Tessa B. Dick was renowned spec fic author Philip K. Dick’s last wife. She was his roommate during Phil’s epiphany which formed the experiential root of his VALIS trilogy. Indeed, Tessa is the author of a book called The Owl by Daylight, its true third volume, completion of which was interrupted by Phil’s untimely death. Tessa is the author of several outstanding works of fiction and nonfiction, all of them self-published and available online, and well worth the getting.
In My Life on the Edge of Reality, Tessa recounts her childhood as the malnourished, abused daughter of an alcogolic mother whose seemingly innocuious connections to Masonic women’s organizations like the Silver Star take on a more sinister light for this reviewer, having just read James Shelby Downard’s account of similarly connected, arguably more abusive parents who apparently set him uop to be a scapegoat for occult Masonic ritual. From the sharpened perspective of old age, where even the more distant of memories is clear as a bell to the mind’s eye, she relates her experience with a secret training progeam conducted on the gifted and talented students in her childhood, of whom she was one, involving training in telepathy and space travel. Were these primitive attempts to install the technology of Remote Viewing in these fresh minds? Was Phil’s 2/3/74 epiphany in fact the playing out of a mind control experiment by the secret government in which they both had been involved longer than either could remember? Had their memories, in fact, been edited by the same covert experimenters to keep everything dark? Everything seems equally likely in this Age of Brand New Things.
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