In the previous post from iUniverse author John C. Woodcock, we were exploring a new form of consciousness that effected the works of sci-fi great, Philip K. Dick and how that compares to John’s thinking and writing form for his new book UR-image. Let John explain:-
Over time our daylight consciousness became stabilized enough for these rituals to lose their power and necessity. Today they have degenerated into Halloween, etc. They have no psychological value. So now, we live in a stable world of rationality which is occasionally threatened by events evaluated as irrational (emotions, visions, delusions, the psychoses, etc.), all of which are dealt with primarily by medications, thus “warded off” (literalized by psychotic patients being put in the “back wards”). The content of irrational outbursts (or more accurately, inbursts) are not listened to or trusted in any way by the “healing profession”.
With this context we can more easily gain access to Dick’s discovery. He shows us that if we take madness seriously and in a sustained way; if we take it on its own terms, as it presents itself to us, then the fundamental polarity that has driven our Western culture for thousands of years, giving rise, finally to our modern structure of consciousness—the rational-irrational polarity—reverses itself!
Astounding!”
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