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This exceptional anthology includes over eight hours of interviews with noted science fiction author Philip K. Dick, including the most complete and personal account of his March, 1974, "mystical experiences," plus numerous supplementary essays, including Robert Anton Wilson on PKD's mystical experiences, R. Faraday Nelson on collaborating with PKD, a rarely-seen short story in which PKD fictionalizes his mystical experiences, and much more.
- Sales Rank: #3735987 in Books
- Published on: 2015-02-23
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 9.00" h x .68" w x 6.00" l, .88 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 298 pages
Review
"...marvelous in its content and its intricate cross-currents." -- PKD Society Newsletter, August, 1987
"A useful addition...among the Dick flood." -- Locus, The Magazine of the Science Fiction Field, September, 1987
About the Author
D. Scott Apel, editor of and contributor to this volume, was a close friend of PKD's from 1977 until Phil's untimely death in 1982. Apel is also the author of "Killer B's: The 237 Best Movies On Video You've (Probably) Never Seen" (The Impermanent Press, 1997). He provided the audio clips from the PKD interview transcribed in this book (as well as an on-camera interview) for the recent documentary film, "The Gospel According to Philip K. Dick."
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7 of 8 people found the following review helpful.
Valuable, interesting but someone else's personal experience
By A. G. Plumb
The are two parts of this book that I particularly value, and a long section that I just let wash passed me.
The interview with Philip Dick is a great record to have - it's almost like me being with him and chatting to him. (Although I might have directed the discussions differently - if Philip had allowed it!) I also appreciated Robert Anton Wilson's essay at the end - it's provocative, informative and a credit to this book with its challenge to Mr Apel's personal experience with Philip Dick, after his death (i.e. after Philip Dick's death, not Mr Apel's - I know that neither of those options make much sense to twenty-first century people - imbued as we are with rationalism and scientific method). Mr Wilson's philosophy of believing nothing mirrors my own except that I believe EVERYTHING - or at least, everything that I personally experience.
So what of the remainder of Mr Apel's book? His own experiences of 'connection' with Philip Dick after Philip Dick's death. The wole idea of life after death - or at least existence after death - is so tantalising, so seductive, that it is easy to be absorbed in someone else's testimony. But to me, we have a mind to use and we should use it for our own evaluation of the cosmos we are embedded in. My 'faith' is based on my experience and I will be neither uplifted nor crushed by someone else's experiences or harangues - no person and no written text. Consequently Mr Apel's narrative is of interest but is essentially meaningless to me - I can neither believe nor misbelieve - it might just as well be a fantasy or the history of Atlantis or a theory about what wiped out the dinosuars.
But for all that I am not offended by Mr Apel telling his tale - we all have the right to speak and to hear. And in line with this I will tell a story of my own. My fascination with Philip Dick grew from the mid sixties. The puzzles the plots often present, the unique humour, the unexpected twists and so on are part of the appeal the novels have. But there is something else. I read and re-read the novels and short stories so that now I know the twists, I have some grasp of the puzzles, I've experienced the humour before - so it's not surprise that tantalises me. And yet each time I start re-reading I find myself engrossed beyond any rational explanation. I know that Philip Dick has technical skills as a writer (although some critics seem to like to decry certain aspects of Philip Dick's grammar or plotting as if language and the structure of stories are static things and alternative techniques cannot be used or accepted). But I'm sure it's not just technique that attracts me. One of the last of Philip Dick's book that I read (so late in publication) was 'The Broken Bubble'. I was startled by a paragraph in it. It seemed that I had written this - it was my voice that was speaking. How could Philip Dick - who I never had the privelege to meet - know these thoughts of mine?
And what of life after death - what does my experience tell me? I suggest a study of Mahler's last three great orchestral works is revealing (and Mahler was a composer who Philip Dick referred to at times). The eighth symphony is the traditional view of salvation (reward, not punishment - Mahler had excluded punishment in the Resurrection symphony - 'there is only God's heavenly love'); 'The Song of the Earth' is the resigned acceptance of separation; and the ninth symphony - well for me it contains a great outburst of a dying person looking back in their last gasp at the world they are leaving and connecting with those left behind. I have experienced that same gasp - not from dying persons - but as if it has been left at particular places in the fabric of the cosmos ready for any mind that passes that way and is so attuned to grasp, regardless of the time of their passing. But that is all my experince - make of it what you will.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.
A personal connection
By pampasboy
I read every book Philip Dick had written before I was out of my teens. In the intervening 40 years I've reread them all. What struck me about Dick's books was that I felt he was speaking directly to me. This is kind of odd, considering the vast majority of his work is in third person--and third person omniscient to boot--but that sense of a personal connection nevertheless remains. Apel's The Dream Connection heightens this sense. It's not too surprising that this should be so in the lengthy interview. Here we have Dick himself talking, and why couldn't he be directing his words to me? I'm a big fan, and he's obviously addressing his fans. But what's surprising is that this sense also comes through in Apel's highly personal narrative of his own experience with Phil Dick, both during and after Dick's life. It's weird, it's out-there, but what's so odd about Philip Dick inspiring a weird, out-there experience? How could Phil Dick inspire anything but? Anton Wilson's piece at the odd of the book is also quite interesting, but Phil Dick and Scott Apel are the stars of this book. Highly recommended.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.
The Mind Behind the Masterpieces
By Hopster
The centerpiece of this book is a remarkable interview of Philip K. Dick, in which he provides some personal history, particularly with regard to his writing, and displays his quirky (what else?) sense of humor. Best of all, it shines a light on the extraordinary mind behind the books. Anyone who loves Valis, the most personal of his novels, needs to read this. Also included are an essay by Apel, a friend of Dick's, about his personal "dream connection" with Dick after the author's death. It almost reads like an appendix to Valis. Throw in an essay by the always interesting Robert Anton Wilson, and you have a book that all fans of Philip K. Dick should read.
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