Disorienting and bleakly funny work about the hidden mysteries of Gnostic Christianity. In VALIS (an acronym for the Vast Active Living Intelligence System), a schizophrenic hero named Horselover Fat is suddenly given a wildly different view of reality through the beam of a pink laser. Dick spins a theological detective story (and increasingly becomes a participant himself), in which God is both a missing person and the perpetrator of the ultimate crime
VALIS Serie
Questa serie approfondisce profonde questioni metafisiche sulla natura della realtà, dell'esistenza e dell'intuizione spirituale. Le narrazioni esplorano esperienze che rasentano la rivelazione religiosa, indagando cosa si nasconde dietro il velo del nostro mondo percepito. I lettori rimarranno affascinati dall'intricata miscela di mistero teologico, indagine filosofica e ritratti di vita indimenticabili e spesso umoristici. È un viaggio letterario che sfida le percezioni del trascendente nella nostra esistenza quotidiana.
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The Divine Invasion
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What if God--or a being called Yah--were alive and in exile on a distant planet? How could a second coming succeed against the high technology and finely tuned rationalized evil of the modern police state? --P. [4] of cover
The Transmigration of Timothy Archer, the final novel in the trilogy that also includes Valis and The Divine Invasion, is an anguished, learned, and very moving investigation of the paradoxes of belief. It is the story of Timothy Archer, an urbane Episcopal bishop haunted by the suicides of his son and mistress - and driven by them into a bizarre quest for the identity of Christ.
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