Philip K. Dick and The Matrix

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Pastor Tim

Pastor Tim "The Americans" (Kelly AuCoin)

Sorry, but I had to lead with a pic of Kelly AuCoin playing Pastor Tim on "The Americans" simply because his character is so very creepy, The character is currently in the mainstream consciousness of the show right now, and let's face it - that wig even beats out Philip as Clark as THE worst wig of the series!

Needless to say, it is my belief (no spoilers, just speculation), that good old Pastor Tim is not really who he says he is considering how cool and calm and "negotiating" he has been with Philip and Elizabeth about Paige. Either he's also KGB and/or CIA... maybe a little double agency going on here. But seeing how the CIA infiltrated churches and started many fundie churches (and still does), i.e. Jim Jones, it would not surprise me that Pastor Tim is somehow involved in some intelligence agency.

...or maybe he is a hypersexual Martian reptilian?

First off, who'd a thunk that there was another Pastor Tim (Tim Remington) in the present consciousness living in Coeur d'Alene, Idaho as senior pastor of The Altar Church?  The Altar Church?? WTH is that?  Two Pastor Tims currently in the mainstream of thought on this wonderful world of derangement and he has been campaigning for Ted Cruz?  Say it ain't so, Joe!

In the universe of high weirdness, the best and only way this story could be explained would be by Christopher Loring Knowles of The Secret Sun.

Here's Chris' analysis of the hypersexual Martian Pastor Tim who lives in Idaho (high weirdness place - sorry Idahoans) who was shot eight (count them 8) times including one to the head with hollow point bullets by ex-Marine, Kyle Andrew Odom, and lived to tell about it. 

AstroGnosis: Love Me Like a Reptile

Could there be any predictive programming going on here? 

Pastor Tim, Pastor Tim, come out come out wherever you are!

R U A I? 2.0

Domhnall Gleeson "Ex Machina"

I really wanted to write about this last summer after seeing "Ex Machina" but just couldn't put it together - felt like I was missing something, some information or couldn't put into words about what I have been thinking. I still don't know if I have it all together and this may sound disjointed, but dear God, I have to write about this after reading this article yesterday. 

Are We All Extraterrestrials?

I think some of us can honestly say that perhaps we (and I am speaking about those who believe they are human, whatever that is) all have a bit of alien DNA. That this perhaps is the answer to that "missing link" question that scientific authority still cannot (or will not) answer. This information is out there if one chooses to look and it certainly appears (soft disclosure?) in films and books enough to make anyone question their source DNA.

But what about AI - artificial intelligence? Could there be "humans" out there who may be not what they seem. Could you be one of them and how would you know if you were or someone you knew was artificial intelligence? 

More coming on this subject once I get more of a grip on it, but for the time being, I'm just throwing the idea out there. Think about it...is the technology already in existence and has been for a long time? Turing was working on AI post-WWII or possibly before, like in the 1930's. Asimov was certainly writing about AI in the '30s and his interpretation through the book (not the film),  I, Robot is pretty much what we are seeing today in works like, "Ex Machina". How could that be?

More to come...

The X-Files: It's the DNA, stupid!

The X Files: Founders Mutation

Spoilers ahead!

Well, after Scully and Mulder's generalized introduction in episode 1 to revelations that the alien/UFO agenda was a ruse by the government elites to distract us from the truth which is that man, not aliens, are the source of all those sightings, they are then exposed to all the programs the elite have sanctioned of killing us or rather, modifying us.

Episode 2, "Founders Mutation", is then their specific introduction to the many ways of genetic modification that the government has undertaken through black budgeted, multi-billion dollar DOD contracts to certain bio-genetic corporations.

It's all about DNA, folks! All the chemtrails, GMO food, polluted water, toxic air, lakes, rivers, oceans from chemicals, vaccinations, genetic testing (what exactly ARE they doing with all the aborted embryos?), etc is all focused on eugenics - manipulating our DNA for whatever purposes they deem.

Remember, eugenics is one of the major reasons we fought World War II, especiallly after we found out what Dr. Mengele was doing. Well, apparently, it's still going on and has been for a long time and it's practiced secretly world wide.

Very particular to episode 2 also, is what happened to Scully and Mulder's son, who would now be 15 years old. My gut tells me this questioning will lead us down the path to some disclosure on genetic manipulation including our deep connections to other alien races, human hybridization, cloning, and trans-humanism which have all been most likely going on for quite some time.

DNA is the key to most of the "hidden agendas" and some believe many here already have alien DNA, like Dana, and that we were probably originally a biogenetic experiment between the ape and aliens, i.e Prometheus. This would be the long sought after "missing link" that so conveniently has never been found.

The X-Files: Founders Mutation

Stay tuned. This should be an interesting ride. Perhaps we will even find out how we got trapped here in the first place.

If you'd like to read more on the new X-Files, Chris Knowles at The Secret Sun has a great analysis.

A Maze of Death

A Maze of Death by Philip K. Dick tells the story of a group of 14 colonists who believe they inhabit an off world colony.  Through the 216 pages, the reader is thrown into the lives of this dysfunction group with all its in-fighting including murder and suicide, chaos and mayhem.

The 14 finally awaken to the realization that they are in fact from earth and the crew of a spaceship circling a dead star with no hope of rescue. What they “experienced” is actually a virtual reality program in order for them to pass the time before their eventual death.

One member decides to kill them all rather than remain in a simulated hell. He is then removed from the program with the other members unaware of his departure or existence. The crew then again fall into another hallucination which plays exactly the same as the previous only without the 14^th crew member.

Remind you of anything?

The story is considered one of Dick’s darkest as it explores reality, perception and death themes.  Rod Serling’s Twilight Zone also broached this subject in several episodes including “And When the Sky Was Opened” and “Third from the Sun”. 

"Thoughts are scalar waves."

I rarely post others work using rather a pointer. But this interview with Harold Kautz Vella covers just about everything and a most important work to spend your time on....There are 3 parts to the interview. I am linking to the first part onlywhich directs to the site where the entire interview is posted.

Bases 46 Harald Kautz-Vella, Black Goo

The Hippies Were Right

Through all the years, through all the noise, what settles out from all the chaos, is that the lifestyle that the hippies were trying to move society towards, was the absolute honest and real way that most thoughtful people today are now understanding that we should be living - a life in line with nature and Mother Earth.

Forgetting all the drugs and the Charlie Manson psyops, the desire of many of the youth of the 60's and 70's was to live a freer, less encumbered life than that of their parents. The huge movement away from the industrialized farming started with the hippies. Care for the environment started with the hippies. An economy based on bartering and away from the banks, credit and debt was started with the hippies. Social equality, sharing with the less fortunate and placing less emphasis on Madison Avenue and more on community started with the hippies.

I laugh when I read prepper sites, and natural food sites. Growing food and selling it at farmers markets or cooperatives all started with the hippie movement. Using natural herbs and oils for healing and well-being started with the hippies. Meditation and yoga for spiritual growth and peace started with the hippies - and we did it without charging for it. People would just put up a flier and get together without the head trips and money worship of today. I can't even afford to go to yoga classes anymore.

I know this to be true, because I was there - I lived it and it was a beautiful thing.

We didn't have cellphones or laptops and we started the mantra to throw out your TV. We didn't wear make-up and spend money we didn't have on the latest fashion - we made our own, outside the mainstream. We didn't go to beauty salons or barbers - we cut our own hair and even made our own shampoos and soaps - all later co-opted by good old capitalism. I remember when no one wore Birkenstocks except hippies, and boy, were they ever scorned!  Things really started to degenerate in the mid to late 70's. Drug dealers, shysters, con-men religious guru types and more came on the scene to steal it all away.

Yes, we smoked marijuana but it was in a community way - people brought what they had and shared it. It wasn't really a commodity in those days and all that changed with cocaine. I know it's hard for some people to understand because that all changed one day in 1969, when we saw this everywhere:

The controllers were letting you know that this is what will happen to your children if they become a hippie. This was the death sentence of the hippie movement and what has resulted today - GM foods, toxic air & water, people fined for growing their own food, so-called "organic" produce from multi-billion dollar corporations.

Vincent Bugliosi certainly did his job right with his "Helter Skelter" trial all directed for the masses to become very, very afraid of anything hippie. Sound familiar? This event set the stage for so much that is out of control today. It stole from us our simple sovereign human right to exist.

I would go back to that time in a heartbeat. Maybe most of us were naive, but we trusted each other and wanted to build a society based on cooperation - not competition. That all came to an end through the hype of the MSM that the hippies were all about sex and drugs - the real story was never told. We were a threat to the consumer culture that has now taken over everything. I can't even buy a pair of pajamas for my grandson without seeing some sort of advertising on it.

I don't know what happened to most of my generation - a lot have died, lost hope and became very bitter or became part of the matrix. It was all part of the plan. What is going on today did not just happen overnight. It all started with Charlie and Vincent.

I remain hopeful that this too shall pass and the empire will end. We shall overcome...

The Dao of Mad Max: Fury Road

In this scene from George Miller's Mad Max: Fury Road, Max (played by Tom Hardy) explains to Furiosa (played by Charlize Theron) that the only way to freedom is to go back to the Citadel, the dreaded hell hole from which they had just successfully made their escape. Their original destination, the Green Place of her childhood and from where she was kidnapped has disintegrated into a wasteland.

Furiosa is totally perplexed by this extremely counter intuitive theory that Max presents to her, but realizes there really is no other hope for them, except to return and maybe somehow get inside the gates of the Citadel before Immortan Joe and the War Boys, thereby saving the The Five Wives (now only four). The Citadel is now the only place of water and greenery, but the people are all slaves.

Earlier in the film, when Max asks Furiosa why she was trying to save the Five Wives, which was an act of treason, she exclaimed with one word, "Redemption". From what was she redeeming herself?

Dr. Miller seems to be giving us a lesson here springing directly from Mahayana (literally, "the great vehicle") Buddhism. The Bodhisattva (Max) can reach Nirvana, not just by just releasing himself from suffering (his mask), but also by helping other sentient beings on the right path (Fury Road) to liberation from Samsara (the wasteland). Thus,the bodhisattva can attain pure Buddhahood (Trikaya) through compassion and transcendent wisdom.

Before his death, Philip K. Dick was working on his next novel,  The Owl in Daylight,  in which he was pursuing a story of this same concept. From The Exegesis of Philip K. Dick (p. 878).

Deconstructed, this pertains to all the avatars, Christ included. But Gautama most especially in the bodhisattva concept regarding compassion specifically expressed as : voluntarily returning to the maze; that is, the ultimate paradox of the maze, its quintessential ingenuity of construction, is that the only real way out is a voluntary way back in (into it and its power), which is the path of the bodhissatva. The maze, then, is one colossal and absolute Chinese finger trap. 

If the final paradox of the maze is that the only way you can escape it is voluntarily to go back in, then maybe we are here voluntarily; we came back in. Hence release - to nirvana- consists of anamnesis...the loss of forgetefulness...thus my salvation was assured not by what I did in this lifetime but by this lifetime as such.


Furiosa, having now accepted this challenge of going "back in" to the matrix, has thus been redeemed - her karma has been cleared.

The solidification of this ying/yang synergy between Max and Furiosa lastly symbolized by the blood transfusion - the act of selflessness is complete. The flow of energy from the enlightened one to the one on the path. The Circle is complete. The balance is achieved.

In the final scenes, Max delivers the group safely into the Citadel and Immortan Joe is dead. Instead of staying with the others and receiving praises of its citizens, Max drifts through the crowds walking away - he has attained true emptiness - enlightened non-attachment of the Buddha.

Now that Furiosa is back in the Citadel and understands why she is there, what arises next is still in the mind of Dr. Miller.

For another good analysis of the film, please read this great essay from The Daily Grail

Review: Mad Max - Fury Road

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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