The Call of the Sun

Surya Green

The Call of the Sun is the true story of Surya Green,
American-born writer and journalist,
whose life changes forever when at age thirty-three she experiences spiritual awakening.
That occurs, astonishingly, with the help of our Sun in the sky.

The Call of the Sun introduces the Sun Revelation
that solar inspirer Surya Green received years earlier:
our Sun has, besides its physical energy,
a subtle energy of enlightened consciousness.
The Sun’s subtle energy, or spiritual power, uplifts human consciousness
and inspires human behavior for the positive.

The Call of the Sun is organized in four parts:
The Awakening
The Transformation
The Task
The Continuity

The Awakening
takes place during the writer’s visit to India on journalistic assignment.
While staying in Pondicherry, at the Sri Aurobindo Ashram,
she is, to her utter amazement, called by the Sun.
When she visits the sacred Hindu city of Benares, the Sun speaks to her.
Further conversations follow in the Buddhist pilgrimage site of Sarnath
and in Vrindavan, the childhood home of the Hindu god Krishna.

Not only does the writer have inspirational meetings with the Sun,
but also she encounters such remarkable persons as
the Mother of Pondicherry, J. Krishnamurti, and R. Buckminster Fuller.
By the return to her place of residence in Amsterdam, the Netherlands,
the writer has a new name: Surya, Sanskrit for “the Originator, the Sun the Source”.

The Transformation
takes place for the most part in old Amsterdam,
where "Surya" turns her canalside flat into her personal temple to the Divine,
much to the skepticism of her friends, acquaintances, and journalistic colleagues.
Step by step reborn Surya Green undergoes a conscious transition
from secular to spiritual, with all the pleasures and the pains thereof.
She comes into close association with the Indian spiritual teacher Swami Purna.

The Task
starts to manifest.
Having dedicated her pen, now Sun-inspired,
in service to the worldwide spiritual renaissance
and planetary transformation taking place,
Surya “spiritualizes” her work.
As “journalist of the spiritual”,
she becomes familiar with the many traditions and paths
leading to Self-realization.

Spiritual teachers of both East and West
generously give themselves to her tape recorder, camera, and notebook.
Spiritual leaders who appear in this section include
Tibetan Buddhist Gyalwa Karmapa XVI,
Christian mystic Martinus of Denmark,
Jewish mystic Henri van Praag,
Sufi mystic Pir Vilayat Inayat Khan,
Sri Swami Ranganathananda of the Ramakrishna Order;
and yoga masters Sri Svami Purna, Sri Swami Satchidananda,
Yogi Bhajan, and Maharishi Mahesh Yogi.
Their messages of wisdom interweave in the text
with the writer’s transformational experiences and insights.

The Continuity
marks the next unfoldment in Surya's task.
She reaches the stage where she begins to communicate the Sun Revelation
she has been nurturing over the years.
In London, Surya has a series of meetings with Irina Tweedie,
Sufi mystic attuned with the immortal Himalayan masters.
Further insight is gained into the Divine Plan
and the public emergence of those spiritual elders
who work selflessly for the Plan's manifestation.
Surya experiences the continuity in the transmission
of the ageless esoteric knowledge and wisdom.

Introducing the use of Sun power in all aspects of one’s life,
including on the spiritual level, Surya Green emerges as a solar inspirer
serving the cause of unity and peace. She makes the pioneering suggestion that
human beings can transform and renew planet Earth
when they attune with, and apply, the Sun's energy, both physical and subtle,
while also accepting the Sun-principle of giving and sharing.

This inspiring, true story of Surya Green’s awakening to the Sun's subtle energy,
and her spiritual transformation,
as well as her meetings with remarkable personages of the 20th century,
reads like a novel, educating as it entertains.