Published: July 10, 2012
Words: 112,928 (approximate)
Language: English
ISBN: 9781452405551

Short description

A Savior or Anti-Christ? In the midst of a global economic collapse, when famines and natural disasters abound, one man appears with the message of a messiah to bring hope to the world. Ngunda Aran, the head of Millennium and a charismatic speaker, works miracles and brings the message of the Tao to Americans and people across the globe. But his message isn't always welcome and there are many w

Extended description

A Savior or Anti-Christ?

In the midst of a global economic collapse, when famines and natural disasters abound, one man appears with the message of a messiah to bring hope to the world. Ngunda Aran, the head of Millennium and a charismatic speaker, works miracles and brings the message of the Tao to Americans and people across the globe. But his message isn't always welcome and there are many who would put an end to this messiah. But will Aran usher in a millennium of peace, or will his dire predictions of a global catastrophe come to pass?

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new age, spiritual, science fiction, christ, futuristic, messiah, jesus christ, tao, the second coming, john dalmas

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Review by: Edward Winston Bear on May 16, 2013 :
In this book John Dalmas explores a very simple question: In the two thousand years since Joshua bar Joseph of Nazareth taught among us, what would happen if the world needed another Great Teacher? This is not your usual science fiction premise, but in a genre which embraces everything from faster-than-light travel to bioengineering, it is a completely legitimate story premise, and Dalmas proceeds not merely to run, but to dance with it.

By that I mean that all of the questions which the premise question brings up find their way into the story. What sort of messiah might we need? What would he teach? What sort of followers would he gather? Who would listen? Who would neglect to listen? Who would stop up their ears and shout "La la la I can't hear you!"? Have the Great Questions changed? Have the answers to them done likewise? All of the above and more show up in a story filled with likeable (and despisable) people, action both spiritual and physical, stories, parables, some brief lectures, which are, after all, part of what any teacher would do, and jokes, including one so funny that I almost fell out of bed laughing.

This is not apocalyptic fiction, but solid food for the mind and spirit, with some of the most profound issues of philosophy explored in the course of a marvelously entertaining story. When I finished this book (at two in the morning!), I found my mind asking the oldest of all humanity's questions: "OK, what happens NEXT?"

A friend of mine wrote the above nine years ago, and tells me he stands by those words. (quoted with permission)

The happy news is that the sequel IS available here at smashwords, and I grabbed it eagerly the moment I found out it was available.
(reviewed long after purchase)

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