This is the e-text of The Exegesis of Philip K. Dick, the massive posthumous publication of Dick's private philosophical journal, edited and published in 2011. Copyright is held by Laura Coelho, Christopher Dick, and Isa Hackett (Dick's heirs). The table of contents reveals a four-part structure with an introduction, editors' note, acknowledgments, afterword titled "A Stairway to Eleusis: PKD, Perennial Philosopher," endnotes, a glossary, and indexes of names and works.
The Exegesis is Dick's monumental private journal, comprising thousands of pages of handwritten and typed notes in which he attempted to understand and systematize the mystical experiences he underwent in February and March 1974 (known as 2-3-74). The published edition, edited by Pamela Jackson and Jonathan Lethem with extensive scholarly apparatus, represents a carefully curated selection from the full manuscript held at the Huntington Library.
This work is essential to understanding Dick's late period and the philosophical framework underlying VALIS, The Divine Invasion, and The Transmigration of Timothy Archer. The Exegesis reveals Dick as a serious, if unconventional, philosophical thinker engaged with Gnosticism, Neoplatonism, early Christianity, and information theory.