In my book Gods of Aquarius: UFOs and the Transformation of Man[Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1976], I introduced the concept of the Star People, individuals who feel that they bear within their genes awareness acquired by extraterrestrial interaction with humans in prehistoric or ancient times and who have now been activated by DNA memory to fulfill a mission in assisting others in their spiritual and evolutionary advancement.

Sometime after the book’s publication, I received a letter from Philip K. Dick, who told me that he suspected that he was such an individual as those whom I had profiled in the book. He had first realized this in 1974 when his own ‘DNA memory packet’ began to fire within his psyche.

Alternate Perceptions Magazine: Philip K. Dick’s Phylogenic Memory and the Divine Fire