The Valis Trilogy Author:Philip K. Dick The BALIS Trilogy, are now available in one volume exclusively from Book-of-the-Month Club. VALIS, is an acronym for Bast Active Living Intelligence System, was inspired by a mystical experience that Dick described as " an invasion of my mind by a transcendentally rational mind." Horselover Fat, the half- mad mystic hero of BALIS, suffers just... more » such an invasion, one that leads him to question the seemingly straight forward construct we call reality and catapults him into a metaphysical search for truth and meaning, looking for answers in sources as divers as the Bible and a dog food commercial. He is aided in his blackly comic exploration by his three- or is ti two?- friends, fellow members of the Rhiphidon Society, dedicated to finding the fifth Messiah and keeping their friend out of an asylum.« less