Anthony Peake discusses the life and work of Philip K. Dick. Anthony’s biography of PKD is here .

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Philip K. Dick was one of the most imaginative and original science fiction writers of his era, and since his death in 1982, his novels have continued to be discovered by each new generation of sci fi fans. His stories have been adapted for the screen many times including Total Recall, Minority Report, A Scanner Darkly, The Man in the High Castle and, most famously, Blade Runner.

PKD – as he became known – was a periodic drug user with a colourful and sometimes chaotic personal life, a life which increasingly resembled those of some of the characters he himself created. Recurring themes in his work include the nature of reality, of time, of perception and of identity, alternate realities, artificial intelligence, dystopian futures, authoritarian governments, drug use, and altered states of consciousness.

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Steve Taylor discusses his book Time Expansion Experiences: The Psychology of Time Perception and the Illusion of Linear Time

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Although we often encounter the phrase ‘time is just an illusion’, everything about our subjective inner experience seems to suggest otherwise. The outer world too seems to conform to the same patterns, the flow of events and the apparently inescapable path from past to present and future. From the repetitive activities of our everyday lives to the vast cycles of life and death, of nature and the cosmos, all seems tethered to the tyranny of time. But what if time itself is merely a human construct, a way of trying to make sense of what is apparently happening?

What if all that exists is in fact an eternal ‘Now’ from which everything that is, ever has been, and ever will be, arises? Millennia of indigenous cosmologies, spiritual traditions, and now cutting edge science strongly suggest that mind, not matter, is fundamental. Time, and even space, would therefore lose their place as defining dimensions of reality, replaced by an infinite mindfield in which all possibilities are present and from which the events of our limited five-sense, three-dimensional perception appear and disappear. But if the past still exists and the future is already here, what does this mean for the present?

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Christian Morris and Greg Moffitt discuss some of the tumultuous events of 2024.

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In their own peculiar way, the national elections in the USA, UK, and Ireland and events surrounding them were microcosms of tectonic shifts underway around the globe. As former British Prime Minster Tony Blair famously said in the wake of 9/11, “The kaleidoscope has been shaken. The pieces are in flux.” While the UK and Ireland have elected governments of incompetence, the incoming Trump administration is set to usher in a seismic shift in direction for the US, and by extension, the world.

Meanwhile, happenings in other realms get weirder by the day, the recent UFO/UAP phenomena and raging forest fires being interpreted by some observers as nothing less than manifestations of the trauma haunting the collective human psyche. In an era beset by uncertainty and trepidation, high strangeness is the New Normal.

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