THE EUCHARIST, SAYS PHILIP K. DICK, IS A TECHNOLOGY
—a technology, moreover, engineered for one, till-now-unimagined, till-now-undisclosed purpose: to extricate us from The Matrix. You arch an eyebrow. Understandably. Keep reading
[ 1 ] THIS WILL ASTONISH YOU
Philip K. Dick was thoroughly convinced that we live in The Matrix. He was also absolutely certain we have the means to crash it, absolutely positive… Keep reading
[ 2 ] HELP HAS COME
VALIS, with its tidings, was published back in 1980. Which raises the question if help has indeed come, if it decided it wanted to be detected by Dick… Keep reading
[ 3 ] JESUS 2.0
The traditional Eucharist is the Real Presence of the body and blood of the crucified Jesus, the body given, the blood poured out. Keep reading
[ 4 ] WHERE YOU LEAST EXPECT IT
The divine intrudes,” Dick said, “where you least expect it.” Neo, remember, bought into the whole fiction that he was really Thomas… Keep reading
[ 5 ] REAL MAGIC
Any technology sufficiently advanced, as Arthur C. Clarke tells us, is indistinguishable from magic. We need to keep that in mind; even better, we need to ask ourselves, what does that really mean?, because… Keep reading
[ 6 ] A FEEBLE SUBVERSION
The problem—the reason the Matrix is perfectly happy to tolerate Christianity’s feeble subversion—is that Christianity’s own model of reality doesn’t get us anywhere we can be of real danger. Keep reading
[ 7 ] UNREPENTANT
Astoundingly, there’s another radically different model of reality—not just utterly unrepentant, but totally rebellious—right in the Gospels, staring us all right in the face… Keep reading
[ 8 ] OBI-WAN’S JEDI ROBE
You no doubt remember the scene in Star Wars: A New Hope in which, after the Millennium Falcon gets caught in the Death Star’s tractor beam and brought aboard, Luke and Han go off to… Keep reading
[ 9 ] JESUS’S DOUBLE-DOG DARE
Just so, Jesus came not to save us from who we are, but from what we think we are—from the fiction we’ve bought into—and, like Obi-wan, to show us who we really are. To dare us—… Keep reading
[ 10 ] TRANSUBSTANTIATING THE WORLD
The Über-Eucharist transubstantiates the whole world. That’s the essence of the Über-Eucharist. That’s wherein it transcends the traditional Eucharist. Of course, that’s exactly what crashing The Matrix means… Keep reading
[ 11 ] CHILDHOOD’S END
In Clarke’s novel all the kids on earth—and it’s just the little kids, the ones who haven’t yet reached puberty—some genetic switch flicks, and they all spontaneously evolve an über-mind-meld… Keep reading
[ 12 ] THE RAINBOW BODY
Father Francis Tiso, a Catholic priest, has written an astonishing book, Rainbow Body and Resurrection, about the phenomenon of the rainbow body in Tibetan Buddhism. The rainbow body is pretty much exactly what Obi-Wan manifests… Keep reading
[ 13 ] BECOME AS LITTLE KIDS
The radical change demanded of us is a puzzling one. “Verily I say unto you,” Jesus tells us, “except ye be converted, and become as little children, ye shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven.” Keep reading
[ 14 ] WE JUST DON’T KNOW IT YET
The truth is in Really-Real Reality we already are Über-Mind—and what that means is that this, right now, is The Fierce Moment of Our Inconceivable Metamorphosis. This very moment. Which is maybe why life… Keep reading
[ 15 ] TOTAL WILD-ASS GENIUS
So the way things stand is this: God is transubstantiating the world. Über-Mind is crashing The Matrix. This right now is The Fierce Moment of Our Inconceivable Metamorphosis. All of which are just three different ways of… Keep reading
[ 16 ] A DAZZLING TWIST
God is indeed both good and terrible—but ‘terrible,’ as I said, in the sense Jacob used the word when he awoke trembling from his dream of wrestling with the angel. God’s terrible aspect, Jacob is dazzled to discover, is a Stargate… Keep reading
[ 17 ] TESTING OUR POWERS
We cannot not play, we’re hard-wired to, but even so we don’t take its luminosity seriously. Play, we think, is just play—even when Jesus keeps telling us otherwise. Why? Because… Keep reading
[ 18 ] THE IMPOSSIBLE ISN’T
The inherent playfulness of who we really are—Naked Mind—is endlessly luminous, shining as the perpetual creative potential of our ceaseless spontaneity… Keep reading
[ 19 ] TOTALLY CRASHING ‘DEATH’
“We are trapped, by and large, in the lower realm,” Dick tells us, “but are through the sacraments … extricated.” Extrication is precisely where the traditional Eucharist fails us, and it fails us in two big ways… Keep reading
[ 20 ] QUIA IMPOSSIBLE EST
Come on, be honest, my whole premise is totally bughouse. Sure, I say, sure we can crash The Matrix. All we need is a sacrament, all it’s gonna take is a literal miracle. Utterly absurd. Keep reading
[ 21 ] SOME ‘WHOLE NOTHER’
Simply put, the Hack’s gotta be a challenge of some whole nother order of magnitude if it’s gonna get us to our inconceivable metamorphosis. Keep reading
[ 22 ] SCI-FI & SCRIPTURE
Just as the Eucharist and beer cans in gutters aren’t different, the language of sci-fi and the language of scripture aren’t different. They’re both the language of… Keep reading
[ 23 ] SCIENCE IS HOPELESSLY DOGMATIC
Science is, let’s be honest, hopelessly dogmatic. There is no other way to look at things, it proclaims dogmatically and infallibly, stomping its dainty little foot for good measure. There is no other approach. Period. Keep reading
[ 24 ] SCI-FI, SCRIPTURE, & STRIEBER
I have reason to suspect,” says Whitley Strieber in The Super Natural, “that the form we live in every day of our lives is not our only state.” I’d like to suggest that we encounter the ‘alien’ all the time—… Keep reading
[ 25 ] ALIEN WORLDSQUARED
Imagine if, unlike the Wachowskis and The Matrix, you had no notion of computers and artificial intelligence, but you knew that this so-called ‘reality’ just didn’t add up… Keep reading
[ 26 ] CODING THE RFID CHIP
Fucking up isn’t a bug, it’s a feature. Or to be more precise the ability—the power—to fuck up isn’t a defect, it’s functionality. At least for us living system. Consider… Keep reading
[ 27 ] SCHRÖDINGER’S BOX
Coming May 2022 . . .
Hack the Eucharist | Crash the Matrix 