When Philip K. Dick was an apostle of Jesus

The SciFi novelist saw himself as ‘Thomas’

Jonathan Poletti
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6 min readApr 10, 2024

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He is the famously bizarre and ultra-influential Sci-Fi novelist. But Philip K. Dick saw himself as ‘Thomas’, a reincarnated apostle of Jesus.

His memory of an earlier self came back to him, he’d say, on February 20, 1974, when following a dental operation he stood in front of a girl wearing a necklace with a Christian fish, or ichthys symbol, which emanated a beam of…

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