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April 3rd 2009, by Skype phone I published my first book, Uncommon
Sense – the state is out of date, which
SBL Greg, how did your interest in
very clearly put forward the most
galactic phenomenon, quantum physics
important message that chaos theory
and the nature of reality arise?
has for us as a society.
GS I had a microscope and a telescope
SBL Your latest book Sun of gOd, puts
by the time I was ten, and spent a lot
forth a convincing argument that the
of my pre-teen years peering into the
Sun is a sentient self-aware entity. How
‘other’ worlds they revealed. Then I
unconventional is this view?
read The Dawn of Magic, finding out
about Charles Fort and many weird and GS It used to be pretty conventional,
wonderful things of the sort that were and was understood on every continent,
not taught in school. My display of the culture, or century you cared to choose
solar system and its workings won - up until the Christian era. Today, of
first prize at the eighth grade science course, most people will spend more
fair, and at the age of 16 I spent several time contemplating sunglass styles
hours in a Spanish field, seriously than they will the most important thing in
attempting to teleport to a star. their life – the Sun. It’s incredibly absent
from our understanding of the world we
SBL I remember when I met you in the
live in, even though nothing could be
IN LIGHT OF THE SUN
early 90’s in London through mutual
more relevant.
friends and then visited your shop
which was close to where I was living. SBL Why did the Sun stop being revered?
I’d never seen so many beautiful fractal
GS It’s a pretty grim story at times, but
designs as I did at “Strange Attractions”.
a willingness to kill large numbers of
At the time it seemed as if your initiative
people and start with fresh generations
was to spread the meme of appreciation
can be very effective at changing
for chaos theory and by extension
fundamental cultural attitudes. So many
to celebrate the natural interplay of
other things, from the quantum to the
order and chaos within existence.
galactic, make sense once you just put
Was this the case?
the Sun firmly in the picture. When I was
GS Partly, but it went a bit further as writing Sun of gOd, I realized how much
the chaos theory, to me, was the proof pre-Christian and Islamic culture has
that everywhere in the Universe things been destroyed.
were self-organizing into harmonious
SBL You’re saying that you’ve come
systems, without central control. What
upon a curious blind spot in modern
resounded for me was that human
consciousness. It’s true people don’t
beings are unique in obstructing this
take the solar divinity aspect seriously,
natural evolution of a system, believing
yet watching the Sun move between the
that better results can be achieved
arches of Stonehenge feels as close to a
through coercive central control,
holy experience as can be.
however well meaning. It’s how we
try to run our world, and it sucks –
GS There is so much interest today in
delivering us wars, refugees, famines
Mayan calendars and pyramids, the
and social disorder.
ancient Egyptians, Native American
culture, Celtic monuments like
SBL Would you say interest in chaos
Stonehenge and the Hindu religion. All
theory has increased since the 90’s?
of these incorporate a view of Sun as
GS Most people are aware of chaos divine, yet we still seem to tiptoe around
theory now, and know about things like that defining part of their culture. Perhaps
the Butterfly Effect. After a few years this blind spot comes from seventeen
of owning the shop, though, I realized a centuries of not thinking about the
book needed to be written. So in 1998 subject, and risking immolation if you did.
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