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– Science fiction writer Philip K. Dick considered himself a prophet. His stories, he thought — Blade Runner, Total Recall, Minority Report, The Adjustment Bureau — might be set in the real future, to which he had access through his visions. Simon Critchley has a series of articles at the Times web site on Dick’s theology that I find fascinating. It strikes me that in one way Dick was a prophet, because his paranoid view of the universe seems to explain much of what has happened in our popular culture over the past 40 years.
Dick’s spiritual arc began with an event that his followers call “the golden fish”:
On Feb. 20, 1974, Dick was hit with the force of an extraordinary revelation after a visit to the dentist for an impacted wisdom tooth for which he had received a dose of sodium pentothal. A young woman…
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Dickian Gnosticism 
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