Quote Originally Posted by Nick----

Maybe some people know this about Dick since he is popular nowadays (his books are continously made into films, the latest being A Scanner Darkly) but he had a strange series of experiences in the seventies that was the basis for many of his later books, including Valis. The best way to check it out is here:
Another link for more info:

http://www.philipkdickfans.com/


If you are to lazy to read the wonderful comic by R. Crumb, here's the skinny. Philip K. Dick started to experience knowledge of sharing his consiousness with an early Christian triggered by meeting a girl from that lifetime.
No, what happened was he had a wisdom tooth inflammation and he called a farmacy for antibiotics to be delivered. The delivery girl was wearing a fish pendant and he asked her what is the symbol she is wearing and she said it is the symbol of early christians.
The symbol triggered his memory and he remembered he was an early christian named Thomas in his previous life.


The part I connected was when Dick was hit in the head while relaxing a chair (mayhap not totally conscious) by a pink beam of light and had a psychic insight that his son's health was in immediate danger. His wife who was in the room did not observe any light.
The beaming occured regularly within a period of several years. He called the entity that was communicating with him VALIS which is short for Vast Active Living Intelligence System. He thought the source of the beaming is some kind of satelite that orbits earth. According to Dick the satelite was destroyed by the Nixon regime as described in his books 'Radio free albemuth'.

The year 1974. is already known for a lot of beneficial alien encounters.

He spent the rest of his life describing these extraordinary events.
He wrote four novels based on his experiences with the pink beam infomation downloads:
Valis
The Divine Invasion
Transmigration of Timothy Archer
Radio Free Albemuth.

Most of his notes about the event are desrcibed in a corpus of notes or diary known as Exegesis that are not all published, due probably to their vast number.

Some of the links where Exegesis entries can be found:
http://www.philipkdick.com/new_exegesis.html

http://www.sirbacon.org/dick.htm

http://fusionanomaly.net/valis.html



Maybe the light is just energy being projected perceived clairvoyantly. This brings up an interesting question, what entity wanted Dick to know his son was in danger or what entity wanted Monroe to start experiencing astral projection? It seems that only a highly advanced being would be able to influence someone this strongly.
After the satelite was destroyed, beamings stopped, according to Dick that is. He thought that Valis must be working on finding a way to make this kind of communications possible in the future.