The Ganymede Takeover by Philip K. Dick & Ray Nelson

Author:Philip K. Dick & Ray Nelson [Dick, Philip K.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780575133136
Publisher: Orion
Published: 2014-03-12T22:00:00+00:00

‘It has become time,’ said the Timekeeper, to key into the Common Mind broadcast from the home world, sir.’ The nervous little creech gestured towards the surge-gate amplifier in the corner of the Administrator’s office.

‘Eh?’ muttered Mekkis in response.

‘Sir, this is the third time this month that you have failed to join the fusion. How will you know what is happening back home?’

‘I have more important matters to attend to. Anyhow I know what is occurring back home. My enemies are enjoying themselves at my expense. Why should I plug in just to empathise with their gloating?’

The Oracle chimed in gloomily. ‘It is not from the home world that the darkness approaches.’

The Timekeeper slunk off in silence and Mekkis returned to his ‘more important matters.’ This consisted of a reading of the entire published works of the brilliant but verbose Terran psychiatrist, Doctor Rudolph Balkani; Mekkis had secured microfilm copies of all the books available through the channels of the Bureau of Cultural Control and had devoted virtually his complete attention to them. Never before had he encountered a thinker that so obsessed him. The very first sentence of the initial book had passed through him like a shot.

‘The number of men on this planet is great but finite. The number of potential men within men is infinite. I am therefore, greater than the entire human race.’

This thought would never have occurred to a being accustomed to the telepathic melting together of the Great Common, and yet there was something about it, a certain incredible yet plausible egotism, a fantastic daring that seemed to speak to a deep, hitherto untouched part of Mekkis’ spiritual mind. It seemed somehow to explain the painful state of affairs existing between himself and the other members of the Ganymedian ruling class. They all, every last one, he thought, are against me; yet I know I am right – that in fact I’ve been right all along. How can such a condition occur unless Balkani is correct; unless one being really can be greater than the entire race from which it comes?

Balkani’s method struck him as outrageous. Instead of performing systematic experiments, cautiously moving the boundary of knowledge forward inch by inch, Balkani simply looked within his own unique mind and described what he saw, brushing aside whole schools of psychiatry with a single snide remark, making not even a feeble attempt at politeness, let alone scientific fairness. Yet his theories produced results. Balkani, the master, lurched drunkenly into the unknown, carelessly tossing off dogmatic statements as if they were proven facts simply because they seemed to him, intuitively, to be true. Then others could follow behind him, picking up his ideas and testing them scientifically, and produce miracles.

A method of training latent telepathic ability that really worked.

A type of psychotherapy that seemed to be a brutal, all-out attack on the patient’s ego, yet which cured in weeks supposedly impossible-to-cure mental illnesses such as drug addiction and far-advanced schizophrenia.

An electromagnetic theory of mind function that opened the way for partial or complete control of the mind by electromagnetic fields.

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