{"id":44,"date":"2015-03-25T20:29:17","date_gmt":"2015-03-25T20:29:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thefifthprophet.com\/wpBlog\/?p=44"},"modified":"2015-03-25T20:30:21","modified_gmt":"2015-03-25T20:30:21","slug":"philip-k-dicks-exegesis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thefifthprophet.com\/wpBlog\/?p=44","title":{"rendered":"Religion in Sci-Fi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Now that I have spent the last year absorbing Philip K. Dick\u2019s <em>Exegesis<\/em> I would have to put his writing at the top of the list for \u201creligion in sci-fi\u201d!\u00a0 There were 900 pages edited down from over 9000 pages of Dick\u2019s exploration of the religious experience\/mental breakdown he had in 1974.\u00a0 Dick never firmly concluded much, but his multiple hypotheses about the nature of reality are fascinating.\u00a0 One of his theories is that reality is perceived as a field on which something beyond it, intrinsically totally undetectable, impinges.\u00a0 That something is Dick\u2019s version of God.\u00a0 I found so much within this tome that resonated with me that I have decided to change the title of my current work in progress from <em>Ride-along Cassidy And The Cosmic Cabbie<\/em> to <em>Perturbations Of The Reality Field<\/em> as an homage to Dick.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Now that I have spent the last year absorbing Philip K. Dick\u2019s Exegesis I would have to put his writing at the top of the list for \u201creligion in sci-fi\u201d!\u00a0 There were 900 pages edited down from over 9000 pages of Dick\u2019s exploration of the religious experience\/mental breakdown he had in 1974.\u00a0 Dick never firmly [&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\/44"}],"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=44"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thefifthprophet.com\/wpBlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46,"href":"https:\/\/thefifthprophet.com\/wpBlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44\/revisions\/46"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thefifthprophet.com\/wpBlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thefifthprophet.com\/wpBlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thefifthprophet.com\/wpBlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}