tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4615058926640211306.post1820770913688985695..comments2024-03-20T18:36:39.816-07:00Comments on Philip K. Dick and Religion: some notes on religion in the PKD selected lettersMr. Handhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00308380761257083577noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4615058926640211306.post-18741940785408277712011-03-06T09:09:54.839-08:002011-03-06T09:09:54.839-08:00"religious quotes" from PKD Interviews:
..."religious quotes" from PKD Interviews:<br /><br />1) "I have very powerful beliefs, and I have experienced very powerful religious experiences, but they do not fit the doctrines of the Church, particularly. Yet I will stick by them as authentic." ["An Interview With Philip K. Dick," by Daniel DePrez, Science Fiction Review, No. 19, vol. 5, no. 23, August 1976]<br /><br />2) "I've always been interested in religion. In man's relationship with is [sic] God, what he chooses to worship was raised a Quaker but converted to Episcopalianism very early in my life." ["An Interview With America's Most Brilliant Science-Fiction Writer (Philip K. Dick)," by Joe Vitale, The Aquarian, No. 11, October 11-18, 1978]<br /><br />3) "I'm totally against organized religion," he states. "I believe you have a direct relation with the divine or you have no relation with the divine. It has nothing to do with faith or dogmatic creeds. The initiative comes from the divine side. There is nothing you can do." ["Philip K. Dick: Confessions Of A SF Artist," by George Cain & Dana Logo, Denver Clarion, October 23, 1980]<br /><br />4) "...I found that once I had studied a dualistic, bitheistic religion, it was very hard for me to go back to monotheism after that." [9-30-81, Gregg Rickman, Philip K. Dick: In His Own Words, 1984]<br /><br />5) "For me Evil was as real a force as Good. There was God and there was the Anti-God. It [The Three Stigmata Of Palmer Eldritch] was really a study of Deity as Evil and Good as Human." [9-30-81, Gregg Rickman, Philip K. Dick: In His Own Words, 1984]FCBertrandJrhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02176510466289100595noreply@blogger.com