User:Steve Kendrick

Steve Kendrick is a paranormal investigator who briefly gained minor celebrity status of the cheap cable TV variety due to the success of experiments and investigations conducted duirng his acrimonious rivalry with his former friend, Dr. Frank West.

An avowed atheist and ardent skeptic, Kendrick poured scorn on West's slight New Age leanings, resolutely refusing to accept the possibility that the background energy field of the universe has the capacity for proto-consciousness, stating that to accept that possibility was to basically accept the existence of God. West noted Kendrick's seeming hypocrisy in his enthusiasm for death metal band "The Berserker" but reluctance to test West's theory experientially by consuming Fly Agaric magic mushrooms, thought by many historians to be the chemical agent used by Viking wariors to enter a state of altered consciousness on the battlefield.

Kendrick was proved to be wise, if not categorically correct on the energy field proto-consciousness issue, as West's repeated, chronic use of hallucinogens and stimulants resulted in a schizoid break and subsequent protracted dissociative psychosis, his mind collapsing and splintering, consumed by paranoid delusions about extra-dimensional Shadow Beings reminiscent of Species 8472 from "Star Trek", and convinced that Kendrick was the reincarnation of the Marquis de Sade.

Kendrick watched, coldy amused, as West ruined his own professional credibility by attempting to blow up a Star Trek convention with C4 hidden in model phasers in order to provoke the Shadow Beings into revealing their presence. West was certified insane and committed to a mental institution.

Kendrick went on to conclusively prove there is no God, using Zero Point Field analysis technology originally developed by physicist Hal Puthoff. Kendrick did admit that it was quite strange that the energy field had the capacity to at least conduct and relay quantum effects of human consciousness, a capacity that results in phenomena such as the acausal parallelism that C.G. Jung described as "synchronicities". Kendrick memorably delieverd a hilariously glib response to a statement by Deepak Chopra on a talk show, a response he'd used many times before to wiccans on the rock music scene :

"The energy of which I'm comprised is alive and aware of it's existence through me"

- Chopra

"Holy fuck, how shocking and counter-intuitive. Did it ever occur to you, Deepak, that we are necessarily examining the issue after the fact of human evolution, and due to the nature of observer / participator effects there will necessarily be certain results in experiments.  If you didn't notice, that doesn't prove Intelligent Design by way of back-tracking the existence of the field to before human evolution, but rather merely demonstrates that we do indeed exist within a quantum universe.  There is no way to transform yourself into being "One with God", and flashes of telepathy, prophetic dream, and acausal parallelism are uncontrollable and are simply side effects of certain genetic structures in certain individuals at certain times in certain situations that have evolved purely by natural selection in a universe in which everything is interconnected on the level of the background energy state"

- Kendrick

Kendrick retired, satisfied, to a life of relative anonymity shortly after, although he occasionally had to move address to avoid being attacked by extreme Chopra devotees. He considered contacting West to obtain the bombing plan details, adapted to strike at the Chopra Center rather than a Star Trek convention, with C4 hidden in chakra crystal sets rather than model phasers, remembering how several of his favourite rock music groups had disbanded in hateful acrimony only to reform several years later, but hesitated due to the possibility of once again being thrust into the spotlight if West were released and they recommenced their investigations into the paranormal.

West offered to buy Kendrick a crate of beer to make amends if he was ever released, but Kendrick learned this was unlikely, due to West's attempt to assassinate the director of the mental institute by way of a synthesis of remote-viewing and hypnosis, instructing the director's secretary to kill him using the paperweight inscribed with his title and medical degrees kept on his desk.

It turned out that West was aquitted on a technicality, that being that the court would have to officially accept that he was an advanced telepathic adept in order to convict him of attempted murder, rather than staring at a wall thinking about the director's secretary getting in a mood after he told her to make him coffee. West was released into a care in the community program under his own recognisance, prescribed the maximum dose of quetiapine fumarate to keep his behaviour under control.

For the moment, West remains balancing along the precipice of insanity, and was last known to be practising a blend of humanist psychology influenced by A.H. Maslow and Buddhism, having discarded Spiritual Deism as a viable belief system. Although no longer a believer in reincarnation, West subscribes to various aspects of Buddhism, in particular the notion of the Eight-Fold Path to escape the suffering caused by his addictions, and the 12 links of dependent arising.

The offer of the beer to Kendrick stands, but only time will tell if Steve will accept and possibly risk the wrath of Chopra's army of devotees.