lurid phosphene activity >> patterns of light 'projected' onto PKD's bedroom wall, retold in Scanner, Valis, Radio Free Albemuth >> LuridPhospheneActivity

the Fish Symbol >> initial trigger to PKD's series of visions >> FishFlash

the Birth Defect >> a blinding pink light informed Dick of his son Christopher's potentially lethal birth defect.

AI voice >> hypnogogic voice Dick heard in 1974-75 and intermittently thereafter until his death

Golden Rectangle >> "what i was seeing now was a door, proportioned by the by the measure which the greeks had called the golden rectangle, which they had considered the perfect geometric form. i repeatedly saw this door, marked with letters of the greek alphabet, projected onto natural formations that resembled it: a dictionary stand, a basalt block, a speaker cabinet. and one time, astonishingly, i had seen pinky(the cat) pressing outward from beyond the door into our world, only not as he had been: much larger, more fierce, like a tiger, and most of all, filled to bursting with life and health" >> FivefoldDoorway

Anamnesis >> ancient/phylogenic memories reveal the roman world, ca. 1st century a.d. (period of the book of acts/peak of gnostic activity), COEXISTING with our modern world. as if linear time is illusion and true time layered: simultaneous realities stack one upon the other, visible to the opened mind.

IRS Manipulation

Homeoplasmate

transmitted the two entries n°7 & n°9 of the Tractates Scriptura Cryptica to Dick

Xerox Missive >> confirmedly, PKD has been anticipating for about a week a letter that would "kill" him. when it arrives, he gives it first to tessa dick to read, not wanting to see it, to let its content be summarized by her. tessa recalls: "certain words in the article were underlined, some in red and some in blue. all were what phil called 'die messages'. words like decline, decay, stagnation, decomposition."

Minimum Hypothesis

Sister Jane

pre-VALIS visions:

• the taco stand experience >> Around 1970 PKD imagined himself in Mexico - for eight continuous hours. Retold in Radio Free Albemuth.