“Now, having brought you to this most unsatisfactory and depressing conclusion, I shall leave you to your painful ruminations and wish you good luck.”
Ha! Will definitely need it after that.
And I liked the bit in Note 6 about Bradbury. Just last night I encouraged my son to read some Bradbury stories after he told me how much he enjoys writing. I could have suggested any author, but I chose Bradbury (I suppose) because of my discovery about a year ago that Bradbury grew up in a town I used to work in and am currently living/working somewhat close to.
Also, I couldn’t help but think of the Netflix series I recently watched (3 Body Problem) after traveling down a rabbit hole your notes on PKD led me to… when I googled Valis to find out more about it. I’m not a big science fiction reader, but after reading your notes and given how much I enjoyed that Netflix series, I’m thinking I should give Sci-fi books a chance!
I enjoyed all your notes/quotes… even the ones I struggled following (not because your writing isn’t clear, but because the subjects were on a more complex level of which I am not lately practiced at following… perhaps the reason I have been enjoying your account… it’s exercising my brain and thinking skills. 🙂).
The following are three reflections that emerged during my reading:
- "being the projected ego image and accompanying objective world that you have entranced yourself to be." Although there is an "instead" before this sentence, alone, the severed quote describes a religious experience. Like if "in order to arrive at a higher order of completeness we must consider a contradictory religio-philosophic position, and thereby we have a self-correcting complex."
- Is the ultimate truth so simple? Yes, we love to discuss it.
- Most people get religion and spirituality totally wrong: Do you know of any essays or books discussing the sacred/divine/holy sensory quality of reality? A perhaps miraculous experience or the result of a method that allows for the manifestation of The Kingdom.
These have deep meaning for me. Thank you for producing moments of self-exploration.
This gave me a little chuckle…
“Now, having brought you to this most unsatisfactory and depressing conclusion, I shall leave you to your painful ruminations and wish you good luck.”
Ha! Will definitely need it after that.
And I liked the bit in Note 6 about Bradbury. Just last night I encouraged my son to read some Bradbury stories after he told me how much he enjoys writing. I could have suggested any author, but I chose Bradbury (I suppose) because of my discovery about a year ago that Bradbury grew up in a town I used to work in and am currently living/working somewhat close to.
Also, I couldn’t help but think of the Netflix series I recently watched (3 Body Problem) after traveling down a rabbit hole your notes on PKD led me to… when I googled Valis to find out more about it. I’m not a big science fiction reader, but after reading your notes and given how much I enjoyed that Netflix series, I’m thinking I should give Sci-fi books a chance!
I enjoyed all your notes/quotes… even the ones I struggled following (not because your writing isn’t clear, but because the subjects were on a more complex level of which I am not lately practiced at following… perhaps the reason I have been enjoying your account… it’s exercising my brain and thinking skills. 🙂).
Thank you
Dear Matt, it is a pleasure to read you.
The following are three reflections that emerged during my reading:
- "being the projected ego image and accompanying objective world that you have entranced yourself to be." Although there is an "instead" before this sentence, alone, the severed quote describes a religious experience. Like if "in order to arrive at a higher order of completeness we must consider a contradictory religio-philosophic position, and thereby we have a self-correcting complex."
- Is the ultimate truth so simple? Yes, we love to discuss it.
- Most people get religion and spirituality totally wrong: Do you know of any essays or books discussing the sacred/divine/holy sensory quality of reality? A perhaps miraculous experience or the result of a method that allows for the manifestation of The Kingdom.
These have deep meaning for me. Thank you for producing moments of self-exploration.