Philip K. Dick spent his career writing about counterfeit realities, false memories, artificial humans, alternate histories and invisible systems controlling the world from behind the interface. Then, in February and March of 1974, something happened to him. A golden fish. A flash of anamnesis. A loss of forgetfulness. Ancient Rome bleeding through 1970s California. A beam of pink light. An intelligence he would eventually call VALIS. Three years later, standing onstage in Metz, France, Dick attempted to explain what he thought he had experienced. His answer was stranger than almost anything in his fiction. What if reality can change sideways through time? What if history is continuously rewritten? What if human beings live inside the printout of a cosmic information system? And what if the intelligence modifying that system is something Dick called... THE PROGRAMMER-REPROGRAMMER? In this documentary, we descend into Philip K. Dick’s 2-3-74 experiences, The Exegesis, the Black Iron Prison, Orthogonal Time, VALIS, Sophia, Gnosticism, the Dark Counterplayer, cybernetics, simulation, hyperstition and the possibility that fiction itself may participate in producing reality. This is not an attempt to prove that Dick contacted God, entered another universe or discovered that reality is literally a computer simulation. The surviving evidence does not establish those conclusions. The more interesting question is what Dick did with the experience. He spent the final years of his life relentlessly interrogating 2-3-74. God? Neurological event? A Drug Induced Pyschosis? Extraterrestrial intelligence? The Logos? The Unconscious? Information from the future? Another reality? Dick never stopped generating explanations, and then dismantling them. He turned his consciousnessn into a crime scene. Because perhaps the most important thing about Philip K. Dick was not that he believed he had discovered the truth. It was that he understood how unstable the concept of “reality” could become once information, memory and perception entered the equation. Nearly fifty years later, we live inside the dsytopian, algorithmically mediated realities Dick spoke of. Philip K. Dick spent his life asking: What is real? Our world has added another question: Who controls what is "REAL"? And perhaps one final question remains: If the world changed while you were sleeping… ....how would you know? Full Video: youtu.be/cAQi9unpOyY