This lecture discusses key ideas from the 20th Century American science-fiction short story writer and novelist, Philip K. Dick's novel Ubik

It focuses specifically on one of the characters we meet early on in the work, the owner of the Beloved Brethren Moratorium in Zurich, Switzerland, Herbert Schönheit Von Vogelsang. He seems to be a rather unctuous, somewhat cringing business owner type, catering to his clients and providing the service of half-life to allow them to continue some kind of existence and interaction after the death of their bodies. As it turns out, Von Vogelsang is also on the take, allowing a malevolent entity, the half-lifer Jory, to consume other people in half-life in his moratorium, paid by Jory's family to facilitate that happening.

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