I drove to the end of the road and let my friend Mike off.
He rode a Bicycle down and we met again at Panther Meadows...
A Sacred Spring for the American Indians...
Mount Shasta California 2014
Exit Highway 5 at Mount Shasta City.
We stayed at the Alpine Lodge... a fine place.
reasonable price, good quality.
The Lady at the office was accurate about Driving directions
to visit Mt Shasta.Use Everitt Memorial Highway A10..
(South Washington Drive)
Mt Shasta CA
Mike J on the road to Mount Shasta, CA
Greg Vanderlaan (me)
View looking South from half way up Mt Shasta, CA
The Parking Lot at the Trailhead.
Rock Sculpture at Mount Shasta.
a triangle and 4 spirals...
Peace Sign rock sculpture
Mike J at the Start of his Ride Down The Mountain
Welcome to Panther Meadows sign
Trail to Panther Meadows
bicycling down Mount Shasta
view from Mt Shasta looking South as we descend...
reasonable price, good quality.
The Lady at the office was accurate about Driving directions
to visit Mt Shasta.Use Everitt Memorial Highway A10..
(South Washington Drive)
a triangle and 4 spirals...
after this journey, it's time for lunch in Mount Shasta City
Google Map...
I Drove Up Everitt Memorial Highway... A10...
(South Washington Drive)
Ask a Local for Driving Directions...
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Thousands flock to Mount Shasta for meditation event.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d4Mj-7aQEvU
Mt. Shasta Lore:
Indigenous people from Northern California and Southern Oregon are primarily the Pit River Indians, Modocs, Wintu, Karuk, Hupa, Shasta and Yurok tribes.
Mt. Shasta’s peak has been used as a spiritual and geographical locator. At 14,179 ft. elevation and an active volcano, Mt. Shasta towers above all other surrounding mountains. Native people do not reside on Mt. Shasta because it is considered so powerful. Spiritual ceremony is conducted in areas below the timberline and when finished, the surroundings are returned to nature, with nothing left behind. Medicine men and shamans are often taken to Mt. Shasta for training. There is much Native lore telling how the mountain has healed through prayer, songs, dancing, doctoring and through nature. The mountain yields a sacred spring and areas for collecting plants and herbs for ceremony and healing. The mountain is called ‘grandfather’ as it represents the paternal grandparents of the Pit River Tribe. Their powerful spirit called Mis Misa is said to live inside the mountain and serves to keep the universe in balance. They consider Mt. Shasta the beginning of all life and the end of all life, where one can ascend into the sky along the Milky Way to the beyond.
The Native peoples report many tunnels within Mt. Shasta. The Wintu say the mountain generates sound that provides information and guidance. The Wintu lore says another realm exists inside the mountain and access might come through doorways, such as vents in caves. Mt. Shasta must be approached with great care and respect as it is guarded by certain spirits. Mt. Shasta is so powerful that only short visits are appropriate. It is said that “It has it all”. During ceremony, the Wintu frequently hear and know the presence of the “little people”, called the Mountain Boys, who live deep within the mountain. A shaman can communicate with the little people. The shaman also uses the bubbling brook on the mountain to gain spiritual information.
When visiting the mountain, silence is important for meditation and fasting. The mountain spirits command respect.
METAPHYSICAL LORE
As early as the 1880s, writers began their association of the lost continent of Lemuria with Mt. Shasta. Even though these theories cannot be proved, the power of the mountain remains supreme. People worldwide visit Mt. Shasta to be close to its spiritual energy, to meditate, to communicate with the spirit world and to be healed. The concept of Lemurians living within the mountain has become widely popular and anyone visiting Mt. Shasta will be amazed by the abundance of literature on the topic as well as practitioners working within the vortex of an important spiritual community.
https://www.npr.org/2015/06/07/412098380/a-mountain-of-many-legends-draws-spiritual-seekers-from-around-the-globe
Native American stories.
"The Native Americans have always felt that the mountain was the sacred center of the universe," Ashalyn says. "They even have stories that talk about it being the home of the creator."
Mount Shasta straddles the territories of the Shasta, Wintu, Achumawi, Atsugewi and Modoc tribes. Not surprisingly, the imposing mountain shows up in a lot of tribal myths and stories. It's especially important to the Wintu tribe, who trace their people's origin back to a sacred spring on the mountain.
"They have always done their sacred ceremonies there, and they continue to do them to this day," says Ashalyn. "Every August they do their ceremonies for just the tribe and their invited guests."
Then there are the "ascended masters." In the 1930s, a businessman named Guy Ballard was hiking on the mountainside when he encountered a mysterious figure, who claimed to be an "ascended master."
"Those are beings who have had many lifetimes on this planet," explains Ashalyn, "and no longer need to come back to that birth-death cycle that we're in, because they've learned to master the physical plane."
As Ballard would later write, this particular ascended master passed on his teachings and took him on a cosmic journey through space and time.
Ballard, along with his wife, Edna, soon started a religious movement called the "I AM Activity" — a mix of Christianity, theosophy and fierce nationalism (Ballard claimed to be George Washington reincarnated, and said that America was spiritually superior among nations). At the height of its popularity, the I AM Activity had about a million followers. They were eventually charged by the U.S. government for swindling their followers out of millions of dollars, and the group fell into obscurity.
Finally, there's the legend of Telos.
According to Ashalyn, Telos is a crystal city inside the mountain, inhabited by higher-dimensional beings called Lemurians.
"That goes all the way back to the ancient continent of Lemuria that was in the North Pacific Ocean many thousands of years ago," she says. "It actually was inhabited before Atlantis was inhabited."
As the story goes, Lemuria and Atlantis got into a thermonuclear war and sank their continents. The Lemurians fled into Mount Shasta, and that's where they've remained ever since. Mostly.
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"Well, there's a couple stories from the 1940s where the Lemurians were actually seen walking into town," says Ashalyn. They were 7 feet tall, dressed in long white robes and sandals. They went to the general store to buy supplies, and paid for their purchases with chunks of gold. "The shopkeeper would take the gold, turn around and try to give them change, and the Lemurian would be gone."
These days, no one reports eyewitness accounts of Lemurians in the flesh — but some locals believe the smooth, saucer-shaped lenticular clouds that often gather at the summit of Mount Shasta are engineered by the Lemurians to camouflage alien cargo ships docking at Telos.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legends_of_Mount_Shasta
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