I listened with interest to Tony's interview on Weds 29th August, as I was certain that there is life after death. However, what totally threw me was when he talked about TLE - it was almost as if he was personally discussing me. I suffer from this & get time delay when I'm due to have a seizure - but it isn't long enough in reality to stop myself falling, however it seems like it's minutes before it actually happens. I'm "outside myself" totally detatched if that makes sense. I seem to know what's going to happen because I'm seeing it - it's like watching myself on a film - like "oh this is the bit where I fall down the stairs" . The interesting thing is until Wednesday I didn't think to make any connection with life after death/deja vu etc with my TLE. It's opened up a whole new series of thoughts & theories. Has anyone else had an experience like this? I could use a few tips if anyone can help me, I'm finding it a bit "scary" .
Thanks,
PS sorry if this rambles & doesn't make a whole lot of sense - this is my 1st ever post to a blog!
Friday, 31 August 2007
Yet another radio interview - this time in Spain
The interviews seem to be coming in thick and fast at the moment. BBC Radio Devon are keen to have me come back and do a phone-in and this afternoon I have agreed to be interviewed on the major English-language radio station in Southern Spain (REMfm) tomorrow (Monday 3rd September). I will be on air from 13:10 BST for about twenty minutes. This may be longer depending upon the response they receive from their listeners. (Thanks to Steve Taylor for this contact). Apparently they have over 1 million listeners down there so this cannot be bad. If you have the time by all means listen in on http://www.rem.fm/ . I have no idea which way this interview will go because they will not have read the book and only looked at the website.
Tuesday, 28 August 2007
BBC Radio Interview - Wednesday 29th August @ 2200
I was recently interviewed by John Govier of BBC Radio Devon, Cornwall, Guernsey & Jersey. This will be broadcast on Wednesday 29th August at 2200 (British Summer Time). This can be listened to online at the following websites:
www.bbc.co.uk/devon
www.bbc.co.uk/cornwall
www.bbc.co.uk/jersey
www.bbc.co.uk/guernsey
This is quite a different interview than the ones I have done so far.
www.bbc.co.uk/devon
www.bbc.co.uk/cornwall
www.bbc.co.uk/jersey
www.bbc.co.uk/guernsey
This is quite a different interview than the ones I have done so far.
Friday, 17 August 2007
Web Radio Interview Tonight - 17th August
For those of you who are interested I will be interviewed by Glastonbury Radio tonight between 2300 and 0000 (UK time). This can be listened to on the web by logging on to www.glastonburyradio.net
Sunday, 5 August 2007
PKD's Counter-clock World ... More Synchronicity
Michael Holder has requested that I place his following comments here rather than they be lost as a response to a posting:
In your blog entry dated Thursday,15 February 2007 (titled Synchronicity - Anarch Peak)
you wrote that "... yesterday I found another synchronicity that made me very excited. In one of his earlier novels, Counter Clock World one of the main characters is somebody called Anarch Peak .. "
The entry prompted me to read Counter-clock World next. I knew nothing of the detailed content of this book, other than the general premise of lives running backwards, from the grave to the womb. Now that I have finished reading Counter-clock World, I have a couple of points to make.
I understand, your excitement at the 'synchronicity' of a central character having a very similar surname to you, that is 'the Anarch Peak'. The 'Anarch' is obviously a religious 'job title', his actual name being 'Thomas Peak', and there is also a character, (the 'Rome' contact), who identifies himself as 'Tony'.
However, it was other 'coincidences' that intrigued me. The 'Anarch Peak' is kidnapped by the powerful and mysterious organization called The People's Topical Library service, and is taken, as hostage, to a remote branch of the library service. Oddly, I had just had this book brought to the central library, from a remote branch of MY library service. And this is the only PKD book I've ever reserved from another branch of the Library Service.
But there is something far more significant than that. According to your blog entry, you only found the similarity of your name with the 'Anarch Peak' on the 14 Feb. this year, so I must assume your book ITLAD had already been printed. This makes the following coincidence even more surprising ... On page 216 of Counter-clock World, in a somewhat incidental context, PKD uses the term 'Eidolon'! As this is one of the key terms in your Daemon/Eidolon dyad concept (!!), together with the similarity of your surname with a character in the same book, I find this combined synchronicity astonishing. It would be interesting to know how many times the term 'Eidolon' appears throughout all of PKD's writings. Not very many I would suggest (but maybe more than the average author).
As you will remember if you read the book, the significance of 'the Anarch Peak' in the story, is that he has recently been 'old-born' from the dead (ie. resurrected), and has potentially dangerous knowledge about the true nature of the after-life, and also the theological and philosophical insight and vocabulary to be able to communicate that knowledge in ways that other 'old-borns' cannot. It seems that the 'Anarch Peak' has a theory of after-life/near-death experiences which makes him a potential danger to the People's Topical Library Service (whose counter-clock function it is to eradicate knowledge, by destroying books and manuscripts, rather than conserving them).
So both the 'Anarch Peak' and the 'Anthony Peake' have developed theories of after-life/near-death experiences. The similarity between you, and the character in the PKD book, would seem to have a deeper significance than simply a similarity of surname. In some respects, they (you) seem to have a functional similarity too.
You asked, "... tell me if I am placing significance where it is not but I do find this really weird ......" It seems to me to be highly significant, but no less weird for that.
In your blog entry dated Thursday,15 February 2007 (titled Synchronicity - Anarch Peak)
you wrote that "... yesterday I found another synchronicity that made me very excited. In one of his earlier novels, Counter Clock World one of the main characters is somebody called Anarch Peak .. "
The entry prompted me to read Counter-clock World next. I knew nothing of the detailed content of this book, other than the general premise of lives running backwards, from the grave to the womb. Now that I have finished reading Counter-clock World, I have a couple of points to make.
I understand, your excitement at the 'synchronicity' of a central character having a very similar surname to you, that is 'the Anarch Peak'. The 'Anarch' is obviously a religious 'job title', his actual name being 'Thomas Peak', and there is also a character, (the 'Rome' contact), who identifies himself as 'Tony'.
However, it was other 'coincidences' that intrigued me. The 'Anarch Peak' is kidnapped by the powerful and mysterious organization called The People's Topical Library service, and is taken, as hostage, to a remote branch of the library service. Oddly, I had just had this book brought to the central library, from a remote branch of MY library service. And this is the only PKD book I've ever reserved from another branch of the Library Service.
But there is something far more significant than that. According to your blog entry, you only found the similarity of your name with the 'Anarch Peak' on the 14 Feb. this year, so I must assume your book ITLAD had already been printed. This makes the following coincidence even more surprising ... On page 216 of Counter-clock World, in a somewhat incidental context, PKD uses the term 'Eidolon'! As this is one of the key terms in your Daemon/Eidolon dyad concept (!!), together with the similarity of your surname with a character in the same book, I find this combined synchronicity astonishing. It would be interesting to know how many times the term 'Eidolon' appears throughout all of PKD's writings. Not very many I would suggest (but maybe more than the average author).
As you will remember if you read the book, the significance of 'the Anarch Peak' in the story, is that he has recently been 'old-born' from the dead (ie. resurrected), and has potentially dangerous knowledge about the true nature of the after-life, and also the theological and philosophical insight and vocabulary to be able to communicate that knowledge in ways that other 'old-borns' cannot. It seems that the 'Anarch Peak' has a theory of after-life/near-death experiences which makes him a potential danger to the People's Topical Library Service (whose counter-clock function it is to eradicate knowledge, by destroying books and manuscripts, rather than conserving them).
So both the 'Anarch Peak' and the 'Anthony Peake' have developed theories of after-life/near-death experiences. The similarity between you, and the character in the PKD book, would seem to have a deeper significance than simply a similarity of surname. In some respects, they (you) seem to have a functional similarity too.
You asked, "... tell me if I am placing significance where it is not but I do find this really weird ......" It seems to me to be highly significant, but no less weird for that.
Thursday, 2 August 2007
The Schizophrenic Influencing Machine & The Bohmian IMAX
I am very excited by Karl's linking of my theories to his. Clearly there are many similarities but I also feel that Karl's idea may explain why schizophrenics feel so lost in this world. I am very keen to have some feedback from other bloggers on Karl's ideas.
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