Description: Drawing on various scholarly and theological perspectives, the book explores the significance of Philip K. Dick's esoteric Christian theology and his singular mystical gnosis.
Brief description: Stephen Daly is Lecturer in Corporate Law at the Dickson Poon School of Law, King's College London.
Review Quotes: "Philip K. Dick has had a fantastic impact on American science fiction, film, and television. Here, however, we find a sci-fi master that is not generally known: the gnostic author who is inspired by his own direct mystical experience of some cosmic mind but who had long been involved in intensely religious questions about death, free will, capitalism, colonialism, and the end of all things (and people). Here is a stunningly honest interpretation of God (and Satan) that is superhuman, that is, fully human and historical, even rogue, but also transcendent to any local society or personalized ego. Here is a 'gospel' about our doubled identity coming from the future." --Jeffrey J. Kripal, author of How to Think Impossibly: About Souls, UFOs, Time, Belief, and Everything Else