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'Ironically enough, the President's paranoia and opportunism lead to the establishment of a real resistance movement that is organized through narrow-beam radio transmissions from a mysterious alien near-Earth satellite, by a superintelligent, extraterrestrial, but less than omnipotent being (or network) named VALIS.'
PKD wrote about the precedent of receiving targeted personal radio transmissions. These fictionalised writings were based on PKDs real life experience in february of 1974, when he began receiving radio transmissions from one node of an artificial satellite network originating from the star Sirius in the Canis Major constellation. The signal arrived in the form of a pink beam reflected off a delivery girls gold pendant.