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Abraham Lincoln believed certain dreams appeared before major events in the Civil War. Harriet Tubman trusted visions and divine warnings while leading people out of slavery. William Blake said he saw angels, spirits, and his dead brother. Philip K. Dick believed a pink beam transferred information directly into his mind. W. B. Yeats and his wife produced thousands of pages supposedly dictated by invisible teachers.In this episode of Idiot Mystic, we look at five respected historical figures who believed that dreams, visions, voices, spirits, or unknown intelligences were communicating with them.Were these experiences messages from God, non-human intelligence, the unconscious mind, trauma, intuition, neurological events, or something that sits between all of those explanations?We examine Lincoln's dreams before his assassination, Harriet Tubman's spiritual guidance during her rescue missions, William Blake's populated world of angels and spirits, Philip K. Dick's encounter with the mysterious pink beam, and the automatic writing sessions that shaped some of W. B. Yeats's most important later work.The point is not to force every experience into the same explanation. These people lived in different centuries, followed different beliefs, and encountered very different forms of intelligence. What connects them is that each believed important information had reached them from somewhere beyond their ordinary conscious mind.The stranger question is what happened after they listened.Listen to Idiot Mystic on YouTube and Spotify, and find more strange history, spirituality, psychology, mysticism, paranormal research, and investigations into the unseen at:Website: https://idiotmystic.comInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/idiotmysticTikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@idiotmysticDiscord: https://discord.gg/dXKjhZrZmMShare this episode with someone who has ever wondered where intuition ends and contact begins.Until next time, take care of yourself, please.
In this incredible Family Friends episode, Guy spends 10 full minutes explaining a fascinating situation involving the English national test cricket team absolutely ruining themselves. On our way to this, we get Tim waxing lyric on the benefits of having a big ass kindle thing you can write on and what's wrong with Philip K Dick's Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep. And also Oppenheimer. But mainly this is about the cricket story. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
We'll delve into the evolution of my astral guest, singer-songwriter, journalist, and author Nikolas Schreck, charting his spiritual journey into the ancient heresy of inner knowing. We'll focus on Schreck's deep embracing of Gnosticism, specifically his belief in the transcendent godhead symbolized by Abraxas. Get ready to learn all about this Gnostic supreme deity, including the views of Basilides, CG Jung, Herman Hesse, Stephan Hoeller, and even Charles Manson. He'll also provide new scholarship on Abraxas and what you can do to experience this entity, if you dare. Lastly, we had fun discussing the esoteric side of Elvis, Bowie, and Philip K. Dick. And the Egyptian God Set entered the chat plenty of times. Get The Occult Elvis: https://amzn.to/4jnTjE4 Virtual Alexandria Academy: https://thegodabovegod.com/virtual-alexandria-academy/ Gnostic Tarot Readings: https://thegodabovegod.com/gnostic-tarot-reading/ The Gnostic Tarot: https://www.makeplayingcards.com/sell/synkrasis Homepage: https://thegodabovegod.com/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/aeonbyte AB Prime: https://thegodabovegod.com/members/subscription-levels/ Voice Over services: https://thegodabovegod.com/voice-talent/ Support with donation: https://buy.stripe.com/00g16Q8RK8D93mw288 Merch store: https://aeonbyte.creator-spring.com/ Equipment Wishlist: https://www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/ls/2WEJ2CCWHALZB?&sort=default Intro concept, visual direction, and AI-assisted creative development in collaboration with Arturo Pérez E. youtube.com/@333amTV 333am.tv Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.
This week Scott gives a lengthy and thorough schizoanalysis of the 1969 science fiction classic "Ubik" by Philip K. Dick. This dystopian version of 1992 comes replete with telepathic corporate espionage as-a-service, cryogenic soul prisons that give paying customers access to their deceased loved ones and the book is inundated with gnostic symbolism and theology.Don't forget to join our Telegram channel at T.me/historyhomos and to join our group chat at T.me/historyhomoschatFor programming updates and news follow us across social media @historyhomospod and follow Scott @Scottlizardabrams and Patrick @cantgetfooledagainradio OR subscribe to our telegram channel t.me/historyhomosThe video version of the show is available on Substack, Rokfin, bitchute, odysee and RumbleFor weekly premium episodes or to contribute to the show subscribe to our channel at www.historyhomospod.substack.comYou can donate to the show directly at paypal.me/historyhomosTo order a History Homos T shirt (and recieve a free sticker) please send your shirt size and address to Historyhomos@gmail.com and please address all questions, comments and concerns there as well.Later homos
"Beyond Lies the Wub The Skull" by Philip K. Dick presents two uniquely imaginative tales that explore the absurdities of existence and the complexities of human nature. The first story introduces a Wub, an enormous, unappealing creature that challenges the expectations of a hungry spaceship crew, highlighting themes of consumption and the value of life. The second story, "The Skull," weaves a gripping narrative filled with time travel, corrupt governments, and the moral dilemmas faced by an assassin, prompting listeners to reflect on the interplay between power and faith. These timeless themes resonate today, inviting contemplation on our own choices and the ethical landscapes we navigate in a rapidly changing world.
Ubik sbarca sulla Disaster Magnum riportando in voga il grande Philip K. Dick!Volete interagire con il Gruppo di GameRevs? Allora:Entrate nel nostro gruppo telegram https://t.me/gamerevs per discuterne direttamente con noi!Ricordate anche che ci potete trovare sul nostro sito http://www.gamerevs.it e su tutti i social dei quali avete i link veloci qui di seguito:InstagramFacebookXTik-TokSe volete aiutarci a migliorare la parte tecnica e la ricerca potete farci una donazione sul profilo Ko-fi dove con anche un solo €uro ci potreste aiutare tantissimo!I nostri amici Bit-Elloni ed I Mangiavventure ora sono parte integrante dallo staff di GameRevs, quindi venite a trovarli nel gruppo telegram e sul sito nelle sezioni retrogaming e avventure grafiche!E ci raccomandiamo: videogiocate, videogiocate, videogiocate!Disaster Magnum Music by GameRevs
Oi, gente, nesse episódio conversamos sobre “Lembramos para você a preço de atacado” (1938), de Philip K. Dick e suas adaptações. Considerando os temas da obra, falamos sobre os conflitos de classe, capitalismo e as distopias e expectativas para um futuro baseado no nosso presente. Além disso, mencionamos a problemática dos avanços tecnológicos que não servem para o bem-estar comum, mas sim para manter status quo. Por fim, falamos sobre Marte e as (não) possibilidades de vida. Quem participou desse episódio foi o William, que também conversou com a gente sobre “O problema dos três corpos”, do Cixin Liu. Livros citados: O homem do castelo alto (1962), de Philip K. Dick O tempo desarticulado (1959), de Philip K. Dick 1984 (1949), de George Orwell Snowcrash (1992), de Neal Stephenson O devorador de estrelas (2021), de Andy Weir Trilogia Lembranças do Passado da Terra (2008-2010), de Cixin Liu Androides Sonham com Ovelhas Elétricas? (1968), de Philip K. Dick Realidades Adaptadas (2012), de de Philip K. Dick Neuromancer (1984), de William Gibson Ficção científica capitalista (2026), de Michel Nieva Música da nossa trilha sonora: Not My First Rodeo de Dyalla. Creative Commons Attribution 4.0. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Artista: https://soundcloud.com/dyallas/not-my-first-rodeo Deixe seus comentários aqui para gente. Sempre que acabamos de gravar, lembramos de algo mais que poderia ser dito, logo o tema sempre fica em aberto. Podcast: 00:00:05 Apresentação 00:5:00 Distopias e o futuro 01:20:00 Encerramento Apoiadores no apoia.se: Philippe Sartin MARIA A N GOMES LOUISE COSTA PESSANHA Belísia Agulhô Lopes Sayão Pedro de Castro Lscher Mari Castro RONY CARLOS BRAGA OLIVEIRA Lilian Diniz Rafael Sanches Dias Scarleth Darlem Gama Franco Olivia Gutierrez MARINA Tramonte Izabela Guimarães Torquetti dos Santos LEONARDO HENRIQUE GUALBERTO MOREIRA Mariana dos Santos Freitas Alba Manoela Lopes Total Recall (1990) https://www.imdb.com/fr/title/tt0100802/ Total Recall (2012) https://www.imdb.com/fr/title/tt1386703/ O post #98 – Lembramos para você a preço de atacado, de Philip K. Dick apareceu primeiro em Chá das Cinco Com Literatura.
Is anyone really out there, or am I just chatting to a very articulate hallucination?In this episode, we juggle Descartes' lonely thinker, Kant's phenomena vs noumena, and Wittgenstein's ban on private language. If all we ever have are mental snapshots of the world, what right do we have to talk about some “real” thing behind them?On the way we hit: Private language & inner voices – are we talking to others, or just different bits of ourselves? Postmodernism & perspective – if everyone reads the world differently, do we still share a world at all? Ethics after God – without a cosmic referee, how do we avoid moral chaos? Featuring Red Dwarf's “Better Than Life,” a brain that sabotages its own happiness, Philip K. Dick and Robert Heinlein as unlikely comrades, and the comforting thought that if this is your solipsistic universe, you've got some serious explaining to do about Hitler, Trump, and broken-down cars full of kids.Plug in and decide whether “we” are really in this together – or whether “we” is already one person too many.
Containing Matters of MiscreancyTimestamps:Howard Rodman - "The Man Who Went to the Moon - Twice" (0:00)Philip K. Dick - "Faith of Our Fathers" (17:08)Larry Niven - "The Jigsaw Man" (54:33)Fritz Leiber - "Gonna Roll the Bones" (1:03:14)Joe L. Hensley - "Lord Randy, My Son" (1:14:00)Poul Anderson - "Eutopia" (1:20:06)David R. Bunch - "Incident in Moderan" and "The Escaping" (1:32:43)James Cross - "The Doll-House" (2:01:04)Carol Emshwiller - "Sex and/or Mr. Morrison" (2:05:58)Damon Knight - "Shall the Dust Praise Thee?" (2:13:37)Bibliography:Nette, Andrew & McIntyre, Iain (eds.) - "Dangerous Visions and New Worlds: Radical Science Fiction, 1950 to 1985" (2021)
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In this episode of Crazy Wisdom, Stewart Alsop sits down with Javier Rolandi, who works in investor relations and communications, for a wide-ranging conversation that moves from the SpaceX IPO and the trust people place in Elon Musk to Javier's own path through electronics, literature, and linguistics in Argentina. They talk about science fiction as a lens on the present, arguing over Borges versus Cortázar and touching on Philip K. Dick, before turning to Stewart's treasure hunt project and what it means for adults to reclaim a sense of play. The back half of the episode gets into bigger cultural territory: the Peter Pan syndrome as it shows up in Buenos Aires and Silicon Valley, the demographic crisis and why people are hesitant to commit to marriage or kids, the immigrant roots of Argentina's tight-knit communities, and a closing debate about solarpunk versus cyberpunk futures and whether religion still has a role to play in building a more human-centered utopia.Timestamps00:00 – Opening dive into the SpaceX IPO and why people place so much trust in Elon Musk's competence. 05:00 – Javi traces his non-linear path into technology, from electronics school to a lifelong love of science fiction. 10:00 – A close look at Borges, his puzzle-like short stories, and layered literary references. 15:00 – Javi picks Cortázar as his favorite, then Stewart demos his treasure hunt game idea. 20:00 – More treasure hunt details, plus the pelotudo/al pedo language game. 25:00 – Javi's fading interest in building electronics and why adult play still matters. 30:00 – The Peter Pan syndrome, Buenos Aires neighborhoods, and staying stuck in teenage behavior. 35:00 – The demographic crisis, Peter Thiel's arrival, and commitment to marriage and kids. 40:00 – How the internet reshapes connection beyond borders and nations. 45:00 – Solarpunk vs. cyberpunk and Argentina's potential as a utopian model. 50:00 – Argentina's immigrant roots, tribal bonding, and ethnic clubs in Buenos Aires. 55:00 – Closing thoughts on religion, ecumenism, and staying optimistic about humanity.Key InsightsTrust in visionary founders like Elon Musk isn't really about understanding the technical details of something like SpaceX—it's about faith in a person's competence to pull off things that would sound crazy coming from anyone else.Javier's relationship with technology has always been non-linear: an early fascination with electronics gave way to literature and linguistics, and only later did a startup career pull him back toward tech, showing that curiosity doesn't have to follow a straight professional line.Science fiction endures because it's never really about the future—it's a way of examining the decisions being made today and how they'll ripple outward, which is why Javier finds himself circling back to present-day questions after every story or film.Reclaiming play as an adult, whether through treasure hunts or simply being unembarrassed in public, isn't regression—it's a deliberate rebellion against the idea that growing up means becoming serious and losing creativity.The demographic shift away from marriage and kids may be less about capability and more about marketing: people who look unhappy while promoting commitment aren't going to convince anyone that the traditional path is worth choosing.Argentina's strong culture of community and friendship traces back to waves of immigrants who had to lean on each other to survive, a tribal instinct that still shapes how people bond in Buenos Aires today.The tension between solarpunk and cyberpunk visions of the future comes down to whether technology serves human connection or overshadows it, and Javier argues Argentina—with its resources and family-oriented culture—is well positioned to lean toward the more hopeful, human-centered version.
So my guests today are just the epitome of cool. They spearheaded the lounge-style music revival of the 90's. Welcome Ben Daughtrey and Jonathan Palmer of Love Jones to the podcast. The band has just released their fourth album, The Greatest Show and it's definitely the band's sound, distilled into six tracks. Before we dive into how the album came to be after a 15 year hiatus, we talk about how they became a part of Tool lore, opening for the band for the legendary show at the Church of Scientology's Celebrity Center. Ben & Jonathan also discuss their thoughts on the band's trajectory; what went right, what went wrong, and two breaks of over a decade each. They discuss the birthday party that reunited the band, the writing process for the new album, and the song on the new album that was inspired by both Blondie and Philip K. Dick. Go grab the album at love-jones.com. Stream it on your favorite platform. Follow them @lovejonesband on Instagram. Follow us @performanceanx. Grab merch at performanceanx.threadless.com or just send money to ko-fi.com/performanceanxiety. So grab a beverage and chill out with me, Ben, & Jonathan of Love Jones on Performance Anxiety on the Pantheon Podcast Network. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Les références : Nice — Le Panoptique Le Panoptique, Jeremy Bentham (1791) Loi RIPOST : le Sénat prolonge et étend la vidéosurveillance algorithmique (Public Sénat) Londres — Fahrenheit 451 Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury (1953) Chat Control : vérification d'âge et fin de l'anonymat (EDRi) Lisbonne — Ravage Ravage, René Barjavel (1943) Black-out en Espagne et au Portugal du 28 avril 2025 (Connaissance des Énergies) Menlo Park — Le Meilleur des mondes Le Meilleur des mondes, Aldous Huxley (1932) Algorithmic dopamine economies (The British Journal of Psychiatry) Denver — Minority Report Minority Report (Rapport minoritaire), Philip K. Dick (1956) Inside ICE's Expanding AI Surveillance Machine, Palantir et l'outil ELITE (Parriva) Idaho — La Servante écarlate La Servante écarlate, Margaret Atwood (1985) Surveillance numérique et criminalisation de l'avortement (National Partnership for Women & Families) Kenya — La Machine à explorer le temps La Machine à explorer le temps, H. G. Wells (1895) L'IA repose sur des travailleurs invisibles exploités dans les pays pauvres (RTS) Shanghai — Nous autres Nous autres, Ievgueni Zamiatine (1924) Reconnaissance biométrique : 30 propositions pour écarter la société de surveillance (Sénat) Paris — 1984 1984, George Orwell (1949) Contrôles d'identité : défendons-nous contre la reconnaissance faciale (La Quadrature du Net) Bruxelles — La Ferme des animaux La Ferme des animaux, George Orwell (1945) Chat Control : l'UE s'apprête à contourner son propre Parlement (Cryptoast)Vous pouvez mettre un commentaire pour l'épisode. Et même mettre une note sur 5 étoiles si vous le souhaitez. Il est important pour nous d'avoir vos retours car, contrairement par exemple à une conférence, nous n'avons pas un public en face de nous qui peut réagir. Pour mettre un commentaire ou une note, rendez-vous sur la page dédiée à l'épisode.Aidez-nous à mieux vous connaître et améliorer l'émission en répondant à notre questionnaire (en cinq minutes). Vos réponses à ce questionnaire sont très précieuses pour nous. De votre côté, ce questionnaire est une occasion de nous faire des retours. Pour connaître les nouvelles concernant l'émission (annonce des podcasts, des émissions à venir, ainsi que des bonus et des annonces en avant-première) inscrivez-vous à la lettre d'actus.
Is there an Ancient object orbiting Earth? The Black Knight Satellite is a mysterious object some claim has been monitoring humanity for thousands of years. It's connected to Nikola Tesla's strange signals, mystery satellite reports before Sputnik, the supposed alien message from Epsilon Boötes, Philip K. Dick's VALIS, and the famous 1998 NASA STS-88 photo.Watch the full episode on YouTube:▶ https://bit.ly/TheoriesOfTheThirdKindYTSupport the show + unlock bonus episodes:
Charge up the precogs and get ready for some good ol' fashioned Philip K. Dick-style dystopia. This week, Film Seizure takes a look at the 2002 Steven Spielberg hit starring Tom Cruise. It's time to find the Minority Report. Episodes release on Wednesday at www.filmseizure.com "Beyond My Years" by Matt LaBarber LaBarber The Album Available at https://mattlabarber.bandcamp.com/album/labarber-the-album Copyright 2020 Like what we do? Buy us a coffee! www.ko-fi.com/filmseizure Follow us on Facebook: www.facebook.com/filmseizure/ Follow us on BlueSky: https://bsky.app/profile/filmseizure.bsky.social Follow us on Mastodon: https://universeodon.com/@filmseizure Follow us on Instagram: www.instagram.com/filmseizure/ You can now find us on YouTube as well! The Film Seizure Channel can be found here: https://www.youtube.com/c/FilmSeizure
Send us Fan MailIn this episode, Virgil and Bob discuss The House the Blakeneys Built with their friends: Jake from Pulp Mortem: https://www.youtube.com/ @PulpMortemTim from Secret Fire Books: https://www.youtube.com/ @secretfirebooks7894 Originally published in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction (January 1965). If you'd like a refresher before listening, check out our story reading and discussion with Emma Speer. https://youtu.be/JuPb6NzR9TM What begins as a tale of lost travelers arriving at a strange settlement soon becomes one of Avram Davidson's most unsettling explorations of tradition, conformity, isolation, and the fear of change. The conversation examines the remarkable language of the Blakeneys, the decaying grandeur of The House, the clash between progress and custom, and the story's haunting conclusion. Is the story a warning about inbreeding and isolation? A critique of resistance to change? Or a meditation on how communities preserve themselves at all costs? Join us as we explore one of Davidson's most memorable and thought-provoking science fiction tales. Keywords: Avram Davidson, The House The Blakeneys Built, Science Fiction, Classic Sci-Fi, Fantasy and Science Fiction, F&SF, Speculative Fiction, Vintage Sci-Fi, Weird Fiction, Literary Science Fiction, Golden Age Science Fiction, Science Fiction Podcast, Book Discussion, BookTube, Short Story Discussion, Gene Wolfe, Jack Vance, Roger Zelazny, Theodore Sturgeon, Cordwainer Smith, Philip K. Dick, Ray Bradbury, Secret Fire Books, Pulp Mortem
Phil and Emily are joined by journalist and author Josephine Riesman to continue their Richard Kelly Reichardt mini-series with the magnificent disaster that is Southland Tales (2006). And there is no better guest for it: Josie wrote the definitive deep-dive on this movie and once spent three hours walking Venice Beach interviewing Richard Kelly himself.Set in an alternate 2008 where nuclear attacks on Texas have tipped America into a surveillance-state apocalypse, Southland Tales unleashes Dwayne Johnson, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Justin Timberlake, and a cast of SNL alumni across a sprawling, end-of-days Los Angeles on the Fourth of July. It premiered at Cannes as an unfinished cut on DVD, got booed into oblivion, made a legendary $374,000 against a $17 million budget, and then quietly became the cult object that fans swear is more true than the reality we actually got.The gang digs into why a movie this incoherent is also this irresistible. Emily makes her case that it is what you would get if Philip K. Dick novelized Robert Altman's Nashville, while Phil counters with "Magnolia with a head injury." Josie reveals what Kelly told her about that surreal Justin Timberlake lip-sync to The Killers, the tie-in graphic novels, the Cannes catastrophe, and why he has a reason for every baffling choice, even the ones that never made the final cut. Plus its eerie kinship with Children of Men and The Handmaid's Tale, and the thin line between satire and prophecy.Misunderstood masterpiece or beautiful trainwreck? On America's 250th birthday, it might be the only movie that fits. This is the way the world ends.Follow the show & guests:Podcast Like It's... — https://www.instagram.com/podcastlikeitsPhil Iscove — https://www.instagram.com/pmiscoveEmily St. James — https://www.instagram.com/emilystjamsJosephine Riesman — [handle?]
On this Black Iron Prison Intercept, the topic couldn't be more appropriate. I'll take you on a deep dive into the life, work, and metaphysical worldview of Philip K. Dick. We'll explore his prophetic fictional themes — surveillance, AI, simulated reality, and corporate control — alongside the mystical visions that shaped his late philosophy. I'll also delve into his self-developed Gnostic cosmology, including concepts like VALIS, the Plasmate, the Black Iron Prison, the Christ-Sophia Syzygy, and his theory of anamnesis as spiritual awakening. We'll conclude by connecting his personal tragedies, literary output, and visionary experiences into a unified portrait of a writer who saw himself as a vessel for restoring ancient Gnostic truth to the modern world. Get The Occult Elvis: https://amzn.to/4jnTjE4 Virtual Alexandria Academy: https://thegodabovegod.com/virtual-alexandria-academy/ Gnostic Tarot Readings: https://thegodabovegod.com/gnostic-tarot-reading/ The Gnostic Tarot: https://www.makeplayingcards.com/sell/synkrasis Homepage: https://thegodabovegod.com/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/aeonbyte AB Prime: https://thegodabovegod.com/members/subscription-levels/ Voice Over services: https://thegodabovegod.com/voice-talent/ Support with donation: https://buy.stripe.com/00g16Q8RK8D93mw288 Merch store: https://aeonbyte.creator-spring.com/ Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.
A discarded husband discovers that his wife's cherished cuckoo clock hides a jealous, lethal occupant that refuses to remain confined behind its small wooden door.If you have a story you'd like to contribute to the series, you can visit https://submissions.soundconceptmedia.com/You can support the show by becoming a paid subscriber on Substack: https://auditoryanthology.substack.comBy becoming a paid subscriber you can listen to every episode completely ad-free!Curator: Keith Conrad linktr.ee/keithrconradNarrator: Darren Marlar https://darrenmarlar.com/Other shows hosted by Darren:Weird Darkness: https://weirddarkness.com/Paranormality Magazine: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/paranormalitymagMicro Terrors: Scary Stories for Kids: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/microterrorsRetro Radio – Old Time Radio In The Dark: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/retroradioChurch of the Undead: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/churchoftheundead Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Exploramos tres películas fundamentales de la ciencia ficción moderna: Blade Runner, The Adjustment Bureau y Minority Report, todas basadas en las inquietantes y visionarias novelas de Philip K. Dick.Hablamos de cómo estas historias imaginan el futuro, el control del destino, la identidad humana y los límites de la realidad, y por qué siguen siendo tan relevantes hoy en día.¿El futuro está escrito o lo estamos construyendo en tiempo real? Estas películas tienen mucho que decir al respecto.
ADVENT BLUE Will Fortner is very good at his job. As a data manager for the Choice Institute — a global technology conglomerate that transforms raw information into certainty for the world's most powerful clients — he has learned to read patterns that others cannot see. He has also learned that not everything he sees is necessarily to his clients' advantage. This knowledge has made him wealthy. It has also made him deeply, permanently cynical. When Will is recruited for a particularly delicate and far more lucrative contracted query, the Institute insists he take on a companion to ensure his stability. Mirai Redwater is clever, forthright, and entirely impossible to read. As Will moves deeper into the entanglements of the Choice Institute's darker architecture, the question that follows him at every step is the same one that defines the novel: is he being supported — or is he being used? A near-future psychological thriller for readers of Kazuo Ishiguro's "Klara and the Sun", Dave Eggers' "The Circle", and Philip K. Dick. Literary science fiction that does not feel like science fiction — because the world it depicts feels like tomorrow morning. TOPICS OF CONVERSATION The data-driven future behind Advent Blue, where the Choice Institute collects and maps human behavior to predict and influence what people will do, taking today's data tracking many steps further. Will Fortner, the "navigator" who reads people through the map, and how that ability breeds cynicism and isolation, mirrored in the fortress home he builds for himself called the Keep. The key relationships that shape Will: his supervisor Stockton the moral chameleon, his ex Hannah, and his assigned companion Mira, whose foundation of candor and "sacred veil" drive much of the emotional core. The moral machinery of the Institute, including "bomber's morality," the AI handler Emma, and how manipulation gets reframed as serving a greater good. The book's layered symbolism and dualities, from the Phantom Reach painting to Mars as the ordered world and Earth as the mess, and how things can be one thing and its opposite at once. Roland's approach to writing the strange and surreal, grounding the uncanny in recognizable reality so readers connect with the characters on a human level. ABOUT THE AUTHOR After working more than thirty-five years in health care, including three decades of midnight shifts, Roland Allnach has seen life from a different angle. He has worked to develop his writing career, drawing creatively from life experience, literary classics, history, and mythology. His publishing arc began with short stories, one of which was nominated for the Pushcart Prize, and his stories have appeared in numerous publications. From there he branched into book publishing and has since followed with a string of titles ( Remnant, Oddities & Entities, Prism, Oddities & Entities 2: Vessels, The Digital Now, The Writer's Primer, Angela's Arm, and his most recent, Advent Blue ). Although his stories often bridge several genres, his writing dwells most often on the strange and surreal, with strong characterization and cathartic elements, utilizing aspects of science fiction, the supernatural, paranormal, and psychological/Gothic horror. His books have received unanimous critical praise and have been honored with more than a dozen national book awards. He has also served as an active member of his local literary community on Long Island, New York. During his tenure as president of Long Island Authors Group he doubled membership to one hundred authors, implemented the group's unique Traveling Bookstore and later transformed this to a permanent bookstore in conjunction with Islip Arts Council. He also made the group's authors a regular presence at many local town fairs, made appearances at the Brooklyn Book Festival, and represented the group before the New York Library Trustees Association. Roland has also appeared on national and local television, terrestrial and internet radio, and has conducted presentations on publishing at local libraries and art venues. After a break from publishing during and after the COVID pandemic, he has now returned to his writing pursuits. When not immersed in his imagination, he can be found at his website, rolandallnach.com, along with a wealth of information about his stories and experiences as an author. He is also a scale model hobbyist, and his creations can be found on his Youtube channel, Practical Plastic. Creative pursuits aside, his joy in life is the time he spends with his family. Learn more about the author and his work at: www.rolandallnach.com CONNECT WITH ROLAND ALLNACH WEBSITE: www.rolandallnach.com GOOREADS:https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/5181360.Roland_Allnach AMAZON PAGE: https://amzn.to/3Qtjz7f FACEBOOK: https://www.facebook.com/roland.allnach YOUTUBE: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCDi6-XVqErGMIoXv027j3tw
Neste episódio, Tiago Meira mostra como autores como Arthur C. Clarke, Frank Herbert, Isaac Asimov, Philip K. Dick, Ray Bradbury e Robert Heinlein usaram a fé, o misticismo e a espiritualidade para refletir sobre o futuro da humanidade.De 2001: Uma Odisseia no Espaço e Duna a Star Wars, Fundação, VALIS e Fahrenheit 451, descobrimos como a ficção científica transformou Deus, profecias, messias e transcendência em algumas de suas ideias mais fascinantes.
Rob St. Mary and Rob Spencer join Mike to dig into Proyas's tale of John Murdoch (Rufus Sewell), who wakes in a cheap hotel room with no memory, a dead body nearby, and a city that refuses to add up. Detective Bumstead (William Hurt) closes in while the pale, bald Strangers rearrange reality every time the clocks stop — building a world that is simultaneously a locked-room mystery, a Philip K. Dick nightmare, a Kafka story with a superhero ending, and a filmmaker's self-portrait: the Strangers as producers, Dr. Schreber (Kiefer Sutherland) as the compromised writer, and Murdoch as the protagonist who tears through the painted backdrop and seizes the apparatus.The conversation covers the film's screenplay stages and two finished cuts, the studio-mandated voice-over that Proyas spent a decade trying to undo, and Roger Ebert's role as the mechanism of the film's survival. Mike and the Robs also place Dark City within the remarkable 1998–99 cluster of simulated-world films — The Truman Show, The Matrix, eXistenZ, The Thirteenth Floor — and examine what it means that Murdoch's triumphant ending leaves the city still a construct, still running on hidden machinery, with only the god changed.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-projection-booth--5513239/support.Become a supporter of The Projection Booth at http://www.patreon.com/projectionbooth
Rob St. Mary and Rob Spencer join Mike to dig into Proyas's tale of John Murdoch (Rufus Sewell), who wakes in a cheap hotel room with no memory, a dead body nearby, and a city that refuses to add up. Detective Bumstead (William Hurt) closes in while the pale, bald Strangers rearrange reality every time the clocks stop — building a world that is simultaneously a locked-room mystery, a Philip K. Dick nightmare, a Kafka story with a superhero ending, and a filmmaker's self-portrait: the Strangers as producers, Dr. Schreber (Kiefer Sutherland) as the compromised writer, and Murdoch as the protagonist who tears through the painted backdrop and seizes the apparatus.The conversation covers the film's screenplay stages and two finished cuts, the studio-mandated voice-over that Proyas spent a decade trying to undo, and Roger Ebert's role as the mechanism of the film's survival. Mike and the Robs also place Dark City within the remarkable 1998–99 cluster of simulated-world films — The Truman Show, The Matrix, eXistenZ, The Thirteenth Floor — and examine what it means that Murdoch's triumphant ending leaves the city still a construct, still running on hidden machinery, with only the god changed.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-projection-booth--5513239/support.Become a supporter of The Projection Booth at http://www.patreon.com/projectionbooth
Today on the 5: Thanks to a YouTube channel titled Liminal Spaces, I read You're All Alone by Fritz Leiber. It's a wonderful novella that feels a lot like a Philip K. Dick story, except without the overwhelming doom and paranoia!
In the back half of The Simulation Hypothesis, Rizwan Virk leaves the gaming and physics foundations behind and heads straight into the deep end: dreams, reincarnation, karma, synchronicity, near-death experiences, UFOs, AI consciousness, and the possibility that ancient mystics were describing the same reality modern technologists are now stumbling toward from the opposite direction. Along the way, he tries to connect Buddhism, Philip K. Dick, quantum mechanics, and modern computing into one giant framework where reality behaves less like dead matter and more like an interactive information system. Welcome to your Plus+ Extension and thank you for joining us on Plus+! Many a fine folk feel a sense of safety from the grasp of the paranormal under the bright lights of the populated pieces of this place we call home. The lights merely illuminating perhaps a false sense of protection against that which bumps in the neon night. Roy Stubblefield is out there setting the record straight about what lurks about after dark on the mean streets of these cities with his busty brush with the bizarre when he encountered a Dog”man” type creature leaving him in a wet mess of his own making. The Simulation Hypothesis: An MIT Computer Scientist Shows Why AI, Quantum Physics, and Eastern Mystics All Agree We Are in a Video Game Roy Stubblefield Reveals His Most Terrifying Encounter In New Orleans Article - Fight or flight turns hair white LinksPlus+ ExtensionThe extension of the show is EXCLUSIVE to Plus+ Members. To join. click HERE.Links Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Sure, the worlds may be a bleak grayish hellscape, but there's always music! We look at 1984 (The Orwell book, not the Van Halen album), Brave New World, the collected works of Philip K. Dick, and Frank Zappa and his rock opera Joe's Garage. Then we get mad at a comic book.
Androides indistinguibles de humanos, permanente hiperestimulación, mundo vigilado en el que el Estado dueño de vidas y haciendas, nada nuevo. Hace más de 50 años Philip K. Dick, Ray Bradbury o George Orwell adelantaron el pan nuestro de cada dia."Blade Runner” pero Google ya en “Guia del Autostopista Galactico” y Hal 2000 la IA de “2001, odisea del Espacio” compite con los psicópatas de la vida real sin diferencias perceptibles."Algo Está Pasando...” cantaba Dylan en “The Ballad of a Thin Man” pero ya sucedió y el algoritmo que nos conduce no puede ocultarlo. Un viaje por las “noticias” de hoy de la mano de la ciencia ficción de antaño, la prueba. Puedes hacerte socio del Club Babel y apoyar este podcast: mundobabel.com/club Si te gusta Mundo Babel puedes colaborar a que llegue a más oyentes compartiendo en tus redes sociales y dejar una valoración de 5 estrellas en Apple Podcast o un comentario en Ivoox. Para anunciarte en este podcast, ponte en contacto con: mundobabelpodcast@gmail.com.
Afinal, o que nos torna humanos? A capacidade de sentir, de lembrar… ou apenas a crença de que somos reais? Neste episódio, Gabi e Andreia mergulham em um futuro decadente onde a fronteira entre homem e máquina se torna cada vez mais difícil de enxergar levadas por Philip K. Dick em seu Sonham Androides com ovelhas elétricas? e por sua icônica adaptação Blade Runner – O Caçador de Androides, dirigida por Ridley Scott. Então, ajuste seu teste Voight-Kampff, observe as luzes de neon refletidas na chuva e venha ouvir!
"‘This is not a simulation?' - raises the question what is real, am I dreaming, are we in an alternate reality?"For the Cities and Memory Spring Project I found myself drawn to an audio recording made on the platform of the Gare Du Nord in Paris. Interestingly a key feature of the recording is some fake birdsong perhaps being piped over loudspeakers onto the platform whilst everyday passengers are milling about and passing through the station."I wondered what could be fake birdsong? I also thought about train travel and the mesmeric sounds made by a train passing along the tracks. Having recently been on a long journey to New Zealand and back I reflected on the fact that travel itself takes you outside of your normal frame of reference into another reality."Philip K. Dick wrote a series of short stories called, Electric Dreams a common thematic is the idea of losing one's self in another reality. In ‘Exhibit Piece' the main character finds himself confused having been transported back in time into an earlier reality, into what he thought was a museum exhibit, but he is now experiencing it as his own reality, but simultaneously his memories are from the present day and he tries to grapple with these two conflicting realities."The project requires that the original audio is used somewhere, somehow within the new track. There are no other rules other than a minimum / maximum length. You will hear some of the original audio, but I have also taken samples converted to midi as part of the process of creating the rest of the track. Other recorded bird sounds and a recording of a small bell responding to the wind build additional layers."This track is not harmonic or built around typical compositional ideas. It is instead a slightly surreal and a glitchy jarring rendering of sounds including percussive elements, are we perhaps hearing what a bird might be able to hear? There is hopefully an idea of going on a journey, departing, passing through some other space or time and then arriving perhaps changed. At some point was it not real? Is this real now or is it a simulation?"Gare du Nord piped birdsong reimagined by Taylor Nuttall.
Thanks to some great feedback and some more of that awesome Barney Dicker chat to share, this episode is basically a second instalment of Movie Monday: Blade Runner. But before the Blade Runner chat, I respond to a message from M. W. Lewis of The Worlds of M. W. Lewis concerning April's movie Michael Crichton's Westworld. Then it's onto some Blade Runner feedback from Jason Connerley of Nerd's RPG Variety Cast, Joe Richter of Hindsightless, and Goblin's Henchman, before rounding things off with more of my chat with Barney Dicker of Loco Ludus. Honourable mentions: 2001: A Space Odyssey dir. Stanley Kubrick, Dark Star dir. John Carpenter, Westworld (TV series), Masters of the Universe dir. Travis Knight, Legend dir. Ridley Scott, Edge of Tomorrow dir. Doug Liman, Minority Report dir. Steven Spielberg, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep by Philip K. Dick, Alien dir. Ridley Scott, The Long Tomorrow by Dan O'Bannon and Moebius, The Incal by Alejandro Jodorowsky and Moebius, Blade Runner 2049 dir. Denis Villeneuve Read Barney's “Stroboscopic Revelations in Blade Runner” here https://www.academia.edu/36398665/_Stroboscopic_Revelations_in_Blade_Runner_PhotoResearcher_No_29_2018_ Find the Movie Monday Letterboxd list here https://letterboxd.com/the39thman/list/movie-monday-1/ So, from the sublime to the ridiculous. The movie for June is 1987's Masters of the Universe, directed by Gary Goddard and starring Dolph Lundgren. That episode will air on June 29th, so please send in your submissions by the 27th if you'd like to be included in the show. Send submissions to spencer.freethrall@gmail.com or look me up on Discord as FreeThrall Also, be sure not to miss my other movie podcast, With Wife and I. Isla and I take turns choosing movies to watch together, then share our thoughts with anyone who cares to listen. You can find it wherever you get your podcasts. “Warning” by Lieren of Updates From the Middle of Nowhere Leave me an audio message via https://www.speakpipe.com/KeepOffTheBorderlands You can find me in a bunch of other places here https://freethrall.carrd.co This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit freethrall.substack.com
Send us comments, suggestions and ideas here! In this week's episode we are joined once again by Julian Soloninka, better yet known as Julian the Philosopher to discuss his provocative insights into Cyberpunk Metaphysics; which we discuss in its germinal stages under the inspired headspace of Alan Watts, Alduous Huxley and Gregory Bateson. In the first half of the episode we discuss the impact Alan Watts and Gregory Bateson had on cyberpunk and its corresponding philosophies while investigating the role they played as secret agents each with respective ties to three letter agencies before asking ourselves if we were to meet them on Homerian or Platonic footing. In the extended side of the show we continue our discussion with Julian and discuss prominent author, philosopher and psychonaught, Alduous Huxley; his connection to Jiddu Krishnamurti, the Death of Cleopatra and what it all has to do with Philip K. Dick's theophany. Thank you and enjoy the show! Check out Julian the Philosopher's most recent work:https://medium.com/@jsoloninIn this week's episode we discuss:What is cyberpunk metaphysics?Allan WattsDiogenes Gregory Bateson Carl Jung's The SpyAleister CrowleyJiddu KrishnamurtiV for ApophisSecret Societies Making Our EntertainmentThe Power of The Koan and The Double Bind In the second half of this episode available at www.patreon.com/TheWholeRabbit we follow Julian the Philosopher further down the rabbithole and discuss:Philip K. Dick's TheophanyThe Platonic HeroThe MatrixCleopatraTheosophy, Lucifer and New-ThoughtThe Death of HypatiaAldous HuxleyMore next time….This week's episode was a freestyle Socratic seminar between Julian the Philosopher, Tim Hacker, Luke Madrid, Mari Sama and Heka Astra Where to find The Whole Rabbit:Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/0AnJZhmPzaby04afmEWOAVInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/the_whole_rabbitTwitter: https://twitter.com/1WholeRabbitOrder Stickers: https://www.stickermule.com/thewholerabbitOther Merchandise: https://thewholerabbit.myspreadshop.com/Music By Spirit Travel Plaza:https://open.spotify.com/artist/30dW3WB1sYofnow7y3V0YoSupport the show
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A professor created an advanced robot named Junior, but it was stolen by a crook during the early stages of its intellectual and emotional development.To download, right-click here and then click SaveJoin the Journey Into Patreon to get extra episodes and personal addresses, plus other extras and rewards.Robert Bloch was an American fiction writer, primarily of crime, psychological horror and fantasy, much of which has been dramatized for radio, cinema and television. He also wrote a relatively small amount of science fiction. Best known as the writer of Psycho (1959), the basis for the film of the same name by Alfred Hitchcock, Bloch wrote hundreds of short stories and over 30 novels. He was a protégé of H. P. Lovecraft, who was the first to seriously encourage his talentX Minus One was a half-hour science fiction radio drama series broadcast from April 24, 1955 to January 9, 1958 in various timeslots on NBC. Initially a revival of NBC's Dimension X (1950–51), the first 15 episodes of X Minus One were new versions of Dimension X episodes, but the remainder were adaptations by NBC staff writers, including Ernest Kinoy and George Lefferts, of newly published science fiction stories by leading writers in the field, including Isaac Asimov, Ray Bradbury, Philip K. Dick, Robert A. Heinlein, Frederik Pohl and Theodore Sturgeon, along with some original scripts by Kinoy and Lefferts.Theme music: Liberator by Man In SpaceTo comment on this or any episode:Send comments and/or recordings to journeyintopodcat@gmail.comPost a comment on Facebook here, or on X here
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Consensus Unreality: Occult, UFO, Phenomena and Conspiracy strangeness
Alien radio waves caught in the Consensus Unreality net…. translating… it's a new episode on contactee and influential ufologist George Hunt Williamson, the Zodiac fanzine connection in Jarett Kobek's How to Find Zodiac, Philip K Dick's late career scrapped opus Radio Free Albemuth, and more! Join our Patreon to access 2 exclusive episodes monthly, written content, our full 6 year episode archive, discord and our printed Journal of Shells magazine. Its the best and only way to support the show and it'll only cost you a few bucks. www.patreon.com/consensusunreality
On this episode of Think Theory Radio we discuss real life Sci-Fi!!! What modern technologies and innovations were inspired by stories from science fiction? From submarines to smart phones many inventions were depicted in the genre. Which Arthur C. Clarke story motivated Tim Berners-Lee to develop the World Wide Web? What current tech came from Star Trek, The Jetsons, and other such works? Plus, how did the writings of Philip K. Dick lead to many of today's machinations?!
May's Movie Monday, was specially requested by Goblin's Henchman “This one goes out there for Geoff”. This month, we watched Ridley Scott's dystopian neo-noir sci-fi Blade Runner from 1982. Starring Harrison Ford, Sean Young, Rutger Hauer, Daryl Hanna, Edward James Olmos, M Emmet Walsh, Brion James, Joanna Cassidy, Joe Turkle and William Sanderson. Adapted from Philip K Dick's 1968 novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep. This episode features contributions from: (in order of appearance) Barney Dicker of Loco Ludus (podcast) Joe Richter of Hindsightless (podcast) Goblin's henchman (podcast, blog) and the UmberBulk of the Southwest Sofa Crew M. W. Lewis of The Worlds of MW Lewis (podcast) Jason Connerley of Nerd's RPG Variety Cast (podcast) Read Barney's “Stroboscopic Revelations in Blade Runner” here https://www.academia.edu/36398665/_Stroboscopic_Revelations_in_Blade_Runner_PhotoResearcher_No_29_2018_ Find the Movie Monday Letterboxd list here https://letterboxd.com/the39thman/list/movie-monday-1/ So, from the sublime to the ridiculous. The movie for June is 1987's Masters of the Universe, directed by Gary Goddard and starring Dolph Lundgren. That episode will air on June 29th, so please send in your submissions by the 27th if you'd like to be included in the show. Send submissions to spencer.freethrall@gmail.com or look me up on Discord as FreeThrall Also, be sure not to miss my other movie podcast, With Wife and I. Isla and I take turns choosing movies to watch together, then share our thoughts with anyone who cares to listen. You can find it wherever you get your podcasts. “Warning” by Lieren of Updates From the Middle of Nowhere Leave me an audio message via https://www.speakpipe.com/KeepOffTheBorderlands You can find me in a bunch of other places here https://freethrall.carrd.co This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit freethrall.substack.com
Lucy and Sean RETVRN to the airwaves and to the year 1994 of 1977/2006 by way of the interminable, kaleidoscopic present to talk about Richard Linklater's (literally) dizzying digitally rotoscoped adaptation of Philip K Dick's A Scanner Darkly.
This week Scott and Patrick discuss the 1974 novel "Flow My Tears, The Policeman Said" by Philip K. Dick. This mindbending yarn follows a celebrity talk show host on a psychedelic journey through a dystopian panopticon in which he wakes up to realize he no longer exists to anyone but himself. We discuss.Don't forget to join our Telegram channel at T.me/historyhomos and to join our group chat at T.me/historyhomoschatFor programming updates and news follow us across social media @historyhomospod and follow Scott @Scottlizardabrams and Patrick @cantgetfooledagainradio OR subscribe to our telegram channel t.me/historyhomosThe video version of the show is available on Substack, Rokfin, bitchute, odysee and RumbleFor weekly premium episodes or to contribute to the show subscribe to our channel at www.historyhomospod.substack.comYou can donate to the show directly at paypal.me/historyhomosTo order a History Homos T shirt (and recieve a free sticker) please send your shirt size and address to Historyhomos@gmail.com and please address all questions, comments and concerns there as well.Later homos
Consensus Unreality: Occult, UFO, Phenomena and Conspiracy strangeness
Live from the empire which never ended... an episode about time, its (non)existence, the Exegesis of Philip K Dick and its relevance to our moment (which is the same moment as ever), Nick Land's time-war theories, the many worlds theory, CERN, and a brief eulogy for a recent loss in the weird podcast community. Hurry and listen! Join our Patreon to access 2 exclusive episodes monthly, written content, our full 6 year episode archive, discord and our printed Journal of Shells magazine. Its the best and only way to support the show and it'll only cost you a few bucks. https://www.patreon.com/c/consensusunreality
This episode is an audio unboxing special. I open a bunch of parcels and describe the contents. Featuring: Gunner Almer's Grimscar (solo) RPG https://crowheartroleplay.itch.io/grimscar-rpg-solo Charlie Ward's we&we from EX FIRST GAMES https://ex1st.itch.io/we Man Alone's Prima Materia https://dicenest.com/products/prima-materia-is-an-alchemical-oracle-for-solo-role-playing-worldbuilding-and-creative-inquiry Man Alone explains Prima Materia https://youtu.be/UXTwHg-HPwA?si=HTKR-x6SWTVA68mL Adam Hensley's Monolith https://adamhensley.itch.io/monolith James M. Spahn's White Box Dungeon Adventures from Barrel Rider Games https://www.lulu.com/shop/james-spahn/white-box-dungeon-adventures/paperback/product-57wrvy4.html?srsltid=AfmBOooPRv4dtyrYwPFipc55GwZ6Ezmikf_K1Lt4kHf7nXFIdMUpSStg&page=1&pageSize=4 Vagabond Pulp Fantasy Roleplaying Game Core Rulebook from Land of the Blind https://landoftheblind.myshopify.com/collections/vagabond-pulp-fantasy-rpg?srsltid=AfmBOoqAREu7j9Ii6dbfXCve0J5TZwKrXyaNrepT--gi_cuxCABzHWon Call of Cthulhu: 50th Anniversary Slipcase Set Honourable mentions: Andy Goodman (Grizzly Peaks Radio), Jen Fridy (HangnailJenny), Scott Dorward (The Good Friends of Jackson Elias), Mike Perceval-Maxwell (Mr Spike's Bedtime Stories), Barney Dicker (Loco Ludus) At the special request of Goblin's Henchman, the movie for May goes out to Geoff. It's 1982's classic neo-noir sci-fi Blade Runner, directed by Ridley Scott, based on Philip K. Dick's novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep. That episode will air on May 25th, so please send in your submissions by the 23rd if you'd like to be included in the show. Send submissions to spencer.freethrall@gmail.com or look me up on Discord as FreeThrall Also, be sure not to miss the new podcast I'm involved with, entitled With Wife and I. My wife, Isla, suggested we take turns choosing movies to watch together, then share our thoughts with anyone who cares to listen. In our latest episode, we pit Guillermo del Toro's Frankenstein against Luc Besson's Dracula. You can find it wherever you get your podcasts. “Warning” by Lieren of Updates From the Middle of Nowhere Leave me a 90-second audio message via https://www.speakpipe.com/KeepOffTheBorderlands You can find me in a bunch of other places here https://freethrall.carrd.co This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit freethrall.substack.com
In this episode, I respond to some Movie Monday: Westworld feedback from Goblin's Henchman and Joe Richter of Hindsightless, and share my initial thoughts on the Westworld TV series from 2016. If you'd like to be a paranoid android, why not try The Gaslight Club by Stoo Goff https://www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/335302/the-gaslight-club Find the Movie Monday Letterboxd list here https://letterboxd.com/the39thman/list/movie-monday-1/ At the special request of Goblin's Henchman, the movie for May goes out to Geoff. It's 1982's classic neo-noir sci-fi Blade Runner, directed by Ridley Scott, based on Philip K. Dick's novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep. That episode will air on May 25th, so please send in your submissions by the 23rd if you'd like to be included in the show. Also, be sure to check out With Wife and I. My wife, Isla, suggested we take turns choosing movies to watch together, then share our thoughts with anyone who cares to listen. Find it wherever you get your podcasts. Leave me an audio message via https://www.speakpipe.com/KeepOffTheBorderlands You can email me at spencer.freethrall@gmail.com or look me up on Discord as FreeThrall You can find me in a bunch of other places here https://freethrall.carrd.co This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit freethrall.substack.com
Can we ever really know who we are? And does self-knowledge come with an incredible cost to ourselves and others? Maybe! We investigate the First Philip K. Dick Adaptation, with a 1962 episode of the British TV show Out of This World on his short story "The Imposter." Plus, we do a medium dive into PKD's life. And there's lots to discuss in the MouthGarf Report! Plus, I See What You Did There! Sources: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2NATbmF4Qxc (While labeled "The Cold Equations" this is the audio for "The Imposter") https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impostor_(short_story) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_K._Dick https://web.archive.org/web/20120511082635/http://www.philipkdick.com/media_sfeye87.html https://web.archive.org/web/20170921182200/http://culture.pl/en/article/philip-k-dick-stanislaw-lem-is-a-communist-committee https://www.salon.com/2022/07/23/8-facts-about-philip-k-dick_partner/ Please give us a 5 star rating on Apple Podcasts! Want to ask us a question? Talk to us! Email debutbuddies@gmail.com Listen to Kelly and Chelsea's awesome horror movie podcast, Never Show the Monster. Get some sci-fi from Spaceboy Books. Get down with Michael J. O'Connor and the Cold Family and check out his new compilation The Best of the Bad Years 2005 - 2025 Next time: First Film Directed by Markiplier/Mark Fischbach
Frater Eleftheria of Lifting the Lamp enters the mind meld! Are the beings we call "Aliens" actually the same entities contacted by occultists? Are they physical beings, or consciousness based entities? In this episode, I sit down with Frater Eleftheria to explore the vanishing point where high magic and high strangeness meet.
Is reality real… or are we all just characters in the universe's weirdest video game?Join us as we explore the mind-bending ideas of sci-fi legend Philip K. Dick, who believed a mysterious pink beam of information blasted knowledge into his brain in 1974 and revealed a shocking truth: reality might be a simulation. Dick even suspected his classic novel The Man in the High Castle could contain memories from previous versions of the universe.Was he a visionary who glimpsed the code behind reality, or a brilliant writer following one very strange rabbit hole? We dive into Dick's theories about VALIS, the idea that the Roman Empire never ended, déjà vu as timeline glitches, and how modern thinkers like Nick Bostrom are seriously debating whether we might actually be living in a simulation.So, reboot your brain as we ask the ultimate question: Is reality real… or just convincing software? Find out this week on Hysteria 51!Special thanks to this week's research sources:Philip K. Dick's Mystical Experiences (2-3-74)https://pkdick.com/literary-criticism/exegesis/ The Exegesis of Philip K. Dick (overview and background)https://www.hup.harvard.edu/books/9780547549255 The Man in the High Castle – Background and Themeshttps://www.britannica.com/topic/The-Man-in-the-High-CastlePhilip K. Dick on Reality and Illusion (Famous Quote & Philosophy)https://www.themarginalian.org/2015/03/02/philip-k-dick-reality/ Nick Bostrom – Are We Living in a Computer Simulation?https://www.simulation-argument.comMIT Physicist Seth Lloyd – The Universe as a Quantum Computerhttps://web.mit.edu/~sethlloyd/ John Archibald Wheeler – “It from Bit” and Informational Physicshttps://www.edge.org/conversation/john_archibald_wheeler-it-from-bit The Holographic Principle Explainedhttps://www.quantamagazine.org/the-holographic-principle-20130904/ Gerard 't Hooft – Holographic Universe Researchhttps://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physics/1999/thooft/facts/Leonard Susskind – Black Hole Information and Holographyhttps://theoreticalminimum.comIntegrated Information Theory (Giulio Tononi)https://iep.utm.edu/int-info/ The Hard Problem of Consciousness – David Chalmershttps://consc.net/papers/facing.htmlWave Function Collapse – Quantum Mechanics Basicshttps://plato.stanford.edu/entries/qm-collapse/Simulation Hypothesis and Physics Discussion (Scientific American)https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/are-we-living-in-a-computer-simulation/Email us your favorite WEIRD news stories:weird@hysteria51.comHelp Support the Show:Get exclusive content & perks as well as an ad and sponsor free experience at https://www.patreon.com/Hysteria51 from just $1Shop:Be the Best Dressed at your Cult Meeting!https://www.teepublic.com/stores/hysteria51?ref_id=9022See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.