coldbrightsunlight wrote:^ Yeah Kindred is good but brutal! I'd recommend more of her books, I've read the "Lilith's Brood" series and enjoyed them a lot.Seance wrote:Recently re-read Valis by Philip K Dick. Although I sort of wish I had this version
so I could re-read the whole series in order.
The first time I read these I checked them all out sequentially from a library—back when
libraries still trafficked in physical books.
Man I'd love that version! I loved Valis but not got round to checking out the series yet.
Might be interesting to read Robert Temple's new book after that series.
Apparently Robert Temple's book The Sirius Mystery from 1976 influenced PKD to change
the star he thought his pink laser of information beamed into his brain was coming from. Initially
he conjectured Albemuth. Then settled on Sirius.
Talk of "plasmate" and how the universe is a hologram and the pink laser as an info beam in PKD
also sort of seem to have something in common with Robert Temple's new book, A New Science
of Heaven.
Or... human concepts frame how human minds conceive of that which is that we don't understand.
For Newton the universe is like a clock.
Some people now seem to the think the universe is like a hologram/virtual reality construct made by a computer.
Scientists call it "dark matter" and "dark energy" because 99% of the universe is made up of "stuff"
that scientists have no clue about (humans are "in the dark", not the matter or energy).
