{"product_id":"sun-of-god-by-gregory-sams-9781578634545","title":"Sun of God","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn \u003cem\u003eSun of God\u003c\/em\u003e, 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 recognise 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eSun of God\u003c\/em\u003e explores exciting new ground, adding a crucial piece to the jigsaw puzzle picture we have of the cosmos. In the light of a conscious Sun, Sams examines our hard-wired 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 near-universal self-organisation of systems from the bottom up.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eCiting David Bohm's discovery that even on the subatomic level of electrons there appears to be intention and choice, Sams suggests that creative intelligence may be a bottom-up 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.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFrom 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Hachette Aotearoa New Zealand","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46868800340204,"sku":"9781578634545","price":39.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/1222953482750.jpg?v=1759770192","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/sun-of-god-by-gregory-sams-9781578634545","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}