music in the VALIS trilogy:

• John Dowland >> famous 16th century lutist, his best known song being Flow My Teares. In The Divine Invasion, LindaFox? 's songs are based on Dowland composition

• Richard Wagner >> Parsifal

• Linda Ronstadt >> Philip K. Dick adored Linda Ronstadt's looks and singing voice - he included her in VALIS (Sophia's farewell dream) and based The Divine Invasion character LindaFox? on her

• Gustav Mahler >> 2nd symphony: Resurrection

• Brian Eno >> Discreet Music >> "In late 1977, Jeter introduced Phil to Discreet Music, an album of tapeloop minimalist music by Brian Eno - the inspiration for the Synchronicity Music of composer BrentMini? in VALIS. Phil adored the album playing it constantly." Lawrence Sutin, Divine Invasions

• The Beatles >> "Strawberry Fields Forever" >> Right before his birth defect/pink light vision PKD listened to this Beatles song. "God talked to me through a Beatles tune ('Nothing is real. Going through life with eyes closed.') A random assortment of trash blown by the wind & there is God. Bits + pieces swept together to form a unity." Exegesis, p. 80