This is a continuation of the report on the lecture series delivered by Project X Director Gene Savoy, Jr. during the course of the trip to Greece in 2009. (see Part 1) The first of the three lectures dealing with Asclepian healing was delivered aboard ship early in our trip while our group was criss-crossing the Aegean Sea. A synopsis of Mr. Savoy’s lecture continues below.

Asclepian Dream Incubation: Practice

The importance of the Asclepian schools and healing centers cannot be overlooked or overstated within Cosolargy. For it is from Asclepias and the healing practices that were employed by his temple priests that we will be able to decipher, learn, and practice similar healing arts and sciences for our modern age. As we learn more about Asclepias and review the techniques associated with dream healing, you will see why proper sleep and proper dreaming are so integral to the Process of Spiritual Regeneration.

“Going Within”

One of the old teachings we read about in many religions is: “Go within.” Most people, if they go within, are thinking with their mind or their emotions. And we have learned that this does not produce the spiritual results we want.

For example, if you go within as most meditation techniques stress, you actually go “down,” so to speak, slowly; and if you continue to do that over a period of time, you actually lower your frequency levels and deprive yourself of “nourishment” from the outside. One of the things that the ancient Greeks taught was that there were four elements—air, earth, fire, and water—and that life was sustained by those four basic elements. But these great philosophers also taught that there was a fifth element. The individual who wanted to gain immortality had to breathe and experience this fifth element, which was called Ether. And immortality was achieved through the breathing and the intake of Ether.

So by going within and by breathing Ether, the concept was that one had to have a catalyst— a source—to start this process, some kind of an igniter. And we know in Cosolargy that the secret lies in the sun. So when we absorb solar energy, it starts the force centers moving; and that is the beginning of the process. Now once the basic, or lower, force centers (the monads or chakras) begin to move, it gives life to the four major, or spiritual, force centers within, which are dependent upon not the physical sun but upon the spiritual Light of God and Ether.

Divine Medicine

We also know from our studies that in ancient times there were three forms of healing: physical, psychic, and spiritual. Mundane physical healing was done by use of herbs, medicine, and by surgery. Of course, there was also healing to cure psychological ills. But the third—divine healing—was done by the Word. The innermost depths of an individual, that is, the power and energy within the force centers, was called by the Greeks the inner and divine medicine. But divine medicine used the inner Word, Word meaning “Intelligence.” The Greeks called it Logos; and it is also referred to in various schools of the Middle East to describe, as the Greeks used it, a divine principle. This healing was a divine act that allowed one to apply a sacred process for divine healing. The word for this is thaumaturgic, meaning “miraculous healing.”

In the beginning, all healing processes initiated or began with divine healing, which doesn’t exist anymore, as all healing has been lowered to the mundane. And in reviewing what has been written about these ancient techniques, what little remains of this ancient medicine of spiritual and religious healing is difficult to make much sense of it because the art and the science itself was secret and was entrusted into the hands of priest-physicians who passed along their knowledge from teacher to disciple or from father to son. They were not “open” as we know medicine to be today, because these sacred arts and sciences wouldn’t work by mere human manipulation. Consequently, over the space of time, these techniques were lost to the world as things became ever more secular.

All of the great teachers—Socrates, Asklepios, Apollonius of Tyana, the Buddha, Jesus, the master teachers of the Essaei and Therapeute orders—all had one thing in common. And this one thing was the divine art of solar absorption. This was the source of their extra energy and intelligence, which allowed them to exist on a higher level than the normal individual human being. These techniques gave them an edge, an extra intake of energy, an extra intake of intelligence; and the forces within their beings were able to process this energy and the divine Intelligence within it.

So, in a sense, it does begin from within. The kingdom is within, but it is dependent upon outside sources—primarily the energies and intelligences residing within the sun. So we have here a combination of inner and outer forces—and this is the secret—the mundane soul merging with the what Pythagoras called the One Monad. This is the secret of all religious truths. But there is an art and a science to this. One cannot just go look at the sun as an animal does. And that is what we are trying to reveal to the world: The absorption of solar energy, and the Intelligence Factors within solar energy, is a divine art and science which was practiced by all the great religious figures of the world in every part of the world throughout the ages; and solar absorption must be practiced in a spiritual manner.

The energy of the sun is filled with Intelligence Factors which activate and set the eight minor force centers in action; and over a period of time, the solar adept is able to mature and activate the inner force centers of his spiritual being, which is immortal or eternal. And that is the purpose of our School. We train our eyes to absorb sunlight and we introduce vital life-giving energy into the brain and nervous system. We then are able to take on greater measures of solar energy; and new receptors within the eyes and within the nervous system are actually generated and activated to receive and process this solar energy on a level which the average person cannot, because these faculties remain dormant within them. This then leads us to spiritual Light—divine Light—which is seen not by the physical eyes but by the spiritual senses: the faculties of spiritual vision.

Preparing for Dream Sleep

 When we dream at night, we do not dream with our eyes; likewise when one experiences a vision. The same can be said when viewing the sun: We see the sun oscillate and pulsate and dance about the sky; we see geometric shapes and other forms and figures; but when we focus our eyes, the shapes and figures disappear. So the things we see and are experiencing occur because of something else. We have inner senses which are locked within one or more of our force centers; and this is how we experience the vision.

In ancient times, the priests of the temples and healing centers of Asklepios taught those seeking healing how to sleep and how to dream. The priest would set the supplicant in darkness, a sacred chamber within the temple abaton, the most sacred part of the temple. (This was the natural place for “incubation” to occur because, being the sanctuary, it was where the god or gods would make their appearance.) And the individual was prepared to sleep and to dream.

Asclepian physicians and healers realized the value of sleep and the preparation for sleep and how dreams and visions could be used for curing various ailments. They also understood, on the higher levels, how the individual, by “going within,” could “call upon” the energy and power of the intelligence within the force centers (monads or chakras), which could not be done during the waking state. The patient was encouraged to withdraw from the sensory world; and because the senses were quieted, this inner sensory experience would manifest or come into being.

In these temples, the process taught by the priests prepared one for the inner process of becoming, an inner process that was used to heal oneself through the powers within. The priest was there as spiritual physician to aid the individual and to direct him or her to slowly withdraw so that they could use their inner processes to heal themselves. If you allow that inner process to go to work within yourself—it can be on any level, whether its on the level of the eight psycho-physical force centers or the four spiritual force centers—you will realize that you do have the power within you.

The priest-physicians of the Asclepian schools and temples would withdraw when the individual had put their inner spark to work. The physician-priest remained in the background, having allowed the individual to make a personal relationship with a deity, with God, with a divine being. And many doctors today know that there is something within a person that goes to work, and that the best treatment is to allow that individual to put that thing to work. That is one of the best forms of medicine: the power within and the unlocking of this process that is dormant or asleep.

Envisioning Angelic Beings

The word the Greeks used for these visions or appearances was epiphany. And to experience an epiphany in ancient times was a revered and most significant event. The appearance was for the benefit of the person, which was deemed a sacred gift. Now, the individual does not create this for himself or herself. The figure appears because there is a communion, and the individual person or dignitary or luminous being appears because it wants to. And that is the gift of divine visitation.

And when these luminous beings, or angels, appear to you, you can recall the vision of them later on and still acquire some knowledge or information from the vision, from these luminous beings of Light who lived before and have been redeemed from the earth and made immortal. It should be someone that is familiar to you, someone that you can relate to.

Oftentimes these divine figures appear with a message. They may not speak, but they will show you something, an object; or you will pick up a thought, and that thought can be a cure for you or can direct your life in a new or different way.

Those who are involved in the System of Cosolargy have an advantage. Our physical bodies and our minds are benefitted by the intake of solar energy. It gives us added life energy by which to live and by which to regenerate our inner life. And once we activate the force centers, we have a source of energy from within, which means you have the sun from without and the force centers within—two things. So the kingdom of God is within you! But let me say this once again: The key is to enliven the force centers, which leads to rebirth of your spiritual body.

The second technique lecture, which discusses the process by which the healing physician was able to cure a patient by the activation of the inner monads (the force centers or chakras), will be reported as Part 3 of this series.