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In 1977, Philip K. Dick read an essay in France entitled, "If You Find this World Bad, You Should See Some of the Others." In it, he laid out one of the dominant tropes of his fictional oeuvre, the idea of parallel universes. It became clear in the course of the lecture that Dick didn't intend this to be a talk about science fiction, but about real life - indeed, about his life. In this episode, Phil and JF seriously consider the speculations which, depending on whom you ask, make PKD either a genius or a madman. This distinction may not matter in the end. As Dick himself wrote in his 8,000-page Exegesis: "The madman speaks the moral of the piece."

REFERENCES

Philip K. Dick, excerpts from \u201cIf You Find This World Bad You Should See Some Of The Others\u201d
\nR. Crumb, The Religious Experience of Philip K. Dick
\nEmmanuel Carr\xe8re, I Am Alive and You Are Dead: A Journey into the Mind of Philip K. Dick
\n\u201c20 Examples of the Mandela Effect That\u2019ll Make You Believe You\u2019re In A Parallel Universe\u201d
\nPhilip K. Dick, The Man in the High Castle
\nWeird Studies, "Episode 9: On Aleister Crowley and the Idea of Magick"
\nWeird Studies, "Episode 4: Exploring the Weird with Erik Davis"
\nWilliam Shakespeare, The Tempest
\nSun Ra, Space is the Place
\nZebrapedia (crowdsourced online transcribing/editing of the Exegesis)
\nRamsey Dukes (Lionel Snell), Words Made Flesh
\nDaniel Dennett, Consciousness Explained
\nBernado Kastrup, Why Materialism is Baloney
\nGordon White, Star.Ships: A Prehistory of the Spirits
\nNick Bostrom, \u201cAre You Living in a Computer Simulation?\u201d