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Vast Active Living Intelligence System
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last updated July 13th 2003 and is permanently morphing...
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This nOde
last updated July 13th 2003 and is permanently morphing...
(13 Chuen (Frog) / 19Tzec - 91/260 - 12.19.10.7.11)
reality
field in which a spontaneous self-monitoring negentropic vortex
is formed, tending progressively to subsume and incorporate its environment
into arrangements of information. Characterized by quasi-consciousness,
purpose, intelligence, growth and an armillary coherence.
- Great Soviet Dictionary, Sixth Edition 1992
Philip
K. Dick expresses the MIT
computer scientist Edward Fredkin's view that the universe is composed
of information.
The world we experience is a hologram,
"a hypostasis of information" that we, as nodes
in the true Mind, process.
"We hypostasize information into objects. Rearrangement of objects is change
in the content of information. This is the language
we have lost the ability to read." With this Adamic code scrambled, both
ourselves and the world as we know it are "occluded," cut off from the
brimming "Matrix"
of cosmic information. Instead, we are under the sway of the "Black Iron
Prison," Dick's terms for the demiurgic worldly forces of political tyranny
and oppressive social control. Rome is the eternal paragon of this "Empire,"
whose archetypal
lineaments the feverish Dick recognized in the Nixon administration.
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Following this event, Dick experienced a remarkable
series of visions, hallucinations, and dreams,
many of which centered around VALIS, a "Vast Active Living Intelligence
System" that he defined in his 1980
novel of the same name as a "spontaneous self-monitoring negentropic vortex...tending
to progressively subsume and incorporate its environment into arrangements
of information." Not a bad definition of the Internet,
though Dick experienced this incoming information web far more intensely
than today's online grazers. Sometimes it struck him as a pink beam of
esoteric data, or as a compassionate feminine "AI
[Artificial Intelligence] voice" speaking to him from outer space. Other
times, Dick felt he was in telepathic communication with a first-century
christian named Thomas, and once "the landscape of California, U.S.A.
1974 ebbed out and the landscape of Rome of the first century C.E. ebbed
in."
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Time
were revealed as mere mechanisms of separation."
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memory
coils (DNA
carriers
capable of experience) in a computer-like thinking system which, although
we have correctly recorded and stored thousands of years of experiential
information, and each of us possesses somewhat different deposits from
all the other life forms, there is a malfunction - a failure- of memory
retrieval. There lies the trouble in our particular subcircuit. "Salvation"
through gnosis - more properly anamnesis
(the loss of amnesia) - although it has individual significance for each
of us - a quantum
leap
in perception,
identity, cognition, understanding, world- and self-experience, including immortality
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it has greater and further importance for the system as a whole, inasmuch
as these memories are data needed by it and valuable to it, to its overall
functioning. Therefore it is in the process of self-repair, which includes:
rebuilding our subcircuit via linear and orthogonal time
changes, as well as continual signaling to us to stimulate blocked memory
banks within us to fire and hence retrieve what is there.
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The external informational or gnosis, then, consists of disinhibiting instructions, with the core content actually intrinsic to us - that is, already there (first observed by Plato; viz: that learning is a form of remembering).
The ancients possessed techniques (sacraments and rituals) used largely in the Greco-Roman mystery religions, including early Christianity, to induce firing and retrieval, mainly with a sense of its restorative value to the individuals; the Gnostics, however, correctly saw the ontological value to what they called the Godhead Itself, the total entity.
Two realms there are, upper
and lower. The upper, derived from hyperuniverse I or Yang, Form I or Parmenides,
is sentient and volitional. The lower realm, or Yin, Form II of Parmenides,
is mechanical, driven by blind, efficient cause, deterministic and without
intelligence, since it emanates from a dead source. In ancient times it
was termed "astral determinism." We are trapped, by and large, in the lower
realm, but are through the sacraments, by means of the plasmate,
extricated. Until astral determinism is broken, we are not even aware of
it, so occluded are we. "The Empire never ended."
The name of the healthy twin, hyperuniverse I,
is Nommo.
The name of the sick twin, hyperuniverse II, is Yurugu. These names are
known to the Dogon
people
of western Sudan in Africa. (*Nommo is represented in a fish form, the
early Christian fish.)
The primordial source of
all religions lies with the ancestors of the Dogon Tribe, who got their
cosmogony and cosmology directly from the three-eyed invaders who visited
long ago. The three-eyed invaders were mute and deaf and telepathic, could
not breath our atmosphere, had the elongated misshapen skull of Ikhnaton,
and emanated from a planet in the star-system Sirius.
Although they had no hands, but had, instead, pincer claws such as a crab
has, they were great builders. They covertly influence our history toward
a fruitful end.
From _VALIS_ by Philip K.
Dick
time.
"Time can be overcome," Micrea Eliade wrote. That's what it's all
about. The great mystery
of Eleusis, of the Orphics, of the early christians, of Sarapis, of
the Greco-Roman mystery religions, of Hermes
Trismegistos, of the Renaissance Hermetic alchemists,
of the Rose Cross Brotherhood, of Apollonius of Tyana, of Simon Magus,
of Asklepios, of Paracelsus, of Bruno,
consists of the abolition of time. The techniques are there.
Dante discusses them in the _Comedy_. It has to do with the loss
of amnesia; when forgetfulness is lost, true memory
spreads out backward and forward, into the past and into the future, and
also, oddly, into alternate universes; it is orthogonal as well as
linear.
- Phlip K. Dick - _VALIS_
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ambient
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Again/Horselover Fat_ MP3
by Black Lung off of _The Depopulation Bomb_ on Nova Zembla (1995) |
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22. I term the Immortal
one a plasmate,
because it is a form of energy; it is living information. It replicates
itself - not through information or in information - but as information.
31. We hypostatize
information into objects. Rearrangement of objects is change in the
content of the information; the message has changed. This is a language
which we have lost the ability to read. We ourselves are a part of
this language; changes in us are changes in the content of the information.
We ourselves are information-rich; information enters us, is processed
and is then projected outward once more, now in an altered form.
We are not aware that we are doing this, that in fact this is all we are
doing.
36. In summary; thoughts of the brain are experienced by us as arrangements and rearrangements - change - in a physical universe; but in fact it is really information and information-processing which we substantialize. We do not merely see its thoughts as objects, but rather as the movement, or, more precisely, the placement of objects: how they become linked to one another. But we cannot read the patterns of arrangement; we cannot extract the information in it - i.e. it as information, which is what it is. The linking and relinking of objects by the Brain is actually a language but not a language like ours (since it is addressing itself and not someone or something outside itself).
37. We should be able to hear this information,
or rather narrative, as a neutral voice inside us. But something
has gone wrong. All creation is a language and nothing but a language,
which for some inexplicable reason we can't read outside and can't hear
inside. So I say, we have become idiots. Something has happened
to our intelligence. My reasoning is this: arrangement of parts of
the Brain is a language. We are parts of the Brain; therefore we
are language. Why, then, do we not know this? We do not even
know what we are, let alone what the outer reality
is of which we are parts. The origin of the world "idiot" is the
word "private." Each of us has become private, and no longer shares
the common thought of the Brain, except at a subliminal level. Thus
our real life and purpose are conducted below our threshold of consciousness.
Dimensions
(in inches): 0.70 x 8.00 x 5.23
The first of Dick's three
final novels (the others are _Divine Invasion_ and _The Transmigration
of Timothy Archer_). Known as science
fiction only for lack of a better category, "Valis" takes place in
our world and may even be semi-autobiographical. It is a fool's search
for god, who turns out to be a virus, a joke, and a mental hologram
transmitted from an orbiting satellite.
The proponent of the novel,
Horselover Fat, is thrust into a theological quest when he receives communion
in a burst of pink laser light.
From the cancer ward of a bay area hospital to the ranch of a fraudulent
charismatic religious figure who turns out to have a direct com link with
god, Dick leads us down the twisted
paths of Gnostic belief, mixed with his own bizarre and compelling philosophy.
Truly an eye opening look at the nature of consciousness and divinity.
Synopsis
Valis, the disorienting
and eerily funny centerpiece of Philip Dick's final trilogy that includes
The Divine Invasion and The Transmigration of Timothy Archer, is part science
fiction, part theological detective story--in which god is both missing
person and the perpetrator of the ultimate crime.
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