In a parallel dimension, Philip K. Dick and CG Jung would have worked together for a Gnostic Gospel, perhaps something like Dick’s Tractates Cryptica Scriptura. Because of their vastly different lives and character, the two Gnostic sages might have disliked each other and been public about it – much like those competing ancient Gnostic sects that obnoxiously snarked at each other (the message in the Apocalypse of Peter comes to mind). However, it’s possible these two figures would have joined forces to rectify the archonic invasion and reality rape that is the 21st century. Who knows?
I do know that in this reality, Jung and Dick are the Boaz and Jachin pillars of Aeon Byte. They are my two muses. Both admitted their muse was Simon Magus. In all dimensions, the truth is that these two Gnostic thinkers were more alike than not when it came to delivering infinity to a finite world. They held those keys of Gnosis, psychically handed down from those ancient Gnostic sects, being obnoxious or not.
I’ve always felt Dick and Jung were syzygies of sorts, their ideas incomplete without each other’s (and Jung’s influence on Dick has been reported).
Stuart Douglas confirms my suspicion in his book, The Apocalypse of the Reluctant Gnostics. Like April DeConick’s The Gnostic New Age, Dick’s Exegesis, and Jung’s Red Book, this work is always close to my desk and often on trips with me. The book is priceless and worth the price.
Back to the title of the article: how would a Gnostic Gospel have looked like if written together by Dick and Jung (or perhaps more like channeled)? Douglas takes care of this in chapter 14 of his book. And Douglas has permitted me to publish it for your Gnosis, reluctant or not.
Get ready for that perfect merger of Phildickian and Jungian mysticism – but also a modern grand-drama Gnostic myth and an understanding of Abraxas! And you know our favorite antiheroine Sophia will make several appearances.
Like any Gnostic or Hermetic “listicle” work, whether it’s the Gospel of Thomas or Dick’s The Ten Major Principles of the Gnostic Revelation, make sure you don’t just read but meditate upon each section. As William T. Vollmann wrote:
