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Erik Davis — 9 recordings in the archive.
The book: The Exegesis of Philip K. Dick by Philip K. Dick.
Philip K. Dick and his religious experience. And so what I thought I'd do since I've been thinking a lot about it is really just kind of riff through a lot of the things that I've been thinking about, a lot of approaches I'm going to take. And I'll preface it with some personal stories because I think that there's a certainly in my experience there's an interesting there's often an interesting kind of personal resonance with the science fiction author and his books at a certain kind of close relationship to the text and the man himself that can happen which was very much my experience. I first heard about Philip K. Dick in the summer of 1985 when I was living at a very peculiar place called Barrington Hall. And Barrington Hall was a student-run co-op on Berkeley campus. And of course Dick lived in Berkeley and in other places in the area as did Robert Anton Wilson. And Robert Anton Wilson was one of the themes of that very peculiar summer which is detailed and will not bother you with right now. Barrington Hall was a very peculiar place because it was sort of a holdover of the counterculture. One might even say the dregs of the counterculture. There were clearly many speed dealers, addicts, heroin dealers, addicts. The walls were covered with peculiar graffiti, the cats the carpet smelled of cat piss. There were a lot of very heavy characters there. A lot of people into you know occultism and freaky politics. And it was a very strange very Berkeley kind of environment. And one of these characters who was an intellectual fellow turned me on to Phil Dick. And it was very interesting time because at he was quite obscure. He had died 3 years previously and while he was gaining some fame and some strength in his financial career towards the end of his life, he was still a pretty obscure guy. Science fiction writer science fiction, but even a lot of science fiction writers or readers wouldn't have been interested in his sort of freaky, vaguely countercultural kind of peculiar tales. So, at that point, it really was kind of a cult to be a Philip K. Dick fan. And I, you know, dove shortly a year or two afterwards, sort of dove into that cult and collected everything I could and read…