M. Blake Wilson: "Perturbations in the Reality Field" at The 2024 Philip K. Dick Festival

Here's M. Blake Wilson's presentation at The 2024 Philip K. Dick Festival in Fort Morgan, Colorado entitled "Perturbations in the Reality Fields: Logos, Gnosis, and Aletheia in Phil Dick’s Late Works"

By analyzing Dick’s attempts to confront the meaning of the 2-3-74 experiences, Wilson draws together his subsequent explorations of rationality (logos), knowledge (gnosis), and aletheia (unconcealment, or disclosure) to create a Christian/Neoplatonist conception of reality and truth which resulted from the “invasion” of Dick’s mind by what he described as a “transcendentally rational mind, as if I had been insane all my life and suddenly I had become sane”

Here's Blake's bio, ripped directly from his website!!
https://www.mblakewilson.com/
"I am a philosopher and a lawyer specializing in criminal justice, legal studies, philosophy of law (primarily criminal law and procedure), applied ethics, and social and political philosophy. I also explore these topics in film, music, and literature. Recently I’ve been writing about the religious philosophy of my favorite science fiction author, Philip K. Dick.

I am associate professor in the Department of Criminal Justice at California State University, Stanislaus, where I work within the concentration in Criminal Legal Studies. I am also the director of the minor in pre law, coordinator of the Pre-Law Resource Center, and one of the campus pre-law advisers.

Chris Turner and I edited a book on Werner Herzog and philosophy. It is available from Lexington Books. I designed the cover based on a photograph by Lena Herzog."