Readers may be interested in visiting the website of Cosolargy, where they are conducting a survey of the habits of Sun-gazers worldwide. The discipline of gazing at the Sun, mainly during Sunrise and Sunset, has been practiced by various people around the globe since ancient times.
            Cosolargy is a modern word derived from three root meanings: Cosmic, Solar and –logy (-logy means subject of study). The transcendent System of Cosolargy, established by the late pioneering explorer, author and teacher Gene Savoy, has been practiced by solar mystics and spiritual seekers the world over for nearly 60 years. In their survey they ask Sun-gazers questions such as whether they engage in the discipline alone or with others; if they use accessories such as crystals, glasses or filters; whether they like incense, music, chanting or meditation during their sessions; their experiences during and after their practice; and how it affects sleeping and eating habits.
If you are a Sun-gazer who wishes to participate, or simply an interested enquirer who’d like to see past survey results, head over to their site at http://cosolargy.org/sun-gazing-plus/
            As always, we add the caveat that you should not stare directly into the Sun and, if you want to engage in Sun-gazing, we urge you to seek the guidance of a trained and experienced practitioner.

GOLD: I have written on a number of occasions about the importance of gold and its connection with our Solar Ancestors. [Most recent posts were: The Sun and Gold in Ancient Egypt and Is Gold an Interstellar Currency? ]

Ancient civilizations used it thousands of years ago in figures as well as in buildings - anything that was made out of gold thousands of years ago still exists today. Not only ancient Sumeria, but ancient civilizations across the globe had a very special place for gold in their society. The late Zechria Sitchin wrote that “the Anunnaki came from another planet in our solar system that has an 3,600-year elliptical orbit. The planet’s minerals and resources were depleting, specifically gold. Their home planet, Nibiru, needed gold in the atmosphere which was disappearing, so they came to Earth to mine our gold and take it back to their home planet. (They are not to be confused with the highr dimensional beings I write about – our Solar Ancestors – who do not need our gold). According to the Ancient Alien theory, the Anunnaki genetically altered primitive mankind and created a labour force which allowed them to mine gold faster.

The ‘Adamu’ were the first modern humans, said to have been created by the Anunnaki 450,000 years ago when they genetically mixed their DNA with that of prehistoric hominids. If we look at the Bible and ancient myths, we see the possibility that Adam and Eve where the first genetically altered humans. Closer comparisons between the Hebrew Bible and the Sumerian texts reveal many similarities, not only in their stories, but also in their language. ‘Adam’ in Hebrew means ‘man’. ‘Adamu’ is what the Sumerians refer to as ‘first man’. Some African cultures believe that extra-terrestrial beings have been visiting the Earth for tens of thousands of years, for example the Dogons and also the Zulu legends, which speak of a time when visitors from the stars came to excavate gold and other natural resources. These mines were worked by a labour-force created by the ‘First People.’ Some ancient mines in Southern Africa are thought to be a hundred thousand years old or more. Mainstream archaeology does not provide answers as to who were the actual miners.

Gold reflects infrared light. We can’t see infrared but the radiation interacts with our molecules and makes them vibrate faster - we feel that as heat. Gold also makes a good heat shield, partly because it’s quite malleable. And gold can be made very thin; it’s easy to work with. Gold is used in electrical components and in almost everything that has to do with electricity - it is really one of the top conductors. Its malleability and suitability to be transformed into wires, combined with the ability to use it as nanoparticles, means it is probably going to be an incredible technological resource for any sort of intelligent life form. So it is feasible that an alien race with the technology to travel through space would use gold in at least one or more form. Gold can also be used as an energy source through properties called thermoelectric effects, where it can take heat and turn it directly into electricity, which means obtaining clean and efficient energy. It has been proven to stand the test of time and thus it is said that Gold is indestructible. Perhaps we third dimensional earthlings do not yet fully appreciate it!

The Solstice occurred this week, on 21st June, marking winter down here in Australia and Summer in the northern hemisphere. In some yoga circles, it is traditional to celebrate the changes of seasons - the summer and winter solstices and the vernal and autumnal equinoxes - by doing Sun Salutations.
            The Sun Salutation, or Surya Namaskara, is a series of poses performed in a sequence to create a flow of movement. ... The components of a Sun Salutation also make up a vinyasa -  the series of movements used between poses in Ashtanga, Vinyasa, and Power Yoga.
            Traditionalists trace the roots of modern Sun Salutations back to rituals called Namaskars performed more than 3,500 years ago. In particular, Namaskars were first described around 1500 BC in the Rig Veda, the oldest collection of sacred Hindu scriptures, composed of more than one thousand hymns rich with metaphor, myth, and instruction. The movements and mantras outlined in this 3,500-year-old Vedic tradition were rituals to be offered at sunrise and sunset. The earliest archaeological evidence of yoga culture was depicted on seals of Harappan, one of the most ancient urban cultures on the Indian subcontinent. That means that movement meditation may have been practiced in this swath of land across northeast Afghanistan, Pakistan, and northwest India around 3500 BC, more than 5,500 years ago.
            The Sun Salutation is best done early morning on an empty stomach - start your day with a feeling of grace and gratitude towards the Sun energy. Besides good health, Surya Namaskar also provides an opportunity to express gratitude to the Sun for sustaining life on this planet.
            Each Sun Salutation round consists of two sets. These 12 yoga poses complete one set of Surya Namaskar. To complete the second half, you need to repeat the same sequence of postures, only moving the left leg instead of the right. You might find several versions of doing Sun Salutation. However, it is best to stick to one particular sequence and practice it regularly for best results.

For an illustrated method, see: https://www.artofliving.org/au-en/how-do-surya-namaskar
Or, on You Tube:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6IUyY9Dyr5w

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            In my article The Way of the Golden Sphere, I wrote, “The Egyptians often depicted illumined beings with a sphere sitting atop their head – when it was golden coloured, then the sphere represented the Sun, or the central Source of the All. (Another variant, the red orb, was used by a high-ranking official in times of war, linking it to the red of Mars).” See http://www.solarancestor.com/the-golden-sphere.html
            For a different perspective, it is interesting to note the theories of Gary Gilligan on his website http://www.godkingscenario.com/gks/ra-re-the-red-sun-god-gks-6 . Mr Gilligan proposes that a cosmic event over five thousand years ago left so much debris in space that the Ancient Egyptians actually perceived the Sun as red, allowing them to observe it more readily than we can in today’s sky.
            He does not deny the connection between the Sun and gold, or golden colour, as demonstrated by this short excerpt from his website:
“[…] consider the precious metal gold which was regarded as the flesh of the gods. It was closely associated with the Sun as the following quotes highlight:
             “With decorations in gold leaf or yellow paint to represent gold, which both form the flesh of the gods and as a colour had a close association with the Sun god.” (Robins, quoting on the gold funerary mask of an elite woman, The Art of Ancient Egypt, 2000, p 146)
            “Because of its warm glow and indestructibility, gold was thought to be the flesh of the Sun god Ra and contained supernatural powers.” (Discovery Channel, Age of Gold, 2004)
            “The colour yellow was often associated with the Sun-disk and with gold, or nbw. Gold was not only associated with the Sun, it was also the flesh of the gods.” (touregypt).”
[We can also note that the Egyptian word nbw gave its name to Nubia].
Mr Gilligan offers other ideas on why the Egyptians often preferred to use a red disc rather than a golden sphere. While all this is food for thought, Solar Ancestor agrees that gold, and the shape of the sphere, were important to the ancients as representations of the Source of the All, and remain so today in the Solar Sciences.

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While Andrew Tomas may be best remembered for his involvement with UFO agencies, it should be noted that he spent many years in India and Tibet, studying with Lamas, and in fact met the Dalai Lama. He also met, and greatly admired, Nicholas Roerich. In his book Shambhala: Oasis of Light (which is now hard to get) he wrote about the little known Arhats and Mahatmas who dwell in Tibet and the Gobi Desert and guide the world from an unseen plane. Following are a just a few selected quotes from that book.
            “At another time Nicholas Roerich saw a Tibetan book wholly dedicated to the prayers to Shambhala, edited by the Panchen Lama. Asia has been acutely conscious of the verity of Northern Shambhala for long centuries. ‘The Lord of Shambhala lives and breathes in the heart of the Sun,’ wrote a Himalayan Mahatma. (p.54)
            “This supposition is confirmed by the words Mahatma Morya in the conclusion to Agni Yoga: ‘The streams of this Fire were seared upon the Stone in its great flight before the face of the Sun.’ If this is a reference to the Chintamani Stone, are we given to understand that Nicholas Roerich made a space trip towards the inner planets and the Sun?” (p.64)
            “According to Damis, the people of this city could utilise the power of the Sun. The Wise Men were able to levitate themselves from the ground to the height of three feet and even glide in the air. Apollonius watched a ceremony during which the sages struck the earth with their staves and then became airborne. Parallel phenomena were reported from Tibet by the savant [Ms. Alexandra] David-Neel in this twentieth century, thus validating the story of Philostratus.” (p.94) [My bracket added].
            “ ‘It is the lack of desire of the Terrestrial Ruler to cooperate with the Lord of the Sun and the Spirits of the Planets that has created a cosmic crisis … The exalted beings of the Sun and other worlds say to Satan – let your lamp shine but do not obstruct other and more glorious lights in starry space!’“ (p.146)
            “In the translation of the great philologist Professor max Muller, the name Moru is identified with the Morya Dynasty of India whose descendant, according to the same source, is to restore the Solar Dynasty … The Venerable Mahatma Morya wrote a letter to [Alfred Percy or ‘AP’] Sinnett in 1882 in which he described a ‘Raja-Sun beyond Jupiter.” (p.159) [My bracket added]
            “ ‘When evil reaches its peak and the scales go down under the weight of hatred, ignorance and moral filth, then Shambhala will request the Dhyan Chohans to move the astronomical body beyond Jupiter closer to make it luminous. The new radiation will transform all life on this planet,’ the lama added.” (p.151)
            Tomas also wrote much about the luminaries of Ancient Greece and Rome, including Apollonius of Tyana. I will write more about them in future blogs, including the relevance to the Sun as well as Planet X.
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            Over the past few decades it has become popular for New Age writers and spiritual people to make reference to the ‘Silver Cord and Golden Bowl,’ spoken of in the Biblical Book of Ecclesiastes (the same book which gave us the beautiful words of “To Everything There is a Season.”) When read in the whole context of Chapter 12, clearly the writer, the great wise King Solomon, was referring to what happens when the spirit is separated at death.  The Bible, of course, was translated from Hebrew to Greek, to Vulgate Latin and later to Old English.  As translated from the original Hebrew in The Complete Tanakh:
“Before the silver cord snaps, and the golden fountain is shattered, and the pitcher breaks at the fountain, and the wheel falls shattered into the pit.[1]”
[ עַד אֲשֶׁר לֹא יֵרָתֵק (כתיב יֵרָחֵק) חֶבֶל הַכֶּסֶף וְתָרֻץ גֻּלַּת הַזָּהָב וְתִשָּׁבֶר כַּד עַל הַמַּבּוּעַ וְנָרֹץ הַגַּלְגַּל אֶל הַבּוֹר ]
The first English translators saw this ‘fountain’ as the source of life and an energetic field which they called the Golden Bowl.
            While there is a lack of consensus among Biblical commentators and translators of newer English versions, such as the ‘New International Version,’ spiritually minded New Ageists generally agree that it is a sphere corresponding with the aura. In other words, we live inside a sphere. As I have pointed out elsewhere, we have two parts to our unseen nature, often called the spirit and the soul, or which I prefer to describe by their ancient Egyptian names, Ka and Ba. The Ka is an etheric double of our physical body, while the Ba is the divine component and source of our Vital Life Force, or Soul. I see it as our Golden Sphere.
            Many Christian paintings show saints as having a golden halo around their heads. This most likely comes from the same intuitive concept – that we have a ‘Golden Sphere.’
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[1] http://www.chabad.org/library/bible_cdo/aid/16473

            In recent posts we have seen how the Sun is often connected with gold. Nowhere is this more apparent than in the history of the ancient peoples of South America.
            It is considered that there were four main advanced civilizations of the ancient Americas:  the Aztecs, Mayas, Incas and Muisca. The Muisca are the Chibcha-speaking people that dwelled in the central Andean highlands of present-day Colombia's Eastern Range. Their territory spanned an area of around 47,000 square kilometres - a region slightly larger than Switzerland - from the north of Boyacá to the Sumapaz Paramo, and from the summits of the Eastern Range to the Magdalena Valley. Scholars agree that the Muisca migrated to the Altiplano Cundiboyacense in the Formative stage (between 5500 and 1000 BC). The most ancient settlement of the highlands dates to 1270 BC.
            The culture of the Muisca was centred around their two main deities:
Sué, (also Suá, Zuhé or Xué) - The Sun god. He is the father of the Muisca. His temple was in Suamox, the sacred city of the Sun. He was the most venerated god, especially by the Confederation of the Zaque, who was considered his descendant.
Chía - The Moon-goddess. Her temple was in what is today the municipality of Chía. She was widely worshipped by the Confederation of the Zipa (see below), who was considered to be her son.
They developed their own vigesimal (meaning ‘based on 20’) calendar, and knew exactly the timing of the summer solstice (June 21) - It was then the Day of Sué, the Sun god.
            The Muisca used gemstones and gold as currency. Tunjos were small figures made of gold (or sometimes tumbaga, a gold-silver-copper alloy) picturing people, deities or animals. They were used as ritual offering figures in the sacred lakes and rivers of the Muisca, and to adorn the entrances of temples, shrines and graves.
            The Zipa used to offer gold and other treasures to the Guatavita goddess. To do so, the Zipa covered himself with gold dust and washed it off in the lake while tossing gold trinkets into the waters. This tradition was well-known outside the Confederation, as far as the Caribbean Sea. The origin of the legend of El Dorado (‘The Golden One’) in the early 16th century may be located in the Muisca Confederation.
            Footnote: Today the Muisca population has almost died out, although their descendants are still present in certain municipalities and districts. A census by the Ministry of Interior Affairs in 2005 showed a total of 14,051 Muisca persons in Colombia.
 
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            On a TV program this week it was speculated, once again, that visitors from other worlds might be visiting Earth to ‘steal’ our gold, and that the human race was genetically engineered several thousand years ago simply to work as gold miners – initially in Africa and South America. I asserted in a blog two years ago that our Solar Ancestors did not need our gold, as they had plenty of their own (see: http://www.solarancestors.com/blog/april-06th-2015 ).
            Some have suggested that residents of other worlds needed to use gold in their atmosphere to reflect their Sun's rays and preserve their planet. To put a scientific slant on it, Derrick Pitts, Chief Astronomer and Planetarium Director for the Franklin Institute in Philadelphia, has offered an explanation that describes gold as an important element for space exploration and astronomy. "Gold is an inert material, it doesn't react with anything," he said in an interview for the popular History channel television series Ancient Aliens. "It is a wonderful conductor of electricity… and… a perfect reflector of infrared energy. You can use gold blankets to protect spacecraft against the intense heat of a star or any sort of heat source."[1]
            An interesting variation on the theme appears on the website http://mysteriousuniverse.org/2016/04/aliens-may-be-coming-to-earth-to-take-home-their-gold/ which speculates that gold could have hurtled into our solar system from deep space, landing on our planet millennia ago, and the residents of distant star systems now want it back.
            Gold is Earth’s most precious metal: Economies have been based on it; romances have begun and ended over it; the computer industry depends on it; some religions hold it dear. There is evidence that ancient visitors may have actually brought gold with them, rather than come to take ours. One of the most famous other-worldly visitations occurred in Cusco, Peru. The Sun temple Qurikancha boasted a giant golden disc that some experts believe was a symbol of a gold-plated UFO that had landed in front of the Inca emperor Atahualpa, legendary for having direct contact with the ‘sky gods.’
            As I wrote in another blog (http://www.solarancestor.com/weekly-bulletin/-our-ancient-visitors-attraction-to-metal-and-stones ): If you want to establish a connection with our Solar Ancestors, including The Watchers who are right beside us in another dimension, then it’s important to have some gold.
 
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Footnote reference:
[1] http://abcnews.go.com/ABC_Univision/Entertainment/aliens-love-gold-humans/story?id=19556948

            The Sun Cross, a representation of a circle around an equilateral cross, is also known as a Pagan Cross, Solar Cross, Wheel Cross, Woden's Cross, Dyeus Cross, Zeus Cross, Tengri Cross, Taranis Cross or, in Japan, as the Kutsuwa-mon (Kamon). In its most simplified form (see above left) it is known in Northern Europe as Odin’s Cross, after the Chief God of the Norse pantheon. It is sometimes used as an emblem by Asatruar, followers of the Norse religion. The word ‘cross’ itself comes from the Old Norse word: kros.
            The Sun Cross is one of the oldest religious symbols in the world, appearing in Asian, American, European, and Indian religious art from the dawn of history. Carvings of it were found in 1980 on the bases of bronze-age burial urns at Southworth Hall Barrow, Croft, Cheshire, England - these urns date back to circa 1440 BC.
            Different cultures have had their own names for their Sun deity, which unsurprisingly have been associated with the same symbol. Hence all the different names which represent the same magnificent Golden Sphere in the sky that provides heat and light, enabling things to grow. It represents the solar calendar- the movements of the Sun, marked by the solstices. Sometimes the equinoxes are marked as well, giving an eight armed wheel. The swastika, which is still used by Buddhists and was hijacked by Nazi Germany, is also a form of the Solar Cross. The Ancient Greeks reasoned that there were more things to life than just heat and light, and realised there must be an even greater God who had made all this possible – by the time of Plato they would refer to it as the ‘Sun behind the Sun.’
            As we know, the Cross is considered these days to be quintessentially Christian. An interesting variation of the Solar Symbol is their ‘Ichthus Wheel,’ combining the symbolism of the fish with that of the Christ monogram (‘Chi-Rho’), or Labarum. One may also find an anchor in the design. This was accomplished by overlaying the Greek letters IXOYE (iota chi theta upsilon sigma) in such a way that the resulting symbol resembles a spoked wheel. The image of the wheel was already a fairly common emblem of Jupiter, and thus could be used without drawing undue attention to the outlawed faith in the early Christian Era.
            I particularly like the emblem of the Etruscan God Ixion, who was depicted superimposed on a Solar Cross – see above right image (note the similarity to the Chi-Rho cross).
 
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            Ancient Vikings routinely crossed the North Atlantic without a magnetic compass and left their mark on lands as far away as Greenland, Newfoundland and Baffin Island. Based on an eleventh-century dial fragment artefact, found at Uunartoq in Greenland, it is widely accepted that they sailed along chosen latitudes using Sun Compasses.
            To locate the Sun after Sunset, the Vikings used a pair of crystals known as Sunstones, which are calcite stones that produce patterns when they're exposed to the polarization of UV rays within Sunlight. When the crystals are held up to the sky, the orientation of these patterns cast within the stone can help pinpoint the position of the Sun below the horizon.
            Once they had determined the position of the hidden Sun, they used a specially designed wooden slab called a shadow stick to simulate the shadow of the gnomon, based on the angle at which the hidden Sun would hit it. The location of the outer edge of that imaginary shadow could then have been used to determine their cardinal direction. A wide hole within the center of the disk served as a holding spot for this so-called central gnomon.
            Researchers have estimated the plausible accuracy of this solar compass and found that it would have worked with only 4 degrees of error, which is better than other forms of celestial navigation, and comparable to modern magnetic pocket compasses. The compass would have functioned for as long as 50 minutes after Sunset around the spring equinox.
            The findings are a testament to the sophistication of this group of people often remembered as heathens, and shed further light on the Vikings’ connection to, and observation of, the Sun.
 
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