation in the knowledge that the Message has gone out after
    all -- to the children. The importance of this assertion in light
    of the child-saviors in VALIS and The Divine Invasion cannot be
    underestimated. No wonder it hurt so badly when Phil's wife left
    with his son. It would have been interesting to see how Phil's
    son would have turned out under his father's tutelage. As it is,
    he may yet surprise us as he comes of age.

    Phil's experiences culminated with a beatific vision of a Palm
    Tree Garden, which he described in Deus Irae (18) and mentioned
    several times in The Divine Invasion (19). Though this was still
    a part of first-century Rome, Phil felt at peace in the garden --
    the nostalgic Eden. The palm tree itself is the World Tree, the
    axis mundi, the pole at the center of the world which leads to
    heaven. Palm leaves were strewn before Christ when he returned to
    Jerusalem to indicate victory over temptation in the wilderness;
    today they are carried by those who have completed a pilgrimage
    to the Holy Land. Palm Sunday commemorates this event in Christ's
    life. Palmer Eldritch's name is an obvious reference, but
    "palmer" could also refer to sleight of hand -- indicating his
    position as malevolent demiurge.

    Associated with the vision of the Palm Tree Garden was a young
    girl gathering water at riverside. On her vase was an
    interlocking pattern which Phil recognized as a series of ICHTHYS
    symbols. He also saw it as the double helix form of DNA. The
    universe, he understood, is information - just as DNA is the
    encoded information by which our bodies are created and
    maintained. He identified this girl with Aquarius, the
    water-bearer. To me this symbolizes a pouring out (from the
    subconscious) and the heralding of a new age. This scene was used
    in VALIS to announce the new messiah, the little girl called
    Sophia. A new age had indeed begun, short-lived as it was.

    Though Phil's vision of Rome faded, his tutelary dream continued
    for six more years. So too did the AI voice (for "Artificial
    Intelligence"), a soft feminine voice he heard in times of stress
    and during hypnogogic revery. Naturally he identified this voice
    with Jane/Sophia, and claims to have first heard it during a high
    school physics exam (it gave him the answers) 25 years earlier.
    It all ended November 17, 1980. Phil claimed to have had a
    theophany that day, though witnesses noticed nothing unusual.
    Phil suddenly comprehended God as infinite, by nature
    incomprehensible. In other words, the Exegesis would never solve
    anything because there was no answer to be had. Phil actually
    stopped writing for a time because of this, but was at it again
    before too long. He also wrote The Divine Invasion around this
    time, which was when the voice finally stopped. Had it not been
    for the theophany, Phil would have probably cried, "Eloi, Eloi,
    lama sabachthani?" As it was, he persisted in speculating the
    remaining year of his life, and managed to produce one more novel
    before the end - the posthumously-published The Transmigration of
    Timothy Archer (20). Phil suffered the first of several strokes
    in February 1982 and died several days later in the hospital, on
    March 2. He was 53.

    NOTES

    (1) Philip K. Dick. Confessions of a Crap Artist. New York:
    Pocket Books, 1982. (Orig. 1975.) Pg. 164.

    (2) "Frozen Journey" was Playboy's name for the manuscript Phil
    called "I Hope I Shall Arrive Soon". It was reprinted under its
    original title most recently in The Eye of the Sybil (New York:
    Carol Publishing Group, 1992).

    (3) The Man in the High Castle. New York: Putnam, 1962. This
    title has gone through several editions and remains in print.

    (4) VALIS. New York: Bantam, 1981.

    (5) Time Out of Joint. Boston: Gregg Press, 1979. (Orig. 1959.)

    (6) A very limited number of Exegesis entries were eventually
    published in Selections from the Exegesis, edited by PKD
    biographer Lawrence Sutin (Lancaster: Underwood-Miller, 1991).
    Sutin also wrote the excellent Divine Invasions: A Life of Philip
    K. Dick (New York: Carol Publishing Group, 1991).

    (7) "Strange Memories of Death" first appeared in issue #8 of
    Interzone magazine (Brighton, UK). It also was collected in I
    Hope I Shall Arrive Soon (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1987) and
    volume 5 of Underwood-Miller's Collected Stories (reprinted by
    Carol Publishing Group).

    (8) The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch. Garden City:
    Doubleday, 1965.

    (9) Reference is to Phil's novel UBIK (Garden City: Doubleday,
    1969).

    (10) The Penultimate Truth. New York: Belmont, 1964.

    (11) Revelations 18:2.

    (12) Dr. Bloodmoney, or How We Got Along After the Bomb (New
    York: Ace Books, 1965. Reprinted Boston: Gregg Press, 1977.).
    Another good example is the pair of lambs born near the end of
    Confessions of a Crap Artist (ibid), the second of which is
    stillborn. In this case it is the male twin Phil kills off -
    representing himself.

    (13) Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said. Garden City: Doubleday,
    1975. (Phil parodied this book as The Android Cried Me A River in
    VALIS.)

    (14) See Julian Jaynes, The Origin of Consciousness in the
    Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind. (Boston: Houghton-Mifflin,
    1976.)

    (15) A Scanner Darkly. Garden City: Doubleday, 1977.

    (16) Temple's book is little more than a well-researched
    paperback of the Ancient Astronaut variety. Only Phil could have
    turned it into a whole universe. (London: Futura Publications
    Ltd., 1979.) Robert Anton Wilson's Cosmic Trigger was also an
    influence in regards to the Sirius connection; Phil acknowledges
    it as such in VALIS. (Berkeley: And/Or Press, 1977. It's been
    reprinted by both Simon & Schuster and Falcon Press.)

    (17) Radio Free Albemuth. New York: Arbor House, 1985.

    (18) (w/ Roger Zelazny). Deus Irae. Garden City: Doubleday, 1976.

    (19) The Divine Invasion. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1981.

    (20) The Transmigration of Timothy Archer. New York: Simon &
    Schuster, 1982.

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