Philip K. Dick’s Communication with Valis and the Evolution of Humanity
Valis, Philip K. Dick, and the Evolution of Humanity
When Philip K. Dick went to the dentist in February 1974, the acclaimed science fiction author did not know that his view of reality was about to change. He was in a lot of pain with what turned out to be an impacted wisdom tooth, and was sedated with sodium pentothal while the dentist removed the tooth. The pain afterwards was fairly severe, so the dentist ordered a painkiller, Darvon, for delivery to his patient’s home later that day.
When the courier arrived, Dick answered the door and was suddenly taken aback by a pendant she was wearing. It was a fish ornament, which she explained Christians adopted as a symbol of their religion. He saw a “red and gold plasmic entity” coming from the pendant and, as he reported it, immediately experienced “crystal clear” vision and “sudden exposure to a vast amount of knowledge.”
This was not his first experience with visions and hearing voices. The voice he heard was the same voice he had heard years before while in college. He also began channeling an alien presence he called “Vast Active Living Intelligence System,” or “Valis” for short. The intense visions lasted for two months, leading him to refer to this period of his life as “2-3-74,” for February and March 1974. During the next eight years, he wrote thousands of pages about his visions and voices. His novels were more autobiographical than they were science fiction.
Dick died suddenly in 1982, shortly before the release of the movie “Blade Runner” based on Dick’s book, “Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?” Many of his other books are now movies, as well. He is now known as the “most influential writer of science fiction in the past half century.”
But, was it all science fiction? He received multiple communications from Valis, had dreams and visions about the future, and spent the rest of his life trying to understand why he gained such supreme knowledge. He claimed to have “total recall of the future.”
Philip K. Dick: The Pre-Valis Years
Philip Kindred Dick was born in December 1928 during the cold Chicago winter. He had a twin sister, Jane, who lived for only about eight weeks. She died mysteriously, some saying she had an allergy to her mother’s breast milk. Whatever happened, Dick went through his life always missing his sister and blaming his mother for her death. His father left the family when he was only 5 years old. Shortly after that, he and his mother moved to Berkeley, California, where he lived most of his life.
First published when he was just a teenager, his first short story marked the beginning of a prolific writing career. Although he successfully published a number of his stories, he was not such a success financially. He was always running out of money and seemed to live from advance to advance.
Dick’s life was not emotionally easy and he seemed troubled throughout his entire life: married five times with three children, thought to use drugs and experiment with LSD, and frequent visions of his own death. Despite drug use allegations, he was able to continue writing. By the time of his death, he had published more than 120 short stories and 44 novels.
As early as 1954, Dick wrote about precognition in his novel, “The World Jones Made.” Based on his own experiences, the main character in that book was a “precog” who could see one year into the future. His books often referenced precognition, and Dick believed he himself had this ability.
He also heard voices, or at least a voice. As a young man taking the physics portion of a college entrance exam, Dick found that he did not understand eight of the 10 questions. Suddenly, he heard the voice explain to him, in a completely understandable way, what he needed to know. As a result, he received a perfect score on the test.
He heard the same voice again years later, when it explained to him what was happening in a television documentary that he had had difficulty understanding. In 1974, the same voice returned when he had his life-changing vision in response to the fish-pendant worn by the pharmacy delivery girl and he began his regular communications with Valis.
Philip K. Dick: The Valis Years
Although Dick reported only sporadic communications with the voice until 1974, after that date, the communications became fairly frequent and routine. Valis gave him advice on improving his health, his appearance and his financial situation. Dick credited the voice with saving the life of his young son by describing the medical condition the boy suffered from and urging Dick to get the child immediately to a doctor. He convinced his wife of the need to take their seemingly healthy boy to the doctor where they discovered the child had the exact condition the voice described to Dick. Prompt surgery saved the boy’s life.
Dick believed the voice he heard was from God, or at least from some higher power. He wrote continuously about what he experienced. He ended up writing thousands of pages and hundreds of thousands of words in his attempt to make sense of it.
He intended his 1981 book “Valis” to be a trilogy. It was more of a biographical presentation of Dick’s visions and voices than it was a book that fit in the science fiction genre. As one reviewer put it, “He’s not looking for aliens; he’s looking for the meaning of life.” Due to his sudden death in 1982, at the age of 54, Dick never completed the trilogy.
The Death of Philip K. Dick
In February 1975, Dick wrote a letter to a friend telling her about a dream he had just had where he saw “a stark single horrifying scene, inert but not still; a man lay dead, on his face, in a living room between the coffee table and the couch.” He followed the letter with another one in May 1975 in which he said he was “scared.” He added, “What scares me most Claudia, is that I can often recall the future.”
Almost exactly seven years after the first letter, Philip K. Dick’s dead body was found face down in his living room, wedged between the coffee table and the couch. Without realizing it, he had accurately predicted the circumstances surrounding his own death. Some reports say he died of a stroke. Others claim it was congestive heart failure. Others regale in the mystery of why he died so young.
Philip K. Dick left behind, in addition to his short stories and novels, his influence on other sci-fi writers and pop culture, as well as many mind-bending films. Unfortunately, he did not live to see his work on the big screen. He died before the release of his first movie, “Blade Runner;” however he saw about 20 minutes of the finished product and seemed pleased that the filmmaker preserved Dick’s vision. Other movies based on his books that were made after his death include: “Minority Report,” “Total Recall,” “A Scanner Darkly” and several others.
He also left behind more than 8,000 pages about his experiences with Valis since his 1974 vision. The pages had narrow margins and were mostly single spaced with numerous handwritten journal entries. Dick referred to this body of work as his Exegesis. The papers were edited and published in 2011 as “The Exegesis of Philip K. Dick.”
Was Philip K. Dick more than just a legendary science fiction author? Check out Mysteries of the Solar System, part of Gaia’s Deep Space series, and watch the conversation between Open Mind’s host Regina Meredith and her guest, Anthony Peake, on Scanning the Future with Philip K. Dick.
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What Is Telepathy? Learn How to Develop This Psychic Ability
Telepathy is the ability to transmit thoughts, emotions, or mental images between two or more people without using physical means. Although historically it has been associated with science fiction, it is a skill that is part of human psychic potential. In this article, we explore what telepathy is, how it works between people, and what is needed to begin developing it consciously.
Table of Contents
- What Is Telepathy?
- How Does Telepathy Work Between People?
- Telepathy in Love: Connection Beyond Words
- Ways of Receiving Telepathic Information
- Extraterrestrial Communication Through Telepathy
- Can Everyone Experience Telepathy?
- How to Consciously Develop Telepathy
What Is Telepathy?
Telepathy is defined as direct mental communication between individuals, without the intervention of conventional senses. It is a type of extrasensory perception that manifests as the immediate transfer of thoughts, emotions, or information, beyond any verbal or bodily language.
This ability has been recognized and cultivated in spiritual traditions around the world, from indigenous cultures to Eastern philosophical systems. For these traditions, the mind is not limited to the body but acts as a frequency that connects with other minds when they align in resonance. Telepathy is not a supernatural phenomenon but a natural function of the human being that can be developed with practice and awareness.
In modern contexts, telepathy has been the subject of studies within parapsychology. Although conventional science does not yet provide a conclusive explanation, controlled experiments have shown that nonverbal information transfer does occur, especially when there is a strong emotional or energetic connection between participants.
How Does Telepathy Work Between People?
Telepathy operates through a shared mental field, which is not limited by space or time. People most prone to telepathic experiences are often emotionally connected, such as close family members, couples, or intimate friends. In these bonds, thoughts and feelings flow more easily due to emotional and energetic attunement.
This type of communication occurs when two minds enter into resonance, that is, when they vibrate at a similar frequency. It is not necessary for both people to be aware of the process; it is enough that there is a natural openness or a clear intention to connect mentally. The quality of the bond, more than physical distance, is what determines the intensity of the exchange.
The key for telepathy to occur is mental state. Situations of calm, meditation, or deep relaxation facilitate telepathic reception. When the mind quiets and attention turns inward, it becomes more receptive to information coming from other planes of perception, including the mental emissions of other people.
Telepathy in Love: Connection Beyond Words
When there is a deep emotional bond, it is possible that the mental connection between two people is activated spontaneously. In romantic relationships, this telepathic communication manifests as silent understanding, constant emotional synchronicity, or an intense feeling of knowing what the other person feels or thinks, even at a distance. It is an experience that transcends language and is lived as a shared inner presence.
This type of connection often intensifies in moments of emotional urgency, danger, or physical separation. Many people report having felt sudden anguish or an emotion precisely when their partner was going through a difficult situation, even though they had no way of knowing it. The explanation does not lie in coincidence but in the energetic resonance between two deeply connected minds.
Loving telepathy is strengthened through intimacy, empathy, and time shared together. It does not require complex rituals or extraordinary states of consciousness, but rather conscious attention to the other person and genuine emotional openness. When both people are in tune, information flows effortlessly, creating an invisible network that sustains the bond beyond words.
Ways of Receiving Telepathic Information
Telepathic information is not always perceived in the same way. Each person has perception channels that are more active than others, and the information may arrive through different pathways depending on context, level of sensitivity, or type of connection with the other mind.
- Mental images: Information comes in the form of scenes, symbols, or internal visual figures. They often appear suddenly and are accompanied by a sense of certainty.
- Spontaneous thoughts: They arise as clear ideas that do not come from logical reasoning. They are perceived as mental messages from outside that break into one’s own mind.
- Telepathic dreams: During sleep, especially in deep phases, it is common to receive messages from others. These dreams are usually vivid and easy to remember upon waking.
- Physical or emotional sensations: Sometimes the body acts as a receiver and manifests discomfort, joy, or emotional pressure corresponding to another person’s state. These sensations appear without any apparent cause.
- Internal words or phrases: Some people mentally hear specific words or short phrases that convey direct information. It is a form of telepathy that is clear and internally verbalized.
Extraterrestrial Communication Through Telepathy
Telepathy is not limited to the human realm. Contactees, ex-military personnel involved in classified programs, and numerous UFO researchers claim that extraterrestrial beings use telepathy as their main means of communication. Unlike articulated language, mental transfer allows immediate, direct, and universal understanding without misunderstandings or cultural barriers.
Those who have had close encounters describe how messages are received with absolute clarity, often accompanied by mental images and emotional sensations that reinforce the content. This type of contact does not occur randomly but when there is an inner disposition and an elevated state of consciousness on the part of the human being. For this reason, many of these encounters take place in meditative states, lucid dreams, or moments of deep silence.
In the series Cosmic Disclosure, available on Gaia, these experiences are explored in depth. In the episode “E.T. Telepathy” researcher Clifford Stone recounts his encounters with beings from other worlds and how he managed to establish telepathic communication with them. The series offers a direct look at this phenomenon through the testimonies of those who have experienced these contacts in a real and conscious way.
Can Everyone Experience Telepathy?
In general, all human beings have the ability to experience telepathy. It is not an exclusive gift, but a natural skill that is part of the latent psychic potential within human consciousness. Like any other faculty, it requires attention, practice, and willingness to be developed.
Although some people seem to have a more refined sensitivity from an early age, this does not imply a limitation for those who have not had telepathic experiences before. Constant practice and the cultivation of inner perception make it possible to activate this ability at any stage of life. The key is learning to recognize the subtle signs that indicate a mental connection with another person.
Telepathy does not always manifest in spectacular ways. It often appears as a sudden certainty, a thought that coincides with another’s, or a clear sense of knowing something the other has not yet said. Learning to trust these impressions and to distinguish genuine perception from mental noise is a fundamental part of the process.
How to Consciously Develop Telepathy
To develop telepathy consciously means training the mind to become more receptive, clear, and focused. It is not enough to simply wish for it: it is necessary to cultivate inner attention and create the right conditions for this ability to manifest.
- Daily meditation: Quieting the mind is essential to pick up subtle mental signals. A consistent practice improves receptivity and focus.
- Shared visualization: Practice with another person by mentally imagining an image or word and asking them to receive it. This trains both telepathic sending and receiving.
- Inner listening: Pay attention to thoughts that seem to have no personal origin. Many times, they are real perceptions coming from others.
- Conscious emotional bond: Strengthen your ties with close people through empathy and presence. Deep emotional connections favor spontaneous telepathy.
- Experience journal: Keep a diary of mental coincidences, shared dreams, or synchronized thoughts. This helps you identify patterns and validate progress.
