The Sublime & Beautiful vs. Reality

This blog is a record of one man's struggle to search for scientific, philosophical, and religious truth in the face of the limitations imposed on him by economics, psychology, and social conditioning; it is the philosophical outworking of everyday life in contrast to ideals and how it could have been.


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The chief aim of all investigations of the external world should be to discover the rational order and harmony which has been imposed on it by God
and which He revealed to us in the language of mathematics.
--Johannes Kepler

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Friday, February 25, 2011

W: LP: GRP: PKD: VALIS

VALIS and Later NovelsVALIS and Later Novels by Philip K. Dick

I'm about two thirds through the novel, "VALIS", (second of four* in this collection) and I find elements of the polyphonic voice reminiscent of Dostoevsky, but with an almost schizophrenic exploration of madness, philosophy, and religion in a proto-New Age mien. This is not so much a novel as a out-spilling of the mental overload that was Philip K. Dick the author.





*I would have made it a five novel collection and added "Radio Free Albemuth".
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