Gary Robert Buchanan in May 2020 PHOTO: Jeff Dow

Link to obituary in the Reno Gazette-Journal

Reverend Canon Gary Buchanan (May 28, 1948 – October 16, 2020) passed away at the age of 72 at his residence at Steamboat Hot Springs in Reno, Nevada in the early morning of October 16, 2020. On October 13th, before his passing, other members of the Sacred Oversee and Gary’s wife, Rev. Canon Amanda Buchanan, were at his side while Rev. Mother Rebecca Willis administered to him the rite of the Anointing of the Sick. Four days later, on the afternoon of October 17th, Bishop Gene Savoy Jr anointed Gary’s remains in company with the members of the Sacred Oversee, his wife Dea. Radheka Savoy, and his daughter Helena Savoy, who held Gary very dear.

A Memorial Service was held to celebrate Gary’s life on Saturday, October 24, 2020 at 11:00 a.m. in the Chapel of the Holy Child. In attendance were members of the Reno Church Community as well as friends and family.

In lieu of a eulogy, Gary’s wife Amanda chose to play a recording of an early musical piece Gary had composed in Australia in memory of the Child Jamil shortly before he moved to Reno to become a member of the resident Community. It is titled “Adagio for the Child.” The piece was written and performed by the orchestra of the Queensland Conservatorium in Brisbane, Australia in 1976.

Prelude music for the Memorial was an assortment of small ensemble pieces and the “Concerto for Cello and Flute” composed by Gary, as was the piece of music played during the processional, “The Song of Moses.”

The scriptural readings by Bishop Gene Savoy jr and Rev. Canon Robert Petrovich were accompanied by a recording of the piece “Scripturale” by Gary. The closing prayer delivered by Rev. Mother Elizabeth Reece and the benediction of committal read by Rev. Michael McIntyre were accompanied by music of the same name recorded by Gary. And the final blessing and seal of blessing delivered by Bishop Gene Savoy jr were accompanied by a recording of the piece “Hebrew Psalmody” composed and played by Gary.

The recessional music was also a recorded collection of pieces composed and performed by Gary: one movement of the “Age of Light Symphony,” “Bethshemesh,” and “Peruvian Sunrise.”

A celebration of life followed the service at Gary and Amanda’s home on the grounds of Steamboat Hot Springs. The celebration included an outdoor reception and barbeque on the site where Gary and Amanda had hosted many barbeques in years past.

Gary at “Fortaleza Kuelap” in Amazonas in February 2020 PHOTO: Gene Savoy Jr

Gary and Gene at the fortress of Kuelap, the entrance to Gran Vilaya, in February 2020

Gary at the newly installed Chabuca Granda statue in Barranco, a suburb of Lima in February 2020

Link to obituary in the Reno Gazette-Journal

Obituary Text Posted in the Reno Gazette-Journal:

Gary Robert Buchanan

1948 – 2020

Reno – Gary (May 28, 1948 – October 16, 2020) was born to Riley and Marie Buchanan in Morganton, North Carolina.

Gary was a composer, conductor, explorer, Sonatherapist, researcher, author, minister, father, grandfather and great-grandfather.

Gary’s musical career began when he was chosen to be in the first class of the North Carolina School of the Arts where he studied trumpet and composition. After attending the School of the Arts, Gary went to the University of North Carolina for his Master’s Degree in Music Composition and then to the University of Washington for his PHD. After attending the University of Washington, he went on to teach composition under Crown appointmentat the Queensland Conservatorium in Brisbane, Australia for three years before coming to Reno. There he became music director for the International Community of Christ, Church of the Second Advent, and taught music and geometry at the Jamilian Parochial School. He collaborated with the late Bishop Gene Savoy, Sr. to create all the liturgical music for the Church. For many years, he also served on the Church’s Sacred Oversee and the faculty of the Jamilian University of the Ordained.

From 1989-2001, Gary accompanied Gene Savoy, Sr. and the younger Gene Savoy, Jr. on numerous expeditions into the interior of Peru to explore the the eastern Andes, where they uncovered numerous sites associated with the legendary civilization of the Chapapoya, which Savoy, Sr. had discovered in the 1960’s.

In Nevada during the 1990s, Gary composed several works commissioned by the director of the Ruby Mountain Symphony in Elko, Nevada to accompany theatrical performances by Cowboy poet Sue Wallace and Mark Twain impressionist MacAvoy Layne. During this time Gary also founded the Foundation Orchestra, which he conducted and arranged music for into the early 2000s. Gary, a talented arranger and musician, also arranged works for the Ruby Mountain Symphony and the Reno Pops Orchestra and played French Horn in performance with the Carson City Symphony and the Reno Pops Orchestra.

For 30 years, Gary researched Wave Front Bioresonance and wrote two books on this subject while Director of Wave Front Bioresonance at the Healing Center and Spa at Steamboat Hot Springs in Reno, Nevada. Gary lectured internationally each year to share his research with select audiences in Europe, Japan, the U.S. and other nations. In 2018, he presented to the Globe International Sound Healing Conference in San Francisco; in 2017 to the International Light Association in Fort Lauderdale, Florida; in 2016 to the International Water Conference in Sophia, Bulgaria; in 2015 to the International Conference on the Spiritual State of the World at Lake Biwako, Japan.

Gary was a loving husband, father, grandfather and great grandfather. He had three children, two godchildren, twelve grandchildren and five great-grandchildren. One of the great joys in his life where these children.

Gary is survived by his wife, Amanda Buchanan, sons Bradley Buchanan of Ventura, California and Kym Buchanan of Wisconsin, daughter Amy Buchanan-Rodriquez of Reno, and his grandchildren and great-grandchildren.

A Memorial Service will be held on Saturday, October 24, 2020 at 11:00 p.m. at the Chapel of the Holy Child of the International Community of Christ, 643 Ralston, Reno, NV. A BBQ reception will be held immediately following the service at his home at Steamboat Hot Springs, Nevada.

In lieu of flowers, please make a donation in his name to the International Community of Christ for the purchase of trees to be planted in his honor at the Red Rock Consecrated Sanctuary.

 

Douglas Eugene Savoy III
PHOTO: Gene Savoy Jr

The Rite of Baptism for Douglas Eugene Savoy III, son of Bishop Gene Savoy Jr. and Radheka Patel Savoy, was performed during Communion of Fellowship Service on Saturday, October 10, 2020.

Parents and child following baptism PHOTO: Stephan Fuelling

The ceremony took place at 10:00 a.m. at the Chapel of the Holy Child. Bishop Gene Savoy Jr. officiated.

Parents and godparents with child PHOTO: Stephan Fuelling

Godparents Parental Olimpia and Gary Huss took part in the service alongside the parents of the child.

Baptism reception table PHOTO: Stephan Fuelling

A reception followed at the Rectory-Abbey at Bishopstead to which the entire resident congregation was invited to attend as guests of the Savoy family.

Baptismal cake PHOTO: Stephan Fuelling

Noah Huss converses with Gene Savoy III PHOTO: Stephan Fuelling

The traditional Chapel baptism was the second part of a two-fold initiation undertaken for the child Gene.

The first ceremony was conducted on the morning of Saturday, August 1st, the day commemorating the Confirmation of God’s Divine Law, shortly after sunrise at the Garden of Oracles on the Temple Mount at Red Rock Consecrated Sanctuary. Present at this initial ritual were the child and his parents.

During this ritual, the child Gene was anointed with Sacred Chrism.

Bishop Savoy conducted this rite for his son in order to dedicate his life to the Light. In similar fashion, more than forty years before, during the first year of his own life, Bishop Savoy’s father and predecessor as Head Bishop had dedicated him to the life of Light at the top of the Temple of the Sun at Teotihuacán and later baptized him in the waters of the Pacific Ocean at Acapulco.

Savoy family at baptismal reception PHOTO: Stephan Fuelling

September 10, 2020

Bishop Savoy recently ordered custom designed masks for community members in Reno. We have some left, so if you would like to order one to use, or just as a souvenir, they are $10 each. If you want one (or more), simply reply to the email  you received or call Elizabeth at 775-830-7827. See the photo below of members wearing the mask. Click here for a link to the manufacturer’s description page.

Request a Prayer

Visit cosolargy.org

We want to thank Consociates Michele Grief and Marilyn Taylor, who inspired the live Facebook video & audio streaming of the Divine Sunrise Service on Sunday mornings at the Consecrated Sanctuary, and Consociate Harold Boulette for the creation of the Cosolargy Forum on Facebook, where Consociates can exchange photos and post messages, which made the streaming possible.

Bishop Gene Savoy Jr. approached Consociate Dr. Stephan Fuelling to look into the technical aspect of live streaming the Sunrise Service. Stephan then ordered a telescopic lens attachment, the APL-JS36X Smartphone Lens, which has a magnification of 36x. During the test run it became apparent that the Sun’s intensity was too strong, and he ordered a variable neutral density filter, K&F Concept 37mm ND Fader, which he secured with double-sticky tape in front to the lens. This provided satisfactory results.

In order to capture the prayers from the officiating ministers officiating and the sound from the four crystal bowls (C, E, G, C) during Divine Sunrise Service, Stephan ordered four remote microphones, type Hotec UHF Wireless Headset Microphone/Lavalier Lapel Mic with Bodypack Transmitter and Mini Rechargeable Receiver with 1/4″ Output. Two of these microphones were placed between each pair of crystal bowls, while the other two were placed where the liturgical readings were given. Furthermore, he used his existing pair of Marshall MXL840 microphones to capture the bell choir, harp, and keyboard. An eight-channel digital mixer, type Focusrite Scarlett Octo-Pre connected to a Windows 10 laptop, was used to mix the six audio channels into a live stereo stream. The output of the Scarlett mixer was connected to a Saramonic 2-Channel XLR & 6.35mm Guitar Audio Interface SmartRig+ Di Lightning Connector, which was then connected to Stephan’s iPhone. This arrangement allowed for streaming the stereo sound from the ministers at the Communion Table and the bell choir during the Divine Sunrise Service with the live picture with the use of one iPhone to the Cosolargy Forum on Facebook.

We encourage all non-resident Cosolargy Members to sign up on the Cosolargy Forum on Facebook to “virtually” partake in the weekly Divine Sunrise Service and also to post pictures and comments related to the International Community of Christ.

Thank you all for participating!

By Stephan Fuelling

SPECIAL INFORMATION MESSAGE

Tuesday, June 9, 2020

As a convenience to Consociates who cannot attend Sunrise Divine Services in person, we are posting video of these services on the Facebook Cosolargy Members Forum. They are being sent by live streaming during the service, but will be saved for viewing at a later time. You must be a member of the Forum to see them, so if you have not yet joined, click here to join now.

Very truly yours in Light+,

The Cosolargy Staff

Paul V. Young, Cosolargy International’s representative in Australia, has recently shared the following message with the readers of his blog. Feel free to share it with your own family and friends.

View in Browser

Please Accept this
GIFT OF LIGHT

During this time of “lockdown” caused by the Coronavirus, most people find themselves with more spare time for reading, while many are prompted to re-evaluate the purpose of their past pursuits and consider what they might do differently when the pandemic is over.

This is an opportune time to explore the teachings and system offered by Cosolargy International. You are invited to subscribe to the free, no-obligation monthly newsletter.

Those who do so now are eligible to receive a complimentary GIFT OF LIGHT, which consists of some sample sungazing principles and techniques. Eight lectures from an 18-part series of lectures titled “Project X: Secrets of Immortality” have been chosen to give you a glimpse of Cosolargy’s practices.

With the GIFT OF LIGHT, you will receive an email each week for the next four weeks with links to two audio files, recorded by the founder of Cosolargy, Gene Savoy Sr., some 40 to 50 years ago, which introduce you to some of the basic concepts of the system. Each audio file is about ten minutes long and contains esoteric knowledge known to the ancients that will help support your practice of the solar spiritual techniques that are included in the talks. You can listen to them whenever you choose and practice the spiritual growth techniques they contain.

The first two audio files introduce a central theme in Cosolargy: Light carries information, which we call Information Factors (IF). These Information Factors are a source of energy, knowledge, and act as nutrients to enhance our physical, psychic, and spiritual natures.

CLICK HERE TO SIGN UP FOR OUR NEWSLETTER

Receive our complimentary GIFT OF LIGHT
which includes four 10-minute audio and
short lecture excerpts when you sign up
to the monthly Cosolargy newsletter

This message was sent to you by Paul V Young

On November 15, 2019, the National Geographic Sea Lion, a ship designed to navigate narrow inlets and wildlife-rich passageways inaccessible to larger ships, embarked on a five-day expedition in the Gulf of California (Sea of Cortez) off Baja California Sur in an area known as Cabo del Este — the extraordinary East Cape of southern Baja. This is where Cosolargy International in 2017 purchased a 2.3-acre piece of beachfront property in the town of El Cardonal, just north of Los Barriles.

Love for the region eventually led to collaboration between members of the exploration and Cosolargy International.

Read the entire article online at Cosolargy.org.

Download a PDF of the article.

Hello Fellow Consociates,

If you watch television at all you probably know that in recent weeks Facebook has been running a major promotion on Facebook Groups with the slogan “There’s a Facebook Group for everyone.”

If you haven’t seen any of these commercials, click here to see one.

Even before this promotion started, there were Consociates of Cosolargy who felt that we should have a group of our own on Facebook. Several weeks ago, our Head Bishop, Gene Savoy, Jr., said in a staff meeting that we needed to get this done, and so the group was created. It is named the “Cosolargy Members Forum” and is open to all Cosolargy members.

If you are not familiar with Facebook groups, there are two basic types: open and closed. Open groups allow anyone to join, while closed groups are open only to those who meet certain requirements. In the case of our group, it is open only to members of Cosolargy. It is also a private group, meaning that anything posted on it is shared only with other group members. And when you get a post from the group on your timeline, it will not have a share button on it. This is so members can feel free to discuss things that are not usually revealed to the general public about Cosolargy and its teachings.

The group has most of the standard rules for posting and commenting, plus one or two extras. Here is a list of them:

Group Rules from the Admins

1. Be Kind and Courteous

We’re all in this together to create a welcoming environment. Let’s treat everyone with respect. Healthy debates are natural, but kindness is required.

2. Avoid politics.

3. No Hate Speech or Bullying
Make sure everyone feels safe. Bullying of any kind isn’t allowed, and degrading comments about things like race, religion, culture, sexual orientation, gender or identity will not be tolerated.

4. No Promotions or Spam
Give more than you take to this group. Self-promotion, spam and irrelevant links aren’t allowed.

5. Respect Everyone’s Privacy
Being part of this group requires mutual trust. Authentic, expressive discussions make groups great, but may also be sensitive and private. What’s shared in the group should stay in the group.

Anyone who is in the group is free to comment and post. Posts do not always have to be serious, or directly about Cosolargy. Recently, some of us have been posting favorite vacation photos. Others have posted jokes or memes they found interesting. It is just a discussion group for all Cosolargy members, so if you are not yet a member, click here to join. And if you have never joined Facebook, now might be the time to do so.

by Harold Boulette

HEAD OVERSEER’S SECOND ADVENT EASTER MESSAGE