so what are we to make of this?

[steve vegas]

Maitreya?!?! <p></p><i></i>

[Gouda]

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[Gouda]

<!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://www.philipkdickfans.com/weirdo/weirdo8.htm">www.philipkdickfans.com/w...eirdo8.htm</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--><br><br>See last page, last panel of "The Religious Experience of Philip K. Dick by R. Crumb", which Jeff just posted... <p></p><i></i>

[thoughtographer]

Your guess is as good as mine, but I've have a few ideas. His autobiographical information and personal correspondence is a good place to start.<br><br>I was the "anonymous" who posted "The Last Days of Philip K. Dick" in the blog comments. I couldn't resist it, considering the Dylan quote that Jeff posted about Disney. Dick wrote quite a bit about Disney, and I've always taken a special interest in his feelings on the subject. <br><br>I hope bringing the subject into the discussion brings some interesting connections to light. Whatever the "agency" responsible for the information, it seems the "agents" are many and varied, as are their many interpretations of said information.<br><br><br>-- edit --<br><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://www.alphane.com/moon/PalmTree/">www.alphane.com/moon/PalmTree/</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--><br><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://www.alphane.com/moon/PalmTree/greenfield.htm">www.alphane.com/moon/Palm...nfield.htm</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--><br><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://www.alphane.com/moon/PalmTree/unicorn.htm">www.alphane.com/moon/Palm...nicorn.htm</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--><br><br>I'll come back when I actually have something to say. <p></p><i>Edited by: <A HREF=http://p216.ezboard.com/brigorousintuition.showUserPublicProfile?gid=thoughtographer>thoughtographer</A> at: 2/16/06 5:10 pm<br></i>

[marykmusic]

"Maitreya" is a made-up thoughtform designed to suck in all the Newagers thinking it's the next Buddha. What WILL happen is that anyone involved with that name will get a seriously nasty etheric attachment, and who knows what else.<br><br>Historically, it's a stock character name in ancient Indian theater, often a narrator; an untrustworthy ne'er-do-well of the priest caste. --MaryK <p></p><i></i>

[Floyd Smoots]

MaryK, thanks for the info on the origin of the name. Somehow it seems very fitting for this character in all of his varied "incarnations".<br><br>Jeff, dammit, that was a crappy thing to do! You let me get led to a heretical site! You mean, There Really AIN'T NO Mickey Mouse??? Next, you'll be giving me disinfo about Santa Claus and the Easter Bunny! Have you No SHAME???<br><br>Someone, somewhere will probably be found trying to convince me that poor ol' uncle Walt Disney was a child molester, or something. (THAT'S NOT funny, but I have seen it alleged on the World Wide Web). WHY DO "they" call it a "web" or "net"work? Hmmm???<br><br>Just asking, mind you.<br><br>(Added on "edit")<br>As a sci-fi loving space-baby of the 40's, 50's, 60's, and beyond, I have read many many of Phillip K. Dick's books and short stories, and he Never Failed to entertain me and "Make Me Think" about the futures he was positing.<br><br>Alienator Floyd, the Saucer Pilot<br> <p></p><i>Edited by: <A HREF=http://p216.ezboard.com/brigorousintuition.showUserPublicProfile?gid=floydsmoots>Floyd Smoots</A> at: 2/16/06 7:02 pm<br></i>

[pugzleyca3]

Re: web or net...<br><br>You have to admit, if the ptb ever wanted to gather information on people, this would certainly be an ingenious way of doing it. Make the internet available to people and then mine the data. Which is not a far fetched idea at all when you consider what's in the news these days. They've probably had us all monitored since the day the internet became available to the private sector. <br><br>The perfect web or net to catch information. The very nature of the web is such that you are likely to find out what people really think about issues, the anonymity factor being what it is between posters on message boards and blogs.<br><br>We're anonymous to each other to the degree we wish to be, but I doubt anyone is anonymous to them or ever was. <p></p><i></i>

[Floyd Smoots]

pugzleyca3, I couldn't agree MORE with your post, even if I tried!!!<br><br>Spaceman (Where'n'hellza mah oxygin tanks?) Floyd<br><br>So, Bite Me, NSA, CIA, FBI, BATFE, EPA, Homeless Insuckurity, etc., ad INFINITUM!!! That's Latin for Forever, spookboyz!!!<br> <p></p><i></i>

[steve vegas]

I actually meant to post this in Jeff's Phillip K. Dick thread. I guess I mis-clicked. I was totally blown away by the comic. I foolishly missed the chance to meet Mr. Dick at a book signing when I was 14 or so. He did a signing at a comic book store that I spent way too much time in. Sadly I was more interested in Batman and reading Heinlein books and had no idea who he was. I CAN"T believe that he had visions of this Maitreya joker. I'm familiar with Maitreya Buddha, but I've always been puzzled by this Benjamin Creme thing. What the hell can he possibly be up to? Anyway, my real question is, did Phillip K. Dick get hit by project blue beam or something? Did he somehow get this vision of Maitreya beamed into his head as part of some psyop, or did he formulate the idea as a result of studying all the various angles. Sad to say I still haven't read any of his books, now I'm both wary and intrigued. I've become leary in my old age of reading and watching things that might be "mind control" or the result of "mind control" moreso because I now know that these things exist and it makes me paranoid, rather than out of fear of being controlled myself... <p></p><i></i>

[Floyd Smoots]

....Sorry, steve vegas, just had to twit you a bit there. <!--EZCODE EMOTICON START :D --><img src=http://www.ezboard.com/images/emoticons/happy.gif ALT=":D"><!--EZCODE EMOTICON END--> <br>You need to imbibe my favorite new political word, coined by Floydnak the Great, "verinoid". The definition is: The Absolute Certainty, (based on Rigorous Intuition) that "they" really, Really, REALLY ARE out to get you!!!<br><br>I CAN relate to the "comic book meme" as my thirty-year-old stepson owns two comic/card/role playing gamester stores here in the area where I reside. Thanks to him, and others, I spent many happy/informed(?) hours from the mid-eighties to the mid-nineties reading a lot of the "newer" artists/writers. I'm fifty eight, and grew up on S-man, B-man, Captain Marvel, Spiderman, FF4, etc.<br><br>I even read the first graphic novel, "The Dark Knight" (Batman), and ol' Frank what's-his-names "Sin City". Far Out!!!<br><br>Phillip K. Dick's works are now taking on a new, strange meaning to me now, thanks to all this new, previously unknown info. However, as I posted above, his stories and novels Never Failed to entertain me, and make me THINK.<br><br>Comicator Floyd, de UFO Pile-it!!!<br> <p></p><i></i>

[steve vegas]

Floyd, thanks for the new term. I'm planning on reading his works asap...I'm all the way over here in asia though and English books are hard to come by. Mail order is a pain, even with the internets...any reccomendations on which book to start with? <p></p><i></i>

[meekster]

I used to love comics as a kid, the super heroes as well as Disney, (especially Donald Duck and his nephews). When you think about it, most of the modern super heroes are what the ancients called Gods, or at least Demigods. They have god-like powers, they never age, they are physically powerful and more beautiful than "mortals", they often come from outer space, and they work together to protect weak earthlings from ourselves and from other super beings who happen to be villains.<br><br>Now that I'm aware of some of the common alien memes going around, I can't help but notice a similarity. <br><br>I rented The Incredibles last year, and again, I was struck by these themes:<br><br>- the super hero contains innate goodness - when the young super girl questions her super mom about her character, her mom reassures her by telling her that when the time came, she would not fail to do the right thing, saying "it's in your blood" (bloodlines are a rather intense fetish of the elite).<br><br>-The super villain, named Syndrome, is not actually super at all, but suffers from super power envy. He wants to be super, but is only a "normal" boy, and he won't accept his weak, normal, state of being. He uses technology to apparently match the supers in power, only in the end, the hi-tech is no match for true super power.<br><br>- the Incredible baby - is a character who doesn't show any super power at first - in fact, the parents wonder if he's super at all. but at the end, he is able to transform himself into a fire breathing demon baby, horns and all.<br><br>To find that P.K. Dick was allegedly channelling "Elijah" is only par for this very strange course.<br><br><br> <p></p><i></i>

[streeb]

I'm amazed at the amount of information people are willing to give up on social networking sites like myspace - usually accompanied with a picture or two for good measure. Does anyone here have the scuttlebut on myspace? Who owns it? Is this another Dulles, Virginia based honey trap, like AOL? it's current membership is at - what- 50 million? I've been silently visiting this board for a little while now - certainly long enough to be comprehensively alarmed about, um, <!--EZCODE ITALIC START--><em>everything</em><!--EZCODE ITALIC END-->, including the fact that so many of my friends spend hours pouring over their myspace pages, cheerfully revealing their co-ordinates <!--EZCODE EMOTICON START :b --><img src=http://www.ezboard.com/images/emoticons/tongue.gif ALT=":b"><!--EZCODE EMOTICON END--> <br>Anybody else get a bad feeling from this, or am I just old? <p></p><i></i>

[ivanbo2003]

Why don't Jeff connect these 2 topics into one?<br>Makes more sense to me,since both cover the same "thing" <p></p><i></i>

[albion]

In Buddhist eschatology, Maitreya is the future buddha.<br><br><!--EZCODE QUOTE START--><blockquote><strong><em>Quote:</em></strong><hr>Maitreya is a bodhisattva who some Buddhists believe will eventually appear on earth, achieve complete enlightenment, and teach the pure dharma. Maitreya Bodhisattva will be the successor of the historic Sakyamuni Buddha. He is predicted to be a “world-ruler,” uniting those who he rules over. The prophecy of the arrival of Maitreya is accepted by the Theravada, Mahayana, and Vajrayana traditions.<br><br><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maitreya">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maitreya</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--><hr></blockquote><!--EZCODE QUOTE END--><br><br>The famed con artist merely hijacked the name. <p></p><i>Edited by: <A HREF=http://p216.ezboard.com/brigorousintuition.showUserPublicProfile?gid=albion@rigorousintuition>albion</A> at: 2/17/06 12:17 am<br></i>