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

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 Would you know the ultimate state of man when he has finally reached his goal, when he has entered into his inherited divinity? It is a state of glory transcending anything conceivable by him during an earthbound existence. His consciousness expands to embrace everything, all that ever was or will be. He sees all. He knows all. He is in all and he contains all. These things come to him through infinite powers of perception; yet he is above all such powers. He is beyond all yet within all. He is beyond the realm of matter, freed from all restrictions; yet he is not denied its joys;… His thoughts have the power of creation. He is one with the Light of Lights, the Light transcending vision. ~The Kolbrin Bible GLN:15:61

“This is a great description of the state of true enlightenment and also of the frustrations the great teachers have in trying to tell others what it is like. It is a lot like trying to explain a smart phone to the people of some primitive stone age tribe that have no idea what any kind of phone is, never mind one that is essentially a small computer that also makes phone calls. The human brain is simply not capable of understanding the spiritual and how things work in the spiritual realm. Our mind/brain is designed specifically to help us function in the physical world. It is not spiritual and therefore cannot really know the spiritual. It can only speculate about spiritual matters, and is therefore usually wrong, or at least very incomplete.”

< Read the entire article online on Harold’s blog at spiritsun.net. >

contributed by Harold Boulette

There is no trustworthy standard by which we can separate the “real” from the “unreal” aspects of phenomena. Such standards as exist are conventional: and correspond to convenience, not to truth. It is no argument to say that most men see the world in much the same way, and that this “way” is the true standard of reality: though for practical purposes we have agreed that sanity consists in sharing the hallucinations of our neighbors. Those who are honest with themselves know that this ‘sharing’ is at best incomplete. By the voluntary adoption of a new conception of the universe, . . . we can and do change to a marked extent our way of seeing things: building up new worlds from old sense impressions, and transmuting objects more easily and thoroughly than any magician. ~Evelyn Underhill

“What the vast majority of us consider reality is no more real than a cartoon or a fantasy novel set in some alien world. We think it is real because most of us agree on it. Something very real could be right in front of us, but if most of us have agreed that it is not real, we will not see it. If most of us look into a garden and see nothing but turnips and tomatoes, the person who also see fairies fluttering around is considered mentally ill. In fact, neither of them is truly seeing reality.”

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contributed by Harold Boulette

            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.

Harold Boulette,“Solar Wind” blogger, has become a book author.

We have been posting a select post from his blog in the Communique each week for the past few years. Now he has taken pieces of his best daily work and reworked them into a full-length eBook: Soul Power: Developing the Spirit and Soul.

“I have been writing about spiritual matters for over seven years on my blog,” said Boulette on his new venture. “A few months ago, I decided to take some of those blog posts and reformat and add to them to make an eBook giving basic instructions on how to get started in spiritual growth.”

“Many people are interested in spiritual development, but don’t quite know where to start. This short book can help. It explains why you should awaken and develop the soul, basic instructions for doing that, tools that can help, and what it is like to have the Soul Power of a fully awakened soul.”

To learn more about his book or to order, follow the links below to pages on his eBook.

Facebook book page: https://www.facebook.com/SoulPowereBook?ref=aymt_homepage_panel

Facebook author’s page: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Harold-Boulette-Author/418595794961743

Visit the Amazon book page to look inside:
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00LQNOJS4

Whither are you carried, O men, drunken with drinking strong wine of ignorance? . . . Stand and be sober, and look up again with the Eyes of your heart, and if you cannot all do so, yet do so many as you can.

For the malice of Ignorance surroundeth all the Earth, and corrupteth the Soul, shup up in the Body, not suffering it to arrive at the Havens of Salvation. Suffer not yourselves to be carried with the Great Stream, but stem the tide yo that can lay hold of the Haven of Safety, and make your full course towards it.

Seek on that may lead you by the hand, and conduct you to the door of Truth and Knowledge, where the clear Light is tat is pure from Darkness, where there is not one drunken, but all are sober, and in their heart look up to Him, whose pleasure is to be seen. For He cannot be heard with ears, nor seen with eyes, nor expressed in words; but only in mind and heart. ~Hermes

“Read the quote carefully. Hermes is not saying that drunks can’t go to heaven, he is saying those who are “drunk on ignorance” can’t go to heaven. So what does he mean by that? He means that people who are not only ignorant, but consciously choose to remain ignorant cannot go to heave, which he refers to as the Haven of Salvation.”

< Read the entire article online on Harold’s blog at spiritsun.net. >

contributed by Harold Boulette

“A wide-spreading love to all in common, says Ruysbroeck in a celebrated passage, is the authentic mark of a truly spiritual man. In this phrase is concealed the link between the social and personal aspects of the spiritual life. It means that our passional nature with its cravings and ardors, instead of making self-centered whirlpools, flows out in streams of charity and power towards all life. And we observe too that the Ninth Perfection of the Buddhist is such a state of active charity. “In his loving, sympathizing, joyful and steadfast mind he will recognize himself in all things, and will shed warmth and light on the world in all directions out of his great, deep, unbound heart.” ~Evelyn Underhill

“Not only is a “love to all in common” important for development of our spiritual facilities, it is important for all people, whether they are currently interested in spiritual growth, or not. It is necessary for world peace. It is necessary if we are to learn how to share the land and other resources of the world in a way that is fair and equitable for all and not just a select few.

“Sharing love in common means recognizing that we are really all parts of the whole rather than individuals. You don’t end at a certain location and the other guy begins at a certain location. When you are sharing love and sharing energy with all the beings around you, you naturally become aware of this. That makes it almost impossible to hate others, or compete against them. If you compete at all, it is to improve yourself, and not to conquer others. Attacking others in any way would feel like you are attacking yourself because that is exactly what you are doing.”

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Visit and bookmark Harold Boulette’s blog Solar Wind at:  http://spiritsun.net/

contributed by Harold Boulette

Mysticism means nothing if the attitude and the discipline which it recommends be adapted to fair weather alone: if the principles for which it stands break down when subjected to the pressure of events, and cannot be reconciled with the sterner duties of the national life. To accept this position is to reduce mysticism to the status of a spiritual plaything. On the contrary, if the experiences on which it is based have indeed the transcendent value for humanity which the mystics claim for them—if they reveal to us a world of higher truth and greater reality than the world of concrete happenings in which we seem to be immersed—then that value is increased rather than lessened when confronted by the overwhelming disharmonies and suffering of the present time. It is significant that many of these experiences are reported to us from periods of war and distress: that the stronger the forces of destruction appeared, the more intense grew the spiritual vision which opposed them. ~Evelyn Underhill

“Would you want to see a doctor who, in medical school, attended only those classes she found interesting and skipped others? Would you even want to get your car repaired by a mechanic who did the same? I hope the answer is no to both questions. If someone decided not to follow most of the rules of musical composition, what kind of sound would he produce? If would most likely be irritating noise, not music. Yet many people approach spiritual studies as if they are in a buffet line and can select those things they like and ignore the rest.”

< Read the entire article online on Harold’s blog at spiritsun.net. >

contributed by Harold Boulette

“During the last two thousand years, but especially since the sixteenth century, humanity has achieved a tremendous work, namely, the conquest of the globe and the constitution of experimental science, in what concerns the material and visible world.

“That this gigantic and herculean task should be successfully accomplished, it was necessary that there should be a temporary eclipse of man’s transcendental faculties, so that his whole power of observation might be concentrated on the outer world. These faculties, however, have never been extinct or even inactive. They lay dormant in the mass of men; they remained active in the elect, far from the gaze of the vulgar.

“Now they are showing themselves openly under new forms. Before long they will assume a leading and directing importance in human destinies.” ~Edouard Schure

“I’m not sure it was a good thing that people became very materialistic over the past several centuries, but it certainly is true that it allowed us to explore the world and create a global society. Some might credit that to such things as Facebook, or the internet, but those things are all standing on the shoulders of much that came before. It can, of course, be argued that in spreading over the globe humanity did a great deal of damage and hasn’t stopped yet. But it is also true that many atrocities that despots and terrorists used to get away with because no one outside of their little domains knew about it. Now the whole world soon finds out, whether they choose to do something about it or not.”

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Visit and bookmark Harold Boulette’s blog Solar Wind at:  http://spiritsun.net/

contributed by Harold Boulette

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!