All language subtitles for [SubtitleTools.com] [English (auto-generated)] Philip K. Dick speech in Metz, France, 1977 [DownSub.com]

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I'm going to read this opening sentence

okay I don't know if they might defend

your honor month

are the microphones on

Marcel you asked if the microphones are

on and they can hear no may I tell you

how much I appreciate your asking me to

share some of my ideas with you the

Viacom hazardous Familia de mon Dieu

the philosophy between the miscibility

the title of my address is if you find

this world bad you should see some of

the others this is for the one school

school huh she will probably some of the

movie will be of what it does on diesel

I would like to confess that I've been

asked to cut about two-thirds of my

speech out and deliver as short of

speech as possible because if to a ma TT

be completed in jail in school difficult

achievement upon examining my speech I

find that it is very easy to remove

two-thirds without doing any injury to

it nobody loses nothing food leaving

school with hissy fit about you don't be

in to cheer someone about him

I even considered cutting three thirds

out of it but there was some trouble so

I abandoned that idea

complete like yourself for myself of the

food the subject of this speech is a

topic which has been discovered recently

and which may not exist at all I may be

talking about something that does not

exist therefore I'm free to say

everything or nothing if it's cool its

associated you can get it looking you

don't get this whiskey nice that's a pub

soup we don't deal I can hardly make an

error if there is no such thing as

orthogonal time orthogonal or right

angle time is the topic of my speech

Papa look at the earth Republic it just

needs to go to the course also survive

it's because I said it talked to me that

I'm talking multiple years or lots of

talking police'll we are accustomed to

supposing that all change takes place

along the linear time axis from past to

present to future the present is an

accrual of the past and is different

from it the future will approve from the

present on and be different yet so maybe

check on see mm no progress galaxy me

every time impossible clears up with you

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situation of a depends on envy no penis

of a pediment that an orthogonal or

right angle time axis could exist a

lateral domain in which change takes

place processes occurring sideways in

reality so to speak this is almost

impossible to imagine how will we

perceive such lateral changes what would

we experience what clues if we are

trying to test out this bizarre theory

should we be on the alert

or in other words how can change take

place outside of linear time at all in

any sense to any degree indeed imagine a

precision skill on cost of another

domain Hakka value

how does some sort of man the

persistency still have received an

education

come over universal wellness as Molitor

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initiative at the desert kill me

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under the moon come up with you have

wealth sons-in-law under object on yeah

let me present you with a metaphor let

us say that there exists this very rich

patron of the Arts every day on the wall

of his living room above his fireplace

his servants hang a new picture each day

a different masterpiece day after day

month after month each day the used one

is removed and replaced by a different a

new one ASIMO okay Dante Amiga super

funky steady janitor da successfully Rio

de la salle a decision for the situation

in a deterministic opposed and ova table

surface recidivist fear

zooni official name was a one a circle

evangelization it's already the harvest

apparent already I shall call this

process change along the linear axis

separable supposition salt amount we

won't do that severe but now let us

suppose the servants temporarily running

out of new replacement pictures what

shall they do in the meantime

they can't just leave the present one

hanging their employer has decreed the

perpetual replacement that is to say

changing the pictures is to take place

that's enough

supposedly domestic you support

diversity topological into Nevada blue

tooth volunteers a moment the

participant until they receive from

Sevilla day your employer adequately the

horizontal pictures Italy hello so they

neither allow the current one to remain

nor do they replace it with the new one

instead they do a very clever thing when

their employer is not looking the

servants cunningly alter the picture

already on the wall they paint out a

tree here they paint in a little girl

there they add this they obliterate that

they make the same painting different

and in a sense new but as I'm sure you

can see not new in the sense of

replacing it is process bubble tea it

was because the episode the television

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column you take an avid uncle T in a

particular bar doesn't decision of a

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descent in Elgin personal the employer

enters his living room after dinner

seats himself facing with fireplace and

contemplates what should be according to

his expectations the new picture what

does he see it certainly isn't what he

saw previously but also it isn't somehow

and here we must become very sympathetic

with this perhaps somewhat stupid man

because we can virtually see his brain

circuits striving to understand his

brain circuits are saying yes it is a

new picture it is not the same one as

Esther day but also it is the same one I

think I feel on a very deep intuitive

basis I feel that somehow I've seen it

before I seem to remember a tree though

and there is no tree how great a punker

than a sudden this usually give me such

a solution meaning the contactors do

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settlement pasadena deserve mr. Anderson

gotta convert a monster she knew where

the plate contention of acetone the

other one well yet you know they said to

the sponsor who is a given power the

sherry Leedy we cetera would have room

Senna paramedic area they all have a

town silliman lukewarm to the Sun and

that is not important the some person is

a citizen mrs. Besant we do believe

Allah Allah in heaven now perhaps if we

extrapolate from this man's perceptual

meant a tional confusion to the

theoretical point I was making about

lateral change you can get a better idea

of what I mean I mean perhaps you can do

at least a degree see that although what

I'm talking about may not exist

my concept may be fictional it could

exist it is not intellectually self

contradictory simply Papa Lohmann to

know about you to the function

in Montecito Buhari we have a published

security solutions Molitor health

company our stability the potato people

half dozen chatted with you this is the

gossip town exist possessive are similar

set the test activity improving

Wednesday what do you think in support

the department contemplating this

possibility of the lateral arrangement

of world a plurality of overlapping

earth along who's linking acts as a

person can somehow move can travel in a

mysterious way from worst affair to good

to excellent contemplating this in

theological terms perhaps we could say

that here with we suddenly decipher the

elliptical utterances which Christ

expressed regarding the kingdom of God

specifically where it is located

come on bossy lovely morning can

you feel educated there you can pose

here northern accent you get it on

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until is not the deal are acceptable of

all X alone she not deceive a until

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show education sort of I am did you

about to PB s-- excel you listen he

seems to have given contradictory and

puzzling answers but suppose just

suppose for an instant that the cause of

the perplexity lay not in any desire on

his part to baffle or to hide but in the

inadequacy of the question my kingdom is

not of this world his reported who had

said the kingdom is within you or

possibly it is among you

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Colorado I put before you now the notion

which I personally find exciting that he

may have had in mind that which I speak

of as the lateral axis of overlapping

realms which contain among them a

spectrum of aspects ranging from the

unspeakably malignant to the beautiful

jewel will officially launches on that

negative fountain supership is on to

collect lucky heart

the available superfoods here you can

tell from you the palate the diversity

along the resource again people he could

be happy you and Christ was saying over

and over again that there really are

many objective realms somehow related

and somehow bridgeable by living not

dead man and that the most wondrous of

these worlds was a just kingdom in which

either he himself or God himself or both

of them ruled significance at all if you

get into your way your logic you and get

the software Johnson Sirleaf Keller is

born with a 55 zone in on pottery more

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to tell him sure like a juice we do a

song regulate and he did not merely

speak of a variety of ways of

subjectively viewing one world the

kingdom wasn't is an actual different

place at the opposite end of continuous

starting with slavery and utter pain it

was his mission to teach his disciples

the secret of crossing along this

orthogonal path he did not merely report

what lay there he taught the method

getting there but tragically the secret

was lost the enemy the Roman Authority

crushed it and so we do not have it but

perhaps we can refined it since we know

that such a secret exists in episode

mentality demands belong to the problem

of a lesser gtp how is it over on

another use an expensive can

continue don't want of utha it is

provided in a secluded kingdom is ever

to be established here on earth or

whether it is a place or state we go to

after death I'm sure I don't have to

tell you that this issue has been a

fundamental one and an unresolved one

throughout the history of Christianity

Christ and Saint Paul both seem to say

emphatically that an actual breaking

through into time that is specifically

what they say a breaking through into

time into our world by the hosts of God

will unexpectedly occur thereupon after

some exciting drama a thousand-year

paradise a rightful kingdom will be

established at least for those who have

done their homework and chores and

generally paid attention have not gone

to sleep as one parable puts it see you

suppose we are enjoined repeatedly in

the New Testament to be vigilant that

for the Christian it is always day there

is always light by which he can see this

event when it comes see this event does

that imply that many persons who are

somehow asleep or blind or not vigilant

they will not see it even though it

occurs consider the significance which

can be assigned to these notions the

kingdom will come here unexpectedly this

is always stressed the rightful faithful

shall see it because for them it is

always daytime but for the others what

seems expressed here is the paradoxical

but enthralling saw

that and here this in ponder the kingdom

were it established here would not be

visible to those outside I offer the

idea that in more modern terms what is

meant that some of us will travel

laterally to that better world and some

will not they will remain stuck along

the lateral axis which means that for

them the kingdom did not come not in

their all alternative world and yet

meantime it did come in ours so it comes

and yet it does not come amazing enough

I'm going to cut down here if you

followed my conjectures about the

overlapping of these alternate worlds

and you sense as I do the possibility

that if there are three or four or two

there may be thirty or 3,000 of them and

that some of us live in this one others

of us in another one others in others

and that events on one track cannot be

perceived by persons not in that track

well let me say what I want to say and

be done with it

I think I once experienced a track in

which to save your return but I

experienced it just briefly I am NOT

there now I'm not sure I ever was

certainly I may never be again I agree

for that loss that loss it is somehow I

moved laterally but then fell back and

then it was gone a vanished mountain and

the stream the sound of bells and all

gone now for me entirely gone I and my

stories and novels often write about

counterfeit worlds semi real worlds as

well as deranged private worlds and have

it often by just one person while

meantime the other characters either

remain in there

world's throughout or are somehow drawn

into one of the peculiar ones this theme

occurs in the corpus of my 27 years of

writing at no time did I have a

theoretical or conscious explanation for

my preoccupation with these chloroform

pseudo worlds but now I think I

understand what I was sensing was the

manifold of partially actualized

realities lying tangent to what

evidently is the most actualized one the

one which the majority of us by

consensus gentium agree on unless the

hell Tripoli home should fit although

originally I presume that the

differences between these worlds was

caused entirely by the subjectivity of

the various human viewpoints it did not

take me long to open the question as to

whether it might not be more than that

that in fact plural realities did exist

superimposed onto one another like so

many film transparencies what I still do

not grasp however is how one reality out

of the many becomes actualized in Contra

distinction to the others do you

proficiently perhaps none does or

perhaps again it hangs on an agreement

in viewpoint by a sufficiency of people

more likely the matrix world the one

with the true core of being is

determined by the programmer he or it

articulates prints out so to speak the

matrix choice and fuses it with actual

substance the core or essence of reality

that which receives or attains it and to

what degree that is within the purview

of the programmer this selection andrey

selection is part of general creativity

a world building which seems to be it or

his task a problem perhaps which he or

it is running which is to say in the

process of solving as a computer would

see tempeh puto soda funky pasta dough

cuando vas tan not econo-mode ozone you

probably know lumen de vacas service

console know who visited rig stop while

the dinner renamed on odometer in

variables along the linear time axis of

our universe thereby generating branched

off lateral world's I have the

impression that the metaphor of the

chessboard is especially useful in

evaluating how this can be done in fact

must be across from the programmer

reprogram er sits a counter entity whom

Joseph Campbell calls the dark counter

player to foster mythical beast God the

programmer reprogram er is not making

his moves of improvement against inert

matter he is dealing with a cunning

opponent let us say that on the game

board our universe in space-time the

dark counter player makes a move he sets

up a reality situation of the mutable

cause and effect cooking in his ruling

but the programmer reprogram er has

already laid down his response it has

already happened these moves on his part

the printout which we undergo as

historic events passes through stages of

a dialectical interaction thesis and

antithesis as the forces of the two

players mingle evidently some syntheses

fall to the dark counter player and yet

they do not by virtue of the fact that

in advance our great advocate selected

variables the alternation of which

brings final victory to him in winning

each sequence in turn he claimed some of

us we who participate in the sequence

this is why instinctively people pray

Nibiru may dominate which decodes to

mean extricate me programmer as you

achieve one victory after another

include me in that triumph move me along

the lateral axis so that I am not left

out sense is being left out means not

nothing other than remaining under the

jurisdiction of or falling prey to the

malignant power but that malignant power

for all its guile has already lost even

as it wins for in some way the counter

player is blind and so the programmer

reprogram er possesses an advantage

civilian ethical I submit to you that

such alterations the creation or

selection of such so-called alternative

presence is continually taking place the

very fact that we can conceptually deal

with this notion that is entertained as

an idea is the first step in discerning

such processes themselves but I doubt if

we will ever be able in any real fashion

to demonstrate to scientifically prove

that such lateral change processes do

occur probably all we would have to go

on would be vestiges of memory fleeting

impression dreams nebulous intuitions

that somehow things had been different

in some way and not and not long ago but

now this was I think about the

devotional we might reflexively reach

for a light switch in the bathroom only

to discover that it was always had been

in another place entirely we might reach

for the air vent in our car where there

was no air vent a reflex left over from

a previous present still active at a

subcortical level we might dream of

people in places we had never seen as

vividly

if we had seen them and actually known

them but we would not know what to make

of this

assuming we took time to ponder it at

all conceptually only one very

pronounced impression would probably

occur to us to many of us again and

again and always without explanation the

acute absolute sensation that we had

done once before what we were just about

to do now that we so to speak lived in a

particular moment or situation

previously but in what sense could it be

called previously since only the present

not the past was evidently involved in F

discontent heads of our faces up in some

100 entity whose evidence idea visually

music's show and we love to you

equivalent ethically undeserving I love

in the part of the details of a

budget-busting rely official I cannot

the way we will feel we would have the

overwhelming impression that we were

reliving the present deja vu

perhaps in precisely the same way

hearing the same words saying the same

words I submit that these impressions

are valid and significant and I will

even say this such an impression is a

clue that it's in past time point a

variable was changed reprogram does it

work and that because of this an

alternative world branched off became

actualized instead of the prior one and

that in fact in literal fact we are once

more living this particular segment of

linear time because we have a

a breaching a tinkering a change has

been made but not in our present had

been made in our past evidently such an

alteration would have a peculiar effect

on those persons involved they would so

to speak be moved back one square or

several squares on the board game which

constitutes our reality either the head

samba Thal you conceivably this could

happen any number of times affecting any

number of people as alternative

variables were reprogrammed we would

have to live out each reprogramming

along the subsequent linear time axis

but to the programmer when we call God

to him the results of the programming

would be apparent once we are within

time and he is not I wish to add live we

are living in a computer programmed

reality and the only clue we have to it

is when some variable is changed and

some alteration in our reality occurs

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but yet the vasanas along this tube

might account for the sensation people

get of having lived past laws they may

well have but not in the past previous

lives rather in the present in perhaps

an unending repeated and repeated

present like a great clock dial in which

grande clock hands sweep out the same

circumference forever with all of us

carried along unknowingly yet dimly

suspecting it can persist

default plantation on September 3rd the

work we did Antonia Elizabeth canoe in

paddle party paradise residents we 2.7

now forgive attest in a script I dream

of a busy depend on us or politic region

modulo a very near that yet other male

prostitutes all sera important hotel

included some food since the resolution

of every encounter of thesis and

antithesis between the dark counter

player and the divine programmer a new

synthesis is struck off and since it is

possible at each time this happens a

lateral world may be generated and since

I can see that each synthesis or

resolution is in some degree of victory

by the programmer

each struck off world in sequence must

be an improvement upon not just the

prior one but an improvement upon all

the latent or merely possible outcomes

it is a better world but in no sense

perfect which is to say finally it is

merely an improved stage within a

process what I envision clearly is that

the programmer is perpetually using the

antecedent universe as a gigantic

stockpile for each new synthesis the

antecedent universe then possessing the

aspect of chaos or an amine in relation

to an emerging new cosmos therefore the

endless process of sequential struck off

alternate worlds emerging and being

infused with actualization is Negin

tropic in some way that we cannot see I

think what we need at this point is to

locate to bring forth as evidence

someone who has managed somehow it

doesn't matter how to retain memories of

a different present latent ultimate

world impressions different in some

significant way from this the one which

is at this stage actualized according to

my theoretical view it would almost

certainly be memories of a worse world

than the

for it is not reasonable with God the

programmer and reprogram er would

substitute a worse world in terms of

freedom or beauty or love or order or

healthiness by enters any standard which

we know when a mechanic works on your

malfunctioning car he does not damage it

further when a writer creates the second

draft of a novel he does not debates it

further but strives to improve it I

suppose it could be argued in a strictly

theoretical way that God might be evil

or insane and would in fact substitute a

worse world for a better one but frankly

I cannot take that idea seriously let us

pass that over so let us ask does any

one of us remember in any dim fashion a

worse Earth circa 1977 than this have

our young men seen visions and our old

man dream dreams nightmare dreams

specifically about a world of

enslavement and evil of prisons and

jailers and you you vic wa tiss police I

have I wrote out these dreams in novel

after novel story after story to name

two in which this prior ugly present

obtained most clearly eyesight the man

in the high castle and my 1974 novel

about the US as a police state called

flow my tears the policeman said I'm

going to be very candid with you

I wrote both novels based on fragmentary

residual memories of such a horrid slave

state world or perhaps the term world

it's the wrong one and I should say

United States since in both novels I was

writing about my own country was lost I

could even tell you what caused me to

remember in late February of 1974 I was

given sodium pentathol for the

extraction of impacted wisdom teeth

later that day back home again but still

deeply under the influence of the sodium

pentathol I had a short acute flash of

recovered memory in one instant I caught

it all but immediately rejected it

rejected it however with the real

nation that what I had retrieved in the

way of varied memories was authentic the

leather bootie originally a laconically

mr. Santa Claus

vomit una defensa so nice to do a whole

extraction become the special carne we

tell when you partition hua mian

quarantine or scenarios mr. Nam is -

William - well how many players who

support the patient understands of young

rustic to the job

Beauty to the diversity visit people to

crop North Ave energy facility here in

LA mr. William don't which is souvenir

acute oxygen then in mid-march month

later the total body of memories intact

an entire began to return you are free

to believe me or to disbelieve but

please take my word on it but I am not

joking this is very serious a matter of

importance I am sure that the very least

you will agree that for me even to claim

this isn't itself amazing alone enough

people claim to remember past lives I

claim to remember a different very

different present life I know of no one

who has ever made this claim before but

I rather suspect that my experience is

not unique what perhaps is unique is the

fact that I am willing to talk about it

he's on Google if you have followed me

this far

I would like you to be kind enough to go

a little further with me I would like to

share with you something I knew that is

retrieved along with the blocked off

memories in March of 1974 the

reprogrammed variables tinkered with

back at some earlier date probably in

the late forties in March of nineteen

74 the payoff the results of at least

one and possibly more of the reprogram

variables lying along the linear time

line of our past set in activity what

happened between March and August of

1974 was the result of at least one

reprogram variable laid down perhaps

thirty years before setting into motion

a threat of change which culminated in

what I am sure you will admit was a

spectacularly important and unique

historical event the forced removal from

office of a President of the United

States Richard Nixon as well as all

those associated with him in the

alternative world which I remembered the

civil rights movement the anti-war

movements of the 60s had failed and

evidently in the mid-70s Nixon was not

removed from power that which deposed

him if anything indeed existed that it

did oppose him or could oppose it was

inadequate therefore one or more factors

tending towards that destruction of the

entrenched tyrannical power had retro

actively to us come to the introduced

the scales thirty years later in

nineteen had been two thousand years ago

at its inception it was regard as

subversive and revolutionary and let me

add this appraisal by the police

authorities was correct it took me

almost two weeks after the return of my

memories of my life in track a to rid

myself of the overpowering impression

that all references to Christ all Sacre

total acts had to be bailed an absolute

secrecy but historically this fits the

pattern of a fascist takeover especially

those who long nazi lines

easy to not be souvenir cookie don't

belong Terriers selects the path to

change leader from Philadelphia

lokasenna science and the consider

exhibition a revolutionary the

similarity is that a purchase on his

ability to share data collect a

pedometer a souvenir with prejudice to

that and the departure will emphasize

about could you believe well he

unsuccessfully to delay the opposition

to that forever that so we can answer

the question director stood here to

defeat the thule passage particular

Marcela to domestic I would like to read

something which I had to lead Joe Nocera

I would like to I also would like to

tell you if if you have followed me this

far

to accept my statement about my other

memories under the sodium pentathol

which returned that world was a prison

it was dreadful we overthrew it just as

we overthrew the Nixon tyranny but it

was far more cruel incredibly so and

there was a great battle of loss of life

now to continue it was in February of

1974 that my blocked-off memories of

track' returned and it was in February

of 1974 that my novel flow my tears the

policeman said was released finally

after two years delay it was almost as

if the release of the novel which had

been delayed so long

meant that in a certain sense it was

alright for me to remember that is to

remember that the book was not fiction

the book was based on subliminal

memories which I had of such a world

but perhaps until the book was actually

actually released it was better that I

did not remember why that would be I do

not know but I have the impression that

the memories were not to come to the

surface until the material had been

published very sincerely on the office

part as what he believed to be fiction

think of the city on go look perhaps had

I known I would have been too frightened

to write the novel as it was I was very

frightened anyway there was something

about the novel that frightened me a

great deal or perhaps I would have just

shot off my mouth and told everybody and

somehow interfered with the

effectiveness of that book and such

other books of - man in the high castle

which were also based on residual

memories the effectiveness of those

novels might have been impaired I do not

even claim there was an intended

effectiveness perhaps there was none at

all

but if there was one and I repeat the

word is emphatically

it was almost certainly to stir

subliminal memories in readers back to

them life not a conscious life not an

entering consciousness as in my own case

but to recall to them on a deep and

profound albeit unconscious level what a

police tyranny is life and how vital it

is now or then at any time along any

time track in any world to defeat it in

March of 1974 the really crucial moves

to depose Nixon were beginning in August

five months later they proved successful

it seems to me that in many ways ideas

have a life of their own

they appear to seize on people and make

use of them the idea which seized me 27

years ago and never let go of me is this

any society in which people meddle in

other people's business is not a good

Society and a state in which the

government quote knows more about you

than you know about yourself as it is

expressed in my

for my tears the policeman said is a

state which must be overthrown oh thank

what would uh isn't the last show it may

be a theocracy a fascist corporate state

or reactionary monopolistic capitalism

or central istic socialism that aspect

is not matter and I am saying not merely

it can happen here meaning the United

States but rather it did happen here in

the United States I remember I was one

of the secret Christians who bought it

and at least to some extent helped

overthrow it and I am very proud of that

proud of myself in time track aid this

is great to question all of edited when

you when I use the word Christian there

I do not mean Christians as they are now

I mean Christians as they were say 2000

years ago enemies of a powerful Empire

when I saw Star Wars this morning I

thought to myself deja vu

Hospital father kept charging politics

HM definitely finish comedy not a

politician giovannino sadistic the

Lahani illustrating Star Wars Samata

Shinjuku well initially there is

unfortunately for me a somber intimation

which accompanies my pride in the work

that I did in that alternate earth I

think that in that previous world I did

not live past March of 1974 in this

track here which I will call track B we

fought a much lighter tyranny a far

stupider one or perhaps we had

assistance the anterior reprogramming of

one or more historical variables came to

our rescue

sometimes I think and this is of course

pure speculation a having fantasy of my

soul that because of what we

accomplished there or anyhow attempted

to and very bravely we who are directly

involved were allowed to live on here

past the terminal point which brought us

down that other worst world it is a sort

of miraculous kindness this gracious

gift serves to delineate for us for me

at least some aspects of the program it

causes me to comprehend him after a

fashion I think we cannot know what he

is but we can experience his functioning

and so can ask what does he resemble not

what is he but rather what is he like

because it'll kill me

implemented the daily to empower the

physical first and foremost he

controlled the objects processes and

events in our space-time world this is

for us the primary aspect

although intrinsically he may possess

aspects of greater magnitude but have

less applicability to us I have spoken

of myself as a reprogrammed variable and

I have spoken of him as the programmer

and reprogramming during a short period

of time in March of 1974 at the moment

in which I was recent aside I was aware

perceptually which is to say aware in an

external way of his presence that was at

that time I had no idea what I was

seeing it resembled nothing that I had

ever heard described it resembled

plasmic energy it had colors it moved

fast he collected and then dispersed but

what it was what he was I am Not sure

even now except I can tell you that he

had simulated normal objects and their

processes so as to copy them and in such

an artful way as to make himself

invisible within them as the Vedanta put

it he is the fire within the flint the

razor within the razor case later

research showed me that in terms of

group cultural experience the name

brahma has been given to this

omnipresent eminent entity to deceive me

though do one thing I really want you to

know I'm aware that the claims I am

making claims of having retrieved buried

memories of an alternate present and who

have perceived the agency responsible

for arranging that alternation these

claims can neither be proved nor can

they be even made to sound rational in

the usual sense of the word it has taken

me over three years to reach

the point where I am willing to tell

anyone but my closest friends about my

experience beginning back at the vernal

equinox of 1974

Janusz was presented in that position

suma Honka one of the reasons motivating

me to speak about it publicly at last to

openly make this claim is a recent

encounter I have undergone which by the

way bears a strange resemblance to

Hawthorne Abin SURS experience in my

novel the man in the high castle with

the woman Juliana Frank and it is no

pollution about Juliana read all

Benson's book about a world in which

Germany and Japan and Italy now this is

a little difficult if you haven't read

the book but he wrote a novel in which

Germany Italy and Japan lost World War

two and he was living in a world in

which they had won world war two Luther

they don't get a thumb Jeff happy I

thought those other son for the occasion

Juliana read all Vinson's book about a

world which the axis lost and she felt

she should tell him what she

comprehended about the book in other

words that his novel was true

now this final scene and man in the high

castle has been the source for a similar

scene in my later story faith of our

fathers where the girl Tanya Lee shows

up and acquaints the protagonist with

the actual reality situation which is to

say that much of his world is delusional

and purposefully so

in other words of operations in other

words it's a common theme in my writing

that a dark-haired girl shows up at the

door of the protagonist and tells him

that his world is delusional that

there's something false about it

Hyungsik

now in man in the high castle the

situation is ironically reversed the

girl that comes from the door tells an

author that his book of fiction is true

for several years I have had the feeling

of growing feeling that one day a woman

who would be a complete stranger to me

would contact me and tell me that she

had some information to impart to me and

then she would appear at my door just as

Julianna appeared at Hawthorn ovince ins

door and then forthwith in the gravest

possible way she would tell me exactly

what Julianna told Evanson and that is

that my book like his was in a certain

real literal and physical sense not

fiction but the truth to be cooked

wonderful well this did finally happen

to me

I even knew that her hair would be black

I had an actual complete sense of what

she would look like and what she would

say she don't see any need for mom who

probably is multiplied or and I'm

speaking of a woman who had

systematically read every single novel

of mine which is more than 30 novels as

well as many of my stories she did

appear she was a total stranger and she

did inform me of this fact that some of

my fictional works were in a literal

sense true and even you edited Holmes

hair and then skip down today

now I had posited in 1974 when my

memories of this alternate world came

back that if these memories were

authentic that it was only a matter of

time before of contact a cautious

guarded probing by someone would occur

initiated by a person who had read my

books in front for one reason or another

deduced the actual situation

I mean knew what the significant

information was which the books and

stories carried now this woman knew from

my novels and stories which world I had

experienced which of the many what she

could not determine until I told her was

that in February of 1975 I had passed

across into a third alternative present

third one track see we will call it and

this was a garden or Park of peace and

beauty a world superior to ours rising

into existence to her of three rather

than two worlds the black iron prison

world which had been our intermediate

world in which oppression and war exists

but have to a great degree been cast

down and then a third alternative world

which someday when the correct variables

in our past have been reprogrammed will

materialize as a super imposition on to

this one and within which as we awaken

to it we shall suppose that we have

always lived there the memory of this

intermediate one like that of the black

iron prison world eradicated mercifully

from our memories put the species of

them

the best that I could really do at this

point after having had these experiences

and written these novels is to play the

role of prophet of ancient prophets in

such Oracle's as the Sibyl of Delphi and

to talk of a wonderful garden world much

like that which once our ancestors are

said to have inhabited in fact I

sometimes imagine it to be exactly that

same world restored as if a false

projectory of our world will eventually

be fully corrected and once more we will

be where once many thousands of years

ago we lived and were happy during the

brief time I walked about in that garden

world I had the strong impression that

it was our legitimate home which somehow

we had lost the time I spent there was

short about six hours of really elapsed

time but I remember it well in the novel

I wrote with Roger Zelazny

Deus theory I described it toward the

end at the point where the curse is

lifted from the world by the death

what's amazing to me about this

park-like world this track see was the

non-christian elements forming the basis

of it it was not what my Christian

training had prepared me for at all even

when it began to phase out I still saw

sky I saw land and dark blue smooth

water and standing by the edge of the

water a beautiful nude woman whom I

recognized as Aphrodite at that point

this other better world had diminished

to a mere landscape beyond the golden

rectangle doorway the outline of the

doorway pulsed with laser-like light and

it all grew smaller and was at last a

last gone from sight the three point

three to five doorway devouring itself

into nothingness sealing off what lay

beyond I have not seen it since but I

had the firm impression that this was

the next world not of the Christians but

the Arkadiy of the greco-roman world

something older and more

beautiful than that which my own

religion can conjure up as a lure to

keep us in a state of beautiful morality

and faith what I saw was very old and

very lovely sky sea land and the

beautiful woman and then nothing for the

door had shut and I was closed off back

here was with a bitter sense of loss

that I saw it though

saw her go really since it all

constellated about her off road I hate I

discovered when I