Four Week Class Taught Online Via Zoom
Sundays, September 6 - 27, 2026
1:00 - 2:30pm ET (NYC Time)
$150 Paid Patreon Members / $175 General Admission
PLEASE NOTE: Classes will be recorded and archived for students who cannot make that time
Join author and occultist Carl Abrahamson for an iimmersive journey through the mind of Philip K. Dick, the American cult science‑fiction writer whose paranoid, humane visions now feel almost like our daily news. Rather than treating him as a mere prophet of dystopia, we will explore Dick as something much richer: a writer who paired razor‑sharp suspicion of systems with a stubborn faith in fragile, everyday decency.
Across four sessions, we move from Dick’s tumultuous life and dime‑store paperbacks into the heart of his obsessions: counterfeit worlds, manipulated memories, androids and empathy, precarity and control. We will read key novels and stories—Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, The Man in the High Castle, Ubik, A Scanner Darkly, VALIS—and trace their afterlives in film, television, games, and contemporary media culture. Along the way, we’ll ask why doors now behave like his nagging appliances, why algorithmic feeds feel like his rigged realities, and how our own “normality” might be, as he suspected, a carefully curated construct.
But this is not just a tour of dystopian cool. We will also focus on how to read Dick, how to let his work sharpen our awareness of power, propaganda, and simulation without sliding into all‑encompassing conspiracy thinking. We will treat his fiction as a toolkit for living in an age of AI, surveillance, climate crisis, and fractured information — an education in staying lucid and skeptical without losing kindness.
By the end, students will not emerge with a single theory or tidy message. Instead, they will leave instead with a distinctive pair of lenses: a way of seeing that recognizes how deeply our worlds are built and gamed, yet still prizes the small, stubborn acts of care that persist inside them. In a time when reality itself feels up for grabs, Philip K. Dick becomes less a prophet of doom than a difficult, indispensable guide.
Carl Abrahamsson is the author of 20+ books, many of which deal with his many decades of working with occulture and magic. He is also the editor and publisher of the occultural journal ”The Fenris Wolf” (1989-present day). He lives with his wife, American psychoanalyst Vanessa Sinclair, in Vimmerby, Sweden.
Four Week Class Taught Online Via Zoom
Sundays, September 6 - 27, 2026
1:00 - 2:30pm ET (NYC Time)
$150 Paid Patreon Members / $175 General Admission
PLEASE NOTE: Classes will be recorded and archived for students who cannot make that time
Join author and occultist Carl Abrahamson for an iimmersive journey through the mind of Philip K. Dick, the American cult science‑fiction writer whose paranoid, humane visions now feel almost like our daily news. Rather than treating him as a mere prophet of dystopia, we will explore Dick as something much richer: a writer who paired razor‑sharp suspicion of systems with a stubborn faith in fragile, everyday decency.
Across four sessions, we move from Dick’s tumultuous life and dime‑store paperbacks into the heart of his obsessions: counterfeit worlds, manipulated memories, androids and empathy, precarity and control. We will read key novels and stories—Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, The Man in the High Castle, Ubik, A Scanner Darkly, VALIS—and trace their afterlives in film, television, games, and contemporary media culture. Along the way, we’ll ask why doors now behave like his nagging appliances, why algorithmic feeds feel like his rigged realities, and how our own “normality” might be, as he suspected, a carefully curated construct.
But this is not just a tour of dystopian cool. We will also focus on how to read Dick, how to let his work sharpen our awareness of power, propaganda, and simulation without sliding into all‑encompassing conspiracy thinking. We will treat his fiction as a toolkit for living in an age of AI, surveillance, climate crisis, and fractured information — an education in staying lucid and skeptical without losing kindness.
By the end, students will not emerge with a single theory or tidy message. Instead, they will leave instead with a distinctive pair of lenses: a way of seeing that recognizes how deeply our worlds are built and gamed, yet still prizes the small, stubborn acts of care that persist inside them. In a time when reality itself feels up for grabs, Philip K. Dick becomes less a prophet of doom than a difficult, indispensable guide.
Carl Abrahamsson is the author of 20+ books, many of which deal with his many decades of working with occulture and magic. He is also the editor and publisher of the occultural journal ”The Fenris Wolf” (1989-present day). He lives with his wife, American psychoanalyst Vanessa Sinclair, in Vimmerby, Sweden.
