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f40">A little over six years ago I was diagnosed with stage 4 cancer and was told by my doctor that I had between 6 and 12 months to live. I told my doctor to go fuck himself and I walked out of the hospital never to return. Now, over six years later I am healthier than I’ve ever been.I cannot attribute my remarkable reversal in health to any one particular regimen. I drastically changed my attitude and my diet. I released almost everything in my life. I drastically increased the exercise I went through each day. I radically changed my diet. I released as much of my past as I possibly could. And I tried my best to release the past and future while trying to focus exclusively on the NOW.But there was something else I did. I became a sun-gazer. I read about Indian gurus who gazed into the rising sun and the setting sun and who, supposedly, gained divine energy from this practice. Some of these mystics claimed that this energy from the sun was all that they needed.<blockquote id="5140">Disclaimer: The Surgeon General advises that looking directly into the sun is detrimental to one’s health.</blockquote>So, after being given a verdict of 6 to 12 months to live, I embraced every radical alternative path to wellness.One of the most important truths I learned was the power of suggestion. You can take two smokers and put them in two separate rooms. In one of the rooms you can add the Surgeon General and he can stand over that particular smoker and repeat, ad infinitum, “You’re going to die if you smoke!” He repeats it over and over and over while that person smokes.In the second room the smoker is left in solitude and he or she looks out the window at the world while he or she smokes. There is no Surgeon General in the room telling them over and over that they will die.The smoker in the second room will live a lot longer than the smoker in the first room because they have not been conditioned to die by the Surgeon General through the power of suggestion.Tests have shown that once the Surgeon General’s advice (suggestions) were included on cigarette packaging that lung cancer deaths drastically increased. It is known as the power of suggestion.<blockquote id="4ad0">Disclaimer: The Surgeon General advises that looking directly into the sun is detrimental to one’s health.</blockquote>After telling my doctor to go fuck himself I decided to tell the Surgeon General to go fuck himself (although I only did it in my own mind).No, I didn’t start smoking like crazy. I just continued smoking like I had been doing for almost forty years.What I did was start sun-gazing. While the Surgeon General is generally correct in saying that it is not a good idea to look directly into the sun, there are two times of each day when it can be beneficial to look directly into the sun. And those two times of day are exactly at sunrise and sunset. Once the sun pokes its fiery head above the horizon you’ve got about a minute or two to look directly into it. The same goes for sunset.These are two very, very, very short windows in which we can look directly into the sun and be very powerfully filled with incredible energy. These very powerful windows occur directly at sunrise and sunset. Any other time simply does not work and results in serious problems. That solar energy enters our eyes and nourishes us during those very short times.<blockquote id="9c8a">Disclaimer: The Surgeon General advises that looking directly into the sun is detrimental to one’s health.</blockquote>While gazing directly into the sun as it is poking its fiery noggin above the horizon I bless the day. Like each and every human on the planet, I am a divine being with the power of divine blessing. I state my intention of blessing every human and every living thing during the day. I state my intention of making this new day one in which I only contribute pure unconditional love into the matrix of the new day. I implore the sun, with its live-giving power, to imbue all of life on this planet with the love that created it all.<blockquote id="2fee">Disclaimer: The Surgeon General advises that looking directly into the sun is detrimental to one

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’s health.</blockquote>At sunset I profusely thank the sun for the life it provided. I thank it for the hours of light it provided all life on this planet. I thank it for another day of evolution in human consciousness as well as my own evolution in consciousness.<blockquote id="29a9">Disclaimer: The Surgeon General advises that looking directly into the sun is detrimental to one’s health.</blockquote>I am not a surgeon nor a general nor an expert of any kind. I know what has worked for me. I look into the sun twice a day. I suck up every bit of that divine solar energy that I can. Like some primitive Neanderthal, I am out there in the cold of the morning waiting for the sun to come up so that I can look directly into it and program my day. And I thank it for the robust health I have been experiencing.<blockquote id="4ed8">Disclaimer: The Surgeon General advises that looking directly into the sun is detrimental to one’s health.</blockquote>But this article isn’t really about the sun or gazing directly into it.It is about balance.I can stand in the middle of the street in front of my apartment building like I did this weekend and I can see (unobstructed) the sunrise and sunset. The Equinox represents a state of balance.After that sublime state of balance my noggin comes back online and I have to wonder. After the sun rises and sets in perfect symmetry along the east/west line of the street I live on, after a state of solar balance is achieved in the skies….Has the profound discord in society and politics come to a state of balance? And from this state of balance, where, on earth, will it lead to? Will it travel into an even more radical state? Will the balance of the Equinox be quickly overlooked as we journey into an even more troubling state of imbalance? As we gaze into the Equinox setting sun can we take that balance within us and hold it or will we be swept away by imbalance? Will the balance between universal harmony and human harmony become a chasm healed only by an explosion of opposites?Will we ever look into the sun again? Or will we only look into darkness that is on the threshold of devouring the resplendent life upon this planet?<blockquote id="82c7">Disclaimer: The Surgeon General advises that looking directly into the sun is detrimental to one’s health.</blockquote>I have learned that greeting the sun each morning and thanking it upon its setting each evening is one of the most radical things I have ever undertaken. It changed my life. Six years after being told that I would be dead within the year, I am now in near-vibrant health. I cannot help but wonder how it can change the world. What would happen if we turned our attention away from our smart/stupid cellphones and re-established a line of communication with our planet and the star that gives it life? What would happen if, instead of listening to those who were planting suggestions into us, we instead listened and surrendered to those forces that provide for us the energy that nourishes our journey of spiritual evolution and education?<blockquote id="040b">Disclaimer: The Surgeon General advises that looking directly into the sun is detrimental to one’s health.</blockquote>Tonight, as I stood in the middle of the street in front of my apartment building looking directly into the setting sun I could almost hear the sun saying, “Ha! You ignorant fool! Do you really think the conflicts within human egos will stand up to the seemingly endless sunrises and sunsets of a world in which polarities fade away into the shadows that they are? All polarities are but shadows of the resistance humans place upon the light of life. All duality is an attempt to woo one-ness back into the equation. All darkness is an urgent plea for light. And every night of darkness precedes the light of a new day. Nothing can ever hold back the dawn.”<blockquote id="f5eb">Disclaimer: The Surgeon General advises that looking directly into the sun is detrimental to one’s health.</blockquote>.Copyright by <a href="https://readmedium.com/white-feather-archive-index-c95167f7dbaf">White Feather</a>. All Rights Reserved.</article></body>

Looking Directly Into the Sun

And other things I’m not supposed to say

I am a very, very, very solar person. I always have been. I cannot live without the sun. If you ever want to torture me or kill me all you have to do is put me in a room without windows and imprison me there, depriving me of sunlight. I would surely expire within weeks, if not days.

Luckily, I am not imprisoned. I am free. Consequently, the last few days have been profoundly intense for me. Why? Because of the Spring equinox.

I happen to live in an apartment building situated on a street that runs east and west. As far as the United States Post Office is concerned, I live on the west end of that street.

This street I live on was mapped out and then paved around a hundred years ago; back when humans were reliant on both their natural inner compass and the compasses they held in their hands. They did not have smart/stupid phones back then to give them exact GPS coordinates. Topography be damned, the humans back then planned their towns and cities according to a compass held in their hands.

I have lived in several towns like this, where the city grid is laid out on north/south and east/west coordinates but I have sometimes wondered just how accurate this is.

Well, I have been living in this particular apartment building for over three years now and I can report that those town planners a century ago were amazingly accurate (despite not having smart/stupid phones).

How can I tell (without a smart/stupid phone)? Well, it is remarkably easy (and doesn’t cost me a penny).

This weekend, in case you did not know it, was the Spring Equinox. The Spring (or Fall) equinox is a point of balance. It seems like the sun is traveling from the southern sky to the northern sky and the Spring Equinox is the exact middle point of that trajectory. Of course, the sun is not moving. It is the tilt of the planet we are on that is moving.

Surely to God everyone knows this. But how aware and in tune with this is everyone? Is it something everyone experiences on their smart/stupid phone or is it something one experiences with every fiber of their being?

Over the three+ years I’ve been living in this apartment building on a street laid out on an east/west grid I have learned that those town planners over a century ago were pretty darn accurate (despite not having smart/stupid phones).

You see, in the early morning hours I leave my apartment, go down the stairs (I live on the second floor) and then walk out into the middle of the street in front of the apartment building. (Luckily, I live in a relatively small town and there is almost no traffic at that time of day.) From the middle of the street I turn eastward and watch the sun rise. In the evening I do the same thing except I face westward.

Doing this on the Spring Equinox I have realized that the street I live on is indeed laid out on a perfectly east/west alignment. This weekend I went out into the middle of the street for sunrise and, sure enough, the sun rose exactly in the middle of the street facing eastward. And tonight, the sun set directly in the middle of the street facing westward. How on earth were those town planners a century ago able to do this without a smart/stupid phone?

The important thing, though, is that because of the street alignment I have been able to do my sunrise and sunset ceremonies each day unimpeded by hills, tall buildings, tall trees and grain silos. The flatness of my east/west street during the Equinox affords me an unobstructed view of both the sunrise and the sunset each day. To me, it is one of the holiest days of the year.

Sunrise and sunset ceremonies? What the freaking hell am I talking about?

Well, to explain that I must admit to something I have never publicly admitted to before….. I am a sun-gazer.

A little over six years ago I was diagnosed with stage 4 cancer and was told by my doctor that I had between 6 and 12 months to live. I told my doctor to go fuck himself and I walked out of the hospital never to return. Now, over six years later I am healthier than I’ve ever been.

I cannot attribute my remarkable reversal in health to any one particular regimen. I drastically changed my attitude and my diet. I released almost everything in my life. I drastically increased the exercise I went through each day. I radically changed my diet. I released as much of my past as I possibly could. And I tried my best to release the past and future while trying to focus exclusively on the NOW.

But there was something else I did. I became a sun-gazer. I read about Indian gurus who gazed into the rising sun and the setting sun and who, supposedly, gained divine energy from this practice. Some of these mystics claimed that this energy from the sun was all that they needed.

So, after being given a verdict of 6 to 12 months to live, I embraced every radical alternative path to wellness.

One of the most important truths I learned was the power of suggestion. You can take two smokers and put them in two separate rooms. In one of the rooms you can add the Surgeon General and he can stand over that particular smoker and repeat, ad infinitum, “You’re going to die if you smoke!” He repeats it over and over and over while that person smokes.

In the second room the smoker is left in solitude and he or she looks out the window at the world while he or she smokes. There is no Surgeon General in the room telling them over and over that they will die.

The smoker in the second room will live a lot longer than the smoker in the first room because they have not been conditioned to die by the Surgeon General through the power of suggestion.

Tests have shown that once the Surgeon General’s advice (suggestions) were included on cigarette packaging that lung cancer deaths drastically increased. It is known as the power of suggestion.

After telling my doctor to go fuck himself I decided to tell the Surgeon General to go fuck himself (although I only did it in my own mind).

No, I didn’t start smoking like crazy. I just continued smoking like I had been doing for almost forty years.

What I did was start sun-gazing. While the Surgeon General is generally correct in saying that it is not a good idea to look directly into the sun, there are two times of each day when it can be beneficial to look directly into the sun. And those two times of day are exactly at sunrise and sunset. Once the sun pokes its fiery head above the horizon you’ve got about a minute or two to look directly into it. The same goes for sunset.

These are two very, very, very short windows in which we can look directly into the sun and be very powerfully filled with incredible energy. These very powerful windows occur directly at sunrise and sunset. Any other time simply does not work and results in serious problems. That solar energy enters our eyes and nourishes us during those very short times.

While gazing directly into the sun as it is poking its fiery noggin above the horizon I bless the day. Like each and every human on the planet, I am a divine being with the power of divine blessing. I state my intention of blessing every human and every living thing during the day. I state my intention of making this new day one in which I only contribute pure unconditional love into the matrix of the new day. I implore the sun, with its live-giving power, to imbue all of life on this planet with the love that created it all.

At sunset I profusely thank the sun for the life it provided. I thank it for the hours of light it provided all life on this planet. I thank it for another day of evolution in human consciousness as well as my own evolution in consciousness.

I am not a surgeon nor a general nor an expert of any kind. I know what has worked for me. I look into the sun twice a day. I suck up every bit of that divine solar energy that I can. Like some primitive Neanderthal, I am out there in the cold of the morning waiting for the sun to come up so that I can look directly into it and program my day. And I thank it for the robust health I have been experiencing.

But this article isn’t really about the sun or gazing directly into it.

It is about balance.

I can stand in the middle of the street in front of my apartment building like I did this weekend and I can see (unobstructed) the sunrise and sunset. The Equinox represents a state of balance.

After that sublime state of balance my noggin comes back online and I have to wonder. After the sun rises and sets in perfect symmetry along the east/west line of the street I live on, after a state of solar balance is achieved in the skies….

Has the profound discord in society and politics come to a state of balance? And from this state of balance, where, on earth, will it lead to? Will it travel into an even more radical state? Will the balance of the Equinox be quickly overlooked as we journey into an even more troubling state of imbalance? As we gaze into the Equinox setting sun can we take that balance within us and hold it or will we be swept away by imbalance? Will the balance between universal harmony and human harmony become a chasm healed only by an explosion of opposites?

Will we ever look into the sun again? Or will we only look into darkness that is on the threshold of devouring the resplendent life upon this planet?

I have learned that greeting the sun each morning and thanking it upon its setting each evening is one of the most radical things I have ever undertaken. It changed my life. Six years after being told that I would be dead within the year, I am now in near-vibrant health. I cannot help but wonder how it can change the world. What would happen if we turned our attention away from our smart/stupid cellphones and re-established a line of communication with our planet and the star that gives it life? What would happen if, instead of listening to those who were planting suggestions into us, we instead listened and surrendered to those forces that provide for us the energy that nourishes our journey of spiritual evolution and education?

Tonight, as I stood in the middle of the street in front of my apartment building looking directly into the setting sun I could almost hear the sun saying, “Ha! You ignorant fool! Do you really think the conflicts within human egos will stand up to the seemingly endless sunrises and sunsets of a world in which polarities fade away into the shadows that they are? All polarities are but shadows of the resistance humans place upon the light of life. All duality is an attempt to woo one-ness back into the equation. All darkness is an urgent plea for light. And every night of darkness precedes the light of a new day. Nothing can ever hold back the dawn.”