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0:00I would like to confess
0:02that I've been asked to cut about
0:03two-thirds of my speech out
0:06and deliver as short a speech as
0:08possible. You are free to believe me or
0:10to disbelieve, but please take my word
0:13on it that I am not joking. This is very
0:15serious, a matter of importance.
0:18>> This is the recording some believe cost
0:20him his life. In September 1977, the
0:23writer Philip K. Dick spoke to an
0:25audience in France. They expected
0:28science [music] fiction. What he said
0:30instead revealed too much about reality
0:33and drew the attention of the CIA and
0:36FBI, [music]
0:37changing his life forever.
0:39>> The subject of this speech is a topic
0:41which has been discovered recently. A
0:44breaching, a tinkering, a change had
0:47been made, but not in our present. Had
0:50been made in our past. A variable was
0:53changed, reprogrammed as it were, and
0:57that because of this an alternative
0:59world branched off, became actualized
1:01instead of the prior one, and that in
1:04fact, in literal fact, we are once more
1:07living this particular segment of linear
1:09time.
1:09>> He said the CIA and FBI had taken his
1:13work years earlier. That's when you know
1:15he may have spoken too much.
1:17>> In March of '74, the CIA opened my mail,
1:21the FBI had a file on me. I've seen
1:23both.
1:25But the cops were watching everything I
1:26did, and I was correct. And I was told
1:30the house was being watched, and that
1:32eventually my house would be hit. My
1:34files would be opened, my papers would
1:36be taken, and so it came to pass. When I
1:39came home and found my house consisting
1:41of nothing but rubble,
1:43ruin,
1:44chaos,
1:45broken windows, smashed doorknobs, blown
1:48open files,
1:49>> A few years later, he suddenly dies
1:51right before the premiere of Blade
1:53Runner, June 1982, the film adaptation
1:56of his novel to Android's Dream of
1:59Electric Sheep.
2:00Fans said it was strange that the
2:02author, who had predicted so many modern
2:04themes about AI, identity, and reality,
2:08never got to see the movie that would
2:10finally make him widely famous.
2:12What's strange to me is that he was only
2:15writing science fiction, yet [music] the
2:17FBI and CIA started watching him. To me,
2:21that means he was touching information
2:23never meant for the public.
2:25>> [music]
2:25>> That's what caught my attention. So,
2:28listen carefully to what comes next. I
2:30know attention spans are short, but
2:32trust me, this video will give you
2:34chills.
2:35>> We are accustomed to supposing
2:38that all change takes place along the
2:40linear time axis from past to present to
2:43future. The present is an accrual of the
2:45past
2:46>> [music]
2:46>> and is different from it. The future
2:48will accrue from the present on and be
2:51different yet. That an orthogonal or
2:53right angle time axis could exist, a
2:56lateral domain in which change takes
2:58place, processes occurring sideways in
3:01reality, so to speak. This is almost
3:04impossible to imagine. How would we
3:06perceive such lateral changes? What
3:08would we experience?
3:10What clues, if we are trying to test out
3:13this bizarre theory, should we be on the
3:15alert for? In other words, how can
3:18change take place outside of linear time
3:20at all, in any sense, to any degree?
3:23>> Philip tries to make this strange idea
3:26easier to understand with a simple
3:28picture.
3:29Imagine a painting on a wall.
3:31>> [music]
3:31>> Instead of replacing the whole painting,
3:34the servants secretly change details on
3:36the same canvas. [music]
3:38They remove a tree, add a girl, shift
3:41small elements. When the owner looks at
3:43it, he sees something new, yet also
3:46familiar. His brain struggles. It's the
3:49same painting, but also [music] not the
3:51same. Dick uses this example to suggest
3:54that reality might be altered in subtle
3:56ways, not fully replaced.
4:04>> Contemplating this possibility of a
4:06lateral arrangement of worlds, a
4:08plurality of overlapping Earth's along
4:10whose linking axis a person can somehow
4:13move, can travel in a mysterious way
4:15from worse to fair to good to excellent.
4:18Contemplating this in theological terms,
4:20perhaps we could say that herewith we
4:22suddenly decipher the elliptical
4:25utterances which Christ expressed
4:27regarding the kingdom of God,
4:28specifically where it is located.
4:31>> He connects his theory of parallel
4:32worlds to the words of Jesus. He points
4:35out that Jesus gave answers that seemed
4:37contradictory about the kingdom of God.
4:40He said, "My kingdom is not of this
4:43world, but also the kingdom is within
4:46you or among you."
4:48Dick suggests these statements weren't
4:50meant to confuse, but to describe
4:53something deeper.
4:55Maybe Jesus was speaking about these
4:56overlapping realms, multiple realities
4:59that can be reached by living human
5:01beings. Some of them dark, others
5:04beautiful, and at the highest level, the
5:07just kingdom of God.
5:09>> I in my stories and novels often write
5:11about counterfeit worlds, semi-real
5:14worlds, as well as deranged private
5:16worlds inhabited often by just one
5:19person. While meantime the other
5:21characters either remain in their own
5:23worlds throughout or are somehow drawn
5:26into one of the peculiar ones.
5:28This theme occurs in the corpus of my 27
5:31years of writing.
5:32At no time did I have a theoretical or
5:34conscious explanation for my
5:36preoccupation with these pluriform
5:39pseudo-worlds, but now I think I
5:41understand. What I was sensing was a
5:44manifold of partially actualized
5:46realities. It was in February of 1974
5:49that my blocked off memories of track A
5:51returned. And it was in February of 1974
5:55that my novel Flow My Tears the
5:56Policeman Said was released finally
5:59after two two years delay.
6:02It was almost as if the release of the
6:03novel, which had been delayed so long,
6:06meant that in a certain sense it was all
6:08right for me to remember. That is to
6:10remember that the book was not fiction.
6:12The book was based on subliminal
6:14memories which I had of such a world.
6:17>> After connecting his book to subliminal
6:19memories, he went deeper into describing
6:21what happened to him in early 1974.
6:25He said it began after dental surgery
6:27when he was recovering at home.
6:29One afternoon, a delivery girl came to
6:32his door wearing a necklace with a
6:33Christian fish symbol.
6:36As the sunlight reflected off the
6:37necklace, Dick saw a sudden flash of
6:40pink light.
6:42From that moment on, he reported a
6:44series of overwhelming visions. He
6:47claimed the pink beam carried
6:49information directly into his mind. Not
6:52images he imagined, but structured
6:54knowledge. He suddenly knew that his
6:57infant son had a dangerous undiagnosed
6:59[music] medical condition. When doctors
7:02checked, they confirmed it, saving the
7:04boy's life. To Dick, this proved the
7:07experience was not fantasy. [music] In
7:09the weeks that followed, the visions
7:11intensified.
7:13He said he lived in two overlapping
7:15realities, California in 1974
7:18and ancient Rome in the 1st century. At
7:21times, he believed he was both himself
7:24and a Christian slave living under Roman
7:27rule. He described it as if time had
7:29folded, two tracks of history running at
7:32the same time, and his consciousness
7:34could move between them.
7:36Philip also reported receiving vast
7:39amounts of information, entire downloads
7:41of philosophy, theology, and science
7:44that felt too complex to invent. He said
7:47it was as if an external intelligence,
7:49[music] which he later called Valis,
7:52vast active living intelligence system,
7:55was transmitting knowledge into his
7:57brain. For him, this explained why many
8:00of his novels already contained [music]
8:02themes of false realities, hidden
8:04powers, and overlapping worlds. He
8:07believed those stories were subliminal
8:09memories breaking through long before he
8:12consciously understood them.
8:14>> Plural realities did exist superimposed
8:17onto one another by so many film
8:19transparency. What I still do not grasp,
8:22however, is how one reality out of the
8:25many becomes actualized in
8:27contradistinction to the others. More
8:29likely, the matrix world, the one with
8:31the true core of being, is determined by
8:34the programmer.
8:36He or it articulates,
8:38prints out, so to speak, the matrix
8:40choice and fuses it with actual
8:42substance.
8:43The core or essence of reality, that
8:46which receives or attains it, and to
8:48what degree,
8:50that is within the purview of the
8:51programmer. This selection and
8:53reselection is part of general
8:55creativity of world building,
8:57>> [music]
8:57>> which seems to be it or his task.
9:00>> As you can see, some people in the
9:01audience laughed at what he was saying.
9:04Remember, this was 1977.
9:07Back then, ideas about multiple
9:09realities and hidden programmers sounded
9:11completely insane to most people.
9:14Today, talk of simulations, parallel
9:16worlds, or alternate timelines isn't new
9:19anymore.
9:20>> [music]
9:20>> Scientists and philosophers discuss it
9:22openly.
9:23But what still makes me pause is not the
9:25theory itself. [music]
9:27It's the fact that the CIA and FBI
9:29really did open his mail, keep files on
9:32him, raid his home, and take his papers.
9:36That part still raises questions.
9:38If he was just a sci-fi writer making
9:40things up, why go to such lengths?
9:43Maybe he had said too much.
9:46And to make his concept easier to grasp,
9:48he gave an example. He compared reality
9:50itself to a game of chess. Imagine two
9:53players, one representing a dark
9:56destructive force, and the other
9:57representing the guiding intelligence
9:59behind reality. On the surface, it can
10:02look like the dark player is winning
10:04moves, capturing pieces and gaining
10:06control of the board.
10:08>> [snorts]
10:08>> But in truth, the game is already
10:10structured so that the ultimate victory
10:13belongs to the higher player.
10:15According to this view, the guiding
10:17intelligence, what Dick sometimes called
10:19the programmer, has already chosen the
10:22variables in advance. [music] Every
10:24apparent loss is only part of a larger
10:27sequence that leads to final victory.
10:29People sense this instinctively, which
10:32is why they pray to be included in that
10:34winning path, asking not to be left
10:37behind in the game. To be left out means
10:40staying under the influence of the
10:41destructive force,
10:43>> [music]
10:43>> stuck in a darker version of reality.
10:46But even as that force seems clever,
10:49>> [music]
10:49>> even as it appears to win in the short
10:51term, it is already defeated. It is
10:54blind to the full pattern of the game.
10:57The higher player sees the whole board,
11:00sees every possible move, and because of
11:02that, the outcome is decided. The
11:05constructive force will always prevail,
11:08and the only question is whether we are
11:10moved along with it or [music] left
11:12trapped in the losing side of the match.
11:15>> I submit to you
11:17that such alterations, the creation or
11:20selection of such so-called alternative
11:23presents, is continually taking place.
11:27The very fact that we can conceptually
11:29deal with this notion, that is entertain
11:32it as an idea, is the first step in
11:34discerning such processes themselves.
11:37>> He gave some very simple examples of how
11:39these shifts might show [music] up in
11:41everyday life.
11:42You might reach for a light switch in
11:44your bathroom and suddenly realize it
11:46[music] has always been in a different
11:47spot.
11:48Or you might go to adjust the air vent
11:50in your car only to find there was never
11:52one there at all.
11:54These are reflexes left over from
11:56another version of the present, [music]
11:58habits from a timeline that no longer
12:00exists, but which still linger in your
12:03memory at a subconscious level.
12:06Sometimes we even dream of people
12:07[music] or places we've never seen. Yet
12:10they feel familiar and vivid as if we
12:12really had known them.
12:14Most of the time we dismiss it and move
12:16on. But one of the strongest impressions
12:19many people experience is déjà vu. That
12:22strange, undeniable feeling that we are
12:25reliving the present moment exactly as
12:27it happened before.
12:29>> [music]
12:29>> We hear the same words. We say the same
12:32words and we are sure we've been here
12:34before.
12:36Dick argued this wasn't just a trick of
12:38the mind. For him, déjà vu was evidence.
12:41He believed it was a clue that at some
12:43point in the past a variable had been
12:45changed as if reality was reprogrammed
12:49and that a new timeline branched off
12:51from the old one.
12:53In other words, we are not just
12:55imagining it. We are literally reliving
12:57the same segment of time again only in a
13:00slightly altered version of reality.
13:03>> A breaching, a tinkering, a change had
13:06been made, but not in our present. Had
13:09been made in our past. Evidently such an
13:12alteration would have a peculiar effect
13:15on those persons involved. They would,
13:17so to speak, be moved back one square or
13:20several squares on the board game which
13:22constitutes our reality. Conceivably,
13:25this could happen any number of times
13:27affecting any number of people as
13:29alternative variables were reprogrammed.
13:32We would have to live out each
13:35reprogramming along the subsequent
13:37linear time axis, but to the programmer,
13:40whom we call God, to him the results of
13:42the programming would be apparent once.
13:45We are within time and he is not. We are
13:48living in a computer program reality and
13:52the only clue we have to it is when some
13:55variable is changed and
13:58some [clears throat] alteration in our
14:00reality occurs.
14:01>> [music]
14:01>> He believed that every time reality
14:03shifts, a new lateral world is
14:05generated. And with each shift, the
14:07guiding intelligence, the programmer,
14:09achieves a kind of victory. [music]
14:11Each new version of reality isn't
14:12perfect, but it's slightly better than
14:15the one before it. In his view, the
14:17universe is constantly being refined
14:20stage by stage through this [music]
14:22process.
14:23The way he described it, the old
14:25universe doesn't disappear. It becomes
14:27raw material, a kind of stockpile that
14:30is used [music] to build the new one.
14:32What looks like chaos or broken
14:34fragments in one timeline might actually
14:36be the foundation for the next.
14:39This means reality isn't moving toward
14:41collapse,
14:42>> [music]
14:42>> but toward improvement. Even if we can't
14:45always see how, the process keeps
14:47pushing forward, generating alternate
14:49worlds one after another, each infused
14:52with a little more order and structure
14:55than the last.
14:57>> What we need at this point is to locate,
14:59to bring forth as evidence, someone who
15:02has managed somehow, it doesn't matter
15:04how,
15:05to retain memories of a different
15:07present.
15:08>> [music]
15:08>> Latent alternate world impressions,
15:10different in some significant way from
15:12this, the one which is at this stage
15:15actualized. According to my theoretical
15:18view,
15:19it It almost certainly be memories of a
15:22worse world than this.
15:24For it is not reasonable that God the
15:25programmer and re-programmer would
15:27substitute a worse world in terms of
15:30freedom or beauty or love or order or
15:32healthiness by any standard which we
15:34know.
15:35>> If what Philip K. Dick was describing is
15:37true, that reality can shift sideways,
15:39[music]
15:41that alternate versions of the world
15:42appear again and again,
15:45then maybe we've already seen signs of
15:47it without realizing.
15:49One of the clearest examples is what we
15:51now call the Mandela effect.
15:53Millions of people around the world
15:55share the same memory of something that
15:57doesn't match today's official version
15:59of events.
16:01The name itself comes from people
16:02remembering that Nelson Mandela died in
16:05prison during the 1980s.
16:07They remember news reports, public
16:09reactions, even school lessons about his
16:12death.
16:13Yet in this timeline, Mandela was
16:15released and later became president of
16:18South Africa, living until 2013.
16:22For those who have the older memory, it
16:24feels as though history was rewritten.
16:26[music] And it doesn't stop there.
16:28People remember the Berenstain Bears,
16:30spelled as Berenstain with an E. They
16:33remember the Monopoly Man having a
16:35monacle, when in fact, [music]
16:37he never did. They recall the movie
16:39line, "Luke, I am your father." When the
16:42actual line is,
16:44>> No,
16:46I am your father.
16:48>> These aren't just a handful of mistakes.
16:51They're shared, consistent memories
16:53across millions of people, as if we
16:55really had lived in a slightly different
16:57version of reality.
17:00Philip K. Dick's theory offers one
17:02possible explanation. If variables can
17:05be changed, if a programmer can shift us
17:07laterally from one track to another,
17:10then déjà vu, false memories, or the
17:12Mandela effect might not be errors at
17:15all. They could be traces of previous
17:18[music] presences, fragments of
17:20timelines we once occupied but no longer
17:23do.
17:24This is where things get even stranger
17:27because it's not just personal memories.
17:29Pop culture itself sometimes seems to
17:31reveal knowledge of events long before
17:34they happen.
17:35One of the most famous examples is The
17:37Simpsons. For more than three decades,
17:40the animated show has been making jokes
17:42that later turn out to mirror real-world
17:44events with uncanny accuracy.
17:47Years before smartwatches were invented,
17:49The Simpsons showed characters using
17:51wrist devices to make phone calls.
17:52[music]
17:53They joked about a defective autocorrect
17:55feature on a handheld device long before
17:58smartphones made that frustration a
18:00daily reality.
18:01They even portrayed Disney eventually
18:03buying 20th Century Fox, a merger that
18:06seemed absurd at the time but became
18:08reality in 2019.
18:11In another episode, they showed a
18:12skyscraper with a design almost
18:14identical to London's Shard, drawn over
18:17a decade before construction even began.
18:20They sketched a Nobel Prize prediction
18:22board that [music] matched the actual
18:24Nobel winner announced years later.
18:26And in one storyline, they featured a
18:28three-eyed fish living near a power
18:30plant,
18:31>> [music]
18:31>> which was followed years later by news
18:33photos of a three-eyed fish discovered
18:36in Argentina living by water
18:38contaminated from a nuclear facility.
18:41At some point, the list becomes too long
18:43to ignore. [music]
18:44These aren't just vague jokes that can
18:46be stretched to fit events. They're
18:48oddly specific details, many of them
18:51tied to technology, [music] science, or
18:53cultural shifts that hadn't happened
18:55yet.
18:56Some people laugh it off as coincidence.
18:59Others wonder if the writers had hidden
19:01knowledge. And some even go further,
19:03suggesting, half joking but half
19:05serious, that the show's creator might
19:08have glimpsed the future or somehow
19:10tapped into the same overlapping layers
19:12of reality Philip K. Dick described
19:14[music] back in 1977.
19:17When you place these examples next to
19:19his words, the similarities are hard to
19:21miss. He spoke of multiple versions of
19:24the world stacked [music] like film
19:26transparencies, with one becoming
19:28actualized over another.
19:31Whether through shared memories, déjà
19:32vu, or a cartoon [music] that seems to
19:34predict events years ahead of time, the
19:37effect is the same. [music] We're left
19:39questioning whether reality is as fixed
19:41as we assume. And once you notice it,
19:43you start to wonder, are these just
19:46coincidences, or are [music] they clues
19:48that we are already slipping sideways,
19:50moving through alternate timelines
19:52without even realizing it?
19:54>> [music]

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