Viking Youth Power Hour Ep. 53 pt 1&2 Phillip K Dick
Channel: Radio Free Valhalla
Date: 2021-01-27

Grab a drink and fill that pipe full kids, this week the Vikings indulge themselves in the greatest Science Fiction writer of our time and a modern day christian/gnostic prophet, Philip K. Dick.

While you may be familiar with the many films adapted from his novels (Blade Runner, Minority Report and A Scanner Darkly among others) you may not be aware that in February of 1974 - around about the same time R.A. Wilson was having some strange visits from the Sirius star system and Tim Leary was busy bouncing his ethereal body up over the walls of San Quentin - PKD believed that a satellite, V.A.L.I.S, which might have been part of a Russian covert operation, part of a nervous breakdown, or perhaps even God itself, blasted a pink laser into his head. The subsequent effects of this experience left Dick speaking languages he did not know, accurately diagnosing illnesses he should not have been aware of, and living in two realities simultaneously...one as PKD, the other as an early christian under prosecution from the Roman Empire. What resulted for the rest of the world were two of the most unique and important science fiction novels in the history of the genre, "VALIS" and "The Divine Invasion". 

AJ was our editor, satellite Viking Channel Null offers up our closing hymn.


In the second half of our show on Philip K. Dick, the Vikings meander through the multiple mind states of our fearless author picking apart the events and aftermaths of what came to be known as the V.A.L.I.S trilogy. 

We discuss the final work of PKD which, unfortunately, was never completed and how that project known as "The Owl in Daylight" shows PKD prophecizing his own demise 2 weeks before it's occurrance. 

Throughout his work PKD not only defined a new class of sci-fi hero - the delinquent savante - but also challenged our notion of what it means to be sane, what it means to be insane, and what it means to come to realize that our defining organism - the artist who created this whole mess of several worlds, the organism we all may be but fingers upon fingers of the same self within - may itself be as batty as the most batty amongst us.