Names of Light Body…A Bibliography

In Gnostic literature an event is described when Jesus withdrew his luminosity into himself, so as to cease dazzling his own disciples. At the request of his disciples, “Jesus drew to himself the glory of his light.” There are parallels in the literature of other religions describing this voluntary withdrawal of an incarnate deity’s light.

Here is a listing of names for the Light Body, as used over time by various religions, spiritual paths, and individuals.This listing is incomplete because every tradition has some kind of name for how the Mind of God becomes who we are, and obviously every tradition is not listed here.

Judeo-Christian	the resurrection body the glorified body the celestial body the spiritual body
Sufism	the most sacred body
Taoism	the diamond body
Tibetan Buddhism	the light body
Tantrism	the adamantine body the divine body
Kriya Yoga	the body of bliss
Vedanta	the superconductive body
Gnosticism and Neoplatonism	the radiant body the beaming garment the sheath of Light the robe of Light the Rainbow Light Body
Alchemical	the golden body the glory of the whole universe
Hermeticism	the immortal body
Rosicrucianism	the diamond body of the temple of God
Egyptian tradition	the luminous body
Persian tradition	the indwelling divine potential
Mithraicism	the perfect body
Sri Aurobindo	the divine body
Teilhard de Chardin	the ultrahuman
Mystical schools	the solar body the seamless robe of light

My perspective is that we are all channels for spiritual forces. This is what gives us life.

In addition to our breath, we are channeling our own Spirit/Soul entity, and we are also channeling the associated and allied entities which are friends and guardians and allies of our own Spirit/Soul. It’s just a perspective to keep in mind, and investigate inside of your own laboratory of contemplation.

Here are some helpful words from Franciscan priest and Christian mystic Richard Rohr which are related to this subject of the Light Body, and may help you begin to feel your own luminosity as well as that of others…

“Below is a simple commentary and aid on this teaching, so that you can experience it for yourself. It is quite similar to what the Hindus discovered in tantra, where you hold the powerful gift so that it can be deepened and refined before being expressed.

Try to stay beneath your thoughts, neither fighting them nor thinking them. Hold yourself at a deeper level than your mind, perhaps in your chest, solar plexus, or breath; stay in your body self. Resist any desire to repress or express; allow animal contentment. It will feel like nothing or darkness. Stay ‘crouched’ there at the cellular level without shame, long enough for Another Source to begin to flow and well up as light or joy.

This is the ‘super-essential life.’ From this place you become seeing, and the love flows through you from the Source as an energy more than as an idea. You cannot ‘think’ God. God is never an ‘object’ of consciousness like any other thing, person, or event that you ‘know.’ God is always and forever the subject, the doer, the initiator, ‘the Prevenient Grace.’ You have then ‘become’ what you hope to see. Subject and object are one. God in you and through you sees and loves God—in yourself and in others, too.”

Associated Light Body Readings

Next is a bibliography which I have found useful in my own understanding of the subject of the significance of the human electromagnetic field, and healing of the human via energy medicine. All Western allopathic medical forms will become more and more “non-invasive,” or, more refined and subtle, as new discoveries and technology emerges. New developments will be forthcoming which will allow healers to employ “science fiction as science fact” type energetic healing approaches, like the hand held technology that the Bones character used in the Star Trek films.

The reader is also referred to the publications and conferences sponsored by The International Society for the Study of Subtle Energies and Energy Medicine (ISSSEEM).

These books are listed roughly in the order in which I discovered them in an earlier time period of my life. They all have something unique and valuable to offer, and so I made some comments for each entry.

• The Aura by Walter J. Kilner. This little classic was first published in 1911. My copy was republished in 1973, and this was the first book I purchased on the subject of the human energy field.
• Autobiography of a Yogi by Paramahansa Yogananda. This is the book that woke me up about Christ and Christ Consciousness when I read it in 1977, the year I graduated from Tulane Medical School. This is a transformative book, filled with stories of miracles. This book served me as a version of “The New Testament of the Bible, Finally Explained.” My favorite chapter is “The Resurrection of Sri Yukteswar,” wherein Yogananda’s guru reappears from life after life in his Light Body form, and explains some of the mysteries of the afterlife.
• The Yoga Sutras of Patangali. Any of the translations will do.
• The Holy Science by Swami Sri Yukteswar. This tiny text is 77 pages long, and I also read it in 1977. It is a remarkable little treatise of Creation by the guru of Yogananda.
• I am going to list 3 classics by the same author, Arthur Avalon, the pen name of Sir John Woodroffe. The author was a British judge who was transformed spiritually while in India. He wrote 3 very esoteric texts on the chakra system and Shakti (Divine energy). These books were published in the 1920’s and 1950’s. In order of appearance, they are The Serpent Power, Shakti and Shakta, and The Garland of Letters.
• Joy’s Way by W. Brugh Joy, M.D. This is the first book that I know of written by an M.D. introducing the potentials for healing with body energies.
• Anatomy of the Spirit by Caroline Myss, Ph.D. Written by a psychologist, this is now a classic text , and it may be the one of the all time best books on Western psychology and the chakra system. The chapters on the 7 major chakras are very good.
• Vibrational Medicine by Richard Gerber, M.D. This book takes a deeper look into the subject of energy healing, also written by an M.D., a mere 600 page epic, and is filled with scientific references.
• Hands of Light by Barbara Brennen . This text is another guide to healing in the human energy field, filled with very interesting and colorful illustrations. The author was a former research scientist for NASA.
• Core Energetics by John C. Pierrakos, M.D. This text is often found in the libraries of students of energy healing and is most informative and innovative. It is Reichian therapy, human energy field, modern physics, and the author’s own spiritual evolution combined convincingly and informatively into what can be seen of human chakras and energy fields. Barbara Brennan’s work and books evolved from the influence of Dr. Pierrakos, as she was a student of his.
• Wheels of Light by Rosalyn Bruyere. This is another classic that all energy healer students probably also have in their library. It is all about chakras, auras, and the healing energy of the body. There are some nice historical perspectives.
• Light Emerging by Barbara Brennen. Barbara reprises and extends into a second text, and successfully overachieves. The book is worth having simply to note the illustrations of the types of auric field interactions in human relationships.
• Eastern Body, Western Mind by Anodea Judith. This book is my personal favorite. My copy is actually coming apart, and I need a fresh text. This book is the best compilation on Western psychology and the chakra system. I would state that this is the one book to own, if you just wanted to start with one.
• The Reconnection by Eric Pearl. Dr. Pearl writes his autobiographical account of how a new type of healing frequency known as Reconnective energies came to him, and ushered in the miraculous healings which began to occur in his chiropractic work. He went on to receive channeled messaging about the nature and significance of these frequencies, and he now teaches the technique all over the world. I learned from Eric in Birmingham, Alabama, Levels I and II, and then Level III in Marina del Rey, California in 2001. This technique is extremely simple to use, and is effective in healing trauma and any life burden. I have used it successfully to help people shift into their own healing journey, no matter what they suffer from. Eric’s book is a good book on the general subject of healing.
• Wheels of Life by Anodea Judith. She calls this text “a user’s guide to the chakra system.”
• Your Aura and Your Chakras, The Owner’s Manual by Karla McLaren. This is yet another look at the energy field from an author who really understands how to heal from human trauma and what emotions are all about.
• The Book of Chakras by Ambika Wauters. This is a nice simplistic text with fantastic illustrations and handy charts. This is a very nice beginner’s guide to the chakra subject.
• Chakras, Energy Centers of Transformation by Harish Johari. This text is written by an Indian student of the subject. It has nice illustrations and goes into Indian esoterica a bit.
• The Healer’s Manual, A Beginner’s Guide to Energy Therapies, by Ted Andrews. This is a very nice text. I still pull it out to get straight about which meridian is doing what, and where it is located on the physical body.
• Ancient Teachings for Beginners by Douglas De Long. Auras, chakras, angels, rebirth, astral projection, and how to develop the psychic abilities, which we all have.
• Energy Medicine by Donna Eden. This is another one of the “if there is only one book you would recommend” category.
• You Forever by T. Lobsang Rampa….a delightful exploration of how we can become who we are.

The bibliography above can be supplemented with any number of texts from any of the yogic traditions. There are some 30 different forms of yoga.

You are full of Light.

Signing off from Crestone and Beyond

Additional Reading

1. There are 4 writings on this website, composed in 2017, which explain how the heart functions outside of its role of pumping blood. These considerations are very important for our growth as conscious beings, and are the most important considerations for living a happy and healthy life that I know of. There are many many people who live happy and healthy lives in our world who would never need to read such writings. They are the living examples of a glowing heart…1) The Pulse of Life, 2) The Spiral of Life, 3) The Prayer of Life, and 4) The Beginning of Life.
2. The Light Is Always There…a different kind of inner light is discussed in this writing.
3. Relinquishing Ego…letting go of the ego construct in the second half of life brings us closer to our inner light and Source.
4. From Darkness to Light…Franciscan priest and teacher Richard Rohr explains one aspect of Jesus’ resurrection in this writing from 4-25-19.
5. What Happens to Your Body When You Do Yoga?…yoga is an ancient form of exercise that combines postures, breathing techniques and meditative practices to improve physical, mental, emotional and spiritual well-being.
6. Lost History of the Essenes…William Henry explains the interrelationship of our human earthly body and our spiritual light body through an excellent history of the Essenes. His lecture and the pictures in this video from Gaia are captivating and compelling. Posted here on October 23, 2019.
7. The Suppression of Ascension…William Henry is interviewed by George Noory. He explains more history of the Essenes, the Gnostics, and the Cathars, and where we are headed with artificial intelligence.
8. Our Soul Dilemma: Fallen AI Babylon or Ascended New Jerusalem…posted here on 3-8-21. William Henry takes a look at the 2 choices we are facing. Will humanity embrace an AI driven simulated reality or will we claim our true spiritual birthright as beings of Light?
9. GAIA and AI: Is Janes Lovelock’s Shock Prediction Coming True?…William Henry takes on James Lovelock’s Gaia hypothesis, and more…”As Lovelock once said to Mother Teresa, who argued that God would take care of the Earth. ‘If we as people do not respect and take care of the Earth, we can be sure that the Earth, in the role of Gaia, will take care of us and, if necessary, eliminate us.'”
10. Light 01–Energies on Earth and in Spirit are Worlds Apart…a March 12, 2023 writing from Mark Macy about Light and finer dimensions. This is a good primer on the electromagnetic spectrum and how Light steps Itself down into our manifestation in this physical world.
11. Immortals of the Sheath: The Return of the Perfect Light Humans…posted here on May 14, 2023. William Henry writes on, “Ancient Gnostic texts refer to a hidden pre-Flood race called the Perfect Ones, the Righteous Ones, and the Perfect Light Humans who possessed a mysterious cloak or sheath of light that enfolded their bodies and enabled them to phase between the material and immaterial world. This mysterious race possessed advanced spiritual powers and are credited with restarting civilization after the Flood. Who were they? Where did they come from? Immortals of the Sheath explores this pre-diluvian race of beings rarely spoken of, but who secretly exist beyond the veil of history and who have an important message for our times.”
12. Light X–Wrap Up…posted here on 6-17-23. An article on Mark Macy’s site which gives “summaries of the 5 articles in the Light series that I wrote in 2023…The Light articles below show how that perfect life-energy is always ready to raise humanity up out of the shadow into finer states of spirit and consciousness.”
13. Light 04–Body-Mind-Spirit in Harmony…one of the articles in the Light series which is linked above in #12. In this particular article on Light Mark references my work and the 4 writings on this website which are linked in reference #1 above.