tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4683970826895755480.post8250083956920439891..comments2024-03-28T21:32:26.550+00:00Comments on Bruce Charlton's Notions: Review of The Transmigration of Timothy Archer by Philip K Dick (1982)Bruce Charltonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09615189090601688535noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4683970826895755480.post-27461670798563340862019-10-14T12:46:52.054+01:002019-10-14T12:46:52.054+01:00@S - Madness perhaps, but not 'simply' mad...@S - Madness perhaps, but not 'simply' madness. Madness doesn't really explain content as such - but psychotic symptoms arise from certain physiological conditions; and PKD took a lot of drugs capable of inducing hallucinations. What I find so impressive is that he spent many years of hard, serious work trying to understand the implications of his revelatory experiences. Bruce Charltonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09615189090601688535noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4683970826895755480.post-53815933917572807042019-10-14T11:19:08.410+01:002019-10-14T11:19:08.410+01:00Simply madness?
http://www.openculture.com/2013/0...Simply madness?<br /><br />http://www.openculture.com/2013/08/robert-crumb-illustrates-philip-k-dicks-infamous-hallucinatory-meeting-with-god-1974.html<br /><br />And yet one is suspicious of those whose first instinct is not to explain, but explain *away*.<br /><br />And what about Thomas Aquinas?Sackersonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17284329249862764601noreply@blogger.com