Bubba Free John: Conscious Exercise and the Transcendental Sun

The principle of love applied to exercise and the method of common physical action. A science of whole body wisdom, or true emotion, intended most especially for those engaged in religious or spiritual life.

Prepared in collaboration with Bubba Free John and based on his written and verbal instructions

The Dawn Horse Press, 1974; third edition, revised and expanded, 1977

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“Conscious exercise” is a “technology of love”, an approach of radiant feeling-attention, that can be applied to all systems of physical exercise, all games, all play, and all ordinary activity.

We all know, natively and bodily, what it is to look and feel and be and act completely happy. We have done so in moments when we felt we had good reasons. Conscious exercise is simply a way of practicing this whole body happiness under all conditions, without reason. It utilizes the natural laws of body, breath, and attention to realign us, consciously and instantly, with the “Transcendental Sun” – the cosmic dimension of manifest light and life-force, or the all-pervading foundation energy of the physical and super-physical universe.

The disciplines offered in this book include basic ways to stand, sit, walk, and breathe with energy and delight; brief and natual routines of calisthenics, hatha yoga, and surya namaskar; and a basic practice of pranayama, or control of life-force in breath that can be done at random throughout the day.

Bubba Free John is a living, Western-born Spiritual Master. Conscious Exercise and the Transcendental Sun is a manual for those who practice the whole spiritual Way that he teaches, the Way of Divine Ignorance, or Radical Understanding. But this balanced and immensely pleasurable approach to exercise can be learned and practiced by anyone of average health, and it can easily be taught to children as well. Conscious exercise is also particularly suited to those who are involved in a religious or spiritual view of life, and who want that view to make a practical change in their manner of living.