Cheers to charlotte93 for suggesting an LJ Renaissance. I used to love this place and met a lot of my best folks here. Some very cool people are still posting. So I'll try to get back to mine and put some good stuff here about what I've been thinking and doing. How to catch up on the last few years? A lot of the news is not good, unfortunately (I'll just ( Read more... )

Philip K. Dick and Esotericism - introductory book putting themes in context ( Read more... )

Here is the link to the reference for my review of the Zambelli book. If anybody wants to read it (and even better, read it and give me feedback) send me an email.http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/acpub/asrr/2012/00000003/00000002/

on Paola Zambelli's book about Renaissance Magic
will be in Vol. 2:3 of Alternative Spirituality and Religion Review
http://www.academicpublishing.org/ASRR.php

Pretty stoked!

Plotinus and the Problem of Dick's Christianity

Occult Sentinel Podcast #38 - Ted Hand - Entering the World of Philip K. Dick

http://podcast7364349260.podomatic.com/entry/2012-07-31T11_28_18-07_00

(Check out the cool Ubik spray can vs. PKD face art)
http://totaldickhead.blogspot.com/2012/07/festival-t-shirts-fundraising.html
2 months away! My talk will be on "Neoplatonism and the problem of Dick's Christianity"

http://www.aseweb.org/?page_id=174
my talk on PKD and Alchemy will be on Friday at 2pm

I've decided to call my Philip K. Dick festival talk "Neoplatonism and the Problem of Dick's Christianity."

The UC Davis talk will be on PKD and Alchemy, looking at his interest in the "Hermetic Tradition" via Jung, Boehme, Paracelsus, and Giordano Bruno.

I'll be doing papers on Philip K. Dick at a conference in Davis this July http://aseweb.org
and for the SFSU PKD conference. Maybe I'll do one at the Chicago AAR meeting, panel on SF+religion. Hoping to find time to turn the talks+my blog into chapters of a little book of essays on PKD+Religion