Works by
Gregory Sams
(Fractal Artist, Writer)
[1948 - ]

Sun of gOd: Discover the Self-Organizing Consciousness That Underlies Everything (2009)
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 jigsaw-puzzle picture we have of the cosmos. In the light of a conscious Sun, Sams looks at 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-organization 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 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." 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.

Uncommon Sense - The State is Out of Date (1998)
Uncommon Sense will rock the boat for some, and launch it for others as it applies the sound and simple principles of chaos theory to the workings of our society. It dramatically shows just why it is that so many of us have so little faith in the confidence tricks of the ruling state. Uncommon Sense shows us the real price we pay for maintaining rulers in power, and how powerful we actually are as society. Real order is drawn from society's own unplanned chaos not by trying to manage it with a big stick. Imagine if the British government had thought music as important as the food we eat - and then regulated it for the past few decades - like they did for beef, yum, yum! Uncommon Sense reaches the parts of your brain the state would like undisturbed. Read on and receive a reality check!

For Gregory Sams, author of Uncommon Sense, the issue is not who is in power, how they got there, what they want to do or why. It is not a question of whether politicians are corrupt or not or whether they meditate. It does now matter whether the structure of the state is old and decayed or fresh and vigorous. At issue is whether or not the underlying principles of the state, however and by whomever it is run, can ever bring us peace and harmony. Force is a poor means of promoting positive change. We can survive without this growing menace to our species. Uncommon Sense takes a fresh look at the validity and virtue of this seldom considered option.

This thought provoking and humorous work dares to question the validity and value of today's nation state, whether democratic or totalitarian, First World or Third. Though it may not be obvious that more regulation creates more disorder, the evidence points this way, and the discoveries of new science "Chaos Theory" appear to prove it. Complex societies have far more aptitude to manage themselves than do force a pre-conceived order upon them. Uncommon Sense points out just how well this process is working already.