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

PHOTO: sonatherapy.com

Due to hundreds of requests received over the past seven years, we are delighted to begin certifying and training select individuals in Sonatherapy ® beginning this October 1, 2015 (enrollment deadline). All details may be found at:

http://sonatherapy.com/certification-training/

Please share this unique opportunity with your healing colleagues. This is an important step forward in WBV therapies!

Basically, there are three tiers:

(1) An individual who has purchased and read SONA:Healing with Wave Front BIOresonance TM (2008) and Sonatherapy ®: Healing with Light. Color, Sound, Water & Subtle Energies (2012), who understands those materials and can answer the online questionnaire, plus discuss these concepts and what he/she is doing on the telephone and/or inemails, may receive initial certification as an “Associate in Basic Sonatherapy ®.” Such persons may include physicians (traditional and alternative), nurse practitioners, sound healers, light and color healers, chiropractors, massage therapists, energy medicine workers, and the like.

(2) An individual who has done all of the above and then undertakes a twelve-month training program in which PDFs of lessons are sent via email, who submits monthly reports and communicates via telephone/Skype, and eventually visits before the end of the year at Steamboat Healing Center for hands-on observation and evaluation, may be certified as an “Advanced Practitioner of Sonatherapy ®.”

(3) The individual who accomplishes all of the above and who also studies one or more years with Jamilian University in the “Arts, Sciences, and Technologies of Cosolargy ®” is eligible for eventual graduation and a signed diploma as a “Master Practitioner of Sonatherapy ®,” subject to faculty review by Cosolargy ® International.

Note: Only sincere applicants with experience, knowledge, or background in healing (traditional or alternative) should apply. Enrollment for the Training Course will be limited; whereas, many may receive the “Basic” certification following review. Once awarded, certificates will be renewed (with additional licensing fee)annually. In rare cases, certification may be revoked. (Sonatherapy ® is a registered Trademark of Cosolargy ® International, a 501(C)3, Corporation Sole, and its outreach and image must be protected.)

Those certified assume an ongoing relationship with Dr. Gary Robert Buchanan, The Sona Group, Steamboat Healing Center, and Cosolargy® International. Approved practitioners will be added to the Sonatherapy ® listing of preferred practitioners situated around the globe.

The Training Course…

Consists of twelve papers covering all aspects of Sonatherapy ®, inclusive of its 40-year history; The Sona Group; Cymatic Therapy and Dr. Peter Guy Manners; theory and “hands-on” practicum for students to undertake each month; hundreds of illustrations/photos/charts/diagrams; building “harmonically coherent” Sonations; Cymatics and Synergetics; current and evolving application systems; suggested readings, online links, contact information for fellow practitioners; hundreds of new and improved ABox and Sona Analog Box set-ups for Sonations to be used in therapies — listings given each month; protocols for conditions; infrasonics and base pulse-tones; how to set-up a treatment room and practice; reviews of new studies and approaches in physical and psychological therapeutics; the vibrational relationship of phonons and photons (biophotons), fractal and quantum studies; the acupoints and meridians (TCM tunings); acupressure/acupuncture/ reflexology/ auriculotherapy; light and color applications and systems; hydrotherapy and sound inductions; third- and fourth-dimensional healing; reading and clearing the fields; ethics and legal concerns — in short, everything one must learn to become a certified, trained, and licensed Sonatherapist.

I look forward to hearing from you, if interested.

 

Sincerely,

Dr. Gary Robert Buchanan
Director of Wave Front BIOresonanceTM Research & Development
16026 South Virginia Street
Reno, Nevada 89521 U.S.A.
sona@communityguilds.org

Gregory Stephen Klinedinst and Stanley Lee Waltemeyer were wed in the Chapel of the Holy Child on Saturday, August 8, 2015 at 5:00 p.m. in the company of close friends.

(from left to right) Rt. Rev. Gene Savoy Jr, Stan Waltemeyer, Rev. Greg Klinedinst, and Rt. Rev. Sean Savoy

The ceremony was performed by the Right Reverend Sean Savoy with Right Reverend Gene Savoy Jr. delivering the Nuptial Blessing. The Reverends Robert and Francine Petrovich acted as witnesses. A private reception followed.

(from left to right) Rev. Canon Robert Petrovich, Rev. Greg Klinedinst, Stan Waltemeyer, and Rev. Francine Petrovich

The event was both momentous and historic. Momentous because after 35 years of living together as a couple, Greg and Stan were able to marry formally and with all the benefits and responsibilities of marriage. Historic because the wedding ceremony was the first same-sex marriage to be performed in the Chapel of the Holy Child.

Rev. Sean Savoy took a few moments to explain the special nature of the event before performing the ceremony, beginning with a citation of statements made recently on the right of same-sex marriage by Anthony Kennedy, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States of America:

“The right to marry is fundamental as a matter of history and tradition, but rights come not from ancient sources alone. They rise, too, from a better informed understanding of how constitutional imperatives define a liberty that remains urgent in our own era.”

And on the plight of individuals who are part of same-sex couples:

“Their hope is not to be condemned to live in loneliness, excluded from one of civilization’s oldest institutions. They ask for equal dignity in the eyes of the law. The Constitution grants them that right.”

Rev. Savoy continued by introducing and then citing statements made by retired federal judge Vaughn Walker, on the legalization of same-sex marriage in the state of California:

“Marriage is the . . . recognition and approval of a couple’s choice to live with each other, to remain committed to one another and to form a household based on their own feelings about one another and to join in an economic partnership and support one another and any dependents. . . .

The right to marry has been historically and remains the right to choose a spouse and, with mutual consent, join together and form a household. Race and gender restrictions shaped marriage during eras of race and gender inequality, but such restrictions were never part of the historical core of the institution of marriage. Today, gender is not relevant to the state in determining spouses’ obligations to each other and to their dependents. Relative gender composition aside, same-sex couples are situated identically to opposite-sex couples in terms of their ability to perform the rights and obligations of marriage under . . . law. Gender no longer forms an essential part of marriage; marriage under law is a union of equals. . . .

They seek the mutual obligation and honor that attend marriage . . . seek recognition from the state that their union is ‘a coming together for better or for worse, hopefully enduring, and intimate to the degree of being sacred.’”

Rev. Greg Klinedinst and Stan Waltemeyer in front of the Chapel entrance following their marriage

It is time to begin assembling the 2016 Community Calendar. And our publishing staff is looking for your best photos related to Community life. Submissions need to be at least 300 dpi at 7.5″ x 10″ size. Include with the name of the photographer and the name of the subject with each submission.

Send in submissions before the end of December to: editor@communitycommunique.net.

Portrait of Frank Burkitt PHOTO: Rebecca Willis

Longtime resident Consociate Frank Burkitt (November 6, 1927 – September 22, 2015) passed away at the age of 88 at his residence in Reno after battling Parkinson’s Disease for nearly thirty years.

A Memorial Service was held to celebrate his life on Saturday, October 24, 2015 at 11:30 a.m. in the Chapel of the Holy Child. In attendance were two of Frank’s sons, Jeffrey and Norm Burkitt, and the members of the Reno Church Community.

Frank had been a resident member of the Second Advent Community for many years. During that time, he received Third-level Ordination in the Order of The Holy Child and was active in the Second Advent ministry and had sponsored or taken part in a number expeditions to the Chachapoyas region of Peru through the Andean Explorers Foundation. Until he became physically dependent on nursing assistance a few years ago, he was an active participant in a great many facets of Church Community life.

Eulogy for the Reverend Frank Burkitt, written and delivered by the Reverend Amanda Buchanan, October 24, 2015.

Frank Burkitt was born on November 6, 1927, in Cincinnati, Ohio, and was raised outside of Tulsa, Oklahoma. His father was a chemist at DuPont, and his mother had been a teacher. He had two brothers: William, who was older than Frank, and George, who was younger. Although Frank was born prior to the Depression and the Dust Bowl years, his family was not affected by either. His father, as an employee of DuPont, kept his job during the Depression, and Frank said he did not remember the historic dust storms of 1930s Oklahoma and Texas.

Frank talked about fishing and playing or watching baseball with his brothers. He frequently spoke of his older brother, William. William wanted to be an Air Force parachutist during WWII, but his eyesight disqualified him from joining the Air Force so he went into the Army. Frank said William had been badly wounded in fighting in southern France and was disabled for the rest of his life. This had had a profound effect on Frank.

Frank himself went into the Navy on July 4, 1945. He was stationed on Guam as a member of the SEABEES (the construction crew of the Navy). He helped build airfields on the island, operating the machinery that applied the tar to the field. When I asked him whether he had seen any combat, he said, “only fighting the monsoons.” He and his crew had had to have the tar applied and hardened before those heavy rainstorms came; that meant being on the job at 4:30 a.m. Frank said his most trying “combat” was making himself get up at 3 a.m., as he had never been a morning person. He was discharged from the Navy a year later.

Frank had three big loves in his life: His ex-wife Marylou, music, and pie. Marylou had been Frank’s high school sweetheart. When he returned from Guam, he wanted to marry her right away. His father, however, wanted him to return to college, but Frank did not like college. He was twenty years old and had a job repairing radios. His father told him that if he would wait until he was twenty-one to get married, he would give him $100. As that was a lot of money, then, Frank consented. He and Marylou were married as soon as Frank turned twenty-one. The couple moved from Oklahoma to Kansas City, Missouri, where Frank worked for a company that repaired radios and, later, TVs.

Frank then got the opportunity to work for TWA. The airline trained him to be an airplane electronics technician. After some time in Missouri, Frank was offered a transfer to New York, so the family moved. They lived in New York for many years. During this time, Frank’s daughter, Georgia, was diagnosed with leukemia. She died just after graduating from high school. Frank and his family never really recovered from the loss of the child. The grief eventually destroyed his marriage and estranged him from his family, but Frank never stopped loving Marylou. Even toward the end of his life, when often he could not remember where he lived or what decade it was, he always spoke of Marylou and the things they did together.

Frank’s second love was music. His mother had played the piano and given piano lessons to the neighborhood children. Frank loved to listen to his mother play and even learned to play the piano a little himself. His father had played the cornet and thought that playing a cornet was more suitable for a boy than the piano. Frank’s father gave him the cornet that is displayed there on the table. Frank never went anywhere without that cornet. He even took it on expedition to Peru in 1994, where he would play reveille every morning to awaken the camp.

Frank was a member of a brass band while he lived in New York. The band toured up and down the East Coast. Frank said he joined the band because his wife said he was in her hair and that he needed a hobby. (Frank worked the graveyard shift, so he slept during the morning hours and by early afternoon was up and, as he said, “rattling around the house.”) Frank had a friend in the neighborhood who was in the band and invited Frank to join. Frank not only played in the band, but he bought many instruments for the other band members and searched out music for them to play. (In these last few years, as Frank increasingly had memory problems, every now and again he would ask Rebecca to buy him valve oil for his cornet and would ask me to take him to band practice.)

His third love in life was pie. Frank ate pie for breakfast, saying it was the best breakfast food. But he did not confine himself to eating pie at breakfast only; he would eat several every day. He was particularly fond of cherry pie, but any fruit pie would do. If you took Frank to the grocery store, he would buy 30 to 40 pre-packaged small pies. The supply would not last more than a week to maybe a week and a half. He complained long and hard when the pie supply was cut off because he could no longer go the store to buy them and because we had restricted his diet to reduce the huge amount of sugar he was consuming. His favorite beverages were hard cider, beer, and apple juice. He considered water something to cook with but not to drink. Oddly, nevertheless, Frank kept many containers full of water in his house at all times.

Frank liked to keep things. He would never throw anything away. He claimed hat he needed it or that he might use it or that it may someday become valuable. One time when cleaning his house, I found home-canned dill pickles in Frank’s refrigerator. When I asked where he had gotten the pickles, he told me his wife had canned them when he lived in New York. When I asked how long ago that had been, he replied, “Twenty years ago.” He had taken the pickles with him when he had moved from New York to Reno and was still eating them. He was more than a little upset when we threw the pickles out. We tried to explain how dangerous it was to eat such old canned goods, but Frank didn’t buy it. He said you could keep home-canned things forever. He also had canned food from the store with expiration dates of twenty to twenty-five years earlier and could not understand why they needed to be thrown away.

Frank was nonetheless a very knowledgeable man. He had been a very good electrician. He was also particularly interested in astronomy. He had studied the night sky and knew all of the constellations. His music collection was vast and included everything from classical to band music. He was of course very fond of trumpet music. He had a good sense of humor that was very dry; he was amused by the ironies of life. Frank and I had many conversations and many good laughs. Once you were Frank’s friend you were his friend for life. He will be missed.

A Critical Analysis of Chromotherapy and Its Scientific Evolution
by Samina T. Yousuf Azeemi* and S. Mohsin Raza
Copyright © The Author (2005). Published by Oxford University Press.

“. . . Contrary to accepted scientific theory, which assumes that each element is a unit, Ghadiali (1927) concluded that ‘the chemical elements are colour compounds’. His results can be proved by any of the sophisticated equipment of modern science. ‘A specific disease thus constitutes a specific imbalance of colour waves and by implication, chemical imbalance.’ Ghadiali found that by treating the body with a particular color vibration, one could effectively reintroduce the appropriate biochemical elements into the body; he referred to this as color chemistry, certainly a new field of study. His results as published in the first decade of the twentieth century were advocated by Klotsche in Colour Medicine: color medicine not only can heal the diseased frequency of the body but also can introduce actual chemical elements/vibration into the body in a non-toxic form.”

— from A Critical Analysis of Chromotherapy and Its Scientific Evolution

Read the entire article online at:

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1297510/

link submitted by Michael McIntyre

PHOTO: Robert Roy

Well for those who may be interested I just returned from attending a Conference in Japan hosted by Yukinori Matsushita of the Cosolargy Community of Japan. The Conference included three morning Sunrise services to be held on the shore of Lake Biwa, largest freshwater lake in Japan, just northeast of Kyoto in the Shiga Prefecture. We had been asked to perform these Sunrise Services at Lake Biwa to cleanse the lake as it had become very polluted. Of course, as mystics, we include the whole world in our appeals to God through the Spiritual Sun.

PHOTO: Robert Roy

Our three Sunrise Services included members from our Solar community in Japan, members from our community from Reno, Nevada, new students from different countries of the world.

PHOTO: Rob Roy

Also attending this first morning service were two Japanese professional cyclists who would take our Sunrise Service Blessings with them as they cycled around the lake, one cyclist heading in an easterly direction and the other cyclist headed in a westerly direction meeting up 24 hours later at the south end of the lake, crossing paths and continuing on their journey to meet up with us on the third day Sunrise Service.

Japan was also represented by a Shinto Priest who chanted Prayers and a Shinto Priestess (Yuka Bouuchi) using dance and movement as her prayers to the Spiritual Sun. Her prayer was one of the most beautiful expressions of prayer, in form, that I had ever seen.

We also had with us bottled water from our Sacred Sanctuary north of Reno, which we brought to pour into Lake Biwa during the Sunrise Service.

PHOTO: Robert Roy

The first Sunrise Service touched everyone in a beautiful way as the clouds seemed to be on fire with the light of the Sun. Prayers were conducted by Rev.Gene Savoy, Rev. Sean Savoy, and Rev.Yukinori Matsushita. Everyone joined in the chants. Gary Buchanan provided live music with piano and spiritually-themed music bridging our eastern and western cultures. There was a moment of oneness with the Light that streamed through the clouds.

PHOTO: Rob Roy

The two cyclists were then Blessed and they departed, each their separate way, to circumvent Lake Biwa over the next forty eight hours. And we then began our two day Conference.

The following morning we again all gathered for our second Sunrise Service. The two cyclists were at the other end of the lake about forty miles away, although they had to cycle 75 miles to get there because of the nature of the shoreline. We began our service with all the beauty of the Sunrise the day before, but today was meant to be special.

Clouds had formed, but as the service progressed the clouds melted away and then the most beautiful rainbow circled the sun in a most magnificent way, and we felt at that moment that our prayers had been accepted. The cyclists at the other end of the lake also experienced this beautiful manifestation of God’s Grace. Little did we know that later that day on the evening news in Japan, the Rainbow Blessing was experienced and seen all over Japan, from north to south.

It was said on the television news that something of this nature, a perfect rainbow around the sun, had never been seen before in every corner of Japan at one time. Needless to say the second day of our conference was full of positive energy.

Our third Sunrise Service was also very beautiful and many members saw and experienced many beautiful manifestations in the Sun as in our first two Sunrise Services.

The two cyclists arrived to join us at this Service on the third day as planned. A most beautiful group of people joined together for one purpose, to bring God’s Love down to earth, that we, again, may have the opportunity to evolve into the Higher Realms of Light.

I include some photos from the three Sunrises taken by myself, Robert Roy, and Dr. Stephan Fuelling, and the photo of the rainbow around the sun was taken by Syotaro Hagihara. The photo of the newscaster describing the phenomena of the Solar Rainbow on the evening news as it was seen all over Japan was also taken by Syotaro Hagihara.

Robert Roy
June 2015