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And the Book of Acts
takes place in 50 A.D.,
when it was written, supposedly.
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So Philip K. Dick
had this theory...
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that time was an illusion and that
we were all actually in 50 A.D.
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And the reason that he
had written this book...
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was that he had somehow momentarily
punctured through this illusion,
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this veil of time.
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And what he had seen was what
was going on in the Book of Acts.
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And he was really
into Gnosticism.
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and this idea
that this demiurge, or demon,
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had created this illusion
of time to make us forget...
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that Christ
was about to return...
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and the kingdom of God
was about to arrive...
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and that we're all in 50 A.D.
and there's someone trying
to make us forget,
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you know, that--you know,
that God is imminent.
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And that's what time is.
That's what all of history is,
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this kind of continuous,
you know, daydream or distraction.
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And so I read that,
and I was like, "Well, that's weird. "
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And then that night,
I had a dream,
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and there was this guy in the dream
who was supposed to be a psychic.
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But I was skeptical. I was like,
" He's not really a psychic."
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I was just thinking
to myself.
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And then suddenly,
I start floating,
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Like levitating
up to the ceiling.
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And as I almost go
through the roof, I'm like,
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" Mr. Psychic, I believe you. You're
a psychic. Put me down, please."
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And I float down,
and as my feet touch the ground,
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the psychic turns
into this woman in a green dress.
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And this woman
is Lady Gregory.
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Now, Lady Gregory was Yeats' patron,
this, you know, Irish person.
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And though I'd
never seen her image,
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I was just sure that this was
the face of Lady Gregory.
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So we're walking along,
and Lady Gregory turns to me and says,
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" Let me explain to you
the nature of the universe.
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" Now, Philip K. Dick is right about
time, but he's wrong that it's 50 A.D.
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"Actually, there's only
one instant, and it's right now.
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"And it's eternity.
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"And it's an instant
in which God is posing a question.
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"And that question is, basically,
'Do you want to, you know,
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"'be one with eternity?
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" Do you want to be
in heaven?'
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"And we're all saying, 'No,
thank you. Not just yet.'"