PHOTO: Tanjug Video

US director Joseph Sikorski’s Tower To The People, a new documentary about Nikola Tesla, had its European premiere on April 6, 2015 at the Sava Centar in Belgrade.

The documentary is about Tesla’s dream of sending free wireless energy from a mysterious tower at the Wardencliff laboratory on Long Island. The film premiered in October 2014 at the New Yorker Hotel, where Tesla held his annual birthday press conferences for many years and where he died in 1943.

The film features materials obtained from the Nikola Tesla Museum in Belgrade and the Wardencliff Project, including previously unseen photographs, and music written by Emmy-nominated composer Marina Arsenijevic.

A press conference on March 31st was attended by Tesla’s nephew William Terbo, the sole living relative of the great scientist.

The screening of the film was organized by Toronto-based Tesla Magazine with assistance from the Belgrade city Secretariat for Culture and the Nikola Tesla Museum, and the event was held under the auspices of Serbian President Tomislav Nikolic.

< Watch the 24-minute segment of “Serbian Toronto Television—Episode 16″ on the film and its making. After a one-minute introduction in the Serbian language, the remainder of the program is in English. Included is a 5-minute film trailer, two long interviews with film maker Joseph Sikorski, and commentaries by numerous advocates of Tesla’s work. >

 < Watch the 4-minute trailer for the movie Tower to the People on YouTube. >

< Watch the 5-minute musical introduction to the movie Tower to the People on YouTube. >

Joseph Sikorski is presently working on a second movie on Tesla titled Fragments From Olympus.

< Watch the 5-minute theatrical teaser for Fragments From Olympus on YouTube. >

Nikola Tesla (1856-1943) was enshrined in 1993 by the Advocates for Religious Rights and Freedoms (www.arrf.org).

Annually for many years, the Advocates for Religious Rights and Freedoms held a Human Spiritual Rights Celebration on October 12, the Day of the Races of Man. The program of these celebrations contained awards presentations, musical presentations and speeches by Advocates and invited speakers, and enshrinements of individuals noted for their support of Human Spiritual Rights.

Tesla and many other pioneer leaders and thinkers inspired by a higher calling endeavored in their lives to bring to the world a greater appreciation and understanding of the mystery that is the human spirit. In honoring them, the Advocates not only remembered their acts, thoughts, and works but also paid tribute to their legacy, which is the quest for spiritual freedom.

The Advocates for Religious Rights and Freedoms is a consociation of churches and ministers of the International Community of Christ, Church of the Second Advent, that seeks to preserve , protect, and defend freedom of religion and to protect the right of individuals to religious expression.

— links submitted by Robert Petrovich

Michael Hillerby, Rebecca Wilis, Pat Hickey, and Gene Savoy Jr. In front of the Nevada Legislature building after the Nevada Assembly Taxation Committee hearing. PHOTO: Ted Staver

Bishop Gene Savoy Jr., Head Bishop of the International Community of Christ and President of the Nevada Clergy Association, has been working diligently for the past several months to prepare a piece of legislation that would not only provide full tax exemption for Red Rock Consecrated Sanctuary, an event that Church members have been awaiting for over three decades, but also provide protection to all properties devoted to religious purposes.

Nevada Assembly Bill AB391 revises provisions governing the exemption from property taxes of certain property used for religious worship. The bill is a very important piece of legislation that expands the scope of religious property tax exemption in Nevada and will benefit all religions in the state of Nevada, was introduced in the Nevada Assembly on March 17, 2015.

Currently, if any religious organization in Nevada purchases a piece of property to build on, it would be taxed until fully developed. Under the proposed amendment to NRS 361.125, it would be exempt from the time it was acquired.

Bishop Savoy sought support for the bill from members of the Nevada Clergy Association and received it from 13 members, with letters of endorsement from the Muslim Community, Hindu Community, Jewish Community, Divine Mission and Satyachetana International, Catholic Community, and others.

The bill was introduced in the Assembly on March 17, 2015 by Michael Hillerby of the firm Kaempfer Crowell. However, Bishop Gene Savoy Jr. And Michael’s father, Fred Hillerby, now retired, had been working on the bill for nearly two-and-one-half years. The 2013 Nevada legislature was already in session when the two began their collaboration. And since the Nevada legislature meets for 120 days every two years, 2015 was the earliest the bill could be introduced.

The Nevada Assembly Taxation Committee hearing on the bill took place on Tuesday, March 24th. Present at the meeting to represent the Church were Church members Gene Savoy Jr., Rebecca Willis, Ted Staver, Michael Hillerby and Nevada Assemblyman Pat Hickey.

Following the hearing, Bishop Savoy personally thanked the members of the committee and requested their support of the bill, which assures equitable treatment for all recognized religious organizations in Nevada without denominational preference.

Voting by the committee is scheduled for next week.

< To read the text of Assembly Bill 391 as it was introduced, CLICK HERE. >

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Nevada Assemblyman, and daily political commentator, Pat Hickey posted this article on the bill on his web site shortly before the bill was introduced on March 17th.

When it comes to paying taxes, the tension between church and state has been around for a long time. Jesus made the point pretty well some 2,000 years ago when he said, “Render unto Caesar the things that are Caesar’s, and unto God the things that are God’s.” Problems arise when the jurisdiction of one infringes upon the rights of the other.
A case in point:

A local Northern Nevada church, the International Community of Christ (ICC), owns 1,300 acres of land off Pyramid Highway where they worship and practice their faith. The “problem” is that their sanctuary is not your classic cathedral or house of worship, but rather a desert hillside overlooking Spanish Springs. Central to their worship practice and their communion with God is being outdoors surrounded by nature.

An issue arose in the 1980s when Washoe County tax assessors began sending them property tax bills for the undeveloped portions of their land. The basis for this demand was NRS 361.125, which provides an exemption for “churches, chapels, other than marriage chapels, and other buildings…and the lots of ground on which they stand.” The county did exempt the portions of the property that were actually developed, but taxed the undeveloped areas.

The ICC pastor has asked members of the Washoe delegation to help with his pay-unto-Caesar problem. I and a few others have therefore introduced a bill, AB 391, that would add language to NRS saying that the current church exemption in the law would apply to parcels of land used exclusively for religious purposes and would include both developed and undeveloped portions of the parcel.

The Church is not saying that if they build timeshare condominiums on the lovely hillside in Sparks, they shouldn’t be taxed. They’re just saying that if your congregation gathers up on a hill to worship like Jesus did while delivering the Sermon on the Mount above the Sea of Galilee, you shouldn’t have to “render” to the local tax assessor.

Should be an interesting hearing today at 1:00 p.m. in the Assembly Taxation Committee in room 4100. Both “Caesar’s” and “God’s” people are expected to be in attendance. It’s not expected that the “sermons” given in testimony will match those referenced above, but they may be worth a listen nonetheless.

Scenes of Red Rock Consecrated Sanctuary, Retreat, and Wildlife Park, located at Antelope Valley, Nevada, north of Reno, are collected in this beautiful video and set to music.

The video was produced by Michael McIntyre and Gary Buchanan, and uses photographs taken by Michael’s son Matthew Aaron Madonna.

< Watch the video on YouTube on CosolargyICC channel. (6 minutes) >

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 >

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. >

            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.

View of Los Barriles across Sea of Cortez PHOTO: Gene Savoy Jr

Bishop Gene and his wife, Radheka, traveled to Mexico January 21-29, 2015 on an exploratory mission with the intention of establishing a Community Center there. They were located in the small town of Los Barriles in the state of Baja California Sur, about 40 minutes northeast of the international airport at San Jose del Cabo. Los Barriles is dry and arid and rests on the coast of the Sea of Cortez. The trip from Reno to Cabo takes approximately 5 hours via Phoenix, AZ.

Dry arroyo running from Sierra de Las Lagunas mountains, west of Los Barriles PHOTO: Gene Savoy Jr.

Early morning in Los Barriles PHOTO: Gene Savoy Jr.

Joining Gene and Radheka was Consociate Humberto Garcia who traveled from Ciudad Juarez across the border from El Paso, TX. Together, they met with an attorney who began paperwork on a non-profit association which will either be named International Community of Christ, Cosolargy International, or Cosolargy Institute of Mexico. Very similar to the United States, the association will have tax-exempt status and donors will be able to claim tax deductions. The original incorporators are Mexican citizens: Bishop Gene, Humberto and Claudia Grady, the wife of Deacon Shane Grady.

Natural hot springs in the foothills of Sierra de Las Lagunas at the Biosphere Reserve of Las Lagunas PHOTO: Gene Savoy Jr.

In addition, Gene and Humberto also met with real estate agents who introduced them to geothermal areas in the region. Bishop Gene’s vision is to establish a retreat/conference center in conjunction with a healing center/spa, much on the same lines as The Community has at Steamboat Hot Springs in Reno.

Wind surfers along the coast of Los Barriles in the Sea of Cortez PHOTO: Gene Savoy Jr.

Some of the positives of the area include: (1) easy access to an international airport; (2) the beauty of the Sea of Cortez; (3) the area has both mountains and beaches; (4) the weather is warm and sunny; (5) a large ex-pat community of Americans and Canadians; (6) English is widely spoken; (7) geothermal/mineral springs; (8) low land prices and building costs; (9) a significant number of people from Reno reside and own homes there; (10) excellent seafood and water sports; (11) organic and natural foods stores and restaurants; (12) safety; (13) an Eastern exposure with good sun and good energy; (14) it’s close to other places, such as Cabo, La Paz, El Triumfo, San Antonio, Santiago and Todos Santos; and (14) it sits on the Tropic of Cancer.

We will keep you informed as things progress on this interesting project. Ole!

Landscaping outside residence in Los Barriles PHOTO: Gene Savoy Jr.

by Gene Savoy Jr.

On left, coastline of Sado island off the main island of Honshu; on right, Yukinori Matsushita vested after Sunrise Service. PHOTO: Keiko Inoue

Yukinori Matsushita, Eriko Ueno, Keiko Inoue, Miyuki Okayama, Shoko Oba and Yaeno Sanada went to Sado Island in Niigata province for a Sunrise Service there on Epiphany Day.

Niigata is located on the island of Honshu on the coast of the Sea of Japan.

From left to right, Miyuki Okayama, Eriko Ueno, Yukinori Matsushita, Yaeno Sanada, Shoko Ohba. PHOTO: Keiko Inoue

The Community in Japan attends Sunrise Service in Kurume every Sunday and visited Hokkaido and had private Sunrise Service there as well. When we look at Kurume and Hokkaido as points, and then add Sado Island, there are 3 points that together make a large triangle for Light to prevail over a larger space. That is why Yukinori picked Sado island.

Standing from left to right, Yaeno Sanada, Yukinori Matsushita, Miyuki Okayama, Shoko Ohba. Crouching in front is Eriko Ueno. PHOTO: Keiko Inoue

The place was already ready for a Sunrise Service. The weather was as warm as it is at beginning of March and birds also attended the Service. That morning was overcast but the sun came out by the end of the Service. We were expecting the Sun from the East during the Service. That is the direction that points towards San Francisco and on to Reno.

Everyone felt relief that everything was going well. In this year, we will hold our big conference in Japan. We are looking forward to a big success for both Communities!

PHOTO: Keiko Inoue

Japanese New Year decorations at hotel. On the left are two sheep made of pottery. Behind is a Japanese folding screen with a well-known proverb is written on it: “Good fortune and happiness will come to the home of those who smile” or “Fortune comes in by a merry gate.” PHOTO: Keiko Inoue

submitted by Keiko Inoue
(translated by Noriko Roy)

Large Japanese-style Second Advent Cross mounted on Chapel wall at Cosolargy Center in Japan PHOTO: Yukako Kawai

Recently Yukako Kawai, an ordained member of the Community in Japan, created Second Advent Crosses out of wood to adorn the wall of the Chapel at the Community Center in Japan.

Yukako had not done any woodcarving since she was in junior high school. She just thought it would be nice if she could make the Crosses for the Community in Japan. At first, she wanted to use a single round wooden board to make the Cross, carving the American-style Cross on one side and the Japanese-style Cross on the other side. When she went to look for a wooden board at the lumber store, she found a big nice round wood board at store that she wanted to try to work with. But she thought it was too big and that there would not be enough space for it at the Center. So she bought a smaller round piece of wood 30 centimeters in diameter.

After the finishing the smaller wood Cross, she showed it to Bishop Yukinori Matsushita, who requested Yukako to make the bigger Cross. It was then she realized that it had been no coincidence that she saw the big round wood board at store, and she felt that somehow her consciousness was guiding her to make the Cross with it.

American-style Second Advent Cross PHOTO: Yukako Kawai

Japanese-style Second Advent Cross PHOTO: Yukako Kawai

Each side of the smaller cross design took about two weeks to carve and one week to paint, a total of 40 days. The larger Cross took about four weeks to carve and a week to paint, a total of 50 days.

By Noriko Roy

Terry Hutchinson, circa 2008 PHOTO: Terry Hutchinson

My name is Terrance Arthur Hutchinson. I was born in Bangor, Maine, USA, on 16 June 1954. After shuffling between Maine and New York as my father followed jobs, I moved with my parents to California in May 1966 and graduated from Mojave High School in Mojave, California, in June 1973. Working for Great Western Cities, the predecessor of California City, and then California City, I was able to attend Antelope Valley College in Lancaster, California, and graduated with an associate’s degree in business. I was employed by the City of California City Parks & Recreation Department for eight years. I eventually found steadier work at Revere (Aluminum) Extruders and finally with U.S. Borax as a first-class millwright for thirty-eight years. While with U.S. Borax I was state-certified as a first responder and was part of the Heavy Emergency Rescue Team but was fortunate enough to never have to put those skills to use. During my tenure with U.S. Borax: I was blessed to receive my ordination as a minister with the Progressive Universal Life Church and on 2 October 2000 was awarded two degrees: doctor of divinity and doctor of philosophy in religion.

My spouse Lynn and I have been happily married for thirty-three years and have raised two children, adults at this point, who are successful and doing well. The two of us reside in California City with our dachshund Destiny.

I have been active with the Rotary Club of Rosamond, California, and was honored to be elected club president for two terms, 2003–2005, during the Rotary Centennial. I was fortunate  enough to travel to India with the Rotary on a grant-funding mission to finance a hospital, clinic, ambulance, several schools, and a water well. I am also a Paul Harris Fellow, an honor given by the Rotary Club. I was an active member of nearby Edwards Air Force Base Civilian/Military Support Group, the Boy Scouts of America Order of the Arrow, and local Boy Scouting Committee. I am also a former president of the Casa del Sol Estates Homeowners Association in California City. I’ve been active on our church trustee board and am currently donating time as church secretary with the Community Church of California City.

I have always felt a spiritual connectedness with God and now hold views closer to that of a Gnostic or Essene. I believe Christ was trying to tell us that we would not need a minister or priest as we are our own minister and priest of God. We need to nurture our own relationships with God and the Divine. We need to make a Conscious choice to choose to follow the Light (Logos) or Darkness (Kalos), to seeing the truth through all the falsehood. As Mark 3:14 says about Christ’s choosing of the Twelve: “That they be with him.”  I remember as a youth, one teacher saying we are born with two guiding angels, an accusing angel and a guardian angel, and that it was up to each one of us to choose which we would follow. I truly believe the Essenes had it right: the idea of greeting each morning sunrise; you never know when you or one of your loved ones might be taken, we need to remember to love those we love while we can! We need to truly walk on that Path of the Way, and not just give lip service to it.

Metaphysics holds a real fascination for me. I studied with the Rosicrucians several years before finding Gene Savoy and his Solar Teachings. I consider myself very fortunate to have discovered Cosolargy. I feel it has taken me further in my studies than what I had on my own. I remember Gene Savoy Sr. writing something to the effect that you better have a system; it didn’t have to be Cosolargy, but if you did not have a system or plan of some sort, you’d probably be lost. I have never forgotten that.

I think it an interesting story that in my studies, it took several times of finding Gene and his teachings; to finally read the writing on the wall and realize I needed to get it done. The first time, school sports interrupted that endeavor. The second time in my studies (Rosicrucian at this point), I meant to follow up, but marriage and a family came along and put the kibosh on that. It wasn’t till the third time, while in my studies, when I would find once again Gene and Cosolargy mentioned in a National Geographic article, that I realized that I truly needed to follow up; which I finally did.

Gene Sr. was still with us the first couple years of my studies in Cosolargy, and I dearly wanted and wished to meet him personally, but only letters were to be; our meeting to be postponed. I tell myself the Lord works in mysterious ways but know that our God is a God of the Living and that I WILL meet Gene Sr. one day. I thank him dearly for his encouragement to me to come and attend!  I enjoy the association of like-minded and personable individuals that attend. It is both refreshing and rejuvenating. I personally believe Gene Jr. and Sean have done a wonderful job in picking up the reins. I can honestly say I have never been to a church where so many members truly believe and share so many of the same common beliefs as in our walk on the Path of The Way, and methods to employ in getting there. God willing, I will enjoy this shared family experience for another sixty years. “That they be with him!”   Ku-ya!