Unity Expressed and Felt

by the Human Body

John L. Waters

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Unity Expressed and Felt by the Human Body

(First Paper for Philosophy 399 Spring Semester, 2003)

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John L. Waters

February 12, 2003

Fourth draft completed after Chris Lee of the HSU

Writing Center reviewed my third draft and suggested

some changes.

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This paper briefly describes how I became more focused

on my independent research on unity as the foundation

of both mathematics and religion.

In 1978 at the age of thirty-nine I visited the

Humboldt County Library in Eureka several times and I

visited the Humboldt State University library as well.

This was in an effort to obtain a better

understanding of myself as I was in 1945 both as a

very happy and tuneful boy and also as a boy lacking

in ordinary speech and communication skills and in the

coordination skills practiced and perfected by

normally sighted and robust boys who enjoy playing

team sports. Because my eyes didn't work together and

I had no depth perception or stereopsis I couldn't

keep track of the movements of the other boys, and

judge the distance of the ball. I couldn't play ball

with the other boys without getting in their way and

making them angry at me. Even so I was a very tuneful

child, and I sang all the time at home.

In certain ways I wasn't a whole person, though,

because I didn't have coordination of both my eyes,

and while I liked to hum and sing, I didn't have a lot

to say. I didn't participate in conversations with

the other children at school. My knowledge and my

interests were very unusual. It wasn't that I

couldn't talk. It was just that I was very attentive

to certain special interests and I didn't know what to

say to persons who weren't interested in what I was

interested in. Insofar as most children do know what

to say and participate in conversations, I wasn't

whole in that sense either. Neither did I learn to

read words or read music. In addition, when I talked,

I mainly talked out of the right side of my mouth. I

was weak on the left side. I lived in a personal

world that was difficult for other children to access.

In this "autistic" world I felt immensely blessed.

Like other children, when I felt especially joyful I

jumped up and down. Also, it brought me pleasure to

rock my body back and forth while in a crawling

position on my bed. For several hours a day I did

this. Other children would be up and about, doing

things. I was content to do nothing but rock myself

on my bed and hum tunes to myself. I had a very sweet

and melodious voice, but it wasn't a loud voice. And

at school I was too timid to sing. I didn't sing or

hum at school. I felt very intimidated at school.

Fast-forward about thirty years. In 1977 and 1978,

after I'd been diagnosed by a psychiatrist as having

schizophrenia in 1971, and being on medication until

1976, and before I had much of a clue as to what had

been wrong with me (and what had been right with me) I

looked into books about psychology, I looked into

books about the mystical experience, and I looked into

books about schizophrenia. It occurred to me that

there is a connection, and that when I was two or

three years old I made a second great discovery. My

first great discovery was that I could continue

feeling very blessed just by moving my body back and

forth as I rocked and hummed. My second great

discovery was that I could enjoy looking into the

light refracted through the crystal prisms of a

Victorian table lamp set in the bedroom. But when my

caregiver-grandmother saw me exposing my eyes to the

sunlight she removed the lamp, so I couldn't do that

anymore. The frustration caused me to throw my very

first very violent tantrum. I also threw something

from my crib with so much force that it broke the

shade of a student lamp. So I wasn't entirely a

little angel.

In my readings in 1977 and 1978 I discovered that many

autistic children are seen gazing into bright lights

or even into full sunlight. A number of published

mystics or schizophrenics mention gazing at the sun or

at a reflection of the sun and seeing into the

explanation for the universe or they find God.

Presumably, as also in snow blindness and in the

rapture of airplane pilots, the very bright reflected

sunlight stimulates this reaction, and the person

experiences a very great euphoria or sense of

well-being. This reality is compatible with the

reality that patients suffering from seasonal affect

disorder are treated for hours each day with special

lamps that increase the amount of light.

In 1978 I made my third great discovery, and that

discovery identified the sun as a "gate" through which

a person can enter a realm of being united with the

Cosmic Christ or the whole of creation. Another way

of saying this is that by exposing myself to sunlight

I could be "healed by Christ" and "made whole by

Christ." I tested this idea and found that a number

of chronic disorders quite rapidly disappeared.

Indeed, the improvement seemed miraculous, but my

family really thought it was insane of me to be

gazing directly into the sun! For me the situation

had become rather like when I was two years old and

having my grandmother react so quickly and remove the

lamp so I couldn't gaze into the rainbow spectrum of

sunbeams shining through those pendulant glass prisms.

My grandmother just KNEW that it was WRONG for a

little boy to be gazing into the rainbow colors of

refracted sunlight. She didn't know about "Christ the

Comforter" being in the sunlight and making a person

feel very, very euphoric. Indeed, sunshine is still

considered to be a dangerous thing, a fire no eyes can

master, and a cosmic input that is much too intense

and energetic for any human eyes to safely absorb.

Probably due to my daily exposure to sunlight, it was

April of 1979 when my mood really shot upward and I

had what might be called a manic episode. I'd had a

manic episode in October of 1978, and I'd had a manic

episode in 1971 and in 1963. During these episodes I

felt very euphoric and I did a lot of walking. I went

places I didn't usually dare go. My shyness

decreased. I got lots more ideas than usual. Some of

my ideas seemed crazy to people. Since then I've come

to realize that creative problem-solvers often get

ideas that are wrong. They go on getting more ideas

and some of their ideas are correct and verifiable.

And so I tested the idea that by exposing myself to

sunlight on a regular basis my "sins would be forgiven

and I would be healed." The "Christ" treatment

definitely worked wonders. But the language I'm using

here is archaic. Moreover, people need to worry less

over the words, and pay more attention to testing this

innovative work.

Before the physiological changes in my body wrought in

1979 by this regular exposure to sunlight both in my

eyes and on my skin, I'd had arthritis so bad I often

couldn't walk at all. I'd had bursitis so bad I

couldn't play catch with my son. I had hypoglycemia

so bad I had to carry food everywhere and munch on

candy bars every few minutes to keep from feeling

weak, shaky, and faint. I had acid mouth and frequent

tooth decay, and I had susceptibility to nosebleeds.

My heartbeat was irregular, as it had been for

decades. I was often sick with a cold. I had

manic-depressive illness with frequent mood swings.

Sometimes I was violent and destructive in a rage.

All these problems vanished in just a few days once I

began to "sense" the "Divine Presence." I kept this

sense of the "Divine Presence" strong in me by going

to certain places regularly and exposing myself to

sunlight and to the sounds of the roaring ocean waves.

My mood just became very elevated, like it was when I

was a pre-schooler. As long as I continued this

treatment, my mood stayed high.

Skeptics were quick to dismiss this eccentric behavior

as evidence of insanity, but I found two local

persons who had discovered about the same solar

treatment all by themselves. If I'd been a more

charismatic or persuasive person and less of an

autistic person I would have won their confidence and

gotten them to help me promote this new medical

treatment. But I just am not a very persuasive

character. And this brings up the question of what it

is to be a "whole person." and a "human being."

By "whole" I mean "together" so that your various body

parts work together and no part of your body or your

brain is atrophied from lack of use. I don't agree

that every single boy is born to be Captain of the

Football Team or valedictorian or President of the

Social Club. Not even Moses was a great speaker.

Moses in fact needed his brother Aaron to help him get

the attention of people. And think of Archimedes.

Archimedes was a mathematician and a theoretical

scientist. He was a scientific genius, not a great

military commander. Quite clearly, different men have

different abilities and different callings. I was,

from the beginning, an explorer and a discoverer. I

explored all around and I discovered things and did

unusual things. But when I lost my health, my talent

was compromised. So to realize myself and get back my

youthful talent and vigor, I had to make these

discoveries about the body, and test them repeatedly.

Perhaps others have made the same discoveries. Even

so, the majority of people don't know how to access

this healing blessing.

Well, what this treatment consists of, is something

radically different from what educators, parents, and

doctors presently recommend! Eyes are considered very

delicate and fragile, so that they must never be

exposed to bright light. Of course you can read about

the Dervishes who gaze at the sun and spin around for

hours in a trance. Some autistic children also gaze

at lights and spin their bodies or spin objects and

delight in watching the spinning movement. But the

Dervishes and the autistics don't critically examine

and explain this activity. Moreover, the autistics

have failed to develop speech and rational thought,

and the Dervishes give up speech and rational thought.

The unified person doesn't give up any talent.

That's the real revolution in this work. In unity the

rational intellect is not discarded. This method

makes a person whole and that means that the person

has access to all and can demonstrate all of his or

her native, inborn, genetically determined abilities.

By unity I mean that the person is "all there" and

ability that was latent in the person has been

stimulated, developed, and demonstrated repeatedly

along with abilities that society didn't suppress in

the child. In my own case I had a sensitivity to this

euphoria that gradually led me to this method of

"Divine" healing and personal integration. Various

books I read as an adult gave hints which pointed in

this direction. In time I got the ideas which led me

to formulate this theory about "The Foundation of

Mathematics" and "The Foundation of Religion" as being

"unity."

Unity is something felt by the person whose mind,

emotions, brain, and body parts are all unified.

There is a sense of being all connected inside and

with what is outside as well. Many mystics have

described this sense of unity, without being able to

explain the sense very matter-of-factly and thereby

bringing "Christ" back to Earth and down-to-Earth.

Consequently there are still many of the old religions

and young people are being drawn into these dogmatic

religions because they don't know what else is

possible. Meanwhile, the old medical methods are

continuing, and the pre-med students don't learn

anything about this "Christ" treatment. But I began

to discover this treatment even before I could stand

on my feet and talk! Certainly other children make

the same discovery, but under relentless social

pressure they give it up.

Now I intuited, even in 1978, that a great many

autistics discover this method when they are young,

but they don't develop clear thinking and ever get to

the point of studying many different ideas and putting

the ideas together. Or, if an autistic person does

get this idea, it is difficult for anyone to promote

this idea, since if is so different from what parents

teach their children, and it is so different from what

medical doctors learn and teach, and it certainly

isn't taught by the temple priests and the ministers

in the modern churches. But this method itself might

very well be what Jesus and other inspired religious

teachers discovered even though they couldn't

verbalize the method using simple language. The sense

of unity inspired them so that their brains worked

better than they ever could before.

What I've done is use simple language and tell people

in simple language what I did to figure this out.

This is the unity that is felt in a child as the child

is learning to count hops, skips, steps, and objects.

This is the unity that is felt in a child who is so

happy that he or she jumps up and down. The body

itself expresses this unity in it's movements that

express the joy that is being felt. And what is more,

the expression of unity by the body fits the

mathematical formula for the circle of unity. In

other words, what minds have done to define unity is

followed by bodies as they feel and express unity.

Realizing this fact and demonstrating the unity

regularly helps a person integrate mind and body and

express the whole that "Christ" restores. In more and

more persons using this method "Christ" will come and

make them whole. This is the way the old Biblical

prophecy will be fulfilled.

John L. Waters

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