By Gregory Sams
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Is there any reason why we cannot consider whether that which brings us the light of life might be conscious of life itself? Scientists who may argue over whether or not consciousness is an illusion will agree that it is one of the greatest mysteries of our existence. This, even though it is consciousness that is seeking to understand itself. So how can we be sure that nothing else experiences this mysterious experience that we cannot understand? We cannot be sure; we simply perpetuate a well-entrenched Church tradition. Scientific thought seems not to entertain the idea, dismissing it out of habit.
The default mode for humanity was always to see our Sun as a conscious entity with divine status. This was the case across the globe, regardless of which culture or century you choose to visit – until Christianity and the Roman Empire combined in the 4th Century. It was not science that made us look on Sun worship as primitive and ignorant, but the Roman Church who took a very dim view of anybody who disagreed.
So unlike the Ancients, we now view the Sun as some dumb ball of hot gas that just happens to provide us with the light of life. But science has found out an awful lot about this hot ball of plasma (it’s not actually gas) and its stellar siblings.
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We know that stars turn matter itself into the energy of light, agent of the electromagnetic force. Light informs us of the world around us and brings it energy. Light is the catalyst in photosynthesis, when the atoms of air and water molecules are re-arranged into the basic building bricks of the entire vegetable world, on the land and in the sea. During this, the energy of Sun’s light is stored in plants and their seeds, transferring to us when we eat those basic foods, or another animal that ate them. This is the energy that powers life and consciousness.
We are stardust, powered by starlight. This much we know.
Unlike the ancients, we know that stars are complex and interconnected balls of plasma. Our Sun has seven distinct layers, all performing different functions with some of them rotating around each other at different speeds. Its powerful corona, an invisible energy field, occupies more space than Sun itself and is thought to manage various solar features including sunspots, solar flares, coronal filaments, and coronal mass ejections. We identify and measure electro-magnetic field lines connecting the corona to Earth, and NASA recently discovered a magnetic portal the diameter of Earth that connects Sun’s corona to our planet, through which tons of high-energy particles pass at eight minute intervals. We know that the solar wind spinning off Sun’s corona twists into a giant electromagnetic bubble, the heliosphere, which embraces and protects the solar system as it travels through the galaxy at nearly 500,000 miles per hour. Scientists rank Sun’s corona as its most mysterious feature. Perhaps it is as great a mystery as human consciousness.
Perhaps, if scientists abandoned that old religious taboo against considering consciousness in anything other than us or things like us, they would not need fixes like “dark matter” to explain why galaxies refuse to behave like accidental mechanical systems. NASA describes “dark matter” as the name given to the solution for a problem that has not yet been solved. Perhaps the reason galaxies don’t fall apart is because they are not stupid balls of gas, but a joined up community of intelligent super-beings. Just a thought.
It is not that Sun’s behaviour absolutely proves it, and other stars, to be conscious beings, just that from an unbiased viewpoint, scientific or otherwise, this seems the most likely option. It is the default option we always held until it was burned from our culture, literally, by a jealous Church. Now, with the data to hand and burning at the stake out of vogue let us reconsider this idea with an open mind.
Unlike us, the ancients gave great importance to the influence of stars and planets upon the course of our lives. Perhaps they knew something that would bring added value to what we now know of the cosmos. Stellar consciousness does change everything. And from the personal perspective, can there be anything more important to our spiritual health than recognizing who stars in the movie of life?
Short bio – Gregory Sams, author of “Sun of gOd”
In the 1960′s, Gregory Sams co-pioneered natural and organic foods in the UK, later introducing Vegeburger to the culture. He then spent some years spreading the news of chaos theory and is now the author of three books:
Uncommon Sense, the State is Out of Date, 1998 chaOs worKs
Sun of gOd, Discover the Self-Organizing Consciousness that Underlies Everything, 2009 Red Wheel/Weiser
The State Is Out Of Date – We Can Do It Better” RedWheel/Weiser.Short synopsis below.
Ebook from Oct 2013 – print edition from April 2014.
Living in peace and harmony is a more natural condition than that we experience in today’s conflict-driven world.
We are community animals with built-in empathy; we are good at getting on with each other, organizing best from the bottom up. We seldom appreciate how our culture’s most essential and reliable features came into being without central planning. Top down control by a coercive state has been going on for less than 4500 of modern human’s 100,000 years on planet Earth. Its every variation has eventually failed, often bringing down the civilization than it had fed upon. The edifice of the state is built upon the threat to do us damage if we do not comply with its edicts – not a sound foundation. Whether confused, bemused or abused by the political process, The State Is Out Of Date re-assures us that politics is not even the primary game in town, though it may sometimes look like the only one. It is a book for those who wonder why politics isn’t working and what would.
Gregory Sams is available for radio and TV interviews as well as conference speaking and events. For further information please contact Infinite Connections via the contact form on the right hand column of this page.
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