If an early Christian was in his brain how did he write Valis? Wouldn’t science fiction concepts be nonsense to Thomas?
Mystical inspiration meets modern sensibility. No big mystery here.
>>24696277Their minds coexisted, much like our time exists overlayed over 1st century BC time
>>24696285The people trying to take over the world think science fiction is real
>>24696285Explains why everyone I know doesn't like science fiction
>>24696277Science fiction concepts are Early Christian concepts. The empire never ended. Remember how they had a guy levitating over water, synthesizing and transmuting organic matter, regenerating from dead tissues and transmitting this regenerative property on other organisms?
>>24696373The jewish fairytales aren't real? Dad, why is he saying that?
>>24696277the answer to any PKD questions is "methamphetamine psychosis."
>>24696387based
>>24696378You are unaware of reality.
>>24696392That's more like it. Taking the jewish fairytales as historical events is extremely sophisticated, isn't it? You are so wise (gullible)!
>>24696398>historical eventsNo such thing. "History" implies progression of time.
>>24696285I like pkd but this is retarded elitist bullshit. Sci fi is for people who don't want to face reality, much like fantasy
>>24697803>I enjoy PKD, but this sounds like elitist nonsense to me. I experience sci-fi as something that often attracts people who prefer to avoid confronting reality, similar to how fantasy does for some.
If you understand Orthodox theology you'll see PKD wasn't wrong in a sense
>>24697884literature for understanding orthodox theology?
>>24697886First read Revelation, the Johannine epistles and the Septuagint Old Testament (especially Genesis) if you haven't alreadyThen you can look into On the Life of Moses by Gregory of Nyssa, Ambigua and Questions to Thalassius by Maximus the Confessor and Palamas' HomiliesAmong secondary interpretative works that aren't early Church patristics, there's the following:>The Mystery of Christ by John Behr>Being as Communion by John Zizioulas>For the Life of the World and Of Water and the Spirit by Alexander Schmemann>The Experience of God by Dumitru StaniloaeThere are others, but that should suffice. The idea being that cyclical or kairotic time in Orthodox thought is linked to liturgy and eschatology with each Eucharist actualizing the one sacrifice yet in recurring anamnesis. The Orthodox eschatological model is Revelation as both a once-for-all event and a perpetually re-presented reality, history is a series of typological cycles moving toward eschaton and not linear closure
>>24697878Don't tell me how to speak ya cunt
>>24696427time almost progressed a few times and it still might
>>24696277because he didn't write scifi. it was metaphoric.
Anyone read the Exegesis?
>>24698865What did he write?
>>24699501I think that collectively we're still trying to get a handle on it. It's still 50+ years ahead of us. scifi was just the best vehicle for him to put it in at the time. Similar to Rod Serling not knowing or caring about scifi but put his stories in that genre to give people some distance. Roddenberry too. https://www.tekgnostics.com/PDK.HTM
