ABSTRACT

This book presents a comparison of the Gnostic worldviews of Carl G. Jung and science-fiction author, Philip K. Dick, two figures who have done far more than most to revive an interest in the Gnostic tradition in the modern world. Despite profoundly different approaches - one was a depth psychologist whose unique insights and approach to psychology forced him to explore the depths of the unconscious in a way that inevitably led him to touch frequently on metaphysical or spiritual matters; the other was an author of science-fiction - there are some striking parallels between their unique Gnostic visions.

With the relatively recent publication of both Jung's and Dick's personal journals - The Red Book (2009), and, The Exegesis of Philip K. Dick (2011), respectively - in which they articulate their Gnostic visions, it seems timely to make this comparison.

chapter One|14 pages

Introduction

chapter Two|12 pages

The living and the dead

chapter Three|14 pages

Ex nihilo, ex plenitudo

chapter Four|6 pages

The darkness and the light

chapter Five|10 pages

Archons and archetypes

chapter Six|7 pages

The cave and the prison

chapter Seven|16 pages

The dream and the hologram

chapter Eight|4 pages

The seed and the sheaf

chapter Nine|12 pages

The self and the homoplasmate

chapter Ten|17 pages

The virgin and the whore

chapter Eleven|21 pages

Slavery and freedom

chapter Twelve|17 pages

Christ and Sophia

chapter Thirteen|12 pages

The imagination and the third eye

chapter Fourteen|16 pages

Reluctant gnosis