There has been much interest in recent years on the practice of solar light absorption or what is popularly known as “sun gazing.” A quick search online will produce a myriad of Web sites advancing a variety of practices, many of which are highly speculative and misinformed. We know that many ancient cultures and civilizations held the sun in high regard. But in many cases, this, too, went far beyond the commonly held concept of “sun worship.” The great spiritual Masters and Teachers knew that the physical sun was a gateway to another world – a Sun behind the sun. They also knew that sunlight was the conveyer of Intelligence and Information. This Intelligence and Information was not only the source of all life on Earth but able to open or unlock latent spiritual faculties within the human being by means of certain Divine Factors streaming in through the physical from heavenly or Divine Realms. This was the teaching of the great Masters on which the noble religions and philosophies of the world were originally founded. These figures include Moses, Aaron, Jesus, Zoroaster, Buddha, Krishna, Viracocha/Quetzalcoatl, as well as Socrates, Plato, Akhenaten, Confucius, Lao Tzu and many, many others.

These ancient high solar religions were the basis of many of the traditions we are familiar with today, albeit they have mostly degenerated into forms that would be unrecognizable to the original founders and their high teachings, concepts and practices. One common element to be found among them, however, was that the use of the sun as a tool for spiritual awakening or enlightenment was accomplished through a Sacred System of Spiritual Regeneration taught by mystic Schools or holy Orders. This was the case with Jesus and the Essenes, the Aaronic Priesthood, Quetzalcoatl’s sun temples in the Americas, as well as for Plato and his Academy. But why was this? The reason was and is that the spiritual seeker employing the use of the sun’s vast energies must adhere to certain spiritual disciplines, ethics and codes in order to benefit in the best possible way and not cause damage – physical, psychic and spiritual – to oneself. Adherence to these disciplines, ethics and codes not only prevents the individual from using the power of the sun for selfish and destructive purposes, but also causes positive affects to the person, the planet, the Universe, and the spiritual Cosmos as a whole.

Today, we are privileged to live in a special Age. It is a time when an old cycle is passing away and a new one is coming into being. This time, whether we call it a New Solar Epoch, the Age of Consciousness, God’s Second Advent, or the dawning of a Golden Age of Light, is ushering in and bringing forth cosmic and spiritual changes never before experienced by the human family which is changing life as we know it. It is “now” that has been longed for and awaited by spiritual aspirants and seekers for millennia. As a species, we must learn to adapt to the profound changes taking place and the energies that have manifested within the sun which are impacting all living forms. Some might call this new sun the Sixth Sun; others might refer to it as the prophesied Sun of Righteousness (Malachi 4:2). It is my belief that the world will not perish, but it will surely be transformed. The question is what shape will that transformation take. Will it be for Good? The advancement of Truth Consciousness? And the emergence of a Golden Age of Light and a new race of Light Beings on Earth? I believe it will.

The transcendent System of Cosolargy, a modern word for an ancient spiritual discipline of becoming, has been practiced by solar mystics and spiritual seekers the world over for nearly 60 years. It teaches the individual how to use the light of the physical sun to enhance not only physical attributes but dormant psycho-spiritual faculties, as well. The Force Centers (chakras) are enlivened; they begin to spin and take on personality. Importantly, they are developed in harmony with each other, which is so often not the case. In time, the practicing solar adept penetrates beyond physical sunlight into Worlds of Light, a place beyond the physical but from where it emerged. By the application of Cosolargy, an ultra-organism is developed – the spiritual Light Body of which so many speak, but of which so little is known. The process takes one on a personal journey where one can retrace their origin to the Godhead and escape the cycle of life and death. It is a magnificent experience, and one which goes far beyond mere sun gazing.

Sacred Solar Teaching Symposium

The Symposium was held in Los Angeles on June 26, 2010. The sponsors were: Jamilian University of the Ordained, The International Community of Christ and Tybro Corporation.

The speakers were: Right Reverend Gene Savoy, Jr., Right Reverend Sean Savoy and Dr. Mitchel Earl Gibson.

The following topics were covered:

• The History of Solar Absorption Techniques
• Modern Application of Solar Absorption
• The Individual and Collective Benefits of Solar Absorption
• Solar Absorption Techniques and the Advancement of Human Consciousness
• Enlightnment and the Solar Connection
• 2012: The Coming Changes in theSun and Human Consciousness
• A Basic Introduction to the Spiritual Nature of the Sun
• The Solar Adept and the Development of the Solar Spiritual Community
• The Immortal Solar-Light Body

A full report will be available soon.

On May 10, 2010 in Dharamsala India, The Right Reverend Gene Savoy, Jr., Head Bishop of the International Community of Christ and President of the Cosolargy Institute/International, met with His Holiness the 17th Gyalwa Karmapa, the Black Hat Lama of Tibet. (see Journey to India) To the Karmapa’s right is the Reverend Robert Roy, and to Bishop Savoy’s left is the Reverend Dr. Bill Bartlett, The Community’s resident Buddhist priest and Lecturer on Buddhist Studies for the Jamilian University of the Ordained. The delegation’s purpose was to announce God’s Advent of Light and introduce to His Holiness the Teachings of Cosolargy.

Watch for a report on the Journey to India which will be posted soon.

Oliver Sacks, Alfred K. Knopf, 2007

In this book Dr. Sacks has revisited some of the knowledge and wisdom of the ancients regarding music. The power of music has been known in the world since the ancient Chinese, Egyptians, and other great civilizations down to Shakespeare’s time and more recently. Shakespeare said that good music “can minister to minds disabled, pluck from the memory a rooted sorrow, raze out the written troubles of the brain.” Perhaps the German Romantic writer Novalis was familiar with this idea when he wrote, “Every disease is a musical problem, every cure a musical solution.”

The knowledge of the power of music is not surprising since, as Pythagoras discovered, all music can be reduced to numbers and mathematical ratios. He postulated that the entire universe and all phenomena therein could be explained in the same terms of particular numbers and the mathematical ratios found in music. Thus, music is related to, or is, primal sound. Pythagoras therefore concluded, “As in music, so in life.”

For whatever reasons, as has other great knowledge, the knowledge of the power of music has been largely lost or misplaced or ignored into the present time, but the gnosis is returning as scientists and other scholars rediscover it. This is inevitable as the cycle of awareness or consciousness returns us to universal recognition of the energy and power of music as it affects the individual and society.

Music—that is, sound—affects virtually every function of the human body. Perhaps it took a musically gifted neurologist like Sacks to notice the powerful and universal effect of music on people. This book is a compassionate yet scientific study of humans and their struggles with neurological conditions and music.

Though there was virtually no neuroscience of music before the 1980s, this is becoming a rapidly growing field as scientists, musicians, and others are increasing their studies of the effects of sound and other frequencies on every aspect of life, human and otherwise.

Sacks shows through his fascinating stories of neurological conditions that the relationship to music is one of the most characteristic elements of humans. We seem to be hard-wired for sound, and this begins early in life — a fetus shows response to music or sound at about twenty weeks, or even sooner. Are we then not hard-wired to the structure of the universe?

Music is energy, and, as we know, energy is information. Every body has its unique overall frequency, and every part or organ also has its unique particular frequency of health. Thus, the nature of the vibrations or frequencies “bathing” it elicit an unconscious response. Sacks has noticed, as have others, that the strongest response or connection may be the emotional one, though not to be far outdone by that of the heartbeat. Music “plays” the body/mind/spirit like an instrument.

Music is instinctively serial and extremely old. It appears to have always been—and still is—used in religious practices. Military music relies heavily on rhythm because of the linking of the auditory and motor systems. Sacks says that the elements of music—pitch, rhythm, tempo, melody, timbre—perhaps make a universal analogy and metaphor for the world. If music and the brain coevolved, understanding how music “plays” the brain and body might assist us in understanding more about the brain and, eventually, more about ourselves.

In working with many patients who had musicophilia—i.e., had been “captured” by music in various ways, almost as by an alien entity—Sacks discovered much both positive and negative about what music can do. It can transform people, change the capacity of the brain, and help with problems such as dementia, Parkinson’s disease, aging, etc. Music can also help one, especially with early training, in areas such as mathematics and other scholastic subjects, as well as with discipline. There are many aspects of life that music can touch.

Sacks says, “[Music] seems to have no relation to the world. It has no concepts, no images or symbols like those of language—it only expresses the quintessence of life and its events, never the events themselves…. The tragic thing about music is that the sound dies as soon as it is born.” It is also tragic to see people lifted out of a strange neurological “nonworld” and connected to themselves for a brief moment, only to return to that nonworld when the sound is gone and the damaged brain takes over again. Music can take us to extremes—even to near-death experiences—and holds great therapeutic potential.

We have heard of great musicians such as Mozart and Beethoven “hearing” their compositions and just writing them down rather than actually composing them. So, if we are so hard-wired to the universe by sound, to what else might we be wired by it? Listen up!

Asclepian Dream Incubation: Practice

The importance of the Asclepian schools and healing centers cannot be overlooked or overstated within Cosolargy. For it is from Asclepias and the healing practices that were employed by his temple priests that we will be able to decipher, learn, and practice similar healing arts and sciences for our modern age. As we learn more about Asclepias and review the techniques associated with dream healing, you will see why proper sleep and proper dreaming are so integral to the Process of Spiritual Regeneration.

“Going Within”

 One of the old teachings we read about in many religions is: “Go within.” Most people, if they go within, are thinking with their mind or their emotions. And we have learned that this does not produce the spiritual results we want.

For example, if you go within as most meditation techniques stress, you actually go “down,” so to speak, slowly; and if you continue to do that over a period of time, you actually lower your frequency levels and deprive yourself of “nourishment” from the outside. One of the things that the ancient Greeks taught was that there were four elements—air, earth, fire, and water—and that life was sustained by those four basic elements. But these great philosophers also taught that there was a fifth element. The individual who wanted to gain immortality had to breathe and experience this fifth element, which was called Ether. And immortality was achieved through the breathing and the intake of Ether.

So by going within and by breathing Ether, the concept was that one had to have a catalyst— a source—to start this process, some kind of an igniter. And we know in Cosolargy that the secret lies in the sun. So when we absorb solar energy, it starts the force centers moving; and that is the beginning of the process. Now once the basic, or lower, force centers (the monads or chakras) begin to move, it gives life to the four major, or spiritual, force centers within, which are dependent upon not the physical sun but upon the spiritual Light of God and Ether.

Divine Medicine

We also know from our studies that in ancient times there were three forms of healing: physical, psychic, and spiritual. Mundane physical healing was done by use of herbs, medicine, and by surgery. Of course, there was also healing to cure psychological ills. But the third—divine healing—was done by the Word. The innermost depths of an individual, that is, the power and energy within the force centers, was called by the Greeks the inner and divine medicine. But divine medicine used the inner Word, Word meaning “Intelligence.” The Greeks called it Logos; and it is also referred to in various schools of the Middle East to describe, as the Greeks used it, a divine principle. This healing was a divine act that allowed one to apply a sacred process for divine healing. The word for this is thaumaturgic, meaning “miraculous healing.”

In the beginning, all healing processes initiated or began with divine healing, which doesn’t exist anymore, as all healing has been lowered to the mundane. And in reviewing what has been written about these ancient techniques, what little remains of this ancient medicine of spiritual and religious healing is difficult to make much sense of it because the art and the science itself was secret and was entrusted into the hands of priest-physicians who passed along their knowledge from teacher to disciple or from father to son. They were not “open” as we know medicine to be today, because these sacred arts and sciences wouldn’t work by mere human manipulation. Consequently, over the space of time, these techniques were lost to the world as things became ever more secular.

All of the great teachers—Socrates, Asklepios, Apollonius of Tyana, the Buddha, Jesus, the master teachers of the Essaei and Therapeute orders—all had one thing in common. And this one thing was the divine art of solar absorption. This was the source of their extra energy and intelligence, which allowed them to exist on a higher level than the normal individual human being. These techniques gave them an edge, an extra intake of energy, an extra intake of intelligence; and the forces within their beings were able to process this energy and the divine Intelligence within it.

So, in a sense, it does begin from within. The kingdom is within, but it is dependent upon outside sources—primarily the energies and intelligences residing within the sun. So we have here a combination of inner and outer forces—and this is the secret—the mundane soul merging with the what Pythagoras called the One Monad. This is the secret of all religious truths. But there is an art and a science to this. One cannot just go look at the sun as an animal does. And that is what we are trying to reveal to the world: The absorption of solar energy, and the Intelligence Factors within solar energy, is a divine art and science which was practiced by all the great religious figures of the world in every part of the world throughout the ages; and solar absorption must be practiced in a spiritual manner.

The energy of the sun is filled with Intelligence Factors which activate and set the eight minor force centers in action; and over a period of time, the solar adept is able to mature and activate the inner force centers of his spiritual being, which is immortal or eternal. And that is the purpose of our School. We train our eyes to absorb sunlight and we introduce vital life-giving energy into the brain and nervous system. We then are able to take on greater measures of solar energy; and new receptors within the eyes and within the nervous system are actually generated and activated to receive and process this solar energy on a level which the average person cannot, because these faculties remain dormant within them. This then leads us to spiritual Light—divine Light—which is seen not by the physical eyes but by the spiritual senses: the faculties of spiritual vision.

Preparing for Dream Sleep

 When we dream at night, we do not dream with our eyes; likewise when one experiences a vision. The same can be said when viewing the sun: We see the sun oscillate and pulsate and dance about the sky; we see geometric shapes and other forms and figures; but when we focus our eyes, the shapes and figures disappear. So the things we see and are experiencing occur because of something else. We have inner senses which are locked within one or more of our force centers; and this is how we experience the vision.

In ancient times, the priests of the temples and healing centers of Asklepios taught those seeking healing how to sleep and how to dream. The priest would set the supplicant in darkness, a sacred chamber within the temple abaton, the most sacred part of the temple. (This was the natural place for “incubation” to occur because, being the sanctuary, it was where the god or gods would make their appearance.) And the individual was prepared to sleep and to dream.

Asclepian physicians and healers realized the value of sleep and the preparation for sleep and how dreams and visions could be used for curing various ailments. They also understood, on the higher levels, how the individual, by “going within,” could “call upon” the energy and power of the intelligence within the force centers (monads or chakras), which could not be done during the waking state. The patient was encouraged to withdraw from the sensory world; and because the senses were quieted, this inner sensory experience would manifest or come into being.

In these temples, the process taught by the priests prepared one for the inner process of becoming, an inner process that was used to heal oneself through the powers within. The priest was there as spiritual physician to aid the individual and to direct him or her to slowly withdraw so that they could use their inner processes to heal themselves. If you allow that inner process to go to work within yourself—it can be on any level, whether its on the level of the eight psycho-physical force centers or the four spiritual force centers—you will realize that you do have the power within you.

The priest-physicians of the Asclepian schools and temples would withdraw when the individual had put their inner spark to work. The physician-priest remained in the background, having allowed the individual to make a personal relationship with a deity, with God, with a divine being. And many doctors today know that there is something within a person that goes to work, and that the best treatment is to allow that individual to put that thing to work. That is one of the best forms of medicine: the power within and the unlocking of this process that is dormant or asleep.

Envisioning Angelic Beings 

The word the Greeks used for these visions or appearances was epiphany. And to experience an epiphany in ancient times was a revered and most significant event. The appearance was for the benefit of the person, which was deemed a sacred gift. Now, the individual does not create this for himself or herself. The figure appears because there is a communion, and the individual person or dignitary or luminous being appears because it wants to. And that is the gift of divine visitation.

And when these luminous beings, or angels, appear to you, you can recall the vision of them later on and still acquire some knowledge or information from the vision, from these luminous beings of Light who lived before and have been redeemed from the earth and made immortal. It should be someone that is familiar to you, someone that you can relate to.

Oftentimes these divine figures appear with a message. They may not speak, but they will show you something, an object; or you will pick up a thought, and that thought can be a cure for you or can direct your life in a new or different way.

Those who are involved in the System of Cosolargy have an advantage. Our physical bodies and our minds are benefitted by the intake of solar energy. It gives us added life energy by which to live and by which to regenerate our inner life. And once we activate the force centers, we have a source of energy from within, which means you have the sun from without and the force centers within—two things. So the kingdom of God is within you! But let me say this once again: The key is to enliven the force centers, which leads to rebirth of your spiritual body.

The second technique lecture, which discusses the process by which the healing physician was able to cure a patient by the activation of the inner monads (the force centers or chakras), will be reported as Part 3 of this series.