By Carol R. Keppler, M.EI

Imagine if you can what it would be like without the sun. A dark, cold, planet - totally devoid of life - think about it!

If it were somehow possible to live here, still this body could not survive very long without the sun because (as one person put it) we are one giant photocell, dependent on light for the Life-Force we need to energize our 75 trillion cells.

The sun has been viewed through the ages as prime to life - its light was believed to heal the body. In many cultures it was worshipped; in Greek literature it was Helios, the Sun God. Much later the sun worship bad spread to Europe where those who had the money could afford to stay at retreats where the sun was used to heal their bodies.

About the same time in the United States, Edgar Cayce, psychic and healer, taught his arthritic ridden clients to dig themselves into the hot sand to repair their joint. He believed that the silica in the sand would be transferred by the sun into their bodies. He must have intuited correctly because it worked!

Closer to home, in Arizona, sick people from across the nation came to bake health back into their tubercular bodies on the side of a mountain in North Phoenix. It was a city of tents, called Sunny Slope. Forever, the sun has shared its healing light with the people of the planet; paid for by some; free to all.

Why then this unreasonable fear of the sun, which has stalked us for the past quarter of a century? Through eons past man has spent long hours living and working under the sun's intense rays - from primitives to the world's farmers and outdoor sports enthusiasts, with nothing but praise for the golden orb. Their abundant health and vitality was proof enough that the sun was a friend.

So what went wrong? Somewhere along the line rough, dark spots and moles began appearing on ears, foreheads, backs, arms, and noses. And the word was out - Cancer, a strange and dreaded disease that none of us knew much about. We begged our teenage daughter not to lie out in the heat of the day without suntan lotion (sunblock had not yet been invented). Instead she spritzed with water to keep cool. Kris always sported an enviable tan and today, a busy mother of four children, three of whom are teenagers, she is vibrantly healthy.

Why don't all who are over-exposed to the sun's rays get cancer? I finally found the answer in an old book of my mother's on juicing. It stated that the sun does not cause cancer but rather, if there is cancer in the body, the sun will draw it to the surface. So, those with skin cancer rarely had it in any other place in their bodies. This was beginning to make sense to me; but what about the very dangerous melanomas, the deeply rooted, widespread cancers? My immediate intuitive though was that these must be the more serious cases, only a portion of which could be brought to the surface. An all-wise and all-loving Creator gave us the sun to help heal our bodies with its close to magical powers know in other cultures as "prana" or "chi" and to us as life-force.

Life-Force Source

There are actually two sources of life-force - one you have probably never heard of: axiatonal lines. A simplified explanation will suffice here: The human body is spanned by a grid of meridians connected with vibratory lines from resonating star systems. (If that sounds like quantum physics, it is!) Take away either one, the sun or axiatonal lines and our life-force is gradually used up and the body wastes away with diseases like Multiple Sclerosis and Muscular Dystrophy. It is just a matter of time before cellular energy is diminished. As the life-force, stored in our trillions of cells, is depleted so is our health - and life itself.

Sunshine could easily be called the "new medicine" and in fact has been capably researched by Dr. Jacob Lieberman, an optometrist, whose interest in healthy eyes led him to write, "Light, Medicine of the Future." He lists many of the healing aspects of sunshine, which may surprise you. Among them are:

1. Depression - You've heard no doubt of Season Affective Disorder (S.A.D.) - rampant in places where there are more dark and dreary days than sunny ones.
2. Killer of microbes and mold.
3. Healthy Pineal Gland for regulating body processes (resting heart rate, blood pressure, energy, stress tolerance).
4. Synthesizes Vitamin D for strong bones.
5. Weight Loss through stimulating the thyroid.
6. Repairs the skin.
7. Normalizes Hormones for both male and female
8. Regulator for sleep, moods, body temperature, and turns on growth

Do you begin to get the same feeling I am getting? How many of our modern diseases may be caused by lack of sunlight? At this point, during a lecture, someone in the audience asked the question, "Could we have been caught up in a disinformation campaign?" Do you remember being bombarded with frightening facts about cholesterol and the need for low-fat diets and no eggs? Now, it is all about low-carbs. How about hormone replacement therapy (HRT) and the lack of "proper calcium" that is supposed to cause your bones to become brittle and break - osteoporosis?

And, of course, the sun-cancer connection. All disinformation? Now that is really scary. Haven't they heard of the research done in England and New Zealand that found twice as much cancer in office workers who were under fluorescent lights every day as those who worked outside?

Dr. Lieberman suggests that an hour or more of sunlight each day would prevent symptoms of mal-illumination. You will recognize more modern day ailments in this list: depression, PMS, insomnia, migraine headaches, carb-cravings and tuberculosis, which is on the up-rise.

Regaining Our Life-Force

The question is often asked, "Are there any other ways to bring life-force into the body besides actual exposure to sunlight. Yes, we can capture the powerful healing qualities of the sun by eating raw plant foods, "live" foods grown in the sun if (and that is a big if) they have been grown in mineral-rich soil, from non-hybrid seeds and not irradiated for longer shelf-life.

The minerals are used by the plants to hold life-force energy; no minerals (because of stripped soils), not much chance of all that produce in the markets of America having much life-force at all - organic included. Intuited checking confirms the truth of this statement - unfortunately.

And pure water set out in the sun for an hour will collect and hold the sun's life-force for you to drink during all that day.

So your best bet is still to get yourself out in the sun using your good common sense (intuition?) to know when and how long. The sun can enter the body in four ways:

Skin, which gradually darkens to shut down the amount of light absorbed. Sunblocks abort the entry of life-force and are almost always extremely toxic.

Hair, which when it has a healthy level of silica draws life-force into the body. Most commercial hair dyes stop this process.

Pineal gland, the body's "light meter" is in the brain between the eyebrows. It reacts to light received through the eyes (blocked by glasses or sunglasses) sending "hormone messages to: help the body adjust to its environment; prevent premature puberty and development of sex functions; orchestrates circadian rhythms for normal sleep patterns; ameliorate depression.

Eyes receiving sunlight directly (no glasses) are responsible for improving overall health including metabolic activity, depression, hyperactivity, lengthened age span and more!

Once again, mal-illumination causing pineal gland malfunction, may well be the root cause of some of our society's unexplainable trends, especially those of teen and pre-teen sex, depression and suicide. Think about it.

Now we know some things we didn't know before; how does it feel? Does it make sense? Your God-given intuition will always help you make wise decisions about your health - about your life. Your good intuition will be there to help you the next time you find yourself questioning someone or something. You won't make too many mistakes if you go with your gut feeling, a knowing without "knowing."

Jacob Lieberman, O.D., Ph.D., Light: Medicine of the Future

Carol R. Keppler, B.S., Ed., Intuited research

John Ott, Health and Light