Three Science Fiction Conferences(v.2) by Philip K. Dick

Author:Philip K. Dick
Language: es
Format: mobi
Tags: cf
Published: 2010-06-07T22:00:00+00:00

Of all the trees that are

He hath his flock, and feedeth root by root,

The Joy-god Dionysos, the pure star

That shines amid the gathering of the fruit.

—Pindar, a favourite quatrain of Plutrach, circa 430 B.C.

What are names? This is the god of in-toxication, taking in the sacred mushroom (cf. John Allegro) or wine, or finding a joke so terribly funny that you lose all reason laughing and crying, as when you see one of the slapstick silent comedies. In the one short stanza of Pindar we have the flock, we have the trees, we have in addition to these two major symbols of Jesus, terms by which all the esoteri recognize him yet, two more inner terms: the root and star.

The reference to "root and star" might be taken as equal to a spatial extension of the time extension of "I am Alpha and Omega," which is, thee first and last. So "root and star" indicate: I am from the chthonic world up, and the starry heaven downwards. But I see something else in star, in bright morning star: I think he was saying, "The signal that the springtime for man is here, that signal comes from another star." We have friends and they are ETI, and it is, as He told us, a bright and morning star: the star or love.

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