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The Sun is something that as
children we are naturally drawn
to depict, often with a smiling
face in the middle and shining
all over everything.
SBL In your book, through multi-faceted Why do you think this is?
means, you resurrect the ancient
GS That’s a great example of how
idea of the Sun’s sentience and bring
innate and natural it is to see Sun as
various approaches into the discussion
being alive. What is difficult to explain
from quantum to anthropological, to
is just how our culture continues to live
philosophical and poetic. Can you speak
in ignorance of the happy conscious
a bit about this?
loving Sun that a young child so easily
GS I’m really trying to put some new recognizes.
thought into the meaning of it all,
SBL What was the timeline on writing
knowing that stars are living beings,
Sun of gOd?
and that we live in a galaxy full of them,
all sending electro-magnetic signals
GS It was seven years in the making,
outwards, rather like the neurons in our
and though at times it may have been
brain. And this asks the question of how
day and night, it was never 9 to 5.
clouds of simple gas self-assemble into
The concept and structure of an
such a complex construct as a star. And
entire chapter might come to me on
of course, light, the most mysterious of
a Greek island, and then be finished
the quantum characters, is what the Sun
months later.
is all about, and we shed some light on
SBL Writers often complain what a
that.
torture the book writing process is.
SBL It’s a stunning line of thought
It sounds as if you found a way to
and also interesting how light is
make it pleasurable!
used in language as a medium
GS I have always enjoyed writing and
of understanding, as you just
as difficult as it might be to make new
demonstrated.
concepts understandable, it is never
GS Right, it’s built into our
painful to do so.
understanding, we shed light on things,
SBL What was the premise you had
seek enlightenment, see ideas as
in mind for the book when you started
brilliant, and clever people as dazzling…
writing Sun of gOd?
SBL The Sun is something that as
GS I was actually embarking upon a
children we are naturally drawn to
book about the innate intelligence
depict, often with a smiling face in the
of the organism, which would
middle and shining all over everything.
investigate the intentionality of
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