sungazing.vpinf.comSungazing, aka Sun Gazing, Solar Gazing, Sun Staring, Solar Yoga - Some Notes

of your document -- Sungazing Observations and Notes from a Veteran Sungazer © 2001 through 2019; permission to copy all sungazing information (with full attribution and acknowledgement of source) heartfully granted see copyright page This site has been created by Vinny Pinto, a mystic, remote spiritual healer and consulting scientist. You may subscribe, as a public subscriber, to Vinny's public Facebook page or Twitter feed by using the buttons below: Follow @Vinny111 Click below to like this webpage on Facebook: Prefatory Note, as of September 23, 2007 For several years, I have felt that much of the information on this webpage was rather hopelessly outdated and in need of serious updating and revision. However, since this website is, and always has been, a voluntary effort, I simply did not have the time to devote to the rather lengthy revisions which I felt were needed. Finally, in August 2007, I started work on some revisions, and by September 23, 2007, I felt that this newly-revised page, while still not at all perfect, was ready to be uploaded to the web. I am sure that there are still some typos, including misspellings, and also some omissions, and for these I apologize in advance! I will be performing even more work on the webpage as time allows in ensuing months. For Sungazers: Click Here for Results of the First Sungazer's Survey! A note on history: This page was first created and placed on the web in February 2001 as a page on the rawpaleodiet.org website; it eventually grew into its present form, now located at sungazing.vpinf.com. This page was last updated in July 2011. As time passes, more material will be added and the article(s) will undergo further editing. AN IMPORTANT DISCLAIMER: According to many experts within the field of Western medicine, sungazing may be harmful to the eyes, possibly even resulting in long-term serious damage. I personally agree with this assessment to at least some extent. This site does NOT recommend sungazing as a practice, and rather, offers some relevant information for those who choose, on their own, to sungaze, or who are interested in the phenomenon. If you feel that you must sungaze, then my suggestion is you do not consider sungazing for even one second without consulting with a qualified and licensed health professional, as well as using your common sense! And, if you must sungaze, I recommend that you may wish to read my suggested guidelines listed on this page under the section entitled Sungazing Methods Most Commonly Used. And, I must note that there are even some people (albeit a minority) who have sungazed for brief times only during the so-called safe time windows and who have still reported that they developed some degree of significant eye damage. Introduction Caveat Please note that the information that you find on this page about sungazing may be more balanced and objective than -- and may differ greatly from -- the "hyped" or exaggerated information and claims about the "benefits" of sungazing which are presented on a number of other websites devoted to the topic of sungazing, and will likely also differ radically from the content of some lectures and published articles on sungazing from many other sources. This is due to the fact that a significant number of those other websites, articles and lectures devoted to sungazing have been created and delivered by self-styled sungazing gurus or sungazing teachers or sungazing "advocates", or by some of their devoted students and disciples, many of whom may approach sungazing as a religion, and who may make many rather radical and extreme claims regarding the purported benefits of sungazing. These hyped claims may range from claims that all who sungaze will -- in short order -- experience complete healing of all emotional mental and physical ills, and some sungazing gurus and teachers have even claimed that sungazing will lead to massive and spectacular supernatural powers or even lead to immortality. It is also true that several self-styled teachers of sungazing even claim publicly that anyone who sungazes long enough will become inedian -- that is, they will not longer need to eat any food. As you have likely guessed if you have read thus far -- and as you will undoubtedly realize if you read further on this page -- the author of this site makes no such claims and does not subscribe to any such claims. Indeed, while I have heard a modest number of claims of mild to modest healing or improvement in various areas due to sungazing from some people, I have heard first-hand from many hundreds of disappointed and angry people who had been zealous, fanatical and devoted students or disciples of any of several sungazing teachers who have made some of the more extreme promises iterated above, who had reached the requisite and prescribed number of minutes of sungazing (as prescribed by one or more of the fundamentalist systems), and who had experienced no such spectacular effects or healings as had been claimed by their gurus. In fact, some of these people have reported that they suffered mild to moderate eye damage from the practice, as detected in expensive and sophisticated fluoroscopic medical tests. Due to confidentiality and privacy requests, and to the Privacy Act and commonsense civility, no further information is available from this author regarding the identities of those who have claimed to have suffered eye damage from sungazing. However, I have noticed since late 2004 that at least two other sungazing websites, have, at times, addressed this issue and even included actual reports of such mild damage (do not contact me to ask me for these links; you must find them yourself if those pages still exist -- these pages and links move constantly.) If you have guessed that I have little patience for fundamentalist fanatical zealots who proselytize the practice of sungazing (or anything else, for that matter), you are entirely correct! I have been sungazing since 1987, and at that time sungazing was a very private practice engaged in only by relatively few persons, and almost all who engaged in the practice did so only because they had strongly guided to so on an inner level by inner guidance. To my dismay, sungazing has, since early 2003, become a "fad" in many Westernized countries (including especially the USA) and in India alike, particularly in the worlds of yoga, the New Age movement (sigh... an addle-brained religion if there ever was one) and the alternative health world. I bemoan the fact that it has become so popular and indeed, turned into the latest "fad" -- due entirely to the proselytizing efforts of a few self-styled sungazing gurus from India -- because I feel strongly that sungazing is not a practice which is suited for most people most of the time, particularly given the diet and lifestyle so prevalent in Westernized countries. The bottom line is this: in all matters, caveat emptor! While these over-zealous missionary "teachers" cited above who proselytize are simply exercising their rights of free speech, I do feel that these fundamentalist zealots end up misleading many people, and worse (from my point of view), they end up convincing people to sungaze whom I feel were not, and are not, ready for the practice. And what if you are one of those persons who believed all of the fancy promises and claims of one of the fundamentalist zealots about the "benefits" of sungazing? Well, my opinion is that if you have blindly surrendered your wisdom and power and choice to the exaggerated promises of one of the sungazing preacher zealots or to one of their more zealous students or disciples (several of whom have admittedly created "missionary" websites which have made some extreme and hyped claims for the benefits of sungazing, turning it into a religion), yes, you may indeed have reason to feel disappointed, but only in yourself, and not in the self-styled fanatical fundamentalist sungazing gurus. The USA is a free country, and these peop...