Sari, Freeda, and Greg on May 15, 2016 at 8:26 AM PHOTO: Greg Wilson

A daughter was born to Australian Consociate Greg Wilson and his wife Sari on May 11, 2016. The news came in an email from Greg to Robert Petrovich:

“Sari and I have wonderful news, mate………We’ve just had our baby girl the night before last!!!! She’s 9 pounds in weight, 22 inches long and fit as a fiddle! She’s bloody GORGEOUS in fact! Take a look……we’re all attached above! And guess what?….. She was born on the same day as the late Gene Savoy!……..only about 90 years post.

“Our Beauty’s name is Freeda Peppi Wilson. Freeda means ‘Beloved Beauty’ in Nordic, spelt Freida, and in German Freeda means ‘Peaceful Ruler’.

“So there ya have it……she’s destined for great things, mate!”

Akhenaten and Nefertiti bathed in the light of the Aten

“The Energy Stream Connecting the Eye to the Sun”
“Planet Earth’s habitat is the sun’s bubble, known as the heliosphere, and it is reasonable to suppose that all the matter in our solar system, from planets and asteroids to earthly life-forms, owes its origin to our very own star[i]. In a material sense then, the sun is our god, our source and provider. Ancient Egyptians and Greeks believed the sun we see is just the physical form of a higher ‘Intelligible or Spiritual Sun.’ Philo of Alexandria called it: “The Sun of the sun, the Intelligible object behind the object comprehensible by sense, and from invisible fountains he supplies the visible beams which our eyes behold.”[ii] In addition to the light, heat and solar winds the sun sends our way, the Greeks taught that our Psyche receives a more subtle, invisible life-force called Pneuma, which, along with rays of the light spectrum, enters the human being via the eyes.

“ Why is it important to be aware of this force? Simply put, tapping directly into the generator increases your energy supply and intensifies the light. Once linked by a powerful, unobstructed path of current, the circuit becomes complete. The output of the sun is the vivifying stream of life itself. And for the spiritually inclined seeker, illumination advances exponentially as you increase your exposure to the source and the intake of its light rays.”

Read the entire article by Paul Young online at solarancestor.com.

by Paul Young

Elizabeth Reece, a member of the administrative staff at the Chancellery offices of the International Community of Christ, occasionally checks the internet for new references to Gene Savoy’s explorations and his other works since people will often use him as example in books they are writing about Peru or Amazonas.

In November 2014 she found a reference to “Gene Savoy” being scheduled as a topic of a high school Catholicism class at St Joseph’s High School in Metuchen, NJ, and she contacted the class instructor, Thomas Cunningham:

Dear Mr.Cunningham,

I stumbled across your teachers outline for the 2014-2015 Religious Studies class at St Joseph High School. On the day of 11/25/14 you listed Gene Savoy as a topic for discussion during Catholism. Since, I have studied and worked with Gene Savoy, (the explorer, religious scholar and teacher who established the International Community of Christ) from 1978 up to his passing in 2007 I wanted to asked if this was the same individual discussed in your class. If so would you be willing to share some details of the reactions received from your students during the discussion, or what source material they used. If it is the same person, the idea that you would offer your freshman class an opportunity to comment about him is very intriguing to me. Thank you very much, I hope this letter is not too intrusive.
Respectfully,
Elizabeth Reece

This was his response:

Hello,
The section on Gene Savoy was covered in our textbook in Chapter 4. There is a short story about Gene Savoy getting lost in the Jungle. He finds himself getting very anxious about the situation, but after settling down… He begins to pray for guidance from God. He eventually is able to find his way out of the jungle , and credits that “quiet time with God” with his trek out of the forest. My students were very interested with the incident. The textbook contains many short stories like this one….

Take Care,
Tom Cunningham

This led Elizabeth to a rather interesting discovery: In Catholic high school classes across the country who use the textbook Path Through Catholicism (Mark Link, 1991), there is a story told by Gene Savoy being used as an example that “God is present in all.”

Here is the article that appears on page 49 of the textbook:

Bill Dailey with his grandniece Helena Savoy in 2014

Bill Kenneth Dailey, brother of the late Gene Savoy, Sr., passed away February 12, 2016 in Reno, Nevada. He was 84 years old.

Bill was born November 21, 1931 to Walter Dailey and Mamie Rogers in Portland, Oregon. He spent the majority of his life in the Great Northwest and moved to Reno permanently in 2006. Bill was a retired surveyor and cartographer and owned Sierra West Photogrammetrics until his retirement in 1991. Bill was an American patriot serving his country in the U.S. Army during the Korean War. He had a passion for history and geography.

His keen interest in Central and South American indigenous civilizations led him to visit Mexico, Colombia, Ecuador and Brazil, often-times exploring with his half brother, Gene, and the Andean Explorers Club by river boat on the Amazon and research plane over Guyana and Suriname. Gene and Bill also organized the Oregon Expeditionary Society in the 1950’s before Gene’s journey to Peru.

Bill’s family and his brother Gene’s lived together in the same residential complexes in Mexico City and Reno also in the 1970’s. Bill helped Gene relocate and establish headquarters in the United States in 1972 and contributed to the design of the then-new Cosolargy “atom” logo. Sierra West Photogrammetrics took some of the first aerial photographs of the Red Rock Sanctuary in the early 1980’s.

After retirement, Bill moved again to Reno to be closer to his two daughters and extended family. Family members, including Lisa Dailey Robinson, son-in-law Brent Robinson, and granddaughters, Whitney and Morgan, provided Bill with many fun family moments, and he would tell them of his journeys and adventures. Bill’s niece and nephews, Jamila, Sean and Gene Savoy, Jr. and Gene’s daughters also spent time with him, and he was able to enjoy holidays and family gatherings with those he dearly loved.

Bill was predeceased by his parents and brothers Gene Savoy, Sr. and John Dailey. A private celebration of life will be held on Sunday, May 29, 2016 near Pyramid Lake, Nevada.

by Gene Savoy Jr. and Lisa Robinson

Bill Dailey in U.S. Army uniform during the Korean War

Collage of human head, molecules and various abstract elements on the subject of modern science, chemistry, physics, human and artificial minds

“It appears that we are approaching a unique time in the history of man and science where empirical measures and deductive reasoning can actually inform us spiritually. Integrated Information Theory (IIT) – put forth by neuroscientists Giulio Tononi and Christof Koch – is a new framework that describes a way to experimentally measure the extent to which a system is conscious.”

< Read the entire article by Bobby Azarian online at huffingtonpost.com. >

link submitted by Frieda Nelson

Our Friend, the Sun: Images of Light Therapeutics from the Osler Library Collection,
c.1901-1944
by Dr. Tania Anne Woloshyn, Curator
Department of Art History & Communication Studies,
McGill University
January to June 2011
Osler Library of the History of Medicine

From January to June 2011, Dr. Tania Anne Woloshyn, Curator of the Osler Library of the History of Medicine at McGill University in Montreal, Canada, offered an exhibition on early twentieth-century light therapies through the university’s Department of Art History & Communication Studies. The exhibition showed how early twentieth-century doctors combined intuition with science to develop early therapies that employed sunlight: heliotherapy, using natural sunlight, and phototherapy, using artificial light.

The booklet she wrote and designed to accompany the exhibition is available online at www.mcgill.ca/library or you can download a PDF copy of the booklet here.

Download the 24-page PDF: “Our Friend, the Sun: Images of Light Therapeutics from the Osler Library Collection, c.1901-1944” by Dr. Tania Anne Woloshyn, Curator, Department of Art History & Communication Studies, McGill University, 2011.

The quote that follows is from the opening paragraphs of the introduction to the booklet that accompanied the 2011 exhibition:

INTRODUCTION

He may resemble some overblown bourgeois Humpty Dumpty, but in J.M. Andress and W.A. Evans’ 1925 children’s hygiene handbook, Success and Health, “Doctor Sun” (Fig.1) is prominently promoted as the wise choice of a family physician with very real sincerity. With his smiling face, radiating luminous rays, and open gesture, he welcomes the viewer to his domain, where in the background children dance and play. Here health and happiness are shown as one and the same.

Nor is this a unique representation of the sun as doctor. A Cannes physician, Dr J. Orgeas, for example, stated as early as 1889:

Just as the sun is the principal of all life, so it is the source of all healing. It is the Sun, and uniquely the Sun, that sick people seek in winter on our coast. It is the Great Doctor, Doctor of the Faculty of the Sky, to whom the suffering come to demand a cure for their ills.

It might seem natural, even obvious, to associate sunny days with play, pleasure, and well-being. But the connection between sunshine and health has been historically less a matter of instinct than a deeply naturalised therapeutic practice, and one especially dating to the turn of the twentieth century. This is the subject of the exhibition, “Our Friend, the Sun: Images of Light Therapeutics from the Osler Library Collection, c.1901-1944” (the Osler Library of the History of Medicine, McGill University, January-June 2011).

The development of light therapeutics is a little-explored dimension in the history of medicine. The following exhibition presents an international visual culture of light therapies during the early twentieth century, considering both natural light – cure by sunlight or heliotherapy – and artificial light – cure by electrically manufactured light or phototherapy. Heliotherapy, an ancient practice of total bodily exposure to sunlight, and phototherapy, pioneered by Niels Ryberg Finsen in the 1890s, were considered to be revolutionary therapies by c.1900 for sufferers of pulmonary tuberculosis, smallpox, and lupus, as well as chronic conditions such as arthritis.

The exhibition features in particular the work of four physicians: John Harvey Kellogg (1852-1943); Auguste Rollier (1874-1954); Albert Monteuuis (fl.1900-1914); and Niels Ryberg Finsen (1860-1904). American, Swiss, French, and Danish, respectively, these four physicians knew of each other’s work and, in some cases, visited each other’s facilities, indicating that light therapeutics was an international field. Kellogg and Finsen also individually experimented with both heliotherapy and phototherapy, evidence that the two were far from antithetical treatments or chronologically separated. Indeed, while Finsen may have begun experimenting with natural light in the outdoors initially during the 1890s (soon abandoning this entirely for artificial electric light), Kellogg would use both simultaneously, and Rollier continued to utilise natural light from the turn of the century to the Second World War, having never converted to artificial means. Therefore while the exhibition is divided into two halves, heliotherapy (the two left cases) and phototherapy (the two right cases), significant cross-over occurred between the two – in their historical developments, in their visual cultures, in their methods, and in the shared scientific beliefs driving them as therapies.

Significantly, these physicians asserted the ancient, quasi-magical origins of light therapeutics at the same time as they advocated it as a “modern” therapeutic of sound scientific rationale. So too did they posit it as a welcome, pleasurable and comfortable experience while simultaneously including photographs of patients strapped down, exposed to the sun almost nude in win-ter, or subjected to gun-like electric machines. Themes of natural and artificial, ancient and modern, and pleasurable and painful within the history and visual culture of light therapeutics illuminate this exhibition of rare illustrated texts and objects from the Osler Library collection. It also considers how heliotherapeutic and phototherapeutic practices were disseminated and popularized by that visual culture.

Download the 24-page PDF: “Our Friend, the Sun: Images of Light Therapeutics from the Osler Library Collection, c.1901-1944” by Dr. Tania Anne Woloshyn, Curator, Department of Art History & Communication Studies, McGill University, 2011.

Meet a few sides of minister, composer and musician, explorer, sonatherapy researcher and therapist Gary Buchanan on his new web site.

There you will be able to

• link to online videos of compositions and performances, watch Sonatherapy videos online,
• read his biography as minister and Community member and find links to some of his spiritual writings,
• and read his biography as an explorer and learn more about the Andean Explorers expeditions he took part in and about the Andean Explorer videos he composed music for.

Visit Gary Buchanan’s web site: garyrobertbuchanan.com.

Rt. Rev. Yukinori Matsushita officiating Communion Service at the Church of the End Times PHOTO: Stephan Fuelling

Rev. Jim Elliott performs Communion Service at the Church of the End Times PHOTO: Stephan Fuelling

The 2015 Convocation of members of the International Community of Cosolargy/Christ took place from September 9 through September 13. Lecture programs included the Clergy Counsels and the Residence Training III Seminar on COLOR & SACRED IMAGERY. Later in the week, Residence Training in Christology and Liturgical Practice was held for those needing to fulfill those requirements.

To open the Convocation week, the Residence Training III program, “Color & Sacred Imagery,” was presented in the new multimedia format that was developed in 2009 to improve the original 1980 presentation. Highlights of the program were accentuated with live presentations by Rebecca Willis on gemstones, Robert and Noriko Roy on jewelry, Elizabeth Reece on stained glass, and Gary Buchanan on recent developments in sound and light therapy research. The seminar connected those in attendance to profound concepts through the Oral Tradition of the School.

Revs. Noriko and Robert Roy present Jewelry Guild display. PHOTO: Stephan Fuelling

Jewelry Guild display of cross pendants PHOTO: Stephan Fuelling

Sacred Thread design on display during residence training seminar on Color & Sacred Imagery PHOTO: Stephan Fuelling

Rev. Canon Rebecca Willis presents during residence training seminar on Color & Sacred Imagery PHOTO: Stephan Fuelling

Partial display of stones and minerals presented during residence training seminar on Color & Sacred Imagery PHOTO: Stephan Fuelling

At the Clergy Counsels, this year held at the Red Rock Sanctuary Monastery Gardens, Bishop Gene presented a preliminary multi-year plan of action for the advancement of the religious arts, spiritual sciences and therapeutic technologies of Cosolargy. His overview began with the establishment of The Community in Mexico; the construction of another self-sustaining, off-grid and solar-powered parsonage at the Sanctuary; and an update of the Sanctuary tax exemption, which is now complete.

Rt. Rev. Gene Savoy Jr. delivers 2015 Counsels lecture PHOTO: Stephan Fuelling

Bishop Gene went on to explain that the most important and primary goal and mission of The Community is to reach out and inspire people and that this is accomplished through The Academy and the Jamilian University, by the three primary ordinations of water, fire and the Light. He then went on to discuss the restructuring of The School by means of social media and the expansion of the Cosolargy Institute of Japan which hosted the first international Cosolargy conference earlier this year in May. Besides The Academy texts having been translated in Japanese, the Project X text, Jamil: Child of Light, and two prophecies have also been translated for distribution.

Returning to Mexico, the Bishop went on to explain his vision for Community Centers in various parts of the world which would revolve around the concept of healing attached to mineral springs and geothermal waters. The idea he presented is to locate places around the world that can operate as healing centers which can then fund the primary objective which is the Cosolargy Centers. The places he mentioned were: Japan (already established), Mexico (in process), Peru, New Zealand, and Europe (possibly Ireland, Portugal and the Czech Republic).

The Counsels closed with a review of the accomplishments achieved at the Red Rock Sanctuary over the past several years, including the renovation of the churches of New Epiphany and New Pentecost; the acquisition of three horses; the building of greenhouses and vegetable gardens; and the constriction of the pier at the reservoir. Plans are also in the works for the growing of the herb gardens. The Bishop finalized his remarks with a reading from the Book of God’s Revelation.

Saturday Communion Service in Chapel of The Holt Child PHOTO: Stephan Fuelling

On Saturday morning, participants gathered at the Chapel of the Holy Child in Reno for a Community Communion Service. In public presentation at the Chapel of the Holy Child during the Service, Sophia Savoy was received into the Minor Order of Acolytes and took her place for the first time in acolyte service.

Sophia Savoy recognized as new Acolyte by the congregation PHOTO: Stephan Fuelling

Sophia Savoy and friends at reception table PHOTO: Stephan Fuelling

Reception cake for Sophia Savoy to congratulate her on her appointment to the Minor Order of Acolytes PHOTO: Stephan Fuelling

On Sunday morning, as per usual, a concelebrated Sunrise Divine Service was held at the Cathedral Church of the Americas at Red Rock Consecrated Sanctuary, followed by a sumptuous outdoor brunch hosted by Revs. Mary and Peter Foust at the Refectory.

Sunrise viewed from Cathedral Church of the Americas PHOTO: Stephan Fuelling

Ministers and congregation awiting sunrise at Cathedral Church of the Americas PHOTO: Stephan Fuelling

The Convocation concluded that afternoon with a two-hour chartered yachting experience across Lake Tahoe. On board the Tahoe Paradise, the Andean Explorers held a short annual meeting and made announcements of future prospects and endeavors.

Ryan Anderson set Andean Explorers flag at helm of excursion yacht Tahoe Paradise PHOTO: Rachelle Elliott

Visiting Community members from Japan (from left to right) Asuki Morii, Shoko Ohba, and Eriko Ueno wave good-bye to people on shore PHOTO: Rachelle Elliott

Longtime Andean Explorers members Gary Buchanan and Roger Weld on deck PHOTO: Rachelle Elliott

Small gathering on deck during Lake Tahoe excursion PHOTO: Rachelle Elliott

Andean Explorers President Sean Savoy leads annual meeting on board Tahoe Paradise PHOTO: Rachelle Elliott

Present board members of Andean Explorers (standing left to right) Jim Elliott, Gary Buchanan, Roger Weld, Yukinori Matsushita, Sean Savoy (seated) Gerry Simonson PHOTO: Rachelle Elliott

The 2016 Convocation is scheduled to take place September 7-11, 2016. Mark the dates on your calendar and start making arrangements to attend.

PHOTO: thunderbolts.info

The electric universe concept is not widely known but it has found its way into the Community Communique now and then as a result of Community members finding some of its principles of interest — whether electricity or plasma or mythology. (Not to mention that the producer of many of the films published by the Thunderbolts organization on facets of the electric universe concept is a longtime member of our Community: Gerald Simonson.)

The electric universe concept is still controversial as an alternative to the principles of conventional physics and astrophysics. And its own principles and perspective on the cosmos are generally not found all together in a single synopsis. The article linked to below, “The Electric Universe” by Wal Thornhill, provides this synopsis.

I suggest you read it — especially if you are scientifically trained yourself — and start a conversation in our comments to this posting.

Here is how it opens:

“The Electric Universe”
By Wal Thornhill

“We live in an electric world. Our cities are visible from space at night, blazing with electric lights. The electricity courses invisibly in the darkness over great distances along thin power lines. We find electricity indispensable. Nature does the same since all matter is electrical. Yet astronomy is stuck in the gas-light era, unable to see that stars are simply electric lights strung along invisible cosmic power lines that are detectable by their magnetic fields and radio noise.

“It is now a century since the Norwegian genius Kristian Birkeland proved that the phenomenal ‘northern lights’ or aurora borealis is an earthly connection with the electrical Sun. Later, Hannes Alfvén the Swedish Nobel Prize winning physicist, with a background in electrical engineering and experience of the northern lights, drew the solar circuit. It is no coincidence that Scandinavian scientists led the way in showing that we live in an Electric Universe.

“Why have they been ignored? The answer may be found in the inertia of prior beliefs and the failure of our educational institutions. We humans are better storytellers than scientists. We see the universe through the filter of tales we are told in childhood and our education systems reward those who can best repeat them. Dissent is discouraged so that many of the brightest intellects become bored and drop out. The history of science is sanitized to ignore the great controversies of the past, which were generally ‘won’ by a vote instead of reasoned debate. Today NASA does science by press release and investigative journalism is severely inhibited. And narrow experts who never left school do their glossy media ‘show and tell,’ keeping the public in the dark in this ‘dark age’ of science. It is often said, “extraordinary claims require extraordinary proof.” History shows otherwise that entrenched paradigms resist extraordinary disproof.”

< Read the entire article online at thunderbolts.info. >

This article first appeared in Wake Up World, January 28, 2015.

Link submitted by Robert Petrovich

Members of the Nevada Clergy Association gather for the 30th Annual Thanksgiving Eve Service at Little Flower Church on Thursday, November 25, 2015. About 600 people attended this multi-faith tradition.

Open a PDF copy of the 2015 Interfaith Thanksgiving Program.

Nearly 600 people of various faiths and backgrounds attended the 30th Annual Interfaith Thanksgiving Eve Service held at St. Therese Church of the Little Flower in Reno on Wednesday, November 25, 2015.

The event, themed “A Celebration of Religious Freedom,” is sponsored by the Nevada Clergy Association (NCA). This service, a much-revered tradition in the Reno-Sparks community and largely unique nationwide in its scope and diversity, includes prayers, readings, and music from a variety of faith traditions. Food and monetary donations were made to the Volunteers of America Shelter Programs.

Participating in the program from the International Community of Christ were the Rt. Reverends Gene Savoy Jr. and Sean Savoy. Rev. Gene Jr. delivered a reading from the “Thanksgiving Prayer” of the Dead Sea Scrolls. Rev. Sean, together with Pat Meidell of the Church of Latter-day Saints, delivered a presentation on the development of the Interfaith Spiritual Sanctuary at Renown Hospital in Reno.

Previous hosts of the past five years were the Lutheran Church of the Good Shepherd (2014), The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (2013), St. Thomas Aquinas Catholic Cathedral (2012), St. John’s Presbyterian Church (2011), and Trinity Episcopal Church (2010).

Open a PDF copy of the 2015 Interfaith Thanksgiving Program.

Presenters at 2015 Thanksgiving Eve Service assembled in first pews at Little Flower Church PHOTO: Stephan Fuelling

Reno Buddhist Center chanters perform PHOTO: Stephan Fuelling

Keynote speaker Jason Guinnaso PHOTO: Stephan Fuelling

Pat Meidell and Rt. Rev. Sean Savoy present on the Interfaith Spiritual Sanctuary project at Renown Hospital PHOTO: Stephan Fuelling

Rt. Rev. Gene Savoy Jr. reading from Dead Sea Scrolls “Thanksgiving Hymn” PHOTO: Stephan Fuelling