Teen Messiah Kendra: the subject of a sci-fi fantasy novel: 'The Messiah Paradigm'
In a New Scientist article published in 1988, physicist Paul Davies wrote;
“What a cozy little arrangement, to have the God of the entire universe come down to one minor planet in a minor galaxy and live out his life as a carpenter – who will then “save” all the minions of the planet! “
Davies was getting at the curious improbability of the postulate that an infinite God would choose to descend in a fleshly form on one pathetic little backwater of a world, given a universe tens of billions of light years in extent. Oh, and with billions of galaxies each teeming with millions of inhabitable worlds.
On the face of it, it simply appeared preposterous to the person possessing any measure of cosmic perspective.
But what IF the notion of a singular unique savior ("Messiah") on one limited world was never the plan? What if, instead, multiple millions of Messiahs coming to multiple millions of planets (with sentient life) in a literal multiverse, was more in accord with the infinite perspective?
“What a cozy little arrangement, to have the God of the entire universe come down to one minor planet in a minor galaxy and live out his life as a carpenter – who will then “save” all the minions of the planet! “
Davies was getting at the curious improbability of the postulate that an infinite God would choose to descend in a fleshly form on one pathetic little backwater of a world, given a universe tens of billions of light years in extent. Oh, and with billions of galaxies each teeming with millions of inhabitable worlds.
On the face of it, it simply appeared preposterous to the person possessing any measure of cosmic perspective.
But what IF the notion of a singular unique savior ("Messiah") on one limited world was never the plan? What if, instead, multiple millions of Messiahs coming to multiple millions of planets (with sentient life) in a literal multiverse, was more in accord with the infinite perspective?
Preposterous? Absurd? Pretentious theosophical piffle? Not in spiritual counselor and Barbadian biologist John Phillips' view. In this respect I recall a 2012 conversation with my long- time friend (and co-founder with me of the Barbados Philosophical Society - back in 1974) on this very topic.
"It's not at all crazy to suppose it."
He insisted in a conversation Janice videoed at the Crane resort when we were staying there for a time share week in May. He expatiated:
"Think about it. Especially think about Paul Davies' observation. In the whole of this awe-inspiring, majestic cosmos with billions of systems, what sense would it make to have one special, singular Messiah be born on one world - and only for the inhabitants of that world?
You mean all the millions of other sentient beings across the cosmos are damned by default if they can't somehow get to Earth, learn and say John 3:16 and believe? That's idiotic!"
Of course he had a point, not that I believed in the idea or the concept of Messianism in any case - certainly as an avowed atheist. But having been a religious person at one time (Catholic, but not that devout) I could in fact put my mind inside that template and appreciate John's argument. And besides, I am not a stranger to spiritual discussions as I have had a number of them with my sister-in -law Krimhilde when she was alive, e.g.
So this wasn't so radically different. Indeed, I'd had previous spiritual discussions with John Phillips in Barbados, see e.g.
So it was literally no biggie. Well, let me rephrase: the notion of multiple Messiahs was no biggie, but certainly a teenage girl Messiah was. Thus did John direct my attention to a science fiction fantasy novel called 'The Messiah Paradigm' about the adventures and misadventures of an 18-year old Maryland girl named Kendra - abducted by aliens to a planet ("G") in the Andromeda Galaxy. Taken there to save the odd millions of human descendants of ancestors abducted over centuries from Earth. (Mr. Phillips suspected one shock was all most readers could handle, so the author kept the female savior's attention only to a few million descendants of abducted humans on this one world.)
Anyway, having read the book, I remain unconvinced a teen girl could be a Messiah, but I don't rule it out completely. At least not for a devout follower of Catholicism for whom there are multiple female spiritual role models. Especially Mary, a virgin teen at the time of the immaculate conception. So why not a teen female Savior?
Nor do I see a problem with the notion of multiple Messiahs in a Multiverse. If one then buys into Messianism it would be logical to accept this notion rather than reject it. I don't accept the notion in the theist reference frame but do accept its validity in the frame of a nonlocal, emergent, multi-dimensional universe infused with consciousness, i,e.
As John noted, it would be stupid to have allowed one Messiah for one special world and no other - in a universe teeming with millions of civilizations. They can't all be damned by virtue of absence after all!
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