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There have also been numerous new posts over at Philip K. Dick and Religion, including one on Gnosticism and Dick\u2019s epistemology<\/a>, and another on Dick, Spinoza, the Bible and the world<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"