Was looking up Dick’s term “homoplasmate” and came across this link at Deoxy, Tractates Cryptica Scriptura, which is from the Exegesis of Philip K. Dick’s novel “Valis“. It’s all about how the universe is composed of living information, a hologram. There are some cool quotes in it (well shit, they are all cool, but I’m not gonna paste the whole damn thing in here):

(10) “Apollonius of Tyana, writing as Hermes Trismegistos, said ‘That which is above is that which is below.’ By this he meant to tell us that our universe is a hologram, but he lacked the term.”

(22) “I term the Immortal One a plasmate, because it is a form of energy; it is living information. It replicates itself—not through information or in information—but as information.”

(23) “The plasmate can crossbond with a human, creating what I call a homoplasmate. This annexes the mortal human permanently to the plasmate. We know this as the “birth from above” or “birth from the Spirit.” It was initiated by Christ, but the Empire destroyed all the homoplasmates before they could replicate.”

(24) “As living information, the plasmate travels up the optic nerve of a human to the pineal body. It uses the human brain as a female host in which to replicate itself into its active form. This is an interspecies symbiosis. The Hermetic alchemists knew of it in theory from ancient texts, but could not duplicate it, since they could not locate the dormant, buried plasmate. Bruno suspected that the plasmate had been destroyed by the Empire; for hinting at this he was burned. “The Empire never ended.”

(25) “It must be realized that when all the homoplasmates were killed in 70 C.E. real time ceased; more important, it must be realized that the plasmate has now returned and is creating new homoplasmates, by which it has destroyed the Empire and started up real time. We call the plasmate “the Holy Spirit,” which is why the R. C. Brotherhood wrote, “Per spiritum sanctum reviviscimus.”

(43) “Against the Empire is posed the living information, the plasmate or physician, which we know as the Holy Spirit or Christ discorporate. These are the two principles, the dark (the Empire) and the light (the plasmate). In the end, Mind will give victory to the latter. Each of us will die or survive according to which he aligns himself and his efforts with. Each of us contains a component of each. Eventually one or the other component will triumph in each human. Zoroaster knew this, because the Wise Mind informed him. He was the first savior. Four have lived in all. A fifth is about to be born, who will differ from the others: he will rule and he will judge us.”

Yep. That document is going into my big list of crazy things to read.