Philip K. Dick Discloses the Matrix in 1977

[Simulist]

It's a thin line between insanity and genius.

I think insanity is far more common than we might realize, genius or not.

In our civilization, most of the insane are quiet, unremarkable souls who accept the things they're told they see unquestioningly.

Their delusions are the most dangerous, and the most commonplace.

[justdrew]

[Nordic]

ftp://eol.jsc.nasa.gov/ISD_highres_STS0 ... 4-70_3.JPG



I'm ... not sure how to explain that.

[82_28]

Strangely enough, that is a fascinating interview. Thanks for sharing justdrew.

In the second part, he seems to disclose the idea of precrime and it makes my mind swirl with Dickian ideas as to how the Internet even arrived at all. Nobody had a computer in those days and if they did they were likely only networked via ARPANET. He was convinced the police were out to get him during the Nixon administration, but once that ended things became "fine" again. What does that mean? I mean Dick taught me to be paranoid of the cops. Is there a causal relationship here? Were his works meant to be understood only after the passage of temporal time? Is this by psychological design or was Dick simply onto something nobody could even grasp in those days? He's like an ouroboros. He is simultaneously a prophet and also a suspect in and of the realm of mind controlled puppetry. Did he see through it? Did he go rogue? Did he make Dicks out of all of us each and every time we may question his motives? Was he a visionary? If so, through who's vision was he relaying? Who? His? His handlers who he so deftly wrote about in paranoid style whilst not being "handled" at all? He says he had been visited by agents after all.

Was it his pink light? Was it his extrapolations into the future as to how policing would one day become in a networked world?

I do think so. But in Dickian terms and themes, this is exactly what he would write a story about 30, 40 years before it ever actually happens. Did he see it? Or was he told it? Was he programmed? Was he merely a one of a kind genius?

So does this pink light and this matrix exist? Are we creating it? Does it already exist? Has it always existed? Was he just on to the ease in which a government or media agency could make you believe anything?

Ugh. So many questions and so many ways to go with this PKD figure who I have always absolutely loved.

[82_28]

ftp://eol.jsc.nasa.gov/ISD_highres_STS088_STS088-724-70_3.JPG



I'm ... not sure how to explain that.

What in the living fuck is that Nordic?

I am fucking scared.

I saw an orb today myself. Could have been a weather balloon. I do not know.

It traveled in one direction for a time around a cloud. Then it disappeared, literally vanished and then about 10 seconds later reappeared and headed off to the north. It was hanging out next to a contrail/chemtrail. Once it was done, it took a slice out of the cloud. I watched this object for about 20 minutes. Look at the little area that totally disappeared within one second of this object leaving it. I was unable to snag a pic of the object though, way too small for my cellphone cam. I was totally looking for wings on it, but saw none and plus it was hovering, not flying and changed linear directions after it had disappeared.

[matrixdutch]

Damn, they removed the video.

[matrixdutch]

Ah, found it:

[seemslikeadream]

Thanks matrixdutch

[Belligerent Savant]

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Another odd pic from Nordic's link:

ftp://eol.jsc.nasa.gov/ISD_highres_STS0 ... 4-69_3.JPG

And another:

ftp://eol.jsc.nasa.gov/ISD_highres_STS0 ... 4-67_3.JPG

Apparently the photos were uploaded around 7/09 and 7/10 of 2010, though there are others that have modified dates from as far back as the late early 2000's [with a few from the late 90's], not all as strange as those linked above.

The root directory contains a substantial amount of what seem to be satellite photos [but apparently are astronaut-taken photographs]:

ftp://eol.jsc.nasa.gov/

on EDIT, here's the main webpage:

http://eol.jsc.nasa.gov/

"The Gateway to Astronaut Photography of Earth hosts the best and most complete online collection of astronaut photographs of the Earth.

Beginning with the Mercury missions in the early 1960s, astronauts have taken photographs of the Earth. Our database tracks the locations, supporting data, and digital images for these photographs. We process images coming down from the International Space Station on a daily basis and add them to the 1,022,323 views of the Earth already made accessible on our website."

[Nordic]

Here's the video that really made me go



NASA seems to be saying these are "space junk". And the first few do indeed look like blackened scrap metal floating around in space.

But the last two, and especially # 70, most definitely do not look like this. #70 really looks like some kind of a craft, with a propulsion rocket of some kind and little lights on it.

Granted, these could be reflections from the sun, seeing as how the angle of the light is in this particular shot, but the "propulsion engine" flare is difficult to see as a reflection. Although I suppose it could be.

Somehow they found higher-res images than I could find on the NASA site.

Crazy stuff. Probably deserves its own thread.

[82_28]

I dunno. Can we be sure (obviously not), but can we be sure these photos are real in that video you posted, Nordic? Interesting. I think it does need it's own thread.

[justdrew]

from lettersofnote.com --
PKD warns FBI re: neo-Nazis, syphilis and World War III

In 1972, a far-reaching neo-Nazi organisation discreetly began to contact various high-profile authors in the U.S. with a view to enlisting their help; the plan being to covertly plant codewords into millions of science fiction novels and spread a secret message to certain sections of society. The message related to a new, deadly, and incurable strain of syphilis - deliberately unleashed on the country by enemies of the U.S. - that was currently sweeping the land at an incredible pace, its existence denied by the government. This was, in fact, the beginning of World War III.

The scene I just painted was lifted from the following two letters - intriguing letters to say the least - both of which were written by science fiction novelist Philip K. Dick in 1972 and sent, in all seriousness, to the FBI. Interestingly, within two years Dick began to experience the 'visions' he would later document in his book, Exegesis.

< see actual photo's of the letters at above link >

Transcripts

Letter #1

October 28, 1972

Federal Bureau of Investigation
Washington, D.C.

Gentlemen:

I am a well-known author of science fiction novels, one of which dealt with Nazi Germany (called MAN IN THE HIGH CASTLE, it described an "alternate world" in which the Germans and Japanese won World War Two and jointly occupied the United States). This novel, published in 1962 by Putnam & Co., won the Hugo Award for Best Novel of the Year and hence was widely read both here and abroad; for example, a Japanese edition printed in Tokio ran into several editions. I bring this to your attention because several months ago I was approached by an individual who I have reason to believe belonged to a covert organization involving politics, illegal weapons, etc., who put great pressure on me to place coded information in future novels "to be read by the right people here and there," as he phrased it. I refused to do this.

The reason why I am contacting you about this now is that it now appears that other science fiction writers may have been so approached by other members of this obviously anti-American organization and may have yielded to the threats and deceitful statements such as were used on me. Therefore I would like to give you any and all information and help I can regarding this, and I ask that your nearest office contact me as soon as possible. I stress the urgency of this because within the last three days I have come across a well-distributed science fiction novel which contains in essence the vital material which this individual confronted me with as the basis for encoding. That novel is CAMP CONCENTRATION by Thomas Disch, which was published by Doubleday & Co.

Cordially,

Philip K. Dick
3028 Quartz Lane Apt. #2
Fullerton,
Calif 92361.

P.S. I would like to add: what alarms me most is that this covert organization which approached me may be Neo-Nazi, although it did not identify itself as being such. My novels are extremely anti-Nazi. I heard only one code identification by this individual: Solarcon-6.

Letter #2

November 4, 1972

Inspector Shine
Marin County Sheriff's Office,
Marin County Civic Center,
San Rafael,
Calif 94903.

Dear Inspector Shine:

As you may recall, on or about November 17, 1971, my house at 707 Hacienda Way, Santa Venetia, was extensively robbed. The last time I talked to you, during February of this year, you informed me that you had broken the case; a man named Wade (Jerry Wade I believe) had been arrested with the Ruger .22 pistol of mine stolen during this robbery. I have been in Canada and now in Southern California and hence out of touch. Have any more of my possessions been recovered? Have there been any more arrests made? Do you have anything more you can tell me at this date?

While I was in Canada evidently my house was robbed again, during March of this year. I did not know this until what remained of my things arrived down here; my realtor, Mrs. Annie Reagan, had stored them, and at least one entire room of stuff is missing: the bedroom in which the control system of the burglar alarm was located, the one room not covered by the scanner. Obviously it was robbed by someone who intimately knew the layout of the alarm system and how to bypass it. I recall that Inspector Bridges thought that the November 17 robbery was an inside job, at least in part. I believe that this later robbery in March of this year proves it. Only two or three persons that I can recall knew the layout of the burglar alarm system. One was Harold Kinchen, who was under investigation by Airforce Intelligence at Hamilton Field at the time I left (Mr. Richard Bader was conducting the investigation; through Sergeant Keaton of Tiberon he asked me to come in and give testimony. It had to do with an attempt on the arsenal of the Airforce Intelligence people at Hamilton on I recall January first of this year). I have more reason to believe now than I did then that Kinchen and the secret extralegal organization to which he belonged were involved in both robberies of my house, although evidence seemed to point more toward Panthers such as Wade. I say this because this is Orange County where I live now, and I have come to know something about the rightwing paramilitary Minutemen illegal people here -- they tell me confidentially that from my description of events surrounding the November robbery of my house, the methods used, the activities of Harry Kinchen in particular, it sounds to them like their counterparts up there, and possibly even a neo-Nazi group. Recently I've obtained, by accident, new information about Kinchen's associates, and the neo-Nazi organization theory does seem reinforced. In this case, the November robbery was political in nature and more than a robbery. I have thought this for some time, but until now had less reason to be sure.

As to the motive of the assault I'm not sure at all. Possibly it had to do with my published novels, one of which dealt with Nazi Germany -- it was extremely anti-Nazi, and widely circulated. I know for a fact that Harry Kinchen and the Japanese relatives he had through his wife Susan had read it. Kinchen's Japanese-born mother-in-law, Mrs. Toni Adams, had read the novel in the Japanese edition. Beyond any doubt, Kinchen is an ardent Nazi trained in such skill as weapons-use, explosives, wire-tapping, chemistry, psychology, toxins and poisons, electronics, auto repair, sabotage, the manufacture of narcotics. Mr. Bader is of course aware of this. What I did not pass on to anyone, because I feared for my life, is the fact that Kinchen put coercive pressure, both physical and psychological, on me to put secret coded information into my future published writings, "to be read by the right people here and there," as he put it, meaning members of his subversive organization. As I told you in November, he accidently responded to a phonecall from me with a code signal. Later, he admitted belonging to a secret "worldwide" organization and told me some details.

The coded information which Kinchen wished placed in my novels (I of course refused, and fled to Canada) had to do with an alleged new strain of syphilis sweeping the U.S., kept topsecret by the U.S. authorities; it can't be cured, destroys the brain, and is swift-acting. The disease, Kinchen claimed, is being brought in deliberately from Asia by agents of the enemy (unspecified), and is in fact a weapon of World War Three, which has begun, being used against us.

In a recent confidential discussion which I had with my Paris editor, a close friend of mine, this editor ratified my conviction that to allow this coded "information," undoubtedly spurious, to get into print, would be a disaster for this country. These neo-nazis or whatever they are would "break" their own code and make public this phony information, thus creating mass hysteria and panic. There is, of course, no such new untreatable paresis, despite rumors we have been hearing from Servicemen returning from Viet Nam. I have contacted the F.B.I. on the advice of my editor-publisher friend, but I felt I should contact you, too. You may wish to pass this information about the coded information in novels onto Mr. Bader.

I will hope, then, to hear from you. Thank you.

Cordially,

Philip K. Dick
3028 Quartz Lane #3
Fullerton,
Calif 92361.

P.S. Harold Kinchen introduced me to only one individual, who asked me to write for his underground pornographic publications; I refused. By accident I recently learned that this man, "Doc" Stanley, of Corte Madera, "was a student of the speeches of Hitler during his college days at the University of Chicago, advocating their doctrines and reading them to people." Neither Stanley nor Kinchen mentioned this to me.

===

and

http://www.forteantimes.com/features/articles/2860/the_strange_tale_of_solarcon6.html

[Bruce Dazzling]

from lettersofnote.com --
PKD warns FBI re: neo-Nazis, syphilis and World War III

In 1972, a far-reaching neo-Nazi organisation discreetly began to contact various high-profile authors in the U.S. with a view to enlisting their help; the plan being to covertly plant codewords into millions of science fiction novels and spread a secret message to certain sections of society. The message related to a new, deadly, and incurable strain of syphilis - deliberately unleashed on the country by enemies of the U.S. - that was currently sweeping the land at an incredible pace, its existence denied by the government. This was, in fact, the beginning of World War III.

The scene I just painted was lifted from the following two letters - intriguing letters to say the least - both of which were written by science fiction novelist Philip K. Dick in 1972 and sent, in all seriousness, to the FBI. Interestingly, within two years Dick began to experience the 'visions' he would later document in his book, Exegesis.

< see actual photo's of the letters at above link >

Transcripts

Letter #1

October 28, 1972

Federal Bureau of Investigation
Washington, D.C.

Gentlemen:

I am a well-known author of science fiction novels, one of which dealt with Nazi Germany (called MAN IN THE HIGH CASTLE, it described an "alternate world" in which the Germans and Japanese won World War Two and jointly occupied the United States). This novel, published in 1962 by Putnam & Co., won the Hugo Award for Best Novel of the Year and hence was widely read both here and abroad; for example, a Japanese edition printed in Tokio ran into several editions. I bring this to your attention because several months ago I was approached by an individual who I have reason to believe belonged to a covert organization involving politics, illegal weapons, etc., who put great pressure on me to place coded information in future novels "to be read by the right people here and there," as he phrased it. I refused to do this.

The reason why I am contacting you about this now is that it now appears that other science fiction writers may have been so approached by other members of this obviously anti-American organization and may have yielded to the threats and deceitful statements such as were used on me. Therefore I would like to give you any and all information and help I can regarding this, and I ask that your nearest office contact me as soon as possible. I stress the urgency of this because within the last three days I have come across a well-distributed science fiction novel which contains in essence the vital material which this individual confronted me with as the basis for encoding. That novel is CAMP CONCENTRATION by Thomas Disch, which was published by Doubleday & Co.

Cordially,

Philip K. Dick
3028 Quartz Lane Apt. #2
Fullerton,
Calif 92361.

P.S. I would like to add: what alarms me most is that this covert organization which approached me may be Neo-Nazi, although it did not identify itself as being such. My novels are extremely anti-Nazi. I heard only one code identification by this individual: Solarcon-6.

Letter #2

November 4, 1972

Inspector Shine
Marin County Sheriff's Office,
Marin County Civic Center,
San Rafael,
Calif 94903.

Dear Inspector Shine:

As you may recall, on or about November 17, 1971, my house at 707 Hacienda Way, Santa Venetia, was extensively robbed. The last time I talked to you, during February of this year, you informed me that you had broken the case; a man named Wade (Jerry Wade I believe) had been arrested with the Ruger .22 pistol of mine stolen during this robbery. I have been in Canada and now in Southern California and hence out of touch. Have any more of my possessions been recovered? Have there been any more arrests made? Do you have anything more you can tell me at this date?

While I was in Canada evidently my house was robbed again, during March of this year. I did not know this until what remained of my things arrived down here; my realtor, Mrs. Annie Reagan, had stored them, and at least one entire room of stuff is missing: the bedroom in which the control system of the burglar alarm was located, the one room not covered by the scanner. Obviously it was robbed by someone who intimately knew the layout of the alarm system and how to bypass it. I recall that Inspector Bridges thought that the November 17 robbery was an inside job, at least in part. I believe that this later robbery in March of this year proves it. Only two or three persons that I can recall knew the layout of the burglar alarm system. One was Harold Kinchen, who was under investigation by Airforce Intelligence at Hamilton Field at the time I left (Mr. Richard Bader was conducting the investigation; through Sergeant Keaton of Tiberon he asked me to come in and give testimony. It had to do with an attempt on the arsenal of the Airforce Intelligence people at Hamilton on I recall January first of this year). I have more reason to believe now than I did then that Kinchen and the secret extralegal organization to which he belonged were involved in both robberies of my house, although evidence seemed to point more toward Panthers such as Wade. I say this because this is Orange County where I live now, and I have come to know something about the rightwing paramilitary Minutemen illegal people here -- they tell me confidentially that from my description of events surrounding the November robbery of my house, the methods used, the activities of Harry Kinchen in particular, it sounds to them like their counterparts up there, and possibly even a neo-Nazi group. Recently I've obtained, by accident, new information about Kinchen's associates, and the neo-Nazi organization theory does seem reinforced. In this case, the November robbery was political in nature and more than a robbery. I have thought this for some time, but until now had less reason to be sure.

As to the motive of the assault I'm not sure at all. Possibly it had to do with my published novels, one of which dealt with Nazi Germany -- it was extremely anti-Nazi, and widely circulated. I know for a fact that Harry Kinchen and the Japanese relatives he had through his wife Susan had read it. Kinchen's Japanese-born mother-in-law, Mrs. Toni Adams, had read the novel in the Japanese edition. Beyond any doubt, Kinchen is an ardent Nazi trained in such skill as weapons-use, explosives, wire-tapping, chemistry, psychology, toxins and poisons, electronics, auto repair, sabotage, the manufacture of narcotics. Mr. Bader is of course aware of this. What I did not pass on to anyone, because I feared for my life, is the fact that Kinchen put coercive pressure, both physical and psychological, on me to put secret coded information into my future published writings, "to be read by the right people here and there," as he put it, meaning members of his subversive organization. As I told you in November, he accidently responded to a phonecall from me with a code signal. Later, he admitted belonging to a secret "worldwide" organization and told me some details.

The coded information which Kinchen wished placed in my novels (I of course refused, and fled to Canada) had to do with an alleged new strain of syphilis sweeping the U.S., kept topsecret by the U.S. authorities; it can't be cured, destroys the brain, and is swift-acting. The disease, Kinchen claimed, is being brought in deliberately from Asia by agents of the enemy (unspecified), and is in fact a weapon of World War Three, which has begun, being used against us.

In a recent confidential discussion which I had with my Paris editor, a close friend of mine, this editor ratified my conviction that to allow this coded "information," undoubtedly spurious, to get into print, would be a disaster for this country. These neo-nazis or whatever they are would "break" their own code and make public this phony information, thus creating mass hysteria and panic. There is, of course, no such new untreatable paresis, despite rumors we have been hearing from Servicemen returning from Viet Nam. I have contacted the F.B.I. on the advice of my editor-publisher friend, but I felt I should contact you, too. You may wish to pass this information about the coded information in novels onto Mr. Bader.

I will hope, then, to hear from you. Thank you.

Cordially,

Philip K. Dick
3028 Quartz Lane #3
Fullerton,
Calif 92361.

P.S. Harold Kinchen introduced me to only one individual, who asked me to write for his underground pornographic publications; I refused. By accident I recently learned that this man, "Doc" Stanley, of Corte Madera, "was a student of the speeches of Hitler during his college days at the University of Chicago, advocating their doctrines and reading them to people." Neither Stanley nor Kinchen mentioned this to me.

===

and

http://www.forteantimes.com/features/articles/2860/the_strange_tale_of_solarcon6.html

The FBI files add: “KINCHEN claimed paresis was the start of World War III, that DICK did not have long to live, and he wanted DICK to put science fiction code names in any of his new future science fiction novels. KINCHEN also told DICK that if DICK died, ‘they’ would continue his novels and ‘they’ would place code names in such novels. DICK said he did not know who KINCHEN was referring to as ‘they’ or what the purpose of the code names was. He believed KINCHEN had probably read the science fiction novel Camp Concentration, which was a story regarding paresis.”

Camp Concentration is one of my all time favorite books.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camp_Concentration

[Laodicean]

Michel Gondry takes on Philip K. Dick masterpiece, Ubik

By Christine Spines

Director Michel Gondry has been launching ambitious new projects in a variety of different media and genres at a James Franco-like clip. Just a few weeks ago, he announced he would follow “The Green Hornet” with a documentary on legendary linguist/anarchist, Noam Chomsky. Then, at this week’s opening of his interactive filmmaking exhibit, “Factory Movie Lovers” at the Centre Pompidou in Paris, Gondry revealed that he was developing an adaptation of Philip K. Dick’s beloved science fiction tome, Ubik. This on top of his role as an avant-garde mogul producing experimental films, commercials, music videos, and art installations via his NY-based mini-studio, Partizan.

“The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo” screenwriter, Steve Zaillian, has partnered with “Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind” producer, Steve Golin, to produce Gondry’s adaptation of “Ubik.” Gondry is not the first, but he’s definitely the most idiosyncratic and high-profile filmmaker to take on the task of bringing Dick’s logistically and thematically complex sci-fi allegory to the big screen. Widely considered Dick’s definitive masterpiece (Time magazine named it one of its top 100 English-language novels), Ubik follows, Joe Chip, a security technician hired to block telepathic spying, on a disastrous mission to the moon which turns his reality upside-down. When Chip returns to earth suddenly he’s bombarded with mysterious messages about a miraculous healing agent dispensed in aerosol cans called Ubik as parts of his reality slip anachronistically into the past. All this complexity is rife with meaning and there been no end to the interpretations of Dick’s intent. In fact, many have speculated that “The Matrix” was inspired by Ubik.

Most importantly, this is a Philip K. Dick book. So it’s, above all, profoundly, absurdly funny — which makes it perfect material for Gondry, the rare visually innovator who grounds his fantasias in deeply resonant human emotion. Exhibit A: “Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind.” Exhibit B: “Human Nature.” Exhibit C: “The Science of Sleep.” (”Be Kind,Rewind:” Not so much.) I like to think of Gondry as a more grounded and disciplined director from the Terry Gilliam school of visual visionaries.

It’s exciting to think about the cool gadgets, spray cans, and surreal moonscapes Gondry will dream up for what’s sure to be a seriously spendy project, if done right. It’s hard not to start indulging in a little fantasy casting of the book’s major characters: Ryan Gosling as Joe chip; Tim Robbins as Glen Runciter; Charlotte Gainsbourg as Pat Conley; Kate Winslet at Ella Runciter.

http://www.wordandfilm.com/2011/02/mich ... mpaign=PKD

[82_28]

It’s exciting to think about the cool gadgets, spray cans, and surreal moonscapes Gondry will dream up

Not.

Also, nothing all that weird perhaps, but perhaps weird nonetheless. I would like to know why he moved a room over:

Cordially,

Philip K. Dick
3028 Quartz Lane Apt. #2
Fullerton,
Calif 92361.

Cordially,

Philip K. Dick
3028 Quartz Lane #3
Fullerton,
Calif 92361.