February 1977

Dick’s 3-74 experience confirms the philosophy of Hegel so he decides he is a Hegelian.

Dick explores the ideas of pantheism (the universe is a manifestation of God) an panentheism (God pervades and is greater than the universe) and tries to connect these concepts to the noosphere and deus absconditus. 

He finds in the writing of English mathematician and philosopher Alfred North Whitehead a description that matches and exceeds his own conception of Zebra. He studies the German mathematician and philosopher Leibniz and his theory of monads. These academic sections are beyond my summarizing. 

Dick thinks the Spirit has moved on from biological evolution to the social evolution of man, and he implies that through Zebra he may be the next step in human evolution. He may have triggered everything that happened to him by some sort of defense system in response to his condition in early 1974. He admits Hegel, Whitehead, Leibniz and others could explain some of his experience but again he wonders why him?

He is preparing for the next world and tries to make peace with letting go of this one. Do the monads record each moment in time? Is it possible through memory to restore previous events? 

There may be no practical application to everything he has been studying other than to bring him joy and personal satisfaction.