HOLY WEEK MESSAGE: April 8, 2020

 

 

HEAD OVERSEER’S HOLY WEEK MESSAGE

 

 

 

 

April 8, 2020

This week, hundreds of millions of Christians of the Western traditions around the world – mainly Catholic and Protestant but a myriad of others – are observing Holy Week (albeit mostly in the privacy of their homes) in commemoration of the resurrection of Jesus Christ. Next week, millions of Eastern Orthodox Christians around the world will do the same.

However, we in the Second Advent Church Community observe Easter on a fixed date – April 18 – each year according to the solar, not lunar, calendar. And, of course, we do so in an entirely different way and with an entirely unique message. Most importantly, we do not recognize or teach the resurrection of the physical body, only the resurrection of the reborn spiritual or Light Body. Of course, this concept in and of itself; would have gotten us all burned at the stake or hanged not so long ago.

You may have heard me say this before, but I emphasize this point and make the distinction of the English root of the word “Easter” because it differs substantially from the word Pascha and its meaning as relative to the Jewish Passover. For instance, in Spanish Easter is “Pascua,” and in French it is “Pâques.”

I will not get into the details here of the Last Supper and how it was a sacred Essene pannuches meal centered around the 50-day pentacontad cycle (during which Jesus declared himself to be the Messiah of Aaron and Israel;) and that it was not related to the Jewish Passover, as is accepted in the Pauline churches. Needless to say, this important distinction alone separates us from the rest of Christianity.

So, to get back to the point, the word “Easter” in English comes from the Anglo-Saxon Eostre, which can be traced to an important goddess called Hausos. The goddess comes from the proto-Indo European religion, and she is the Goddess of the Dawn. Her name was reconstructed as Ausos, and in India she is referred to as Usas; in Greek Eos; and in Latin Aurora.

The name was derived from the root “to Shine,” thus, translating to “The Shining One.” The English word “East” is derived from this word; and so is the Latin “Aurum” meaning gold. The dawn goddess was also the Goddess of Spring. In the Anglo-Saxon world, and also in the Germanic world, this time – this Easter or Eostre – was called Eosturmonath – or Easter Month – which was celebrated for the entire month of April. The Goddess of Spring was involved in the mythology of the Indo-European new year where the Dawn Goddess was liberated by God from imprisonment. She is known in the Rig Veda as Indra and in ancient Greek mythology as Dionysus. So we see that it is a very important time of the year going back thousands of years before the time of Jesus.

So how do we in the Second Advent/Cosolargy Community reconcile ourselves with this ancient observance? How do we – who do not accept the physical resurrection of the body – harmonize ourselves with this “holy week” which emphasizes the pain, sorrow, suffering, and death of Jesus? How do we – who do not teach that he was the sacrificial Passover lamb, an offering acceptable to God whose blood is shed daily on the altars of churches around the world everywhere and that the shedding of his blood, however ritualistically – was an atonement for the sins of the world? How do we come to terms with those many, many millions of people who do? And, how do we – who reject that Christ’s crucifixion was “good” or that it was the Will of God, holding instead that it was the murder of a Son of Light by the civil and religious authorities of the day – how do we bring that into accord with our own teaching and theology?

For example, the other day I heard an evangelical pastor on the news saying that God had sent the coronavirus. Let me repeat that: God has sent COVID-19, and just as the Israelites had been protected in their homes by God with the blood of the lamb during the Passover, Christians staying at home this Holy Week are and will be protected by God by the blood of Christ as the paschal sacrificial lamb. I hope you see what I’m getting at. It is, in all honesty, a disgusting concept.

So how do we reconcile ourselves with this? We do so by emphasizing what we know to be Christ’s true message: First, that we are all endowed by the Creator of our Spiritual Beings with an eternal and immortal Soul, if we but cause that divine generative force – Christ or the Word – to penetrate into the spiritual womb. Second, that once we consent to the Word of God – the Logos – being allowed to impregnate our Spirit, that Spirit becomes animated by the Thought and Will of God the Father and becomes a living, breathing, Conscious Soul able to reason on heavenly things. Third, that once imbued with Christ Consciousness, the Soul, released from the cycle of generated existence, recalls and remembers its history and origin and consciously participates in the Worlds of Light, continually partaking of a divine Communion.

This was the message of Christ Jesus. This is what was symbolized by the Last Supper – the act of the reborn, Conscious Soul partaking of the True Communion, feeding off the Word of God – the Bread from Heaven – and drinking from the Cup filled with God’s Living Waters – which is Divine Light. And this is also the message of the Messianic Church of the Second Advent.

The beauty of it all is that it can be done in the here and now – that our spiritual immortality and divinity can be realized while we exist in this world. And if that is accomplished, one has received the gift of the resurrection – not as something abstract to wonder about before death, but something one can experience and participate in while one lives in this world. But what we must do– and this may be the most difficult of lessons – is to learn to accomplish our spiritual quest in the way that Jesus exemplified his: with peace, love and joy.

I will continue on this theme next week as we approach True Easter on April 18th. We will also continue with our review of the Thirteenth Saying of Jamil. In the meantime, I wish you a very happy Eosturmonath.

Again, if I may be of any personal service to you, please do not hesitate to contact me.

Very truly yours in Light+,

Gene




“Face To Face | Carl Gustav Jung (1959)”

 

 

Finding extended footage of Dr. Carl Jung speaking openly on God and spirituality is a rare thing. In this 1959 video, Professor Jung is interviewed at his home in Switzerland by British broadcaster John Freeman on his background, work, and man’s psyche and Unconscious.

At 25:30 in the interview, Jung talks about a passage in an ancient text on the sun disk and then goes deeper into a discussion of other solar imagery. In the final few minutes of the interview, Jung discusses what will happen when mankind begins to merge into technology.

Watch the interview on YouTube (38:04).

link submitted by Robert Petrovich

 




Promoting Cosolargy in Australia

 

 

The latest edition of the thought-provoking Australian magazine New Dawn (January-February 2020), a bi-monthly publication that explores ancient wisdom and new thinking on unexplained and behind-the-scenes events, contains a well-placed advertisement for Cosolargy, thanks to Cosolargy International’s Australian representative Paul Young. The ad (see below) appears in the central part of the magazine, the “Mind/Body/Spirit” supplement, which is a good place for it.

The posting of the ad is all due to Paul’s work. The Community Communique editor talked to Paul about how all this happened to come about. His response appears below in interview format:

 

 

COMMUNIQUE EDITOR: When did you first start writing for magazines?

PAUL YOUNG: Writing for magazines has been part of my life for many years now. As a condition of my Diploma course with the Writing School of Australia in 2003, I was required to submit a certain number of articles to newspapers and journals. The object was to learn how to present, or pitch stories, and my tutors didn’t really expect them to be published early on, so they were as surprised as I was when a few of mine were taken up. The first was a piece about the suburb I lived in, which was picked up by my local newspaper. Buoyed by my initial success, it wasn’t long before I decided that I should have a go at writing for publications that reflected my own interests, namely spiritual, esoteric and metaphysical themes.

COMMUNIQUE EDITOR: When did you first start writing for New Dawn magazine?

PAUL YOUNG: My first association with New Dawn magazine was in issue #80, September 2003, when they ran my piece ‘The Power of Four in the World.’ Over the next couple of years though, I found my real niche as a regular contributor to a monthly journal called Insight which, sadly, went out of business some time after I moved overseas in 2007. I loved the fact that Insight’s editor gave me free rein and rarely made any alterations to my work. While manning a booth for Insight at a ‘Mind, Body Spirit Festival’ in Brisbane about 15 years ago, I found plenty of time to chat with New Dawn’s editor, who was stationed in the adjacent booth, and we covered many matters of mutual interest.

COMMUNIQUE EDITOR: How and when did your interest in the Sun come into your writing?

PAUL YOUNG: During a 5-year sojourn living and teaching in Chiang Mai, Thailand, my long-held fascination with the Sun developed into something much more intense, yet I was unsure of the right way to pursue it. Soon after returning to Australia, I felt the need to write on a regular basis again, as I find writing to be an enjoyable and relaxing creative outlet. I approached New Dawn and they asked me if I would be willing to do a series for them on the esoteric and spiritual legacy (history) of Australia – a challenge I willingly accepted and which resulted in a half dozen lengthy stories on that theme.

COMMUNIQUE EDITOR: At some point, your writing for New Dawn led you to begin advertising Cosolargy in the magazine. How did that happen?

PAUL YOUNG: In the ensuing years, New Dawn has also asked me to write several pieces on the ongoing mystery of flight MH370, and have published a few of my own contributions with solar themes. During 2018 I acted as one of their book reviewers, doing an average of three reviews per issue, but I have put that to one side for the time being. There is rarely monetary payment in this industry in Australia, as most contributors get a trade-off in promoting their own books and/or workshops. In my case, the publishers of New Dawn are always willing to reciprocate with favours, so I am putting that to work by way of reduced-cost advertising for Cosolargy, in line with my commitment to act as country representative and promote our Organization to the fullest extent I can.

COMMUNIQUE EDITOR: Now you are helping Cosolargy International post ads in New Dawn on a regular basis. How did you accomplish this? And what do you expect will be the result?

PAUL YOUNG: During the first half of 2020 we are running half-page ads for Cosolargy in New Dawn magazine. My approach to this is that we are not trying to convince or persuade anybody to do anything they would not otherwise feel inclined to do. I believe there are others out there who, like me, have felt drawn to the influence of the Sun and have wondered how to go about discovering solar techniques, and the way to apply the benefits in their life. My intention is to get the message out on platforms where such people are most like to encounter it. Those who see it and resonate with it then just need to take the next step and talk to us!

 

 




Steamboat Spa Participates in Alliance 2020 Business Expo

 

Courtesy Photo

 

Steamboat Hot Springs Healing Center & Spa participated for the first time at Alliance 2020 – 3rd Annual Business Expo on Wednesday, February 12, 2020 which was held at the Reno-Sparks Convention Center from 3 to 7 p.m. Gene Savoy, Jr., president of Steamboat, and Sonya Savoy, Assistance Manager of the Spa, attended with a booth on behalf of the Healing Center.

The event is a collaboration among the Reno-Sparks Chamber of Commerce (RSCC), the Reno-Sparks Convention and Vistors Authority (RSCVA), the Economic Development Authority of Western Nevada (EDAWN), and the Reno-Tahoe Airport Auhtority (RTAA).

About 1000 people attended the Expo, the third of its kind. More than 200 local businesses were represented – twice as many as last year. This was the first time Steamboat Hot Springs was represented. Gene had this to say, “This was a great event for Steamboat to be a part of. We have been actively collaborating with the Chamber of Commerce, and they have been great partners for us. We look forward to attending again, and partnering with other local organizations, such as the RSCVA, Travel Nevada, and Reno-Tahoe Territory, in order to promote historic Steamboat Springs and its healing waters, which we are proud to be custodians of.”

In addition to complimentary beverages and appetizers, music was performed by the Reno Philharmonic and the Reno Jazz Orchestra. It is anticipated that Steamboat Hot Springs will attend next year’s expo.

 




“Wellness with Light, Color, Sound & Frequencies”: Karen Elkins Interviews Gary Buchanan

 

 

 

Karen Elkins interviewed Rev. Dr. Gary Buchanan mid-February 2020 for her program Science to Sage, where she explores the convergence of science and spirituality at sciencetosage.com, under the title “Wellness with Light, Color, Sound & Frequencies.”

In this video Gary shares information on his educational background, sound healing and music, and his decades-long research on the subjects of sound, light, and color and their relation to Cosolargy. He also discusses related new healing technologies and the importance of the teachings of Cosolargy to the survival of the human species.

 

Download or share the podcast, or watch it online and comment at vimeo.com. (1:02:00)

 

Gary is the director of Wave Front BIOresonance® Research at Steamboat Healing Center in Reno, Nevada. As a practicing Sonatherapist, he regularly meets with clients from around the world offering “self-healing” via light, color, sound, water, and subtle energy therapeutics. Certified in Cymatic Therapy, he also works regularly with Yukinori Matsushita and Manners-certified Cymatic Therapeutic colleagues in Japan, among other nations.

Having followed the research and development of the late Sir Dr. Peter Guy Manners for over twenty years via their mutual colleague Yukinori Matsushita, in 2008 Dr. Buchanan met briefly with Dr. Manners at the latter’s home in Broadway, England. Following Manners’ review of Buchanan’s research, Buchanan was directly authorized and encouraged to carry on the vibrational healing technology the good doctor had been developing since the 1950s.

In August 2008 Dr. Buchanan published SONA: Healing with Wave Front BIOresonance™ — a landmark text on vibrational healing now distributed to physicians and vibrational healers around the globe. It is being utilized as an educational manual by professional clinicians in the U.S., Canada, Europe, the Middle East, India and parts of Asia, South America, South Africa, Australia, and Japan.

In December of 2011 Buchanan began his “Sonatherapy” channel on YouTube that in a little over three years has garnered well over 257,000 uploads of Cymatic videos featuring healing Wave Front BIOresonance™ Sonationswith 1,388 subscribers. These free, “self-healing” videos are viewed by, with ongoing emails received from, individuals in far-flung international locales, such as Pakistan, Africa, India, Russia, Indonesia, and elsewhere. Sonatherapy® is slowly being recognized as the healing technology of our time and of the future.

As a lifelong musician and educator, Buchanan is also Director of Music for Cosolargy® International; former Director of Admissions, the Jamilian University of the Ordained; former Editor, The Community Communiqué; Director of The Music Guild; Conductor of the Jamilian Hand Bell Choir; and, Co-chairman of the American Association of Concerned Clergymen, the Advocates for Religious Rights & Freedoms.

For decades Buchanan has served also as Vice President of the Andean Explorers Foundation & Ocean Sailing Club (AEF&OSC); Navigator for OSC; and has chaired the following committees: Cartography, Education, Epigraphy, Motion Picture & Video, and Musicology. (Former Website: www.aefosc.org.)

As an internationally recognized Composer & Conductor for almost five decades, Maestro Buchanan is Founding Conductor/Music Director of The Foundation Orchestra & Association based in Nevada and has been represented by that body, The Music Guild, and Cosolargy® International.

The Reverend Canon Dr. Buchanan lives at Steamboat Hot Springs, south of Reno, Nevada, with his wife Amanda at Steamboat Healing Center & Geothermal Spa, where he researches Wave Front BIOresonance™ — developing new understandings and applying groundbreaking vibrational approaches in healing.

 

Download or share the podcast, or watch it online and comment at vimeo.com. (1:02:00)

 

Karen Elkins is the recipient of a prestigious IPPY Award (Independent Publisher Award) in the Science Category for her stunning visual masterpiece, InsideOut: Revealing the Mysteries of Creation and the Wisdom to Live your Life more Consciously Connected. She is also a contributor to the award winning book The Beacon of Mind: Reason and Intuition in the Ancient and Modern World.

Karen has created many platforms for leading edge scientist, philosophers, inspired artists, and innovative thinkers the world-over. She is the editor, researcher and designer of Science to Sage E-Magazine and has produced over 50 editions. She has co-created editions for Namaste Publishing, HayHouse, Shaloha Productions, and the Electric Universe.

 




“VILCABAMBA: Last Stronghold of the Inca”

 

The Peruvian jungle holds the ancient city of Vilcabamba, the secret center of Inca resistance, which held out for 40 years against Spanish invaders.

The print edition of the January/February 2020 issue of National Geogrpahic History magazine holds an article on the lost city of the Inca, the secret refuge of Vilcabamba: “VILCABAMBA: Last Stronghold of the Inca” by Maria del Carmen Martin Rubio. An insert to the article (pp. 70-71) presents Gene Savoy’s convictions about the location of Vilcabamba.  Images of the insert appears below.

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Cosolargy Newsletter 2020, Issue 1: January

 

 

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“Few People Realize There’s An Active Volcanic Field Right Here In Nevada”

 

Steamboat Springs Nevada Historical Marker No. 198, Reno, Nevada

 

Posted in Nevada August 10, 2019 by Emerson

When you think of volcanos, Nevada isn’t exactly the first place that comes to mind. Instead, you might think of Hawaii’s iconic volcanic landscape or Washington’s famous Mount Saint Helens eruption. However, there are regions of Nevada where volcanic activity can be found, and one of them is incredibly active. In fact, this volcanic field has been used by humans for generations. You may have even visited it yourself without even realizing that you were on top of an active volcanic field! Keep reading to learn all about this hot spot of geothermal activity and where you’ll find it in our state.

When you hear the term “volcanic field”, you probably picture some sort of fiery hellscape complete with bubbling magma. However, that’s not at all what you’ll find at Nevada’s most active volcanic field found in the historic destination of Steamboat Springs.

 

Read the entire article posted online August 10, 2019 at onlyinyourstate.com >

 

link submitted by Marilyn Taylor

 




2019 Japan Trip and Global Training Seminar: An Interview with Bishop Savoy

 

 

In May 2019 Bishop Gene Savoy Jr. and Reno Community members Noriko and Robert Roy traveled to Japan to visit members of the staff at the Community Center in Kurume, Fukuoka and Bishop Yukinori Matsushita at his Tokyo office. In September a follow-up training seminar was held at the Center in Reno, Nevada. The seminar grew from being for Japan Community members only to a global training seminar. This interview tells how it happened.

 

 

Communique Editor: What prompted the May trip to Japan initially? Why did you go at this time?

Gene: Well, the regular schedule is to go every two years. A small group from Reno generally goes every other May. This trip was already planned. Yuki and I talked about it while he was here in Reno during the 2018 Convocation. It was just time for me to go again.

 

 

Communique Editor: What was different about the trip this year compared to previous years?

Gene: Well, Noriko, as our intermediary between us here in the United States and the Community in Japan, started finding out there were some organizational problems people were having in Japan, and it was based on her concern that the trip turned into something like a reorganizing visit to delve into what their procedures were. And for me to help with this, it was necessary for me to meet with each member of the core group individually, one on one, to get a better understanding of who they are and what their talents are.

Communique Editor: What became the real purpose of the trip? What was the theme of the presentations you delivered?

Gene: Well, the trip followed a scheduled agenda during the first week when we were at the Center in Kurume, Fukuoka. The main two components, basically, were, first, my one-on-one interviews with every single one of the core group (Keiko Inoue, Eriko Ueno, Shoko Ohba, Yaeno Sanada, Miyuki Okayama, Koshu Kawahara) plus a select number of other people (Junko Yamamori, Yukako Kawaii, and Hiroko Soejima). Then, second, was the workshop, which was going through all of the materials that I took with me that dealt with the inquiry and enrollment process. And we had a General conversation about precepting. The final thing was another set of private meetings with the group in Tokyo.

 

 

 

Communique Editor: Because you did these presentations, and all of this extensive activity, how did that affect the attendance for our convocation in September?

Gene: Oh, I think it increased the number of people coming because of the promise of an operations seminar. The trip to Japan was phase one. Phase two was the training, the actual training, in September, and then, possibly, a followup trip sometime within the next six months after September. So it may be that some of us will be going back again in the Spring.

Communique Editor: What was the focus of the seminar?

Gene: Having a seminar to actually train people to do what we do here at the Center in Reno is, I think, very significant. We have never before authorized preceptors outside of the Reno Center. We’ve got recorded, on video and in transcripts, all of the components from handling inquiries to precepting students. So we now have a template of how we do these things.

Communique Editor: And so what are the expectations after the training that will be given during the Convocation this year?

Gene: That the staff at the Center in Kurume will basically run Cosolargy International in Japan the way we run things here in Reno, the way we use our systems and procedures, for the most part. It also became very clear that because they do no precepting, they lose a lot of students at a pretty rapid rate. That affects finances, which means that they struggle, and the core people are putting extra money in to keep things afloat.

Communique Editor: Any other developments you are looking forward to?

Gene: The September training seminar during Convocation was originally planned to be just for our Japanese staff members. But we had Paul Young from Australia, and Humberto Garcia from Mexico, and Shawn Smith from Africa who took part in the seminar. They will each be acting as some of our representatives around the world. So it has really become a much grander concept, I think. Truly international. This operations seminar is a new thing. We have never done this before, and it grew out of the trip to Japan, and has now expanded into something different again. It could be the beginning of future training seminars.

Communique Editor: That sounds great. Has anything like this ever been done before?

Gene: The training seminar was the first of its kind in our history. It originated with the trip to Japan. It was going to be just for Japanese, but the idea for the Convocation, in my mind, just expanded. This is the largest convocation we have had, I would say, in a couple of decades. So the training seminar grew from just focusing on the community in Japan to include also Mexico, Australia, and Africa.

Communique Editor: Who took part in the training seminar?

Gene: We have had an established center in Japan for ten years, and that is where the majority of the attendees came from. We are also preparing to create a center that will be in Mexico in the near future. And so we also had in attendance Humberto Garcia, a recently retired professor of physics who has been translating the Academy materials into Spanish over the past couple of years. He hopes to relocate there to our property in Southern Baja within the year. The idea is eventually to have him living on the property in Baja. We did something very similar when we acquired the Sanctuary property. We’ve bought all of this property, and now we have to assign somebody to be there to put down roots. Paul Young is now our official representative of Cosolargy in Australia. And he too was present for training. So was Shawn Smith from Cameroon, Africa.

Communique Editor: How are Community members reacting to this special training seminar? Are they excited?

Gene: I am not even sure that many of the Community members here in the Reno saw this seminar as being significant. They’re not in the meetings where people are struggling in Japan. The Community members in Japan are going through the same thing that we are: How to retain students? How do we better interact with them? How do we answer their questions as they go through the changes that people go through as they apply the System?

Communique Editor: Also, a lot of the people in Reno expected that we would be starting churches. That was the original plan, and now it looks like it is going to be centers of a different kind, not outright churches.

Gene: At least for now. Who knows how those things will work in the future, and even how the Community in Japan is expanding. Because now there is a group in Tokyo.

 

 




Hot Springs Connection Conference Attended

 

 

The 2019 Hot Springs Connection Conference, held November 4th – 8th at Indian Wells and Desert Hot Springs, California in the Greater Palm Springs area, was attended by Gene Savoy Jr. and Radheka Patel Savoy.

This was the 2nd annual conference of the Hot Springs Connection, a collaboration to unify the hot springs industry in the United States and abroad. Attending were 125 owners and operators of hot springs, primarily in the United States. Also represented were hot springs from Canada, Australia, and New Zealand. Gene and Radheka attended on behalf of Steamboat Hot Springs Healing Center and Spa.

The Hot Springs Connection is receiving world-wide recognition to unite geothermal soaking facilities on a global level. During the week, like-minded industry professionals discussed and shared ideas on balancing environmental, social, cultural and economic aspects for successful hot springs management. Some of the topics discussed and addressed at the conference were: historic/heritage preservation; water stewardship; natural resource protection; wellness trends; product customization; efficient operations; regulatory requirements; utilizing geothermal energy; new design standards; tourism marketing; and hospitality training.

Also introduced and launched at the conference was a new Hot Springs Association, a trade association of hot springs owners and operators. The purpose of the Association is to bring together owners and operators to collaborate and cooperate with each other in order to promote the hot springs industry to the public, to share information and ideas, to influence policy, to share new technology, and to work together to represent the diverse hot springs of North America. In addition to the Association, a separate Hot Springs of America website was announced and launched. It is the only site that lists and maps every hot spring in the United States. Steamboat will be joining the Association and will be listed on the Hot Springs of America website.

 

Take a look at the excellent story and photos that the City of Desert Hot Springs posted on their website!

 

by Gene Savoy Jr.