Because of Christ’s intervention Dick believes he has cheated death. Christianity is the only Greco-Roman mystery religion to achieve what it promised which is life instead of a predetermined death. Dick imagines a “death strip” in our DNA that has been programmed with our time to die, but in 3-74 Christ activated something in his brain which was able to bypass that programming and afterwards Christ was resurrected in him. He could still die but not on the previous schedule. Instead of dying like he was supposed to he spent the last five years with financial security and critical recognition. He wonders if the voice that has been speaking to him is his later self who died and returned. 

The madness of combining trash (his sci-fi writing) with the divine has resulted in sanity and created a new language he calls the “hieroglyphs of God.”

He questions who truly won, Christianity or the Empire. He views what happened to him in 3-74 as a sacred ritual and mythic re-enactment that ended with him becoming Christ. He decides to let any extra-terrestrial explanations for what happened to him go and embrace the theological. 

He has a late-night insight that our brains are locked in a feedback loop and the holy power is trying to wake us. A cosmic, divine mind (Hagia Sophia) inhabited him and generated his writing. Valis was projected in his mind rather than the outer world.

He says he has it all figured out and now he can quit. Through child-like belief in the Christian universe a miracle occurs and it all becomes real, including the symbols, much like transubstantiation. 

He entertains the possibility of alternate worlds that are not entirely separate, but instead superimposed, and relates this to the world depicted in Flow my Tears.