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   of or involving right angles; at right angles.
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   (of variates) statistically independent.

I've been experiencing this a lot lately - very strongly last night. Usually referred to as alternate universes, I find myself walking between worlds now - in and out. But, last night, I didn't think I was going to come back.

Trying to remember my experiences during this "time" is somewhat like trying to make out specific words of a distant whisper or flashes of ephemera wafting through the room. Trying to catch it and stare at it is impossible.

It's getting closer, though...

Philip K. Dick likened it to the grooves on a record and the needle follows the grooves unless it skips to another groove suddenly, there is no notice of the grooves as the needle progresses along it's predestined path.

From The Exegesis of Philip K. Dick...

"...If you have followed my conjectures about the overlapping of these alternate worlds, and you sense as I do the possibility that if there are three there may be thirty or three thousand of them - and that some of us live in this one, others of us in another one, others in others, and that events in one track cannot be perceived by persons not in that track."

                                                                                 - The Exegesis of Philip K. Dick

"Do Mail Robots Dream of Electric Sheep"

I love when great synchronicity happens...and it happened for me this week. And, of course, it has to do with Philip K. Dick - YES!

On Thursday, my son, Trevor, sent an article on the great Sean Young and how she and Darryl Hannah are virtually ignored in discussions of Blade Runner, focusing more on the male actors/director. We emailed back and forth on the state of women in Hollywood and, in general, how they are eaten alive and spit out.

Blade Runner’s Sean Young: ‘If I were a man I’d have been treated better’

Then Thursday night I watched the new episode of The Americans entitled, "Do Mail Robots Dream of Electric Sheep: - Whooaaa!!

 In keeping in Kindred spirit of Dick's amazing novel, Elizabeth Jennings, the lead female in The Americans, takes on the role of Deckard.

As a "true believer", Elizabeth is on a mission to rid the world of evil no matter how much collateral damage she has to invoke. and then having to face that she has become the evil one herself, thus embodying the great Dick paradox of the story and an idea that haunted Dick from the early days when researching the Nazi culture for his most lauded novel, The Man in the High Castle.

All things Dick and I applaud the writers of The Americans for honoring him with this great episode!

Have a listen to the great man himself and his definition of an android - this is a wonderful and funny interview especially what he has to say about Hollywood!!

Philip K. Dick: The Blade Runner Interview

The worm has turned...O Happy Day!!

"The empire never ended."

...and Philip K. Dick is always right. It's happening NOW...stay above the chaos.

Je Suis Ragle Gumm

I just started watching The Maze Runner last night; had a string of lucid dreams which would stop and start up again where it left off as I would awaken and then fall back to sleep.

 And now today…

 I am Ragle Gumm.  

Similar to The Maze Runner, Ragle Gumm is a rat in a maze, manipulated by a government conspiracy, or more specifically, the subject of a military experiment/special operations.

Ragle Gumm is the main character in Philip K. Dick’s Time Out of Joint. He believes he is living in a safe, humdrum peaceful world of 1959 and wins the daily newspaper contest, when in reality, he is living in a simulated environment developed by the military industrial complex tasked with predicting nuclear strikes.  Gradually, through the breakdown of the matrix, Gumm becomes AWARE of what has happened to him and plans to escape his captives.

I am feeling the matrix very strongly this week, particularly today. Becoming aware of its existence is half the battle and knowing and utilizing the tools to escape is the other half which at certain times is very difficult to do as the matrix feels like it is squeezing or closing in on me and playing the joker with this Mercury Retrograde thingie right now.

 I have to laugh. 

The same scenarios playing over and over, taling to people and feeling like you are talking Chinese instead of English because no one understands a word you say; things having to be done and redone, over and over – the stagnation is overwhelming. Best to see it for what it is, have a laugh and watch Abbot and Costello – “who’s on first, what’s on second”

Time to go inward…time to blank slate myself…no time…ahhhh