Sun of gOd: Discover the Self-Organizing Consciousness That Underlies Everything

Gregory Sams

Weiser Books, May 1, 2009 - Body, Mind & Spirit - 256 pages

In Sun of gOd, cultural pioneer and philosopher Gregory Sams takes a fresh look at our solar benefactor. As Sams sees it cultures throughout the ancient world were right to recognize the Sun as a living, conscious being. The implications of a conscious provider in the sky are startling, though often obvious and in harmony with science, logic and common sense.

Sun of gOd explores exciting new ground, adding a crucial piece to the jigsawpuzzle picture we have of the cosmos. In the light of a conscious Sun, Sams looks at our hardwired tendency for religion, notions of god and divinity, our place in the firmament, star formation, intelligent light, electromagnetism, feedback, chaos theory, free will, the four elements, and the nearuniversal selforganization of systems from the bottom up.

"Could it really be that the universe waited 13.7 billion years until we came along to manifest the phenomenon of consciousness and made ours the only type of vessel able to experience it?" Sams thinks not. Citing David Bohm's discovery that even on the subatomic level of electrons there appears to be intention and choice, Sams goes on to suggest that creative intelligence may be a bot¬tomup system in which "everything, from a molecule of water to a neuron in our brain to the Sun itself, is a part of the bottom that is subtly steering a greater whole." From this perspective, he smoothly joins the microcosm to the macrocosm, revealing a Universe incorporating both intelligence and design, with no need for an Intelligent Designer.

Contents

• From nothing to: 1
• What is this? wed not be here without: 7
• One many or both? a question of divinities: 17
• How great how knowing? less than we are told: 23
• Religion is it hardwired into being human?: 31
• Organized religion maybe one of them has got it right: 40
• first faith perhaps our instincts make more sense: 61
• Sun of god our local life transmitter: 73
• Say hello back getting in touch: 92
• Stars is there content to the twinkle?: 105
• Universe the all in all is One: 115
• Chaos the invisible architect controlling it is not the way to order: 131
• The four elements they shape the cosmos: 150
• The biggest question well never answer this: 167
• Afterwords: 181
• Water inanimate active and alive: 194
• Transmute to live the food of life: 207
• Special people us amazing newcomers: 223

About the author

Gregory Sams has been changing the culture from the age of 19, when he cofounded SEED, the UK's first natural and organic restaurant in 1960's London. It led to Ceres Grain store, where customers could buy these foods to cook at home. Within a few years he had created the nation's first natural and organic food enterprises, including Whole Earth Foods. He was founder publisher of Harmony Magazine, to which John Lennon dedicated an eightframe cartoon, and copublished Seed, the Journal of Organic Living. In 1982 he created and christened the original VegeBurger, initiating the market for vegetarian food. In 1990 he founded Strange Attractions, the world's only shop ever dedicated to new science "chaos theory." His interest in that science planted the seeds of this book in Gregory's mind. Visit Sams at gregorysams.com. He lives in London.

Graham Hancock is the author of the international bestsellers The Sign and The Seal, Fingerprints of the Gods, and Heaven's Mirror. His books have sold more than five million copies.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Sun of gOd: Discover the Self-Organizing Consciousness That Underlies Everything
• Author: Gregory Sams
• Contributor: Graham Hancock
• Publisher: Weiser Books, 2009
• ISBN: 1609250788, 9781609250782
• Length: 256 pages
• Subjects: Body, Mind & Spirit / General; Body, Mind & Spirit / New Thought