Finished We 1/7/15
I found this one on the shelves and first finished it We 9/25/96. It is written in the 60's clunky SciFi style, but not fully realized at all.
Not all that sure about what it was about, but seemed to deal with The Freudian Censor Principle. Not even sure if this is real, but it says that the unconscious provides humans with a 'censor' that protects us from harm while awake or asleep. And, I guess access to other dimensions or universes are shielded from us by this censor, and the lead character, Dr. Mark Anders is 'the uncensored man' because he can gain access to other dimensions.
The main character is Dr. Mark Anders, and he works for a super secret installation within the military industrial complex. Two incidents caused him to seek a shrink. 1) While helping a doctor friend with an epileptic patient, the young man bursts into German, and he had absolutely no knowledge of the language, and 2) While Dr. Anders is breaking in a new super computer, the machine spits out part of the Book of Revelation in Greek.
Dr. Nowatski is the shrink and he employs LSD therapy treating Anders for mild depression. The novel was written in 1964 and LSD was pretty much unheard of, but did anyone actually use if for depression therapy?
When injected with the drug, Anders travels to another dimension. Might be Past or Future, or a completely different universe altogether. Not really covered.
In this 'other land' he meets Solvers, Seekers, Dreamers, and a lover. He gets slightly enhanced powers of insight and I think he is enlisted to try and stop the nuclear arms race.
The people in the other universe may have been generated by racial memories or a kind of collective unconscious.
In the end, his girl from the other land crosses back into Anders's world and they just might live happily everafter.
The book was a fast read, with many interesting ideas, but not nearly developed.
The weakest of PK DICK and JOHN BRUNNER could blow this guy out of the water
Author's link at wikipedia-
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Sellings
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