Michael C. Barros teaches philosophy at University of the People.George J. Sieg teaches philosophy at the Southwestern Indian Polytechnic Institute in Albuquerque, New Mexico, and he is the Area Chair for Esotericism, Occultism, and Magic for the Southwest Popular/American Culture Association.

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.

• IntroductionSection I: Foundations of Esoteric TheologyChapter One: This is the Gospel of Philip K. Dick: A Self-Referential Science Fiction Theology, Riccardo GramantieriChapter Two: The Conquest of Death and the Divine Afterlife: Philip K. Dick’s Life and Fiction of the 1960s, M. Blake WilsonChapter Three: Consuming Communion: Transcendence, Moral Clarity, and Community in The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch, Justin CosnerChapter Four: When the Dickian Time Drives on, Laying Bare the Ubik Landscape: Ubik as Philip K. Dick's Early Exploration of God before his 2-3-74 Mystical Experience, Laurie Jui-hua TsengSection II: Theological ThemesChapter Five: Groove Override: The Defeat of Heimarmene in Dick’s “Exegesis”, Gabriel MckeeChapter Six: What is Human: Humanism in Philip K. Dick’s Do Android Dream of Electric Sheep?, Maxwell E. StevensonChapter Seven: A Structure of Belief: The Function of Conspiracy in A Scanner Darkly, Richard Johnston JonesSection III: Who Do You Say That I Am?Chapter Eight: Do Elohim Dream of Spirit Sheep?, Joshua SnellChapter Nine: The VALIS Confession: Esoteric Compassion and the Struggle for Recognition, Scott MaybellSection IV: The Freedom of the LogosChapter Ten: Do Dictators Dream of Listless Grasshoppers?: Counter-Totalitarianism, Exceptionality, and a Materialized Political Radicalism, John C. McDowellChapter Eleven: “I Gotta Figure This Out”: Philip K. Dick, Calvinism, and the Hermeneutics of Spielberg’s Minority Report, Stephen DalyChapter Twelve: Fabulations of Theory, Aaron FrenchConclusion: Disclosure of the Worlds to ComeAbout the Contributors

Michael C. Barros teaches philosophy at University of the People.George J. Sieg teaches philosophy at the Southwestern Indian Polytechnic Institute in Albuquerque, New Mexico, and he is the Area Chair for Esotericism, Occultism, and Magic for the Southwest Popular/American Culture Association.

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.

• IntroductionSection I: Foundations of Esoteric TheologyChapter One: This is the Gospel of Philip K. Dick: A Self-Referential Science Fiction Theology, Riccardo GramantieriChapter Two: The Conquest of Death and the Divine Afterlife: Philip K. Dick’s Life and Fiction of the 1960s, M. Blake WilsonChapter Three: Consuming Communion: Transcendence, Moral Clarity, and Community in The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch, Justin CosnerChapter Four: When the Dickian Time Drives on, Laying Bare the Ubik Landscape: Ubik as Philip K. Dick's Early Exploration of God before his 2-3-74 Mystical Experience, Laurie Jui-hua TsengSection II: Theological ThemesChapter Five: Groove Override: The Defeat of Heimarmene in Dick’s “Exegesis”, Gabriel MckeeChapter Six: What is Human: Humanism in Philip K. Dick’s Do Android Dream of Electric Sheep?, Maxwell E. StevensonChapter Seven: A Structure of Belief: The Function of Conspiracy in A Scanner Darkly, Richard Johnston JonesSection III: Who Do You Say That I Am?Chapter Eight: Do Elohim Dream of Spirit Sheep?, Joshua SnellChapter Nine: The VALIS Confession: Esoteric Compassion and the Struggle for Recognition, Scott MaybellSection IV: The Freedom of the LogosChapter Ten: Do Dictators Dream of Listless Grasshoppers?: Counter-Totalitarianism, Exceptionality, and a Materialized Political Radicalism, John C. McDowellChapter Eleven: “I Gotta Figure This Out”: Philip K. Dick, Calvinism, and the Hermeneutics of Spielberg’s Minority Report, Stephen DalyChapter Twelve: Fabulations of Theory, Aaron FrenchConclusion: Disclosure of the Worlds to ComeAbout the Contributors

Michael C. Barros teaches philosophy at University of the People.George J. Sieg teaches philosophy at the Southwestern Indian Polytechnic Institute in Albuquerque, New Mexico, and he is the Area Chair for Esotericism, Occultism, and Magic for the Southwest Popular/American Culture Association.

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.

• IntroductionSection I: Foundations of Esoteric TheologyChapter One: This is the Gospel of Philip K. Dick: A Self-Referential Science Fiction Theology, Riccardo GramantieriChapter Two: The Conquest of Death and the Divine Afterlife: Philip K. Dick’s Life and Fiction of the 1960s, M. Blake WilsonChapter Three: Consuming Communion: Transcendence, Moral Clarity, and Community in The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch, Justin CosnerChapter Four: When the Dickian Time Drives on, Laying Bare the Ubik Landscape: Ubik as Philip K. Dick's Early Exploration of God before his 2-3-74 Mystical Experience, Laurie Jui-hua TsengSection II: Theological ThemesChapter Five: Groove Override: The Defeat of Heimarmene in Dick’s “Exegesis”, Gabriel MckeeChapter Six: What is Human: Humanism in Philip K. Dick’s Do Android Dream of Electric Sheep?, Maxwell E. StevensonChapter Seven: A Structure of Belief: The Function of Conspiracy in A Scanner Darkly, Richard Johnston JonesSection III: Who Do You Say That I Am?Chapter Eight: Do Elohim Dream of Spirit Sheep?, Joshua SnellChapter Nine: The VALIS Confession: Esoteric Compassion and the Struggle for Recognition, Scott MaybellSection IV: The Freedom of the LogosChapter Ten: Do Dictators Dream of Listless Grasshoppers?: Counter-Totalitarianism, Exceptionality, and a Materialized Political Radicalism, John C. McDowellChapter Eleven: “I Gotta Figure This Out”: Philip K. Dick, Calvinism, and the Hermeneutics of Spielberg’s Minority Report, Stephen DalyChapter Twelve: Fabulations of Theory, Aaron FrenchConclusion: Disclosure of the Worlds to ComeAbout the Contributors