If you can find god, you can keep him

18 January 2006

"The average American suffers from two delusions, one that God is dead and the other is that there is a difference between brands of cigarettes."

Philip K Dick. Wrote science fiction. Took drugs. Found god. Big deal.

Ahead of Richard Linklater's take on A Scanner Darkly, BBC Radio 4 had a half-hour (or thereabouts) broadcast on PKD, entitled Confessions of a Crap Artist and exploring the writer's relationship with god.

Related:
The Religious Experience of Philip K Dick by R Crumb
Philip K Dick's Devine Interference by Erik Davis
Ten Major Principles of the Gnostic Revelation, from Exegesis by PKD
Benjamin Walker's Theory of Everything, in which Jonathan Letham and Josh Glenn talk Dick
Back to Utopia by Josh Glenn