This lecture discusses key ideas from the 20th Century American science-fiction short story writer and novelist, Philip K. Dick's novel Ubik

It focuses specifically on one main theme of the novel, which is the characters noticing a pattern of objects at first being spoiled or worn out, then reverting to earlier obsolete forms, eventually affecting not just individual objects or even rooms but entire settings in which they find themselves. The examples focused upon include cigarettes, coffee and cream, coins and bills, a tape-recorder, appliances, an elevator, vehicles, and even Ubik itself. This mystery gets a resolution late in the novel when we discover that they are a result of Jory's inability to maintain a consistent phatasmagoric reality for his soon-to-be victims in half-life.

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Philip Dick, Ubik - Reversion, Obsolescence, and Spoiling - Sadler's Lectures

This lecture discusses key ideas from the 20th Century American science-fiction short story writer and novelist, Philip K. Dick's novel Ubik

It focuses specifically on the experience of bone-chilling cold, exhaustion and fatigue, and eventual death of a particularly gruesome sort that several of the characters experience once they are in cold-pac and in half-life. At first, they think that it is being caused by Pat Conley, who even thinks that to be the case herself, but it is actually the effect of Jory, a young man in half life, who is "eating" the other half-lifers. The main character, Joe Chip experiences this himself, but is saved for the moment by the application of Ubik in the form of a spray can

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Philip Dick, Ubik - Coldness, Exhaustion, and Death - Sadler's Lectures

This lecture discusses key ideas from the 20th Century American science-fiction short story writer and novelist, Philip K. Dick's novel Ubik

It focuses specifically on the many points in the novel, after the surprise attack on Glen Runciter, Joe Chip, and the entire team of the inertials, where a seemingly dead and in cold-pac Runciter breaks through into the "reality" of those who think themselves survivors. At first this happens through strange written interventions, like a matchbook cover, graffiti, and notes, and through Runciter appearing on currency. As time goes on, the manifestations extend to video and even a meeting between Joe Chip and Glen Runciter.

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Philip Dick, Ubik - Runciter's Interventions and Manifestations - Sadler's Lectures

This lecture discusses key ideas from the 20th Century American science-fiction short story writer and novelist, Philip K. Dick's novel Ubik

It focuses specifically on  the city of Des Moines, Iowa, where Glen Runciter's body has been transported for his memorial. As it turns out, the team of surviving inertials (since by then Wendy and Al have died) are all there, and Joe Chip has to travel there to meet them. By then, everything, including the city, has reverted from their time-setting in the 1990s to the 1930s. It will turn out that the Des Moines they are experiencing is a projection produced by Jory, while all of them are in cold-pac

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Philip Dick, Ubik - Travelling To And Around Des Moines - Sadler's Lectures

“The Book of the New Sun” is a cinematic electronic journey through decaying futures and mythic memory. Layered synths pulse beneath granular textures, evoking a soundscape both hypnotic and haunted. Inspired by Gene Wolfe’s speculative masterpiece, this track blends ambient techno with dystopian storytelling, inviting listeners into a world where time folds and identity fractures.


The Book Of The New Sun

In this 101st episode of the Wisdom for Life radio show, hosts Dan Hayes and Greg Sadler discuss their six favorite books and why those are their particular favorites. First, they explore why it can be useful to create short lists like these, and then they launch right into the topic.

Dan's three favorite books are:
Yuval Noah Harari, Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind  
Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
Ian M. Banks, The Hydrogen Sonata

Greg''s Three Favorite books are:
Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics
Jorge Luis Borges, Labyrinths
 Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters To A Young Poet

Show Music is by Scott Tarulli – www.scotttarulli.com/

2025-09-20 Wisdom For Life

Return from the Ice — A cinematic resurrection.

This haunting score marks the awakening of the first ice clones in a sleek, cryogenic facility buried beneath the tundra. Footsteps echo on steel floors as translucent pods exhale cold mist, and humanity’s lost past steps barefoot into the future. The sterile white light slices through the fog of memory, while wires fall from frostbitten skin.

Crafted with ambient tension and emotional orchestration, this piece blends frozen silence with the pulse of reawakening. Every synth swell and distant chime is a breath from beneath the ice.

Composed under the Silk & Circuitry banner, this track is part of a larger speculative universe exploring post-extinction revival, ethical resurrection, and the legacy of bioengineering.

🧬 For every clone that rises, a memory must thaw.
🎧 Listen, feel, and remember.




Return From The Ice

THE 5 VALLEYS ... An ever open 5 sided magnum opus. More may be added. My masterpiece project with no time limit other than my 2028 to 2032 debriefing which may be in question.  Both my respects and disgust towards how this great nation has left me and others behind lines and not given a hand or pat on the back when we may have saved a planet, yet are viewed as threats to the state simply because we don't ''call ourselves Patriotic...we are. .. ... .... ..... 1 

Help us or get out the way but no more harm...I beg you...and as a Friend and ally . . . . .  ''warn you. Welcome to The 5 Valleys.....We are going to need more soldiers...the best ones...all of them...How hard can it be to get an entire Nation saluting someone in uniform?.....BLsS5$s.....

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🕸️ Silk & Circuitry 🧠⚡

Welcome to the tangled thread between trauma and transcendence.
This is where music becomes a mirror—reflecting the fractures, the fight, and the fire.
We don’t just make beats. We build bridges. Between pain and purpose.

Here, recovery isn’t a quiet thing.
It’s a war cry wrapped in melody,
a healing ritual whispered through circuitry,
a love letter to those who feel too much in a world that rewards those who feel nothing.

Every track is stitched with intent:
🕯️ To hold space for the broken
⚖️ To call out control masked as care
🧬 To challenge the narcissists who built their webs in our minds
🛠️ And to offer tools—not just songs—for doing what’s right when the cost is everything.

Silk & Circuitry is for the ones who walk away from the web
and grow wings instead.

This is art as resistance.
This is trauma turned frequency.
This is the ghost in your machine, learning how to feel.



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Male signer/songwriter/producer : Ninjedo and female singer/songwriter/producer : Tranceferia, friends since childhood, come together to formFashion Police^five hundred and seventy third House*. Since first lockdown, the creation (on average) of about 2 to 8 songs a week with very few breaks through a unique process resembling poetic musical scrabble along with classic standard recording has become a one of a kind process.

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