the metanovel
hypotheses:
-the metanovel (10 of phil dick's books, of which valis is the last: http://www.philipkdickfans.com/artwork/valis-rising.htm) is a hypersigil, in the grant morrison sense (analogous to the invisibles comic series)

-it differs from morrison in that:
-it was designed unconsciously, possibly even by an outside source (maybe by whatever, in the end, you want to believe valis is)

-valis, for that matter, could be
-the unknowable/ineffable god of the gnostics(/dogons/etc), as opposed to the mistaken-for-god, crazy, blind creator yalda-baoth, worshipped in error by the western monotheistic transmission)
-an alien satellite (see http://www.livejournal.com/users/gn0s1s_23/144543.html)
-gaia/a conscious global ecosystem camoflauged as 'the environment', ie 'zebra' (see 'valis')
-abraxas (the god-above-god? see 'a maze of death')
-QAC (see me and clayton's childhood experiences)
-a moving discontinuity/vortex in the reality matrix (see mckenna)
-a 'unified abstract structure' (dick's semi-final hypothesis in the exegesis)
-any or all of the above

-at this point the hidden message/theme behind the metanovel is unclear. preliminarily, it is apparent that all the books involve the battle of two opposing intelligences, and the projection of these intelligences into a subdimensional world that manifests as synchronicity to its inhabitants. they also involve shifting perceptions of reality, specifically the main character waking up from one world into another, or similar transmigrations.

-it (the metanovel) demonstrates the property of epiphesy: in analogy to prophesy (the act of foretelling, or invoking prometheus), but with the reverse time vector (invoking instead his twin brother epimetheus), it informs the reader of details of the recent past, that occurred nevertheless after the writing of the novel (ie, 'hindsight'). It only (so far as I've observed) seems to see the future 'after it's already happened to you'.



after the hexagram 56/Wanderer event, I realized something. what's with the hindsight, the book always accurately relating an event in the near past? why for example is it never the case that something I read then, subsequently, happens? and then the idea comes: when I flipped the coin, and drew the hexagram, it did not answer 56. what really happened was this: I consulted the I Ching, I then read the section of the book mentioning the Wanderer, and THEN it answered 56. What I'm saying is my past changed. And more precisely I mean stabilized. My theory is that the moment in the past when I consulted the ching was left behind as a cloud of possibilities. And when the moment came in the future where I was witness to an item that resonated with one of the quantum possibilities, namely hexagram 56, the Wanderer, the past then stabilized to this event. Like when you touch a cloud of electron and it densifies into a particle underneath your instrument. same phenomenon. but with time. time exhibits wave-particle duality. sensitive to observation. sensitive to consciousness.
so my theory goes like this: time is a phenomenon composed of two orthogonal fields. one is chronos: linear time, subject to decay, entropy. the other is kairos: eternity, the timelessness in each moment, form. and their interaction causes waves, forward and backward in time. these are the tattvas, the cosmic tides. and what this is to us is the flux of consciousness between doing and being aware of doing. our life consists of moments of action, where we are caught up in the moment, for example, when we channel art or meditate. and it consists of reflections on those actions and on ourselves. in the first, we are experiencing kairos, and in doing so the number of quantum possibilities expands, and reality becomes a cloud of indeterminancy (and maximum freedom). in the second, we are experiencing chronos, where we decide upon particular possibilities, we stabilize the cloud to actualities (maximum determinancy). We morphically influence past clouds into stable memories.
And what can happen is media that we are intaking can do this work for us. For example, the books we read.
So we go along experiencing these fluxing modes of kairos and chronos, and when we feel 'synchronicity coming on' or a 'synchro wave' as we've been calling them, what's happening is something is resonating with one of our past possibility clouds. That's why this epiphesy usually involves seeing the significance of something after the fact. because when it first happened, it was something we didn't strongly time-index, and hence 'happened' in concert with many other possibilties. and then when we are shocked by its significance in relation to something else, this is when it actually comes into being.
so this is how for example the i ching works. it provides a random system with the property of receptivity. that is, the capacity to maintain many quantum possibilities in concert, and like water, be receptive to manipulation of form. and i think it's effective in proportion to the extent that you are unbiasedly receptive in your mind of the answer upon the asking. this goes just as well for magical enchantment and sigilization. the lust for results is destroyed and then they follow.
epiphesy then apparently is a mode of perception tuned to the 'earth' or 'receptive' channel, to use my trigram theory of gnosis and communication with the collective unconscious. I would then hypothesize that the dual mode, prophecy, runs on the 'creative' or 'heaven' channel, and it is when we produce art and media, for example when we write a book, this has a kind of opposite effect. we can morphically affect the future. this may be the explanation for the opposite in nature kind of synchronicities the writers of fiction experience, whereby what they write comes true. RA Wilson, Morrison, Dick, Burroughs and many others have noticed this. And what's to say of the authors of all the sacred texts of the world?