The Secret Power of Light - Mansukh Patel

The story of the author's discovery of the power of light.

Mansukh Patel's moving autobiographical insights into the power of light. This marvellous blend of practical spirituality, techniques and scientific fact reveals the transforming power of light, and the stirring background behind the World Peace Flame.

You'll learn a new technique on almost every page to help you harness the power of light within your life. 

Hardback - 288p - ISBN 1873606168

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The Secret Power of Light - Mansukh Patel

Introduction

The Secret Power of Light, by Mansukh Patel, is the remarkable story of one man’s discovery of the power of light. It traces the development of Mansukh Patel’s insights into how light affects our human psyche, and gives a myriad of practical means for harnessing this fact to improve our health, our emotional life, the nature of our thoughts, and our inner search for meaning and connectedness.

Mansukh Patel’s presentation of the Secret Power of Light is engaging, human and often humorous. Autobiographical in style, it intersperses excerpts from Mansukh’s diary with expansions on many of the practical techniques Mansukh’s parents taught him.

The World Peace Flame

Mansukh wrote the Secret Power of Light in response to the creation of the World Peace Flame.

In early 1999, Savitri MacCuish, Rita Goswami, Mansukh Patel and further colleagues took time out of their busy teaching schedules to help a friend in need repaint her house. In this time of relaxation and unity, a fertile ground for new ideas was created, and in one remarkable evening Mansukh, Savitri, Rita and the others were able to establish the complete template for a project that would fly 7 Flames of Peace, lit on each of the continents by eminent peacemakers, to the UK where they would be united into a single, World Peace Flame.

In Savitri, Rita and Mansukh’s knowledge, flying seven Flames of Peace across the oceans and joining them together had never been achieved before - they gave themselves three and a half months to accomplish the project.

On 31st July, 1999, their work was completed. The World Peace Flame was born at the Dru International Conference when the Continental Flames of Peace were joined together. Mansukh Patel carried the Indian Flame, Savitri MacCuish the European Flame and colleagues Anita Goswami the Australian Flame, Andrew Wells the African Flame, John Jones the Middle Eastern Flame, and Lalita Doerstel the North American Flames.

The Secret Power of Light

What were the principles that enabled this small team to accomplish what had never before been achieved?

Mansukh Patel describes many of them in detail in The Secret Power of Light. In his warm and human style, Mansukh brings the reader into his own world.

We follow the young Mansukh as he learns about the principles of light, fire and sunshine from his father. We witness his step-by-step discovery of how each of these forces – so anciently embedded within the human psyche – affect our human condition in precise and repeatable ways.

Mansukh gives us a wide variety of methods by which we can harness these forces for ourselves, gaining strength, clarity and mental vigour in the process.

Mansukh Patel’s entry into university was a turning point in the book. On the day his parents brought him to his new room in the University’s halls of residence, Mansukh’s father unwrapped a small, but highly significant gift. It was the Patel’s family deva – a butter lamp made of copper – which had been in their family for generations. Throughout his childhood, the young Mansukh Patel had witnessed this lamp burning quietly in their small house in Kenya’s Rift Valley, a warmly reassuring presence whenever they faced danger or uncertainty. Now, Mansukh’s father was handing it to him.

His only instructions were, ‘Light it.’

From there, Mansukh’s academic investigations as a science student became superimposed with a more subtle investigation as he examined his life and discovered new sources of strength from his investigations into the nature of light. Gradually, a small group of students began to gather in Mansukh’s room to meditate and explore some of these principles for themselves. Mansukh’s father began to train them, and the nascent Life Foundation was born.

The Secret Power of Light offers the reader far more than a fascinating autobiographical sketch of the life of Mansukh Patel. One becomes captivated by each new discovery Mansukh makes as the book unfolds. A part of us begins to re-create Mansukh’s discoveries in our imagination, and soon, echoes of his discoveries begin to shed fascinating light within our own minds.

Mansukh has included more dozens of his parents’ practical techniques for bringing the power of light into our own lives, and you will find the insights and understandings he offers a remarkable starting point for your own investigations into the ‘secret power of light’.