mystischer Realismus? @benbarks
von Kusanowsky
Habe den Roman Ubik von Philip K. Dick gelesen. Die Geschichte beginnt mit Andeutungen darüber, dass den handelnden Personen nicht klar ist, was real ist und was nicht. Die Geschichte entwickelt sich so, dass dem Leser von Seite zu Seite immer klarer wird, dass den handelnden Personen immer unklarer wird, was real ist. Nach ungefähr der Hälfte des Buches wurde mir endgültig klar, dass den handelnden Personen immer noch nicht klar ist, was real ist und was nicht. Deshalb hatte ich an dieser Stelle aufgehört zu lesen, weil ich fürchtete, dass die Geschichte damit enden wird, dass den handelnden Personen nicht klar werden wird, was real ist.
Weil mir das alles allzu realistisch vorkommt, disqualifiziere ich den Roman als mystischen Realismus für Anfänger dritter Klasse. Natürlich ist nicht klar, was das bedeutet. Aber das dürfte ziemlich egal sein, weil ja niemand weiß ob der Roman real ist.
Differentia 
Ich mag Philip K. Dick’s Science-Fiction Mystizismus, auch wenn ich verstehe, was man daran nicht mögen kann… 😉
Er eröffnet in seinen Texten und Geschichten durchaus interessante spekulativ-philosophische Perspektiven und findet dabei auch zu sehr sympathischen und ehrlich selbst-ironischen Einsichten.
Es gibt ein (meiner Ansicht nach) recht interessantes Transkriptionsprojekt zu seiner mystischen Exegese, die er (offenbar im Verlauf einer Episode manisch-mystischer Verzückung) spät nachts auf stapelweise Papier gekritzelt hat:
„Zebrapedia“
http://zebrapedia.psu.edu/
Siehe auch: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_K._Dick#Paranormal_experiences_and_mental_health_issues
http://zebrapedia.psu.edu/display/display_page?ol=w_rw_p_pl&page_id=20
Philip K. Dick hat eine ganze Menge über seine Fassungslosigkeit der „Realität“ gegenüber geschrieben und erzählt.
>> PKD was never more right than when he wrote:
I actually had to develop a love of the disordered & puzzling, viewing reality as a vast riddle to be joyfully tackled, not in fear but with tireless fascination. What has been most needed is reality testing, & a willingness to face the possibility of self-negating experiences: i.e., real contradictions, with something being both true & not true.The enigma is alive, aware of us, & changing. It is partly created by our own minds: we alter it by perceiving it, since we are not outside it. As our views shift, it shifts. In a sense it is not there at all (acosmism). In another sense it is a vast intelligence: in another sense it is total harmonia and structure (how logically can. it be all three? Well, it is). * < http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VALIS
>> Fat said, „But let me ask you. I’m not talking about no mind at all directing the universe. I’m talking about a mind like Xenophanes conceived of, but the mind is insane.“
„The Gnostics believed that the creator deity was insane,“ Stone said. „Blind. I want to show you something. It hasn’t been published yet; I have it in a typescript from Orval Wintermute who is currently working with Bethge in translating the Nag Hammadi codices. This quote comes from On the Origin of the World. Read it.“
Fat read it to himself, holding the precious typescript.
„He said, ‚I am god and no other one exists except me.‘ But when he said these things, he sinned against all of the immortal (imperishable) ones, and they protected him. Moreover, when Pistis saw the impiety of the chief ruler, she was angry. Without being seen, she said, ‚You err, Samael,‘ i.e. ‚the blind god.‘ ‚An enlightened, immortal man exists before you. This will appear within your molded bodies. He will trample upon you like potter’s clay, (which) is trampled. And you will go with those who are yours down to your mother, the abyss.'“
[…]
Hence Fat’s encounter with God — the true God — had come through the little pot Oh Ho which Stephanie had thrown for him on her kickwheel.
„Then I’m right about Nag Hammadi,“ he said to Dr. Stone.
„You would know,“ Dr. Stone said, and then he said something that no one had ever said to Fat before. „You’re the authority,“ Dr. Stone said.
Fat realized that Stone had restored his — Fat’s — spiritual life. Stone had saved him; he was a master psychiatrist. Everything which Stone had said and done vis-a-vis Fat had a therapeutic basis, a therapeutic thrust. Whether the content of Stone’s information was correct was not important; his purpose from the beginning had been to restore Fat’s faith in himself, which had vanished when Beth left — which had vanished, actually, when he had failed to save Gloria’s life years ago.
Dr. Stone wasn’t insane; Stone was a healer. He held down the right job. Probably he healed many people and in many ways. He adapted his therapy to the individual, not the individual to the therapy. <<
http://www.american-buddha.com/dick.VALIS5.htm