In an essay written two years before dying , Dick described how he learned from his Episcopalian priest that an important scene in Flow My Tears , the Policeman Said - involving its other main character , Police General Felix Buckman , the policeman of the title - was very similar to a scene in Acts of the Apostles , a book of the Christian New Testament .
In an essay written two years before dying , Dick described how he learned from his Episcopalian priest that an important scene in the novel was very similar to a scene in the Book of Acts .