{"id":125,"date":"2017-06-06T18:50:57","date_gmt":"2017-06-06T18:50:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thefifthprophet.com\/wpBlog\/?p=125"},"modified":"2017-06-06T18:50:57","modified_gmt":"2017-06-06T18:50:57","slug":"religion-in-sci-fi-the-three-stigmata-of-palmer-eldritch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thefifthprophet.com\/wpBlog\/?p=125","title":{"rendered":"Religion in Sci-Fi: The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When you die and go to heaven, or the other place, your body is left behind to rot.\u00a0 That frees you up for an eternity of new experiences; unless you believe in reincarnation, once you\u2019re gone you\u2019re gone.\u00a0 In Dick\u2019s <em>The Three Stigmata Of Palmer Eldritch<\/em>, reality as usual, becomes much more complicated.\u00a0 The two competing hallucinatory drugs, Can-D and Chew-Z, both send the user into alternate realities.\u00a0 Use Can-D and you \u2018become\u2019 a character back on Earth, whose experiences depend on how much of the associated accessories you have purchased.\u00a0 Your body stays put, and you return to it with the usual drug after effects.\u00a0 Chew-Z is much more like getting lost in a hall of mirrors, sending you into ever deeper layers from which you may or may not return, one level at a time.\u00a0 But that\u2019s the religious issue!\u00a0 If you don\u2019t return, do you exist in Chew-Z land for eternity?\u00a0 As Dick says, \u201cyou got what St. Paul promises &#8230; you\u2019re no longer clothed in a perishable, fleshly body \u2013 you\u2019ve put on an ethereal body in its place.\u201d\u00a0 That is but one of many interesting religious themes in <em>The Three Stigmata Of Palmer Eldritch<\/em>.\u00a0 Read it over and over again, and get lost in its many layers!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When you die and go to heaven, or the other place, your body is left behind to rot.\u00a0 That frees you up for an eternity of new experiences; unless you believe in reincarnation, once you\u2019re gone you\u2019re gone.\u00a0 In Dick\u2019s The Three Stigmata Of Palmer Eldritch, reality as usual, becomes much more complicated.\u00a0 The two [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thefifthprophet.com\/wpBlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thefifthprophet.com\/wpBlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thefifthprophet.com\/wpBlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thefifthprophet.com\/wpBlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thefifthprophet.com\/wpBlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=125"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thefifthprophet.com\/wpBlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":126,"href":"https:\/\/thefifthprophet.com\/wpBlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125\/revisions\/126"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thefifthprophet.com\/wpBlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thefifthprophet.com\/wpBlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thefifthprophet.com\/wpBlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}