Divine Sparks: Gnostic Voices from Nag Hammadi to Berkeley

Voices released from ancient hidden texts…Voices of living information that slumbered in the buried codices at Nag Hammadi for centuries…Ancient voices of a Plasmate living through us as information. With Arnold Young as Gnostic guide Philip K. Dick, Bill Dye as the voice of the Plasmate, and Gerald Trimble’s cittern.

Amid the receding echoes of World War II it emerged — a revelation from the distant past, that came into the hands of an unsuspecting group of Egyptian farmers, riding camels in search of fertilizer. What they found instead was a hidden cache, carefully sealed in protective jars, of cryptic manuscripts — texts that contained voices of living information that had slumbered in the buried codices at Nag Hammadi for centuries — voices from a divine spark now reawakened in Berkeley-based sci-fi writer Philip K. Dick’s most astonishing visions and insights.
–Jay Mandeville and Dwight Frizzell

Cast:
Arnold Young as Philip K. Dick
Bill Dye as the Voice of the Plasmate
Susie Ersahin as the Goddess Sophia
Nancy Tracewell as the Voice of Creation

Voice artists:
Rhondda Francis
William Easton
Jay Mandeville
Dwight Frizzell

Music:
Gerald Trimble (cittern)
Michael Henry (synclavier)
Twayne Williams (composer)
Tony Allard (harmonic singing)

“Thunder Perfect Mind” performed by BCR featuring
Betse Ellis (violin)
Cliff Baldwin (electronics)
Stan Kessler (trumpet)
Thomas Aber (alto sax)
Dwight Frizzell (tenor sax)
Bill Dye (guitar)
Bobby Nickens (bass)
Bird Ellington Fleming (percussion)
Allaudin Ottinger (drums)

Special thanks to Dr. Stephan Hoeller for his research assistance and encouragement, and to Tom Mardikes for his production assistance.

Directed, produced and edited by Dwight Frizzell for the From Ark to Microchip series.


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