My name is Tom Miller. My interest in the topic of the Messiah began in parallel to my early career as an entrepreneur and futurist forecasting how emerging high tech products and services would change the world. I was particularly focused on how certain technologies would disrupt familiar ways of doing things. It turned out I had a knack for accurately predicting adoption trends before PCs, the Internet, smartphones, and telecommuting became household words.

As the digital world progressed, my attention turned to how the technology revolution was likely to affect businesses, institutions, and such spheres as finance, education, healthcare, entertainment, and government. Communication barriers were shrinking, knitting the world closer together, but we also noticed that social values and traditional authority structures were being disrupted. We identified what we called “Digital Babylon” was emerging, driven by social media and the growing crescendo of the virtual vox populi— the online “voice of the people” from widely diverse cultures and walks of life. Confusion and chaos were bound to increase even as exciting new possibilities for advancing human life unfolded.

During these same years I had a deep and unexpected series of spiritual experiences that would change my life dramatically. For example, I met the Dalai Lama on his first trip to the U.S. and would go on to co-chair the U.S. Tibetan Resettlement Project that relocated Tibetan refugees from Chinese persecution. Exposure to Buddhist thinking offered unusual spiritual food for thought. For a time I also studied with a Turkish sheik named Muzafer Effendi who visited the U.S. with a band of dervishes in the 1980s. He once wondered out loud whether America might become a Muslim nation, which would fulfill a prophecy in some Islamic circles that a prominent Western country would convert to Islam one day. These and many other spiritual figures from other religious traditions were attracted to America’s religious freedom like bees to honey, their travels made much easier by the high tech revolution then underway.

I began to realize these new technologies were the tail of a much larger tiger of transformation than we first envisioned. The very foundation and fabric of values that undergirded global society were about to be challenged in ways very few people realized, except maybe computer geeks, sci-fi writers and visionaries like George Orwell.

My own Orwellian transformation of a kind occurred coincidentally in “1984,” when I was attending an interfaith conference in New York City dedicated to exploring Christianity, Judaism and Islam. When the  attendees were invited at one point to share the Christian sacrament of communion, I held back because I had not been in church since I was young. While others streamed forward, I sat with my arms crossed until suddenly I had a daytime vision of Jesus of hovering with outstretched arms above the altar in St. John the Divine Cathedral. No one else seemed to notice Him. To my surprise, He welcomed me to His table with words that resonated as if I had earbuds directly in my heart. In response, I muttered something along the lines that He knew I couldn’t take communion because neither my life nor my faith qualified me. He made it clear that didn’t matter to Him. It was His table and He was inviting me to come!

The power of His presence overwhelmed me to the breaking point. My resistance broke and tears streamed down my face. Sobbing in great heaves, I was the last person to go forward to accept the bread and wine from a priest who must have thought I was drunk or maybe having a mental breakdown. As soon as I stumbled back to my seat I passed out. The spiritual impact of the vision flooded my entire being until every circuit in my senses shut down except whatever enabled my heart to beat and lungs to breath. After a time I was awakened by a security guard and escorted out because the Cathedral was closing for the afternoon. I’m sure he thought I was drunk.

The last words I recalled Jesus saying were: “Turn to Me.”

How, I wondered, was I to turn to a spiritual apparition that had suddenly appeared to me, not I to Him?

This website is devoted to sharing the answers I have found over the years to that question. I hope what you discover here will help you make sense of the Messiah and discover the extraordinary relevance He has to our lives today, when so many familiar boundaries have disappeared and people struggle with understanding what’s happening in the world.

The message of Jesus Christ, the Suffering Messiah, is just as important now as when He walked on earth 2,000 years ago.

You can read my entire life story in my memoir Falling Upward, soon to be available on Amazon. For now, please enjoy what I share on this website.