Throughout this series, I would like you to keep the following in the peripheral of your perspective:  For people that do scientific research it is like this: “I am suddenly dropped on this island. And really, I have no right to be there. Somehow I must build a bridge back to things that we already know.” This will become a valuable perspective, because often people that dedicate themselves to research have motivations that are not conspicuous to the results or the actual work at hand. These motivations seem to be a result of collected personal experiences, which have an enormous impact, compelling the individual researcher to uncover the mystery of those experiences.

This Tour of Consciousness series is a collection of videos in which researchers present findings of clinical or laboratory studies. Within these talks, there are brief moments when the speaker alludes to the motivations that inspired their research. As a preface to each of these video talks, I will include some brief background so that the talks are little more digestible.

The subject of Consciousness is an involved one.  You will be exposed to, seemingly, many pieces of the puzzle. It is worth your while not to discard any one of the presented perspectives for another, as many of these perspectives can be homogenized to further substantiate the Cosolargy models for the architecture and premise of Consciousness and give validity to the experiences that come as a result of applying The System.

If you were to ask any scientist of physics, neurology, cognition, or psychology What is consciousness? every one of them would answer, “We don’t know.” “That’s what we are trying to resolve. We are just now beginning to look for an answer to what may be the most significant question of our time—or any time, for that matter.” The answer to What is consciousness? will not be found in this series. So we have to ask, why would we give this material any attention in the first place? Let me give you a few examples.

I can say to anyone: “The people of the world can be affected by the conscious intent of a small group, collectively cascading their thoughts into the sun, which can then affect the world.”  Most people would consider this a fanciful, or fantasizing, remark.  But, give me 15 minutes and two pieces of paper, and I will premise this for you, based on the work of two Nobel Prize candidates.

Or I might say, “A person can develop perceptive skills by utilizing solar eye techniques that enhance cognitive abilities. This can result in waking-state visions of geometric archetypes outside of normal awareness that are not hallucinations but a verifiable episode shared by more than one person at that experiential moment. These archetypes carry information, primordial thought, and have the potential to be transcribed and interpreted by the individual.” . . . give me a piece of paper and 10 minutes, I will show you the neurological and mathematical foundations that support this cognitive ability.

The whole purpose of this presentation series is to simply recognize and then utilize “the bridges that lead us back to things we already know.” The final three sections of this series are quite dense. I will do my best to ease you into this arena as each segment ensues.  I had to re-watch some of the later talks in order to understand the magnitude of what was being relayed. So, don’t let the expertise of the presenters intimidate your capacity to grasp their ideas—their initial intuitions and conceptual formations for these explanations, are naturally available to us. All we need is to adopt their scientific jargon and mentality.

— Michael McIntyre, January 2015

< Read WEEK 1 >

JANUARY 2015

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Toni De Salvo  †
Cheryl Shafer

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Tom Fee
Cheryl Shafer
Toni De Salvo  †

10
Tom Fee
Cheryl Shafer
Chad Moore
Aaron Burtalmio

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Beth & Charles Thorpe and Baby Noah
Tom Fee
Cheryl Shafer
Chad Moore

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Beth & Charles Thorpe and Baby Noah
Jeanne Huston
Tom Fee
Cheryl Shafer
Chad Moore

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Cheryl Shafer
Jeanne Huston
Tom Fee
Chad Moore
Evelyn Anderson
Beth & Charles Thorpe and Baby Noah

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Cheryl Shafer
Evelyn Anderson
Ann Ferrentino Cunius
Chad Moore
Terry Brady

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Cheryl Shafer
Terry Brady
Evelyn Anderson
Chad Moore
Ann Ferrentino Cunius
Children of the Pine Ridge Cheyenne River Sioux
Kathy Walczak

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Cheryl Shafer
Zeke Oliver
Terry Brady
Ann Ferrentino Cunius
Children of the Pine Ridge Cheyenne River Sioux
Kathy Walczak
Doug Shafer
John Cunius
George Wooden

 † indicates Memorial Prayer

Saturday, March 7, 2015
10:00 AM COMMUNION
Chapel of The Holy Child
RR Gene Savoy Jr.
Lector: RC Roger Weld
Cantor: Rev. Michael McIntyre
Reader: Sonya Savoy

SUNDAY, MARCH 8, 2015 DAYLIGHT SAVING TIME BEGINS

Sunday, March 8, 2015
7:15 AM NEW DIVINE SERVICE
JUBILEE SUNRISE
Church of New Epiphany
Leave: 6:30
Gate: 7:00
Sunrise: 7:30
RR Gene Savoy Jr.
Concelebrant: RR Sean Savoy
Assistants: RC Roger Weld
RC Ted Staver
RM Carol Ann Crabb
Organist: RC Gary Buchanan

OPEN-AIR COMMUNION
Church of the Races of Man       Rev. Ben Hubbard
Church of the Golden Age of Light       Rev. Jim Elliott
Church of the Universal Theocracy      Rev. Harold Boulette

Wednesday, March 11, 2015
12:00 N COMMUNION
Chapel of the Holy Child
Rev. Ben Hubbard

Friday, March 13, 2015
9:00 AM PRAYER & FELLOWSHIP
Chapel of the Roses
RM Carol Ann Crabb

 Would you know the ultimate state of man when he has finally reached his goal, when he has entered into his inherited divinity? It is a state of glory transcending anything conceivable by him during an earthbound existence. His consciousness expands to embrace everything, all that ever was or will be. He sees all. He knows all. He is in all and he contains all. These things come to him through infinite powers of perception; yet he is above all such powers. He is beyond all yet within all. He is beyond the realm of matter, freed from all restrictions; yet he is not denied its joys;… His thoughts have the power of creation. He is one with the Light of Lights, the Light transcending vision. ~The Kolbrin Bible GLN:15:61

“This is a great description of the state of true enlightenment and also of the frustrations the great teachers have in trying to tell others what it is like. It is a lot like trying to explain a smart phone to the people of some primitive stone age tribe that have no idea what any kind of phone is, never mind one that is essentially a small computer that also makes phone calls. The human brain is simply not capable of understanding the spiritual and how things work in the spiritual realm. Our mind/brain is designed specifically to help us function in the physical world. It is not spiritual and therefore cannot really know the spiritual. It can only speculate about spiritual matters, and is therefore usually wrong, or at least very incomplete.”

< Read the entire article online on Harold’s blog at spiritsun.net. >

contributed by Harold Boulette

An image showing the opening of the gospel. The text is written in Coptic, an Egyptian language that makes use of the Greek alphabet. The pages of the gospel are small, measuring less than 3 inches (75 millimeters) in height.
PHOTO CREDIT: Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Gift of Mrs. Beatrice Kelekian in memory of her husband, Charles Dikran Kelekian, 1984.669

“A 1,500-year-old book that contains a previously unknown gospel has been deciphered. The ancient manuscript may have been used to provide guidance or encouragement to people seeking help for their problems, according to a researcher who has studied the text.

“Written in Coptic, an Egyptian language, the opening reads (in translation):

‘The Gospel of the lots of Mary, the mother of the Lord Jesus Christ, she to whom Gabriel the Archangel brought the good news. He who will go forward with his whole heart will obtain what he seeks. Only do not be of two minds.’

“Anne Marie Luijendijk, a professor of religion at Princeton University, discovered that this newfound gospel is like no other. ‘When I began deciphering the manuscript and encountered the word ‘gospel’ in the opening line, I expected to read a narrative about the life and death of Jesus as the canonical gospels present, or a collection of sayings similar to the Gospel of Thomas (a non-canonical text),’ she wrote in her book Forbidden Oracles? The Gospel of the Lots of Mary (Mohr Siebeck, 2014).

“What she found instead was a series of 37 oracles, written vaguely, and with only a few that mention Jesus.”
< Read the entire article by Owen Jarus posted online February 3, 2015 at livescience.com. >

submitted by Robert Anderson

“Toni” Salvo PHOTO: RGJ

Elisa Antonia De “Toni” Salvo (1946 – 2015) passed away unexpectedly on January 1, 2015 at Renown Medical Center at the age of 68.

A memorial service was held at St. Thomas Aquinas Cathedral in Reno, Nevada, on Saturday, February 7, 2015, at 11:00 am. A celebration of life reception followed at the Lutheran Church of the Good Shepherd in Reno, Nevada, where friends were encouraged to share their love and stories of Toni.

Bishop Gene Savoy Jr. was honored to be asked to speak at the reception, along with her significant other of 19 years and a childhood friend.

Bishop Gene was happy to have shared Communion with her on Christmas Eve, December 24, 2014 at the Chapel of the Holy Child. This sharing was the last liturgical event she experienced before her passing eight days later on January 1st.

Toni was a member of various churches, and was active in the interfaith community and the Nevada Clergy Association (NCA). For many years she served on various NCA planning committees and with Rev. Gary Buchanan, music director of the Church, on musical selections and as part of the handbell choir. Most recently she helped to organize the Nevada Prayer Breakfast in April 2014, working closely with Bishop Sean Savoy.

Toni felt a calling to perform and lead music for worship. She was the Handbell Choir Director at Lutheran Church of the Good Shepherd, Reno, a Cantor at St. Thomas Aquinas Cathedral, and recently Choir Director of Spanish Springs Presbyterian Church. In her private voice studio she taught musical artistry, coached students for auditions and performances, and mentored many young voices. Students, colleagues, friends and family will always remember her kindness, warmth, and the depth of her caring.

To allow Toni’s beautiful spirit to continue to bless the Reno community, a vocal musical scholarship is being established at the University of Nevada, Reno.

Dr. Lorraine Hurley PHOTO: GCN Radio

On February 6, 2015 Bishop Gene Savoy Jr. appeared on Dr. Lorraine Hurley’s radio program “Uncommon Awareness” on Genesis Communications Network (GCN) Radio in a live broadcast from 5:00-7:00 PM Central Time. Dr. Hurley co-hosted the show with Dr. Dean Lloyd.

The show description reads: “Our guest is Gene Savoy Jr. Gene Savoy, Jr. describes the System of Cosolargy and the solar techniques that are taught by the Jamilian University. This practice leads to development of the spiritual Light Body and plays a powerful role in transcending into higher dimensional existence. Practiced as sun-gazing by many, Savoy is establishing schools through out the world that teach the techniques of Cosolargy.”

Dr. Hurley said to Gene of her interview with him: “I’m pretty fascinated by what you have shared so far about the sun transmitting information outside what we see and feel. I have been wrestling with the ‘truth’ of what has taken over our world and beginning to see larger cracks in the matrix as evidenced by their escalating lunacy and recklessness.”

Lorraine Hurley is a medical doctor who grew increasingly distressed by the failure of medicine to provide health care. Her show presents guests who share fascinating experiences and evidence that we can be cured. From scientists to practitioners, activists, physicists, metaphysicists, spiritualists, esoteric teachers and healers, they show that natural and alternative practices work and that we are living in a new reality paradigm. Dr. Hurley hopes that what she and her guests share will help launch listeners into a profound understanding of human nature, potential and evolution.

Dean is a life-long professional musician who has been practicing holistic healing for more than twenty years. A board certified acupuncturist, naturopath, radio show host, author, professor, inventor, and philosopher, Dean teaches Acutone to Acupuncturists and health practitioners and has invented numerous musical healing devices, including the Resonance Bell, which he employs in his busy clinical practices.

< To listen to the first hour of the interview, CLICK HERE. >

< To listen to the second hour of the interview, CLICK HERE. >

Saturday, February 28, 2015
10:00 AM COMMUNION
Chapel of The Holy Child
RR Gene Savoy Jr.
Lector: RR Sean Savoy
Cantor: Rev. Francine Petrovich
Reader: Rev. Gary Huss. Sr.

SERVICE SUSPENDED DUE TO INCLEMENT WEATHER
6:00 PM 92nd Pannuches Meal Rite
Chapel of The Holy Child
Concelebrants:
RR Gene Savoy Jr.
RR Sean Savoy
RM Rebecca Willis

Sunday, March 1, 2015
SERVICE SUSPENDED DUE TO INCLEMENT WEATHER
6:25 AM NEW DIVINE SERVICE
JUBILEE SUNRISE
Church of New Epiphany
Leave: 5:30
Gate: 6:10
Sunrise: 6:40
RR Gene Savoy Jr.
Concelebrant: RR Sean Savoy
Assistants: RC Roger Weld
RC Robert Petrovich
Rev. Barbara Snyder
Organist: RC Gary Buchanan

OPEN-AIR COMMUNION
Church of the Christian Churches       RM Carol Ann Crabb
Church of the End Times       RC Elizabeth Reece
Church of the New Covenant      Rev. Barbara Whitney

Wednesday, March 4, 2015
12:00 N COMMUNION
Chapel of the Holy Child
Rev. Barbara Whitney

Friday, March 6, 2015
9:00 AM PRAYER & FELLOWSHIP
Chapel of the Roses
RC Robert Petrovich

There is no trustworthy standard by which we can separate the “real” from the “unreal” aspects of phenomena. Such standards as exist are conventional: and correspond to convenience, not to truth. It is no argument to say that most men see the world in much the same way, and that this “way” is the true standard of reality: though for practical purposes we have agreed that sanity consists in sharing the hallucinations of our neighbors. Those who are honest with themselves know that this ‘sharing’ is at best incomplete. By the voluntary adoption of a new conception of the universe, . . . we can and do change to a marked extent our way of seeing things: building up new worlds from old sense impressions, and transmuting objects more easily and thoroughly than any magician. ~Evelyn Underhill

“What the vast majority of us consider reality is no more real than a cartoon or a fantasy novel set in some alien world. We think it is real because most of us agree on it. Something very real could be right in front of us, but if most of us have agreed that it is not real, we will not see it. If most of us look into a garden and see nothing but turnips and tomatoes, the person who also see fairies fluttering around is considered mentally ill. In fact, neither of them is truly seeing reality.”

< Read the entire article online on Harold’s blog at spiritsun.net. >

contributed by Harold Boulette

            I think that I have always believed there was something beyond the physical, at least as far back as I can remember. But I always had doubts about some of the things taught in church. My mother was raised Catholic. I don’t know what church my father was in originally, but he became Catholic after they were married. My parents seldom bothered to attend church services themselves, but they sent us kids to mass every Sunday.

When I was fourteen, we moved to a new town. This town, in Massachusetts, had two Catholic churches located just two blocks from each other. It really wasn’t a large enough town to need two Catholic churches, but it had two because decades earlier, the population of the town had been nearly half Irish immigrants and the other half French. They didn’t like going to the same church so each group got their own. This increased my doubts about the Catholic church, and I soon stopped attending. That town, by the way, is Spencer, Massachusetts, home of the Trappist monastery that is famous for its Trappist jams and jellies and now is home to the first Trappist beer brewery in the United States.

I generally stayed away from churches after that, and it wasn’t until I was in college that I got involved in anything spiritual. When I reenlisted in the Army after completing my initial three years, I chose a program that allowed me to go to college for two years. I was accepted into the program and was sent to a college in California which, at the time, was the only two-year college with a degree program in Data Processing (now called Computer Science). While I attended Orange Coast College, my apartment was located about half a mile from a small bookstore that had a large section of spiritual books. I found myself getting more interested in the subject and began buying and reading some of these books. This was in 1972. Meditation was also becoming popular at the time, and so I took the basic class in Transcendental Meditation (TM). During the next semester, I heard that a meditation club was forming on campus, and I joined it. The faculty adviser for the club was a member of the Association for Research and Enlightenment (A.R.E.) and got me interested in this group and in Edgar Cayce, its psychic founder. I read books and continued to practice TM for some time, although I never felt that I was really getting much from it. After completing my college studies and returning to military service (U.S. Army), I moved away from anything spiritual for many years, at least formally. I always retained interest in the subject.

I really can’t remember what triggered it, but in 1991 I felt that I needed to get back into spiritual studies. I started reading spiritual books and magazines again. I started looking at the ads for spiritual schools in the magazines that I read. An ad in Fate for Project X caught my attention, and I sent in a request for more information. I liked what I read in the information packet and decided to join The Community, at least temporarily. Over the next several months, as I read the books and listened to the tapes I was sent, I became more convinced that this School was for me. Later in the year, I attended my first Convocation. After that,  I had several dreams that I felt were about my involvement with The Community. In one such dream, I was helping several people I recognized as members of the group construct a brick building. In another, I was climbing a  mountain with Community members. These dreams and others helped convince me that I had made the right choice to join. I continued to read the books, listen to the tapes, and practice the techniques. After retiring a few years ago, I moved to Reno and became even more active in The Community.