Ummm...Headline Writer Stymied For Once

Grey Lodge Occult Review #10 includes the text of a speech Philip K. Dick gave at a French SF convention in 1977:

[M]y own supposed imaginative work The Man in the High Castle is not fiction--or rather is fiction only now, thank God. But there was an alternate world, a previous present, in which that particular time track actualized--actualized and then was abolished due to intervention at some prior date. I am sure, as you hear me say this, you do not really believe me, or even believe that I believe it myself. But nevertheless it is true. I retain memories of that other world... Upon consciously remembering it I did not need to write about it because I have always been writing about it. Nonetheless, my amazement was great, to remember consciously suddenly that it was once so -- as I'm sure you can imagine.

This sort of thing won't surprise avid PKD fans, of course, as it pretty much dominated everything he wrote in the last years of his life. R. Crumb has even adapted Dick's account of his visionary experience for comics. (This aspect of Dick's life gets subdued treatment in an appreciation Richard Corliss wrote for Time around the time Paycheck came out—but it's not left out entirely, since that's where I found the Crumb link, after all.)

The GLOR issue, by the way, also includes texts by William S. Burroughs, Aldous Huxley, Michel Foucault, George Bataille, and Antonin Artaud.