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	The Divine Invasion - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Divine Invasion is a 1981 science fiction book by Philip K. Dick.
		Yah, a local divinity of the planet in exile from Earth, appears to Herb in a vision as a burning flame, and forces him to contact his sick female neighbor, Rybys Romney, who happens to be terminally ill with multiple sclerosis and pregnant with Yah's child.
		The Divine Invasion is a part of the VALIS trilogy of novels:
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/The_Divine_Invasion (679 words)

	The Divine Invasion by Philip K. Dick
		The Divine Invasion is an epic story about the battle between the forces of good and evil ripe with religious symbolism.
		He explores the balance between good and evil and the expression of divinity in each person that combines to form the collective God that might just be very difficult from that which we worship.
		All in all, The Divine Invasion is a very complex novel that uses science fiction only as a springboard for the expression of very intricate ideas of religion, fate and ultimately human destiny.
	www.philipkdickfans.com /divine.htm (1559 words)

	Philip K. Dick: The Divine Invasion
		The story of The Divine Invasion is one that some people might consider blasphemous to incorporate into the standard clichés of science fiction so important to Dick's style: it is blatantly and openly a retelling of the central story of Christianity, the Incarnation, within the genre.
		But the, from the birth of the child, the narrative dissolves into a series of alternate realities, orchestrated by divine (or quasi-divine: some disclaim actual deity) beings with an interest in the outcome of the divine invasion.
		As it stands, The Divine Invasion is not a great novel, but for those interested in Philip K. Dick, a fascinating guide to the stranger areas in the author's mind.
	www.geocities.com /smcleish/rev1297.html (552 words)

	Philip K. Dick's Science-Fiction Novels of the 1970s and 1980s
		When, late in the novel, as autobiography changes to science fiction and Fat is healed by the divine child Sophia, he "remembers" his true identity as Phil Dick, and Fat is incorporated and reintegrated in Phil's personality.
		The Divine Invasion clearly fits the category of science fiction, unlike its predecessors A Scanner Darkly and VALIS, which are just marginally science fiction.
		The “divine invasion” refers to the invasion of the world by Yah (God), directly opposing Belial (Satan) who rules it.
	www.quantumcosmos.com /philipkdick-7080s.htm (1213 words)

	The Divine Invasion -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-29)
		The Divine Invasion is a 1981 (Literary fantasy involving the imagined impact of science on society) science fiction book by (additional info and facts about Philip K. Dick) Philip K. Dick.
		It is the second book in the (An advocate of gnosticism) gnostic (additional info and facts about VALIS trilogy) VALIS trilogy, and takes place in the indeterminate future, perhaps a century or more after (additional info and facts about VALIS) VALIS.
		The Divine Invasion is a part of the (additional info and facts about VALIS trilogy) VALIS trilogy of novels:
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/t/th/the_divine_invasion.htm (741 words)

	GiveUpAlready.com - Rurian Records
		So close to the heart of the Divine Guardian invasion, this land is constantly besieged by the terror's of the Divine Guardians.
		Although the Divine Guardians prefer to attack by land, they regularly try to sail past the bottleneck, only to be ambushed by patrolling Dragonic forces.
		Due to the heavy assaults by Divine Guardian forces, the government of Rurian has dispersed into Chaos, and all areas are controlled solely by the resident authorities, making the politics of Rurian completely haphazard and non-committal to anything.
	www.giveupalready.com /showthread.php?t=5300 (632 words)

	The Divine Invasion: Ambient Rock Band from Melbourne, Australia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-29)
		The game is called Toby Divine and is some bitch-ass hardcore Japanese shoot-em-up (or schmup) as they are known in the industry (I am not actually in the game industry but for a while I was a ‘game researcher’ which was a pretty sweet set up while it lasted).
		The Divine Invasion are pleased to announce their first ever gig on September 10, at the Yak Speakeasy (Hoddle St, Melbourne).
		Melbourne's premier purveyors of Ambient Rock Action, The Divine Invasion are a three-piece who have been described as "influenced by late Brahms with hints of Bartok overlaying Magyar-tinged time signatures, creating music of variety, subtle beauty and a combination of thought-provoking maturity with youthful exuberance"...
	www.divineinvasion.com (2118 words)

	Recently Robbed - A Reader's Log (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-29)
		Dick's genre is prone to a particularly adolescent kind of self indulgence (if all fiction is not), and there are certainly fatuous elements to the story of Yah(weh)'s future return from extraterrestrial exile.
		But the fatuity of pieces of the plot provides a nice contrast for what is essentially a transcendental meditation on the nature of God, of evil, of the universe, of personal relationships with the divine, of personal perceptions of reality...
		Not for everybody, to be sure, but Dick has an arresting and erudite vision which, along with his lexicographical sampling from Essene scripture, rabbinical exegeses, Miltonic verse, etc., etc., lends a richness to his imaginings that elevate the story from 2-dimensional sci-fi to a more textured, penetrating, and illuminating literature.
	home.earthlink.net /~rfgunning/ReadingJournal/logs/29.html (123 words)

	Compare Prices and Read Reviews on Divine Invasion at Epinions.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-29)
		Earth is about to face a Divine Invasion as Yah seeks to purify his creation from the taint of the evil one.
		The Divine Invasion is an open forum for his thoughts about God to take root in his readers, to give us a means of understanding his relationship to God, and his experience with a 'transcendentally rational mind'.
		The Divine Invasion is about God's relationship to a technologically advanced society that, in effect, has no need for faith, hope and love, read God's ministry.
	www.epinions.com /content_108506746500 (1179 words)

	Amazon.com: The Divine Invasion (Vintage): Books: Philip K. Dick (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-29)
		The Divine* Invasion* is not necessarily a sequel to Valis but is loosely related to it through the use of some common themes and subplots.
		PK Dick's The Divine Invasion is the second of the so-called "Valis Trilogy," which begins with Valis.
		The Divine Invasion is no different in that regard.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0679734457?v=glance (1866 words)

	Philip K. Dick - The Divine Invasion - science fiction novel summary (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-29)
		Summary: The Divine Invasion follows the journey of Rybys Romney and Herb Asher, two colonists inhabiting a distant planet.
		They live in separate domes and Herb, is called upon by Yah (God or the indigenous spirit of the planet), to go help the ailing Rybys.
		A few key figures in his reality know of the importance of this blessed child and they present to him piece by piece the nature of the eternal conflict.
	www.geocities.com /pkdlw/divine.html (415 words)

	Amazon.ca: Books: The Divine Invasion (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-29)
		But the characters were lacking; apparently divine entities have little or no personality, and the human characters were pretty thin as well.
		Divine Invasion opens with Herb Asher (do I detect a botanical reference?) "dead and in cryonic suspension" overseeing information traffic from within his dome around the binary star system CY30-CY30B.
		His sickly female neighbor, dying of multiple sclerosis, becomes pregnant with a virgin birth (her hymen is intact and Herb is repulsed by her sickness) that turns out to be the result of Yahweh--God of the old testament.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/0679734457 (1344 words)

	Sub Verbis: Reader: Reviews: Valis
		Valis is the first of Dick's final three novels (two others being The Divine Invasion and The Transmigration of Timothy Archer), all drawing inspiration from a mystical experience Dick had in March of 1974.
		Dick described his encounter as "an invasion of my mind by a transcendentally rational mind." Valis invites the reader not only to explore and understand this experience, but to share it.
		Drawing on linguistic, historical, and literary clues embedded in the information, Fat becomes convinced that the fate of his world in the late twentieth century is somehow inextricably bound to the hidden knowledge of the Gnostics, a long dead and persecuted sect of Christianity.
	www.subverbis.com /essays/valis.htm (691 words)

	Le hibou ébloui
		I make a point of expressing my satisfaction in front of the illustration of cover of The Divine Invasion and the masterly quality of volume as such.
		As you know certainly it, The Divine Invasion was the subject of a very positive article in Publishers Weekly, which should help it to be sold.
		I benefit from this letter to inform you that I gave Bishop Timothy Archer to my agent (I am besides very content with the turning which took this novel, in particular with regard to the character-point of sight, Angel Archer; in my eyes, Angel is perfectly real.
	www.ronrecord.com /owl_daylight_en.htm (1299 words)

	Allscifi.com Book Review
		Elias intends to protect the boy from the authorities, political and religious powers supported by the giant AI system known as Big Noodle, who have foreseen the threat posed by Manny and already tried to destroy him several times.
		Manny may be divine, but the violent circumstances of his birth have damaged his brain and he cannot remember his history.
		At a special school he meets a girl named Zina, who seems to be on his side, but he can't be sure.
	www.allscifi.com /BookRView.asp?BRID=30394 (233 words)

	Teaching
		In His twenty-three "Source-Texts", Avatar Adi Da Communicates the Revelation of Himself as the "Bright" in numerous ways—in the form of Autobiography in The Knee Of Listening, in the form of archetypal Parable in The Mummery, and in the form of Spiritual Discourse in He-and-She Is Me.
		The second (and senior, although less commonly known) tradition associated with the Kundalini Shakti is the tradition of Kundalini Shaktipat, which is the process of the ascent and circulation of the all-pervading cosmic (or conditionally appearing) Energy.
		The Great Process comes about when the Divine Intervenes, Appears, Incarnates, Blesses, Teaches the understanding and the transcending of ego—such that the direct Divine Blessing may be received and the Great Divine Yoga may be entered into.
	www.adidam.org /teaching/17_companions/esoteric_principles/ruchira_shaktipat.html (1284 words)

	Philip K. Dick - VALIS
		"The first of Dick's three final novels (the others are Divine Invasion and The Transmigration of Timothy Archer).
		From the cancer ward of a bay area hospital to the ranch of a fraudulent charismatic religious figure who turns out to have a direct com link with God, Dick leads us down the twisted paths of Gnostic belief, mixed with his own bizarre and compelling philosophy.
		Invasion is a 'fascinating and highly readable"' vision of Armageddon, blending New Testament, Kabbalah and Dick's own worldview.
	www.philipkdick.com /works_novels_valis.html (321 words)

	Divine Invasion by Philip K. Dick - SFandF.com - Science Fiction Books and Fantasy Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-29)
		This novel marks the beginning of what could be the end of Dominaria-an epic story that will play out in novels and card sets for the next year.
		Invasion is based on the most anticipated Magic: The Gathering card release of the last few years and is designed with the same title treatment and packaging design elements to ensure fans recognize it among the hundreds of fantasy novels on the shelf.
		Dominaria faces its supreme threat-an invasion by its greatest enemy, an attack planned for eons by merciless foes.
	www.sfandf.com /html/scifi-fantasy-books.html?id=1&p1=Invasion (522 words)

	Amazon.com: The Transmigration of Timothy Archer (Vintage): Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-29)
		The Transmigration of Timothy Archer, the final novel in the trilogy that also includes Valis and The Divine Invasion, is an anguished, learned, and very moving investigation of the paradoxes of belief.
		It is the story of Timothy Archer, an urbane Episcopal bishop haunted by the suicides of his son and mistress--and driven by them into a bizarre quest for the identity of Christ.
		Unlike "VALIS" and "The Divine Invasion", this novel dispenses with science fiction apparatus in its examination of religious and philosophical issues.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0679734449?v=glance (1924 words)

	Philip K. Dick's Divine Interference, by Erik Davis
		And since the film Valis clearly emerges from the same pulp ghetto that Dick himself wrote for throughout his mostly marginal career, he sly hints that careful readers of his own trashy paperbacks, with their lurid covers and cheesy titles, may pick up far more than they bargained for.
		In such a world, the most divine communications aren't transmitted in a pink blast of gnostic data, but in that most telepathic of human emotions: empathy.
		In The Divine Invasion, a late Dick novel that carries on many of VALIS' metaphysical themes, electromagnetic noise play a liberating role.
	www.techgnosis.com /pkdnet.html (4796 words)

	Paradigm Shift - Philip K. Dick's Divine Interference
		But Dick's paranoia could turn itself inside-out and become divine intervention, and once when listening to the Beatles' "Strawberry Fields Forever," the strawberry-pink light informed him that his son Christopher was about to die.
		Rushing the kid to their physician, Dick discovered that the child indeed had a potentially fatal inguinal hernia, and was soon wheeled into the operating room.
		As the SF writer Kim Stanley Robinson points out, Sophia's message to the group is not more of the hermetic esoterica we've come to expect from the novel, but a simple, humanist revision of Jesus' beautiful Sermon on the Mount.
	users.bestweb.net /~kali93/jan99/davis.htm (4786 words)

	The Guardian Angel - Pop Occulture
		It explores in some more detail this idea of the divine twin (that I brought up earlier in relation to tulpas) across a variety of religious traditions.
		Fravashis are the divine, spiritual essence and guarding sprits and represent the omniscience and omnipresence of Ahura Mazda.
		Maybe the divine twin or guardian angel is our ability to sort of deduce what up ahead based on subtle observations of how things are going around us, and also how things look inevitable in retrospect, all leading up to a certain moment.
	www.timboucher.com /journal/2005/06/21/the-guardian-angel-part-1 (1626 words)

	indieville: review: trans am - liberation
		Following in the vein of their previous political releases, the D.C. trio come across explicitly - song titles include such blatancies as "Uninvited Guest" and "Divine Invasion." Their message is far from subtle, but they communicate it cleverly and convincingly.
		Though it is preceded by a remarkably gratifying instrumental, "Uninvited Guest" really starts things off, chopping up and modifying a Bush speech into a machine-like, robotic audio collage.
		Most of the other tracks are instrumentals, including the powerful "Divine Invasion," which starts with the sound of helicopter propellers before morphing into a full-on guitar/bass/drums instrumental number.
	www.indieville.com /reviews/transam.htm (186 words)

	Pop Occulture: He killed somebody because he loves us (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-29)
		Above and beyond him is Sophia, the Divine Wisdom, and she sort of sends Jesus down to infiltrate, and to teach us how to achieve salvation through gnosis, inner knowledge, the inbreaking of Sophia's spark.
		Remaining invisible to him, she said, "You are mistaken, Samael (that is, blind god), for there is an immortal Child of Light who has been in existence before you, and who will appear among your modelled forms (plasmata), and that one will trample you in scorn, just as a potter's clay is pounded down.
		Also if you're into this, check out Philip K. Dick's novel, "Divine Invasion" for another take on this story of the "true" god secretly invading this earthly realm ruled over by the fake god.
	www.timboucher.com /journal/2005/01/he-killed-somebody-because-he-loves-us.html (604 words)

	Philip K. Dick - The Divine Invasion
		In The Divine Invasion, Philip K. Dick asks: What if God--or a being called Yah--were alive and in exile on a distant planet?
		How could a second coming succeed against the high technology and finely tuned rationalized evil of the modern police state?
		The Divine Invasion "blends Judaism, Kabalah, Zoroastrianism, and Christianity into a fascinating fable of human existence" (West Coast Review of Books).
	www.philipkdick.com /works_novels_divineinvasion.html (72 words)

	Onward Elsewhere - Phillip K Dick Reviews (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-29)
		I probably made the mistake of having Divine Invasion as my first one of his, but I thought I was just starting to sort of get comfortable reading his stuff.
		Dick is complicated enough to read to begin with, with his unique (but incredible) style and just the fact that each book is like an emotional roller coaster as you are dropped in the world of mistrust and paranoia that Dick creates.
		Along with that, Divine Invasion is an extremely complicated book within its own rights.
	onwardelsewhere.com /kdick.html (1235 words)

	Fictionwise eBooks: Philip K. Dick
		The Divine Invasion by Philip K. Dick [Science Fiction]
		Valis is the first book in Philip K. Dick's incomparable final trio of novels (the others being are The Divine Invasion and The Transmigration of Timothy Archer).
		Valis is a theological detective story, in which God is both a missing person and the perpetrator of the ultimate crime.
	www.fictionwise.com /eBooks/PhilipKDickeBooks.htm (1112 words)

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