12-1-03
Letters to a friend and fellow truth seeker on sungazing, charging the bodies cells with solar energy, eating an alkaline diet:

Dear Friend,

The process of ascending toward enlightenment:

The body is a large organic battery. The body anchors us to the material reality of this earth. Ascending is partly the process of lifting the body out of the material into the spiritual. When you lift the body (the anchor)... you lift the personal mind (allow it to ascend)... and it follows, that when you lift the mind... you lift the body, but lifting the body is much easier to raise because the process is mechanical. The process is mechanical but what is actually happening is electrical... charging the large organic (alkaline) battery... the body.

In ancient Hindu writings, the yogi’s say, “to live a spiritual life, make the blood as alkaline as possible.” (You may want to read, Patanjali’s Yoga Sutras,... the Hindu yogi’s have been studying how to attain enlightenment for thousands of years.)

http://www.seekeronline.org/may02.html

Anyway, the blood flowing through the body helps in the process of alkalizing all the fluids in the body. Similar to getting the mix of “battery acid” in your car battery right, (a mixture of sulfuric acid and water), so the battery can be charged.

The natural flow of electricity is from positive to negative. This natural flow of electrons is what makes a poultice work to draw poisons out of the body. Toxic matter in the body is positively charged, and the poultice (moist clay, epsom salts, moist mustard plaster) are negatively charged... natural electricity flows from + to - drawing the poisons out of the body by osmosis through the skin into the poultice.

The acid-alkaline balance in the body fluids is altered by what we eat. Meat, most dairy products and most grains are acid forming. Fruit and vegetables, sprouted grains-seeds-nuts, whole unprocessed milk and raw honey are alkaline forming. (Nothing is all yin or yang) All things in a category may be yin or yang except maybe one thing, as whole milk among the dairy products.

The body is inclined to remain acid, to retain acid matter... toxins. Alkalinity is rapidly lost... so a person needs to eat alkaline forming foods every day to maintain a balance. And to make the blood a alkaline as possible, eat only alkaline forming foods. This gets the body fluids right for charging.

The fluids in the body must be alkaline for the cells in the body to be charged. A quote from (Sungazing Master) Hira Ratan Manek: "I was a vegetarian right from birth..." His blood and body fluids were always alkaline and ready for charging... and he realized many benefits physically, mentally, and spiritually from charging his bodies cells by sungazing. If the physical body is not pure, sungazing may be harmful?

12-2-03

The following excerpts are from, Flight into Freedom,
by Eileen Caddy (Co-founder of The Findhorn Garden)

We were told [by Eileen's Inner Voice] that our aim was to raise our vibrations, and to help us to do this we were given instructions on what to eat. "You are building light-bodies; therefore absorb the light which you get from the food in the garden. This food is tended by the nature spirits, devas and angels who help provide the life force. It is not the amount of salad you eat; it is being in the right state when you eat it. Always give thanks for what you are given. This is vital food and it is precious. Your aim is to cut out all body-building food and eat the food that has the highest life force."

We were told to refine our eating gradually, doing nothing drastic, but to follow the diet I was given from within. It had nothing to do with any known diet, so we could not turn to books for direction. We learned to live on vegetables from the garden, honey and fruit, phasing out first red meat, then white meat and poultry, then fish and finally cutting down on eggs. We found our sensitivity grew and we became more in touch with the spiritual realms and the nature forces in the gardens.

I ate only one meal a day of raw foods and drank pints and pints of pure, clear water, with no tea or coffee or stimulants of any kind. To be honest I got bored eating raw food all the time. It was a real struggle. Peter and Dorothy ate mountains of salads and lots of garlic, which is cleansing for the body. I was told that, as our bodies became finer and less dense, our skin would absorb substances from the ethers and the sun and air.

We developed an entirely new understanding of the purpose of eating. We were told that we were purifying the atomic structure of our bodies, transforming the dense physical substance into light and lightness which would be more receptive to absorbing energies from the sun, sea and air, and would require less solid food. But this was not a process that could be rushed into. You have to gradually refine your body.

As it becomes finer and less dense, your skin will begin to be able to absorb substances which at present it is incapable of doing. It is as if layer after layer of old skin has to be peeled off, leaving only the fine thin layer which can absorb these purities from the ethers. "I ask all of you to drink more water, just pure, pure water. It is very cleansing and will be a great help in speeding up this refining process."

Previously we had thought of food in terms of calories or energy needed for building and maintaining solid physical bodies. Now we were told that what actually nourished us was a more subtle energy. Through our diet we were absorbing the light that made the vegetables and fruits grow... the light of the sun and the light of our consciousness. Our bodies were becoming light.

Pure clear water was vital to this process of transforming our bodies. Over and over we were told to drink little else. What we did need was the effect of water's special qualities. Water has untapped forces and energies [Solar energized water?] in it which have not yet been discovered by mankind. Sunshine and water, sunshine and water. "I want you to cut down gradually on solid food and drink more water. Water will give you the energy you need."

THE BIO-CHEMISTRY OF PSYCHIC POWER
From: The Greatest Power in the Universe, by Uell S. Andersen

There is a bio-chemistry of psychic power which your present
program of nutrition serves well but may serve even better
with deeper understanding. This bio-chemistry centers around
the blood platelet, a tiny energy vesicle to which medical science
currently ascribes the sole function of clotting the blood at the
entrance to a wound.

The blood platelet is capable of receiving
a psychic energy charge, and when all blood platelets have
received such a charge, the individual achieves direct contact
with the Master Mind, and all of its intelligence and energy are
accessible to him.

The only way in which the blood platelet can receive a psychic
energy charge is by passing through the pineal gland, but any
constriction of the blood vessels closes this gland and prevents
the blood platelets from entering. Fear, anxiety, and anger
cause such constriction as do all Time foods [Acid forming].

Only rarely in modern man is the pineal gland sufficiently open
to permit charging of blood platelets, and these occasions are
more than offset by his ingesting substances which immediately
remove the psychic charges. Such foods are psychic poisons.

The blood platelet has three poles, and when it passes
through the pineal gland, the center pole receives a positive
charge while the two side poles receive negative charges.

Then, as the platelet circulates through the bloodstream, the
positive pole picks up a negatively-charged particle while the
two negative poles each pick up a positively-charged particle.
At that point the platelet is fully charged.

When all the blood platelets have been fully charged, the
very next platelet to pass through the pineal gland receives a
positive charge on all three poles, and the person achieves
direct contact with the Master Mind. His psychic powers then
rapidly develop.

THE PSYCHIC POISONS

Foods which act as psychic poisons by removing psychic
charges from the platelets are, in the order of their destructiveness:
Pork, spinach, chocolate, refined sugar, bleached flour, alcohol,
tobacco, and coffee. [I think we can assume that many acid-forming
foods are, "psychic poisons."]

The pig blood platelet is charged exactly the opposite of the
human platelet. It carries a negative charge on the center pole
and positive charges on each of the side poles. Consequently,
when pork, ham or bacon are ingested they set up a chain
reaction in the blood stream, which removes the charges from
every blood platelet. Even a perfectly functioning psychic
organism would take twenty-seven days to recover.

The iron in spinach cannot be assimilated by the human
body due to the presence of oxalic acid. As a result, that iron
accumulates in the digestive tract and withdraws charges from
the blood platelets.

Distilled water is the only compound that is perfectly balanced
and so always sides with the Forces of Balance. To avoid the
Forces of Imbalance, use distilled water.

Biosophy

"Biosophy offers humanity a realistic, naturalistic and visible Creator in the form of the Sun, who is the God of Science and of the most ancient religions of Atlantis, Egypt, etc. Who can deny that the Sun is the Universal Benefactor of the entire human race and the Giver of Life, not only to the plant, but to the human world as well.

Foods may be divided into two classes :

1. Mucous-forming: Those which generate acid-toxins in the blood, which are excreted as mucous or deposited as mucus. These foods include (in the order of their mucous-forming capacity): animal foods, fish, eggs, dairy products, grains.

2. Non-mucous-forming, or hygienic foods, are those which supply the blood with the mineral elements required to carry on vital processes. Alkaline foods are able to neutralize acid-toxins, and to dissolve and eliminate mucus. These foods include only raw vegetables and raw fruit.

The cow, and other herbivorous animals live upon what for humans would be second class of foods; and obtain from them all that is required for the formation of healthy animal tissue.

How does the cow obtain sufficient protein when the grass it eats contains so little of it? The protein is obtained from atmospheric nitrogen, which is absorbed by the lungs, where, in a similar way as occurs in the leaves of a plant. Where the nitrogen is combined with carbon dioxide, phosphorus, sulphur and other elements to form protein.

By gradually changing from animal proteins to cottage cheese and legumes, and finally to nuts, one may in time entirely, dispense with protein foods. And, like the cow, obtain all necessary nitrogenous nourishment from the atmosphere.

The old calorie theory was based upon the assumption that we derive heat and energy from the combustion of carbohydrates and fats. This, however, was a false belief... fasting experiments in which, after a certain day of the fast, prove there was no further loss of weight. And without any continued decrease in bodily heat strength and energy, prove that the source of heat and vital power is not the oxidation of carbon compounds, but is the etheric electricity [sunshine] which flows directly into and through the nervous system.

The human body is like a dynamo which draws its electric power, directly from the ether. Through lung and skin respiration, etheric power is absorbed into the body, collecting at the Solar Plexus, the battery of the sympathetic nervous system. From here, this electric energy (the Life-Force) passes to the sex glands where, in combination with elements derived from the blood, it, condenses into seminal fluid. It is through this secretion that vital energy is conveyed to the various ductless glands, nerve-centers and organs of the body. [This process can be increased by sungazing.]

Each night, during sleep, a new daily supply of cerebro-spinal fluid is manufactured. Energy absorbed from the ether (sunshine) by the sympathetic nervous system (whose nerve-endings in the skin consist of minute mouths, which rhythmically open and close) is conveyed through the medium of the sex secretion to the central nervous system, which is then electrically recharged.

The thyroid, pituitary and pineal glands, which are intimately related to the mental and spiritual life of the individual, are directly activated by the absorbed sex fluid carried to them by the blood.

The human body, therefore, requires no protein or carbonaceous foods. The only hygienic diet is the one given to man at the beginning, as described in Genesis, composed of raw herbs and fruit. Such a diet will supply the human body with all the elements required for its perfect functioning.

However, in most people, the capacity of obtaining protein from the atmosphere, and heat and energy from the ether, is in a very dormant state; consequently a gradual transition from the unnatural to the natural diet is required, lest the change involve a too sudden loss of weight.

For this reason, fasting is neither beneficial nor advisable except for the one who has gone through all intermediary steps, and has finally reached the state in which he no longer requires earthly nourishment, [It seems that the author may have had little or no first hand fasting experience.Pete] but is able to obtain all the elements he requires from atmospheric, etheric and solar sources. [Sungazing]

One should advance from one to the other of the following diets as fast as the newly awakened nutritive instinct is able to do so. Always eating only what is agreeable to the natural sense of taste, and never forcing oneself beyond one's capacity by mere intellectual decision.

1. THE BLOODLESS DIET: Eliminating red meats, and substituting white meats, fish [Certain fish absorb considerably more mercury than others. Pete] and eggs.

2. THE MEATLESS DIET: Using fish, eggs and dairy products instead of meat.

3. THE VEGETARIAN DIET: Eliminating all animal foods, including fish and eggs, using as a substitute fresh cottage cheese and legumes. Whole wheat bread should be substituted for white bread. Natural decaffeinated coffee for real coffee, brown sugar for white sugar, and celery salt for table salt. [ "Mrs. Dash", w/yellow cap, is a natural herbal mix and a good substitute for salt.]

4. THE RAW FOOD DIET: This consists only of raw vegetables, fruit, grains and nuts. For breakfast, grapefruit, oranges or melon, or else a fruit salad covered with grated seeds or nuts, should be eaten.

For lunch a raw vegetable salad,, composed of cabbage, carrots, cucumbers, lettuce, tomatoes, peppers, green onions, spinach, celery and anise, in different combinations. For those with poor teeth, these vegetables may be ground up together into a juicy pulp form by a food chopper. This salad may be seasoned with finely chopped parsley and garlic. It should then be mixed together with ground or grated nuts; and lemon juice and olive oil should be added to it. [A good sweet and sour salad dressing can be made from a quarter cup of raw honey mixed with the juice of half a lemon.This is our favorite salad dressing.]

The above salad, eaten together with unleavened corn bread constitutes a complete meal, and is the surest cure for constipation, as well as of the many diseases which are due to this cause.

Supper should consist of a fruit salad mixed with grated nuts, and figs or dates. Or else, the nuts may be eaten together with raisins, figs or dates, and the fruit, including tomatoes, may be eaten whole.[The fruit can be reconstituted by letting them soak overnight in water... be sure and drink the water the fruit soaked in or mix in other juices.]

5. THE RAW VEGETABLE, FRUIT AND SEED-NUT DIET: This involves substitution of nuts for grains. It is similar to the preceding diet except for the fact that no grains are used. Some may eliminate vegetables, and live on fruits and nuts.

6. THE HYGIENIC DIET: All of the above diets are, to a smaller or greater extent, unhygienic. This is the only truly hygienic one. It contains no mucous-forming foods, and consists only of raw vegetables and fruit. This diet will help overcome every disease, for diseases are caused by a mucous-forming foods and demineralized diet.

[When you cook food you kill it... and it in turn kills you. That’s the basic reason for eating raw food, it’s living, (and alkaline forming) and keeps you well nourished, and the residues eliminate well, which keeps you free of toxins and living a healthy life.]

7. THE FRUIT DIET: Consisting only of raw fruit, Vegetables are foods of a lower vibration than fruit and are intended for animals rather than for men. As one, in the process of development, acquires an aversion to the eating of animals, so, later, one develops the same feeling concerning the killing and eating of plants.

8. THE COSMIC RAY DIET: This is the diet of the Superman who no longer requires earthly food, but may obtain this from cosmic radiations alone by sunbathing and sungazing. The sun gives off cosmic rays; and it is these invisible radiations that awaken seeds under the ground to germinate in springtime.

So do cosmic rays generate life electricity in the cells of the human body. While the other diets described above insure greater longevity; only this cosmic ray diet makes possible physical immortality.

One meal a day is entirely sufficient. This should be eaten at noon when solar and physiological energy are at their height. Those who have been eating three meals a day should first eliminate breakfast, then supper."

From: Creation of the Superman by Dr. Raymond Bernard

Well, enough for now... almost a book.:-)

"The Teacher—The Sun—The Light-Giver"

"Montessori makes use of various similes to illustrate
what she means by the teacher's being a dynamic link between
the children and the environment. The directress must act as a
"vivifying presence which awakens the sleeping soul of the
child. Her role may be compared to that of the sun; for she
is one who brings light, by means of which we are able to see
distinctions which we could not see before. She also awakens
that interest which comes from knowing better and more
deeply what we knew before." (Like the sun, too, she must
leave those she helps free to live their own lives.)"

He stood there
In barefoot humility
Gazing at the sun.

12-3-03

Dear Friend,

Thank you for your recent letter. Here is the answer to your question, "How does a person charge the bodies cells?"

Originally I had planned to give out this type of esoteric information only to those, like yourself, who are serious about their spiritual path. But since the following information is readily available and well documented on the internet there is no longer any reason to keep it secret. And maybe there never was any reason for secrecy. I am now inspired to give out all the information that I have by publishing it in my journals.

Ancient Hindu scriptures tell us the quickest way to charge the bodies cells is sungazing. To do this... stand barefoot on bare ground and roll the eyes around the sun. This bathes all the rods and cones in the eye and charges the bodies cells.

You should sungaze only when the sun is fairly low in the sky... never attempt to sungaze when the sun is at or near it's zenith at noon or during an eclipse of the sun. You can sungaze... by looking directly at the sun at sunrise and sunset, without any discomfort. Begin by practicing these sungazing techniques slowly or for a short time at the beginning to see how your eyes are affected. Follow your inspiration. See detailed examples of sungazing methods below.

Various names for sungazing: sun gazing, solar healing, solar gazing, sun staring, Sun Yoga, Surya Yoga and Solar Yoga.

12-4-03

The following excerpt is from the, Essene Gospel of Peace, Book I, in which Jesus advises the sick to sunbathe and sungaze.

"They praised the Angel of Sun in its rising and its setting..."

"And if afterward there remain within you aught of your past sins and uncleanness, seek the angel of sunlight. Put off your shoes and your clothing and suffer the angel of sunlight to embrace all your body. Then breathe long and deeply, that the angel of sunlight may be brought within you. [Sungazing???] And the angel of sunlight shall cast out of your body all evil-smelling and unclean things which defiled it without and within. And all unclean and evil-smelling things shall rise from you, even as the darkness of night fades before the brightness of the rising sun. For I tell you truly, holy is the angel of sunlight who cleans out all uncleanness and makes all evil-smelling things of a sweet odor. None may come before the face of God, whom the angel of sunlight lets not pass. Truly, all must be born again of sun and of truth, for your body basks in the sunlight of the Earthly Mother, and your spirit basks in the sunlight of the truth of the Heavenly Father.”

"I am sent to you by the Father, that I may make the light of life to shine before you. The light lightens itself and the darkness, but the darkness knows only itself, and knows not the light. I have still many things to say to you, but you cannot bear them yet. For your eyes are used to the darkness, and the full light of the Heavenly Father would make you blind. Therefore, you cannot yet understand that which I speak to you concerning the Heavenly Father who sent me to you. Follow, therefore, first, only the laws of your Earthly Mother, of which I have told you. And when her angels shall have cleansed and renewed your bodies and strengthened your eyes, you will be able to bear the light of our Heavenly Father. When you can gaze on the brightness of the noonday sun with unflinching eyes, [Definitely sungazing!!!]you can then look upon the blinding light of your Heavenly Father, which is a thousand times brighter than the brightness of a thousand suns. But how should you look upon the blinding light of your Heavenly Father, when you cannot even bear the shining of the blazing sun? Believe me, the sun is as the flame of a candle beside the sun of truth of the Heavenly Father. Have but faith, therefore, and hope, and love.”

12-5-03

From The Essene Gospel of Peace Book II. [Sungazing Quotes]

And I opened the third seal,
And I saw, and beheld the Angel of Sun,
And between her lips flowed the light of life,
And she knelt over the earth,
And gave to man the fires of Power,
And the strength of the sun entered the heart of man.

Angel of the Sun!
There is no warmth without thee,
No fire without thee,
No life without thee,
The green leaves of the trees
Do worship thee,
And through thee is the tiny wheat kernel
Become a river of golden grass,
Moving with the wind.
Through thee is opened the flower
In the center of my body.
Therefore will I never hide myself
From thee.
Angel of Sun,
Holy messenger of the Earthly Mother,
Enter the holy temple within me
And give me the fire of Life!

12-6-03

From The Essene Gospel of Peace Book III. [Sungazing Quotes]

Angel of Sun!
Dart forth thy rays upon me!
Let them touch me; let them penetrate me!
I give myself to thee and thy embrace,
Blessed with the fire of life!
A molten flood of holy joy
Flows toward me from thee!

12-7-03
Quotes from the Oahspe bible:

"These influences [of the sun] are easily discernable by some persons. One is depressed by a dull day; another inclined to drunkenness and fighting. By a bright day man is inspired to energy."

"He that healeth by laying-on of hands, only giveth off the vortexya [unseen power] he hath previously received. Let him see that he replenish himself by sunlight (so called), and trees and herbs and ground to walk upon. For giving away, without replenishing, will soon result in nothing." [Sungazing ???]

12-8-03

According to the Oahspe there is no such thing as sunlight per se. "Neither light, nor heat, nor attraction of gravitation cometh from the sun to the earth. The earth floateth in the midst of a vortex... Things fall not to the earth because of magnetism, but they are driven to the center by the vortex."

"The name of the force of the vortex is called vortexya. Vortexya is unseen power, but without sense or judgment. Though a man see the light of the sun, as he seeth a horse in a field, yet there is no such thing as travel of light in fact; nor is there any substance of light. But that which is called light is polarity of corporeal needles in solution, caused by the lines of [the sun's] vortexya."

The sun turns in a master vortex which carries all the planets of our solar system."As the lines of vortexya are in currents from the outer toward the interior, so do the solutions of corpor [matter in solution]take the shape of needles, in the master [sun's vortex], pointing toward the center, which condition of things is called light." And when the needles strike the surface of the earth they produce heat.

"Daylight is the condition of things [matter in solution in the shape of needles] polarized within the master vortex." The condition of night is caused when the earth turns away from the sun and the lines of polarity of vortexya are disturbed. ...both night and day continue all the time,and we realize them both alternately in consequence of the axial motion of the earth."

"The half of the earth's vortex (for example) which faceth toward the sun is a concave lens to the earth. A similar lens, but far larger, is at the sun-centre. The convex faces of the two lenses are toward each other forever. They are ethereally connected by solutions of corpor needles linear in position."

The needles driven by the suns vortex are focused by the lens. "...thus producing day and warmth on the face of the earth. This great hemispherical lens, atmospherea, not only thus manufactureth light and heat, but it also affordeth man the means of seeing the sun and moon and stars.[This is a simple rough outline of the complicated description in the Oahspe of how sunlight, heat and gravity are produced. If this is true then the energy from sungazing must come from the earth?]

From the Oahspe Bible; Book of Cosmology and Prophecy.

Translation of the Naacal Tablets [At least 15000 years old] from the submerged Pacific continent of Mu... “The Empire of the Sun,” by James Churchward.

From Churchward’s series of books on, The Lost Continent of Mu.

Creation Story

The first intellectual command [of God] was:

"Let the gases which are without form and scattered
through space be brought together, and out of them let the
earth be formed. The gases then assembled themselves
into the form of a whirling mass." [Vortex]

The second command was:

" 'Let the gases solidify to form the earth.' Then the
gases solidified; volumes were left on the outside, out of
which water and the atmosphere were to be formed; and
volumes were enveloped within the new world. Darkness
prevailed and there was no sound, for as yet neither the
atmosphere nor the waters were formed."

The third command was:

" 'Let the outside gases be separated and let them form
the atmosphere and the waters.' And the gases were
separated; one part went to form the waters, and the
waters settled upon the earth and covered its face so that
no land anywhere appeared. The gases that did not form
the waters formed the atmosphere, and:

"The light was contained in the atmosphere."

"And the shafts of the sun met the shafts of the light in
the atmosphere and gave birth to light. Then there was
light upon the face of the earth; and"

"The heat was also contained in the atmosphere.

"And the shafts of the sun met the shafts of the heat in
the atmosphere and gave it life. Then there was heat to
warm the face of the earth."

The fourth command was:

" 'Let the gases that are within the earth raise the land
above the face of the waters.' Then the fires of the
under earth lifted the land on which the waters rested until
it appeared above the face of the waters, and this was the
dry land."

The fifth command was:

" 'Let life come forth in the waters.' And the shafts of
the sun met the shafts of the earth in the mud of the waters
and there formed cosmic eggs (life germs) out of particles
of the mud. Out of these cosmic eggs came forth life as
commanded."

The sixth command was:

'"Let life come forth upon the land.' And the shafts of
the sun met the shafts of the earth in the dust of the land,
and out of it formed cosmic eggs; and from these cosmic
eggs life came forth upon the earth as was commanded."

And when all this was done...

The seventh intellect command was:

"Let us make man after our own fashion, and let us
endow him with powers to rule this earth."

12-9-03

The following excerpt is from, The Life and Teaching of the Masters of the Far East.

Jesus said: "If we take the science of things, we know there is a legend here that all the heat and light and many other natural forces are contained right within the earth. The sun, of itself, has no heat or light. It has potentialities that draw the heat and light from the earth. After the sun has drawn the heat and light rays from the earth, the heat rays are reflected back to the earth by atmosphere that floats in the either. The light rays are drawn from the earth in about the same manner and are reflected back to the earth by the either."

12-10-03
Methods of charging the bodies cells: sungazing, walking barefoot on the earth with most of the body exposed to the sun; bathing or swimming in living sun-charged water of streams, rivers and lakes; drinking sun-charged water; eating living food as fresh as possible; prana breathing; find a power point where prana wells up out of the earth like a small whirlwind and stand in it; (go barefoot to look for these on hilltops, mountain ridges and peaks) exhilarate the mind with prayer, mantras, affirmations and singing to invoke god's grace.

Illumination means to light up... and that's what we are trying to do here. You've seen paintings of Saints and Angels with a halo around their head... that's an indication of illumination... or spiritual enlightenment. The cells of the body become fully charged and the body begins to glow... the mind is cleared of mental clutter and the body becomes free of toxic waste and dis-ease.

All of these methods of ascending require that you live a balanced spiritual life in which you are physically and mentally pure to maintain the sanity of your personal mind. As you ascend your reality may change very rapidly and you need to be able to keep your mental balance to continue upward.

12-11-03

At this point, Dear Friend, I would like to place a "Disclaimer" that in my journal for the month of December 2003, I am not suggesting that anyone try sungazing for any reason. The information about sungazing in this month and later months of my journal is simply for academic study only.

I am enclosing below some articles on sungazing or Solar Yoga. I hope you find them interesting. I am using the method of sungazing outlined by Hira Manek.

Yours in... Love, Life, Law and... LIGHT.

Pete

PS. As you remember in the past in my journals I often spoke of walking barefoot. Now you know the main reason for this... walking barefoot grounds the body to the earth which is necessary for the cells of the body to be charged by sunbathing and sungazing.

"St. Francis gives particulars concerning reception, profession, and vestments of the brothers. They are forbidden to wear shoes..."

Hira Ratan Manek

Attached:

Hira Ratan Manek's sungazing method:

http://www.solarhealing.com/

Process:

HRM experimented on his own body for three years and devised this method based on trial and error. This can be accomplished by anyone in any part of the world at any time of the year. HRM is not a unique figure and anyone can do this. Now thousands are using this method of sungazing are achieving results. In Brazil, Australia, Germany, more than 3000 people are subsisting on light. This is a rebirth of a science that was practiced long time ago. Originally this was a spiritual practice in the ancient times and now it is becoming a scientific practice, which can be followed by anyone as described below. Day by day this practice of sungazing is becoming popular and has become known as the HRM Phenomena.

Safe Sungazing Practice:

Sungazing is a one-time practice of your lifetime usually for a period of 9 months. You can break up the practice in three phases. 0 to 3months, 3-6months and 6- 9months. You have to walk barefoot for 45 minutes for the rest of your life. Food makes us commit the maximum pain to others and exploit others. The practice entails looking at the rising or setting sun one time per day only during the safe hours. No harm will come to your eyes during the morning and evening safe hours. The safe hours are anytime within 1-hour window after sunrise or anytime within the 1-hr window before sunset. It is scientifically proven beyond a reasonable doubt that during these times, one is free from UV and IR rays exposure, which is harmful to your eyes. To determine the timings of sunrise or sunset, you can check the local newspaper, which also lists the UV Index as 0 during these times. Both times are good for practice - it depends on individual's convenience. Sungazing also has the added advantage of getting vitamin A and D during the 1-hour safe period window. Vitamin A is necessary for the health of the eye, the only vitamin that the eye requires. If you sungaze, the spectacles and the associated power in the eye will go away and this will provide better eyesight without glasses.

For those who cannot initially sungaze during the safe periods, sunbathing is an effective method for receiving the sun energy at a slower pace until one is able to sungaze. Best times to take sunbath is when the UV index is lower 2 or below. This usually occurs within the 2-hour window after sunrise or before sunset. Sun bathing during the day is to be avoided, except for during the winter months, when the UV index usually remains at 2 all throughout which is safe for sunbathing. Check your local newspaper to see the published results for UV Index to be sure. Also do not use sunscreen. When body gets heated up you perspire and sweat is a waste product and needs to go out of the body. When you are painted or coated with lotions and creams -- they get degenerated and the chemicals enter your body. It is our malpractice -our wrong use- why we blame the sun for skin cancers.

Sungazing: 0 - 3 months.

First day, during the safe hours, sungaze for a maximum of 10 seconds. Second day sungaze for 20 seconds at the rising sun adding ten seconds every succeeding day. So at the end of 10 continuous days of sungazing you will be looking at the sun for 100 seconds i.e. 1 minute and 40 seconds. Stand on bare earth with bare foot. Eyes can blink and/or flicker. Stillness or steadiness of the eyes is not required. Do not wear any lenses or glasses while sungazing.

Why don't you watch the sun instead of the TV? The intensity of the TV is much more than the rising or setting of the sun. If you can watch TV at close ranges for extended periods of time, you can easily watch the rising or setting sun safely. Have a belief that the sunrays or lights that you are getting into your eyes are of immense benefit and will not harm you. This will give you earlier, quicker and better results. Even without a belief component also you will get the results provided that you follow the practice, however, it will take longer time. On the other hand, you need not restrict any of your normal daily routines to sungaze. There are no restrictions. You can enjoy your food while applying this practice. Hunger will disappear eventually by itself.

You may consider sungazing from the same place at the same time daily. Following circadian patterns has its advantages. If you pray, you can have any prayer of your choice. No particular one is suggested and it is not a requirement. As a precaution, have your eyes examined by a doctor. This is to err on the side of caution from a scientific standpoint. Also, you should have periodic check ups. Additionally, you can buy photo sun-cards to monitor UV and IR radiation, which are priced at about $2. (when cards are kept in the sunlight). There is no need to buy an expensive $500 photosensometer. If your cheeks get heated up then stop gazing. Use common sense.

When you reach three months you will have gazed at the sun 15 minutes at a stretch. If you can watch TV for 3 hours, surely you can see the sun for that long. What is happening as you go up to 15 minutes? The sun energy or the sunrays passing through the human eye are charging the hypothalamus tract, which is the pathway behind the retina leading to the human brain. As the brain receives the power supply through this pathway, it is activated into a brainutor. One of the software programs inherent in the brain will start running and we will begin to realize the changes since we will have no mental tension or worries. Besides, we will have the self-confidence to face life problems by means of developing a positive mind set instead of a negative one. Moreover, we will become fearless since our psychosis will have disappeared so will have all the ills of the mind. This is the first phase of the method and lasts around 3 months.

Humans have good and bad qualities, which are 2 sides of the same coin. In the absence of the sunlight we develop bad qualities. When sunlight enters the brain, good qualities come into appearance replacing bad ones. Eventually, even spiritual ignorance goes away. Sometimes, you get confused from what you hear and read. You get contradictory information such as red wine is good for you and alcohol is bad for you. You are baffled with life's problems and detest decision-making. But after 3 months of sun gazing, you develop a sense of confidence and know the answers for yourself spiritually. There is a balance of the mind, where you are in a position to judge personal answers - the correct answers. You develop powers that are already inherent in you. Bad qualities disappear, anger, greed, jealousy leave you. You become a lovable creature. Everybody likes you. You will do no wrong. If you are positive or fearless, you will not harm anybody nor pain anybody. You will become a compassionate person. This is a great contribution to world peace. A positive approach creates solutions to problems and waste in society. There will be no need for environmental engineers. We won't throw waste, as there is no away. By 3.5 months everything changes.

Besides, mental depression will go away. Psychiatrists are observing that sadness is caused by lack of sunlight. With the practice of sungazing you will not have depression in your whole lifetime. You will achieve a perfect balance of mind. Fear of death will go away. The state of mind is such that you will welcome death. What is to happen, you will be able to let it happen. There will be no worries. Everyone has some sort of mental disorder, which is the biggest human problem, which can be removed by the proper use of sunlight.

Sungazing: 3 - 6 months.

Next, Physical diseases will start being cured. 70 to 80% of the energy synthesized from food is taken by the brain and is used up in fueling tensions and worries. With a lack of mental tension, brain does not require the same amount of energy as before. As you proceed in sun gazing and as your tensions decrease the need for food intake will go down.

When you reach 30 minutes duration of continuously sungazing, you will slowly be liberated from physical disease since by then all the colors of the sun will have reached the brain through the eye. Brain regulates the flow of color prana appropriately to the respective organs. All the internal organs get ample supply of the required color prana. The vital organs are dependent on certain sun color prana. Kidney red, Heart yellow, Liver green etc. Colors reach the organs and address any deficiencies. This is how color therapies work... Reiki and Pranic Healing. There is a lot of information available on color therapy. This is the process of getting liberated from physical ailments over a six-month period. After 3-4 months you can become cured of your physical ailments with autosuggestion, which is imagining and visualizing healing your ailments while he sungazing. Scientific methods such as the Solariums, crystals, color bottles, natural stones, gems, all utilize sun energy, which is stored in these natural stones. You can keep natural color stones in drinking water to further hasten healing.

In solariums there is usually a platform at the height of 100 feet where each of the 7 glass cabinets is constructed for each of the VIBGYOR colors. This platform revolves around the sun whole day and according to the nature of the disease diagnosed, the patient is placed in the appropriate color for healing. Similarly, glass drinking water bottles with different colors are kept in sun for 8 hours. The water gets solarized and water develops medicinal value and is used to treat different diseases.

Photosynthesis, which we misunderstand, does not in fact need chlorophyll. Only the plant kingdom needs chlorophyll. Human body can do it with a different medium. Photosynthesis is transforming the sun energy into a usable energy format. This is how Photovoltaic cells work and electricity is produced, similarly water is heated, food is cooked in solar cooker, and solar batteries run automobiles.

Eyes receive the entire spectrum of the sunlight while sungazing, which is distributed to the different parts of the body by the brain on a need per basis. As a result, you are cured from all diseases. A 3rd intermediate medium is avoided. As you continue sungazing, energy is no longer being used up for mental impairments or physical ailments; thus its storage level increases in your body. You are your own master within 6 months.

Sungazing: 6 - 9months.

After 6-months of sungazing you will start to have the original form of micro food, which is our sun. Additionally, this can avoid the toxic waste that you take into your body while you eat regular food.

7.5 months and 35 min of sungazing is when hunger starts going down palpably. Need for food intake decreases. No one needs to eat more than his or her hunger levels. Hunger comes because of energy requirements of the body, which is a must for its existence. Food is not a necessity for the body to function, only energy is. Conventionally, you are indirectly getting the sun energy while eating food, which is a by-product of sun energy. If there is no sunlight, no food will grow.

Therefore, as you consume the original form of food by sungazing, hunger goes down starting to disappear eventually. By eight months, you should see hunger almost gone. For a dull or weak student or with no belief, this time period may be 9 months or 44 minutes. After that time, hunger disappears forever. All mechanisms associated with hunger like aroma, cravings, and hunger pangs also disappear. Moreover, energy levels are at a higher level. There is a judgment (having had this experience) that the brain is well activated with the sun energy. Well done, you have become a solar cooker.

Sungaszing after 9 Months:

After nine months or when you reach to a 44 minutes level, you should give up
sungazing since solar science prohibits further gazing for the sake of eye care. The body will get discharged when you stop practicing, which has to be recharged. Now you have to start walking on bare foot on bare earth for 45 minutes daily for a total of 6 days. Relaxed walking only. No need to walk briskly, jog or run. Any convenient time of the day is all right, however it is preferred to do that when the earth is warmer and the sunlight is falling on your body. When you walk bare foot, an important gland in the brain's center called the pineal gland or the third eye is activated. The big toe of the foot represents this gland. 25 years ago it was considered a useless gland. Now it has become an important gland for study and up to now, about 18,000 papers have been published about it. It has always been known as the Seat of the soul. The Pineal gland has optic nerve endings. The remaining four toes represent glands too -- pituitary, hypothalamus, thalamus and amygdala. Amygdala for the last 2 years has been gaining importance in medical research. It's a nucleus of the sun or cosmic energy and plays an important role in the photosynthesis via the sunlight reaching the brain through the eye. When you walk bare foot, your body weight stimulates all these 5 glands through your toes. This is strengthened by the earth heat/energy and the sun prana falling on the head or the crown chakra. The chakras are not in the spinal cord that is an imaginary location; they are definitely in the brain. All these create a magnetic field and the body/brain recharges with the energy of the sun entering in you. Relax. Walk 45 minutes for one year and food continues to be away from you. After one year of recharging, if you are satisfied with your progress you can give up barefoot walking. Few minutes of sun energy falling on you once in 3-4 days will be enough from then on.

But if you want the immune system to strengthen, then keep on the bare foot walking. Also if you want memory power or intelligence to increase, continue the walking practice. As you increase the sun's heat on your feet the brain will activate more and more, which will result in the more activity of the Pineal gland. The Pineal gland has certain psychic and navigational functions. Navigational means one can fly like the birds. You can develop psychic skills of telepathy, television and have your body at different places simultaneously. Science has validated human psychic functions and medical experiments are being done to ascertain this. Different body parts and its organs get purified once you stop eating due to detoxification. The different internal organs play different mechanical parts for the purposes of space travel and flight. There is another utility value (other than food digestion) for the internal organs. All the glands have a lot of functions and can perform at optimal level via sun energy. If you are fortunate to activate the brain optimally you surely will reach enlightenment. You can read past, present, and future. This method can be safely applied to control obesity. Almost all problems get solved.

Historically, a lot of people have remained without food. Accordingly in 1922, the Imperial Medical College in London decreed that solar rays were the ideal food for humans. However, no one has mentioned what their technique was-- For e.g. Yogananda in his book 'autobiography of yogi' interviewed many saints and mystics to find out the secret of their lack of eating food. The common reply was that the sun energy entered through a secret door and reached the medulla oblongata in the brain. They did not divulge their secret. This knowledge was lost to common folk at the time.

12-12-03
An excellent article on the Sungazing Methods of Hira Ratan Manek
by Beiyin of FalconBlanco
International Sun Community.
http://falconblanco.com/fbgb/index.html

"Shri Manek has researched ancient Jain and Hindu Scriptures and experimented with sungazing on himself under strict medical Scrutiny to Develop a simple and scientific technique of harnessing energy from the Sun and the Earth. He lived without food, on water alone, for a prolonged period of 411days..." [while under strict observation by medical doctors. He has gone years without eating... only drinking water... gaining all his sustenance from the sun.]

"He dedicated his life to teaching how our body can gain energy from sources other than food. People who practiced this method have observed negative emotions to drop, chronic illnesses to disappear and all obsession with food become a thing of the past.''

"During the practice, the attitude of “surrender” to the natural divine cosmic sun energy must be there, as also an “auto-suggestion” and implicit belief that this is going to help/heal/nourish you. Increase the time you gaze at the sun by ten seconds each day."

"In about three months time, you will be doing it for about 15 minutes. At this time, all your mental tensions, problems etc. will go away. This itself is a major thing. If this is your objective, you can stop the practice at this time and go to the 'Post sungazing practice'."

"If you wish to go ahead, continue for another three months, increasing again by ten seconds each day. When you are six months into the practice, you will be somewhere around 30 minutes."

"At this time, all your physical ailments will also be gone. If this is your objective, you can stop the practice at this time and go to the “Post sungazing practice”. If you wish to go ahead, continue for another three months, increasing again by ten seconds each day."

12-14-03
"When you are nine months into the practice, you will be somewhere around 44 minutes. This is the maximum. DO NOT EXCEED 44 minutes. You will find that in this period, your hunger slowly goes down until it finally disappears and you have no need for food any more."

"At this time, sungazing has to be stopped and there is no need to continue the practice any more. According to Shri Manek, during the first three months, the pineal gland is getting activated, and the hypothalamus or pathway to the brain from the eye is getting charged."

"After that period the solar energy starts reaching your brain and charging it. After this period, the solar energy starts getting stored in each and every cell in your body. When all the cells in the body are charged there is no need to do sungazing any more."

"Only the post-sungazing practice needs to be done to recharge the body. Shri Manek says that we need a lot of energy for digestion of food and for our brain/mind, to deal with all the mental problems, depression, negative emotions etc."

"He says that since the sungazing has removed all his mental problems, he is calm and cool so no energy is used/lost here. Since he is not eating any more, no energy for digestion is required either. So his energy needs are greatly reduced and he can easily meet them without needing food!"

12-16-03
"Post Sungazing Practice: Simply walk barefoot on bare earth for 45 minutes a day!"

"Conclusion: There is no urge to carry on doing sungazing for nine months until you reach 44 minutes. You can stop the practice whenever – at three months, six months etc. You will get the benefits accordingly."

"If there is a problem of macular degeneration, Shri Manek suggests to do the following modified exercise: Look at the sun for a second or so. Then close your eyes and “see” the image of the sun in the “third eye” (ajna chakra – middle of the eyebrows). Keep focusing on this mental image as long as it persists. When the image goes away, open the eyes and just look at the sun once again, and then repeat the process (focus on the image with closed eyes). Repeat a third time. Do this until the image persists for about 5-6 minutes. At this time, the macular problem will be healed, and then you can do the regular practice."

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2-18-03

SunYogi Umasankar
by Ben Heron [Excellent Article]

I am writing these few pages on behalf of Sunyogi Umasankar, a great Indian Yogi who is traveling the Indian Subcontinent by foot to spread the idea of Universal Unity, Peace and Brotherhood.

Swamiji, as he is known, has discovered a method of absorbing energy directly from the sun, removing the need to eat, drink or sleep. This discovery has enabled him to travel through India without money or possessions, teaching his ideas to people along the way.

Through these few pages I hope to help Swamiji spread some of his knowledge to people beyond the Subcontinent, and advertise the International Spiritual Conference in Calcutta, where the study of his ideas can be pursued further.

12-19-03
Sunyogi Umasankar, aka Sun Yogi Umasankar, (and Sunyogi Umashankar), an Indian Yogi, was born in 1967 in Lachipur, near Calcutta, to a Hindu family. For many years now he has been traveling the Indian subcontinent by foot, carrying no possessions and eating no food, to demonstrate his ability to live on sunlight alone, and teaching thousand how to practice what he calls Sun Yoga (Sungazing).

While living at a Aurobindo ashram, a yoga ashram in India, he discovered rather accidentally the benefits of staring at reflected sunlight from the surface of a lake, and this daily practice eventually progressed to direct sungazing. He claimed that after a few months of such practice, he discovered that his body no longer wanted food, and that he was filled with peace and calm.

Living next to an ashram throughout his childhood, he developed an early interest in Yoga and religion. By the age of eighteen, having spent a large proportion of his life practicing Yoga, he made the decision to dedicate part of his life to walking through every state of India spreading the message of 'Universal Unity, Peace and Brotherhood'.

Although his spiritual training is from a Hindu background, Swamiji's message has always been directed at people of all religions. His ideas are based on a religion of humanity that makes no distinction between color, race or religion... a path for all mankind with a common goal that is unity, peace and brotherhood.

12-20-03
Swamiji's journey through India did not start until 1997. For two years prior to his journey Swamiji stayed in Aurobindo ashram in Pondicherry practicing Yoga and making many important discoveries. The most important of his discoveries was 'Sunyoga'.

Very little is known about Sunyoga; it is briefly mentioned in some of the ancient Indian scriptures, but at the time of Swamiji's discovery, nobody else was known to be practicing it in the modern world. Now, five years later, there are an estimated 10,000 people throughout India practicing Sunyoga, taught by Swamiji on his travels.

Pondicherry is on the coast of south east India, looking over the Bay of Bengal. During his time at the ashram, Swamiji spent every morning meditating on a rock looking out at the sun's reflection off the sea. His daily meditation upon the reflected sunlight gave him great pleasure, but at this time he did not consider it to be a form of Yoga. As he continued though, Swamiji became aware that, through this method of meditation, he was somehow able to absorb powerful energies from the sun's rays.

Swamiji began to experiment by looking directly at the sun... initially as it was rising, then day by day he began to concentrate on it as it rose higher into the sky. He continued his meditation and after a couple of months the sun started to appear as a "clear hazy ring with soft blue sky inside". The harsh brightness disappeared and he felt it become increasingly soothing.

12-21-03

As time went on, he started to see "seven bright colors radiating from the sun, slowly reaching closer to the ground". Three months after starting his concentration on the sun, Swamiji felt these rays - the sun's cosmic energy - touch his body, creating within him an undescribable feeling of peace and calm.

Shortly after this experience, Swamiji returned to the ashram to eat his usual food, but he found that he was unable to digest his simple plate of chapatis. His body rejected the food, yet he felt that he was fully nourished.

During his three month period of concentrating on the sun, Swamiji had developed a great interest in the way that trees and plants are able to receive energy directly from sunlight. His discoveries now made him believe that he had found a way of absorbing the sun's energy directly into his body, charging his body's cells with kinetic energy and therefore removing the need to eat food.

So, as an experiment, Swamiji stopped eating breakfast and continued concentrating on sungazing. Six months later, he stopped eating his dinner, then six months after that, he stopped eating food at all. From the 17th August until the 7th December 1996, Swamiji stopped eating and sleeping altogether.

His body weight remained the same and he continued his daily routine working in the ashram in a perfect state of health. Shortly after this period of his life, he began his journey through India teaching his discoveries to people he met along the way. During his travels, he has become a source of great interest to a number of scientific and medical research centers where he had his claims tested, examined and verified... at least up to the level of sophistication that modern scientific instruments are capable of reaching.

12-22-03

I have met Swamiji 31,000 km after he started walking barefoot through India. I have now witnessed him living with no food, water or sleep, spending part of each day staring at the sun as if it was as soft as the moon. On a number of occasions I have watched him enter Samadhi (the ultimate state of joy attained through Yoga) during meditation, and I have felt him stop his pulse through sheer concentration.

He does not seem to feel the cold - he sometimes sits bare-chested at night when I am feeling cold wearing thick woolly clothes and wrapped in a blanket. His personality is patient, gentle and calm and his attitude towards others is like that of a close friend or a brother. He is always true to his philosophies and all his claims - I believe - are 100% true.

The purpose of this website is not to encourage readers to go outside and stare directly at the sun, because without proper guidance this could be very harmful. What I have written is an overview of my discussions with Swamiji... it is simply intended to create an interest in the subject, and those who wish to pursue it further can find out more at the International Spiritual Conference in Calcutta.

12-23-03

The Thirteen Stages of Sunyoga:

1. Conquer all material desires (sexuality, anger, greed, narrow-mindedness, ego & jealousy, shame, hatred & fear )
2. Develop Divine Energy
3. Atma Darsanam - Discovery of Atma (or soul)
4. Samadhi - Enlightenment
5. Conquer hunger
6. Conquer thirst
7. Conquer diseases
8. Paramahansa - Adjusting the mind to all situations
9. Having no enemies - all enemies will be friends (including animals)
10. Longevity (this happens when the body's vibration becomes the same as the environment's)
11. The body's vibration will be equal to gravity's vibration
12. The body's vibration and sun's vibration will be equal
13. The body's vibration and the vibration of the Universe (Supreme Soul) vibration will be equal

International Spiritual Conference in Calcutta

The International Spiritual Conference is a rapidly growing event that takes place on the 22nd, 23rd & 24th of June every year in a village called Lachipur (the birthplace of Sunyogi Umasankar), 120km from Calcutta. The Conference is made up of three different sections; Science, Spirituality and Sunyoga - the purpose of which is to discuss the science of spirituality and develop agendas for Universal Unity, Peace and Brotherhood.

To contact someone at the Conference prior to your visit, please telephone Shiva Shankar Bagh on 00 91 (0)3225 55056 (office hours), or 03225 55755 (24 hr pp number)

The International Spiritual Conference, c/o Sunyogi Umasankar, Lachipur, P.O. Harinagar, Dist: Midnapur, West Bengal, INDIA

To contact the author of this website with comments, thoughts or questions, please E-mail Ben at benheron@ecosse.net

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12-24-03

Sungazing Methods Most Commonly Used by Vinny Pinto
http://www.rawpaleodiet.org/sungazing/

[Vinny Pinto's webpage on sungazing is well researched, well written and humorous... comprehensive and very informative... excellent piece of work!
Vinny's article gives an overview and history of sungazing... and outlines
evolution, films, practitioners, systems, websites, articles, schools and clinics,
safety, and methods.]

I do not recommend sungazing, and I am not recommending it here. Yes, I have done it with apparent great benefit and without apparent harm, as have a number of persons within my acquaintance. Nonetheless, it is not my purpose to proselytize sungazing, nor to be a missionary for the practice (I am not a fanatic about anything, much less sungazing...!), but rather it is simply to provide some information and background for those who wish to learn more about this practice in history and in our culture, and to share my own experiences with sungazing as well as those of some folks I know who also sungaze.

I am often asked for information on how I actually do sungazing. I share the following information for academic and research purposes only. If you are considering sungazing, I would encourage the following before starting:

12-25-03 MERRY CHRISTMAS!

* find a training seminar or course somewhere on sungazing unless you are very much in touch with your inner guidance or intuition. I strongly recommend for beginners the guidelines and the individual guidance offered by Hira Manek (aka HRM, mentioned elsewhere on this page many times), who is now located in Florida in the USA.

* start by letting the full sun hit your closed eyelids for many minutes at a time first, you get some of the same benefits, but it is far less intense! Then, after a week or so of doing this practice only, you may feel ready to move into looking at the sun with open eyes during the early day or late day time windows recommended below.

* make sure, whenever you are sungazing, that your back is straight and that your feet are firmly on the ground. This seems to be very important, in both my own experience and in a number of traditions.

* again, feet firmly on the ground... Barefoot (even in winter) is best, socks or stocking feet is next best, and even shoes are far better than not having the feet on the ground at all.

* especially when first starting, try to sungaze only within the time windows of the first 1/2 hour after sunrise or the last 1/2 hour prior to sunset, or, even the first and last hour of each day. I note that Hira Manek always recommends the first hour after sunrise or the last hour before sunset only, and he has told me that these are the times at which he has always sungazed himself. (For a number of reasons, I never followed these time-of-day guidelines during my first ten years of sungazing, and even today almost never do so; rather, I started by sungazing only between 10 AM and 3 PM in summertime in Western Pennsylvania while in graduate school; rather amazingly, I still have excellent vision.)

* start sungazing slowly; perhaps sungazing during the early day or late day time windows for only 30 to 60 seconds at a time in the beginning, and increasing the time slowly over ensuing weeks.

* when finished your sungazing session, stay outside with your feet on the ground, either standing or walking, for at least 20 minutes. Hira Matek has told me that he recommends walking barefoot for at least 45 minutes after each sungazng session. This sounds ideal. I personally have found that even 10 minutes of barefoot standing our walking outdoors is far better than no "post-sungazng" time at all.

* sungazing outside the two early and late 1/2 hour or 1 hour time windows listed above can possibly be very risky, and I am NOT recommending that practice to anyone at any time.

* most importantly, never sungaze between the hours of 10 AM thru 3:30 PM unless you know exactly what you are doing. See note below regarding eclipses...

* lastly, never sungaze during an eclipse, as your pupils may be tricked by the apparent lack of light intensity into letting too far much light into your eyes.

* listen to your body and intuition

* Incidentally, if you ever plan to sungaze, it does help if the following conditions -- in addition to those basic considerations listed in a section above -- are observed while sungazing:

* sungaze early AM or late PM only, within an hour of sunrise or sunset, unless and until you know for sure that you are guided to sungaze at other times of day....

* works best and with least problems if your heart is already somewhat open. If not, heart-centered tools (Heartmath tools, etc.) are probably best to help you allow your heart to open and connect with what I call Divine Heart or Supreme Heart.

* do it and only it while doing it -- no distractions such as walking the dog, minding the kids, talking to spouse

* face the sun squarely with entire body and face

* feet flat on ground

* be either standing with knees slightly bent, or sitting in a chair

* start sungazing slowly, and build gradually... starting with only a half-minute per day, and slowly building...

* consciously "open" the spine channels from top of head to pelvis by visualizing beforehand a large tube running from crown to pelvis; do this visualization for only a few second in the beginning, and then let go of it...

* gently, for the first few seconds, "pull" the light energy from sun first to heart and then to belly (solar plexus) and then to lower belly (navel chakra). From here, especially on the exhale, you can allow the energy to flow throughout the body.

* fully expect that you may experience a strong "negative" sun image in yellow or blue afterwards for up to an hour, particularly if you neglect to stand or walk on the earth for at least 10 to 20 minutes after sungazing.

* fully expect that you may feel some slight visual impairment for up to an hour afterwards

* fully consider that you may have old repressed emotional material come up

* while looking at sun, go to heart center and thank sun for all it gives us and express gratitude and appreciation for life it gives

* some Native American traditions claim that if you look at the sun with gratitude, anything you sincerely ask for at that time will be granted or will manifest

* learn to listen to your body and intuition

* my own feeling is that if heart center is relatively closed and one sungazes, one may experience heart "problems" (pain, angina-type stuff, spasms, weakness) in the days, weeks and months afterward, till the blocks are cleared.

* many claim that if you sungaze regularly, it changes your aura and the spirit in your eyes incredibly. Folks on the street may sometimes notice. However, many of these same people (who make the claims about changes in aura and spirit in the eyes) claim that if you are sexually active and have frequent orgasms, this can easily dissipate the added sun/spirit energy. Some sungazers practice Tantric methods to prevent orgasm in order to hold the energy.

12-26-03

My own experience with sungazing is that one should do it while standing (most preferable) or sitting with feet firmly on the ground, and first very briefly visualize (for only a few seconds) a tube running up and down the entire length of the spine, very clear and open (I believe this helps to open the 3 spinal energy channels [central channel, ida and pingala] to the energy flow.)

Alternatively, or additionally, one can also briefly focus on, and relax, the throat and jaw areas. This seems to help the energies flow and reduce untoward symptoms or after-effects. Most beginners seem to start slowly, perhaps looking only at the sun with eyes closed for a few weeks, and then progressing to looking at a spot near the sun with eyes open for a few weeks, and then progressing finally to direct sungazing for very short periods at first, at times before 10:00 AM and after 3:30 PM. Some die-hard sungazers in temperate latitudes then seem to sometimes eventually progress to sungazing in midday even in summertime.

When I sungaze, I draw the energy first to the heart center and then to the solar plexus and navel centers, and then, on exhale, out to the rest of the body. We all seem to notice that we may have some loss of vision in the center of the visual field (I see blurred light image of the sun) for about 10 minutes following a session, and some folks report really nasty headaches and sinus pains which may last for days afterward, especially when first starting, and my opinion (and that of others as well) is that this is especially severe if there are lots of pre-existing toxins or damaged tissue in that area.

For those who have been practicing for some time and who are serious adherents,
sungazing often may involve staring directly at the sun, often between 10 AM and 3 PM, when it is brightest (even in summer!), with eyes wide open, for many minutes at a time. Again, as noted before, most practitioners feel that one must also consciously circulate the energy received by the eyes through certain energy centers of the body as well.

As noted earlier, I have sungazed occasionally for years. The practice can lead to very heavy cleansing symptoms in the beginning if one has lots of toxins on an energy level or the physical level. Again, please note that I am not advising this sungazing technique for anyone else.

Sungazing: to stare directly at the sun, eyes open, usually while sitting with the feet on the ground, for anywhere from a minute to a half-hour, with appreciation and gratitude in the heart for all the sun gives us. In the 15-plus years in which I have been practicing this, I, along with others who do it, find that while early morning works well, the best times, at least in cool temperate climates, seem to be between 10 AM and 3 PM, when the sun is at its highest position and "brightest".

A newcomer may get rather severe cleansing headaches at first (or is it major damage? who knows?). Please do not do this just on my word; please research it first!

For those of us who do sungaze: We usually sit, face the sun, open our eyes, look at the sun, and then allow the the sun energy down to our heart chakra, solar plexus chakra, and navel chakra, and then allow it to flow to the rest of the body!

If you are seriously contemplating sungazing, especially just outside the times just after sunrise or just before sunset, then you are likely a bit crazy. If you are considering it, then I would urge you to research the matter thoroughly and to consult deeply and sincerely with your intuition and heart intelligence before doing any sungazing, and do not push yourself if you do not feel ready! I do NOT recommend trying this!

This page [except] was authored by Vinny Pinto, a scientist, mystic and spiritual healer.

Consulting:
While I do charge a consulting fee for my consulting services in the realms of raw foods nutrition, antioxidants, alternative health and the sciences, I always offer free consulting to folks in the realm of sungazing (and also spiritual realms)! So, if your questions are about sungazing, please feel free to contact me! Donations, of course, are welcome, as these support my work!

contact information is below:
Vinny Pinto
phone 301-694-1249
e-mail: vinny@mindspring.com

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12-27-03

What to Expect
by Mason Dwinell

http://www.sungazing.com/

Sungazing is tool for tapping the potential of your human being. Some change may occur to reach these peaks; your perceptions may alter circumstances, you will begin to change from the inside out, and as we all know change can be uncomfortable. Nonetheless, when we release our physical and emotional energetic blockages these changes will become trivial relative to the incredible expansiveness of the universe. We are all energetic beings, vibrating at different frequencies, so we should be comfortable with the concept that all of us are different. There may be many different reactions, sensations and experiences; remember, whatever happens to you is perfect. It is yours and yours only. Be positive and open-minded; feel all there is to feel.

Once you reach about 15-18 minutes (3-4 months) of sungazing many of your mental tensions: irritability, anger, fear, grief, and general personal frustrations will go away. This is just the beginning, but what a beautiful beginning it is. Life will become easier, more comfortable and more enjoyable as you get closer and closer to finding out who you really are. A blissful, euphoric sensation may envelope you. Your energy levels may increase and the benefits of having a routine in conjunction with the earth's rhythms will begin to have a peaceful affect on your perception of the world.

At about 25-30 minutes (6-7 months) of sungazing, your hungers will begin to diminish. How and why you make the choices you make may come forth with remarkable clarity. Your self confidence may begin to increase, as your comfort level with being you is heightened. And yes, your physical hunger for food will also begin to lessen.

Between 35 and 40 minutes (9-10 months) of sungazing physical disharmonies, injuries, and diseases will be remedied. Also your hunger for food will begin to substantially diminish. At this point you may also feel awakenings in your charkas as well as possible energy beginning to stir within your kundalini. Each day more energy blockages will be dissolved as you get closer and closer to your higher self. At about 35 minutes your brain reaches its ability to store an energetic charge.

You have reached the final step…40 to 44 minutes. Wow. Now you stop sungazing. To continue on can be very detrimental to your eyes. At this time, sungazing is concluded and there is no need to continue the practice any more. During the first three months, the pineal gland is getting activated, and the hypothalamus or pathway to the brain from the eye is getting charged. After that period the solar energy starts reaching your brain and charging it. After this period, the solar energy starts getting stored in each and every cell in your body. When all the cells in the body are purified there is no need to sungaze any more. Now your brain is fully charged, the ability to control your destiny is in your hands.

mason dwinell
mason@sungazing.com
consultations :: diet, health, recovery and longevity.
coaching :: enhanced athletic performance, breath work, diet, and positive thinking.

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12-31-03

Other sources on sungazing report a significant increase in energy, improvements in eyesight, gray hair returning to its natural color, some bald headed men have found their hair growing back in, people looking and feeling younger, increased memory, and relief from bouts of depression.

HAPPY NEW YEAR... may God Bless us all!