Mount Shasta: The Mountain of Madness?

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Mount Shasta: The Mountain of Madness?
Part 1
30 October, 2012

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It's almost considered a sacrilege to mention anything remotely negative in the same breath that you would talk about Mount Shasta in metaphysical or spiritual terms.

But Mount Shasta has a deadly and darker side to its legacy, which had long been known to early inhabitants who have lived here since prehistoric times.

"Mount Shasta, so far as I have seen, has never been the home of Indians, not even their hunting ground to any great extent, above the lower slopes of the base. They are said to be afraid of fire-mountains and geyser-basins as being the dwelling places of dangerously powerful and unmanageable gods." - John Muir, Mount Shasta,
Chapter 10 of Picturesque California, 1888

For thousands of years Mount Shasta has been respected, if not feared for its power by Native Americans, who believe a force resides there and protects it. Any trip up the mountain would have involved lengthy preparations through prayer, fasting, and guidance by a doctor. Failing to make the necessary preparations for traveling to such a dangerous place could result in getting lost, seriously injured, "going crazy," and perhaps even vanishing off the face of the earth.

It's easy to write-off such beliefs as the product of superstitious minds, but a lot of strange things happen up here from time to time that tend to support these old warnings.

If the ancients were to come back today and look at what kinds of things were going on around Mount Shasta, it's more than likely they would conclude that the spirits on the mountain were making people "crazy", because that's what they always warned what could happen . . .

THE SIREN'S CALL

In September, 2011, a Los Angeles man and former retail sales employee at a big-box store, who I will call John, was hiking alone along the Pacific Crest trail on his way down from Canada, when he became aware of some strange sounds like music coming from the vicinity of Mount Shasta.

He wandered off the trail to search for the source of the sound and became hopelessly disoriented.

He was reportedly lost for several weeks and survived by eating berries and wild lettuce.
He claims that over those weeks that he was wandering lost in the wilds, he kept hearing strange music accompanied by a female voice, sometimes joined in by a chorus of other voices.

"It sounded like really beautiful music," John was quoted as saying to the Shasta County Sherriff.

An unnamed local source is quoted as reporting that John eventually found his way out of the woods by following the same music that got him lost; but the John who came back was a very different person.
"The music seemed to hypnotize me," John admitted. Then events took an even more bizarre turn.

John claimed to have stumbled across some "locals" (whatever that means?) who forced him to enter a cave at the base of the mountain. He was taken inside a dark chamber and stripped of all his clothing, and then a tall female with unnaturally blue eyes and strange clothes arrived to give him some 'gifts'.

He also said that there was a blue-eyed white-haired man there who spoke with him and gave him some 'gifts' as well.

After the ordeal, John now claims that he is in possession of some secret information that can only be revealed to certain people, and he will not talk to the media. John has declined to state what 'gifts' were given to him, or hint at what the nature of the information he was told might be.

It was later discovered that John legally changed his name to 'Kalki', which is the name of a messianic Hindu Indian god-the tenth incarnation of Lord Vishnu-who will rise up in the present age of darkness to annihilate evil and ignorance, leading humanity into a new Golden Age.

Could this be the actual, return of a living god to earth here in Mount Shasta?

-Or an example of somebody possessed through whatever means by one of the 'dangerous and unmanageable gods' Muir spoke of in his writings, who reside on the mountain?

11:11:11

Any numerologically congruent date is a time for much excitement in Mount Shasta.

In the weeks leading up to these events dozens of workshops pop up, and the town's wall-papered with flyers inviting people to join groups with Ascended Masters Adama, Jesus, Saint Germain, or the Pleadians who will all be channeling, healing, vibrating, and meditating on the powerful energy vortex of Mount Shasta during the auspicious date.

On 11-11-11 I was up on the mountain myself, I wasn't part of any ceremonies, I was there alone parked below the Bunny Flat trailhead filming a time-lapse shot of a vortex cloud that was churning and ebbing over the summit.

As my camera was filming I was keeping an eye on my watch for 11:00 a.m., because up here, well, you never know what's going to make an appearance-it's a pretty unusual place full of unusual events and happenings.
The atmosphere at an elevation of around 6,500 feet felt electrically charged with a high level of excitement and anticipation, and on the morning of 11-11, as the clock crept closer towards 11:00 a.m., the highway up the mountain became jammed with a steady flow of traffic of people who had come here from all over the world to unite with the spirits and energy of Mount Shasta.

There were undoubtedly some exquisite experiences being had up on the mountain during the morning of 11:11:11-but for at least one person, it turned out to be the last day anyone would ever see him alive.

The weekend of spirituality turned deadly for a 19 year-old Los Angeles-area man whose shoeless body was discovered on the slopes after he attempted to climb to the top of the mountain wearing only a T-shirt and sweatpants.

The last time he was seen was in the Old Ski Bowl where he was participating in an 11-11-11 group meditation with 10 other people.

His friends said that he took off his shoes and began hiking up the mountain to place a rock on top of Mount Shasta, whose summit is at 14, 171 feet.

The group apparently thought he needed to go to the bathroom, or wanted some time alone, and nobody stopped him.

It's unclear why the man felt he had to take his shoes off and place a rock on top of the mountain, but when nobody could locate him after he went missing, the search that had begun was postponed after nightfall; his body was discovered the next day at an elevation of 9,600 feet.

Friends of the man's family were baffled and described him as bright, well-educated, and not part of any church or religious cult. He was described as a college-student and not prone to doing stupid things, according to those who were closest to him. And they were disturbed because so many unanswered questions surrounded the tragic event.

According to his friends, the toxicology report came back negative for any kind of drugs or alcohol being present in his system. The pathologist determined that his death was caused by hypothermia as a result of becoming lost, disoriented, and confused up on the mountain.

Why did this person wander away from his friends after a spiritual group-meditation, convinced that he had to climb to the top of the mountain with no shoes to place a rock there? Did something influence him? What was his state of mind that day to attempt doing such a thing?

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Written by Dustin Naef - MessageToEagle.com Contributor
About the author:
Dustin Naef has been a student of ancient mysteries and the paranormal for as long as he can remember. He has worked in screenwriting, graphic design and illustration, produced and designed video best-selling games, and is currently involved in the production of a film documentary and book about the mysteries surrounding Mount Shasta, California.
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Mount Shasta: The Mountain of Madness?
Part 2
31 October, 2012

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Mount Shasta: Dwelling Place Of The Earthbound Spirits?

If you grew up during the 80's, and were at all familiar with the growing movement of alternative-spirituality, then you've probably heard of the bestselling books Life Between Life and The Case for Reincarnation, written by the Canadian journalist, Joe Fisher.

Chances are you have a well-worn, dog-eared copy of one or both books stashed somewhere on your bookshelf. The 14th Dalai Lama himself wrote the forward for The Case for Reincarnation.

What you might not have heard is that Joe Fisher, at age 53, committed suicide by throwing himself off a limestone cliff at Elora Gorge, Canada.

Image Credit: Joe Fisher

What makes this story even more disturbing is that shortly before his death, Fisher's final book, The Siren Call of Hungry Ghosts, an investigation into channeling and spirit guides-described by his publisher as "his gripping journey into a realm of darkness and deception" was republished by Paraview Press.




In one of Fisher's last communications with his editor, he stated that the spirits he had angered as a result of writing the book were still causing him trouble.

Image Credit: 12th Century Buddhist depiction of earthbound spirit or "hungry ghost".

One of Fisher's close friends, author Colin Wilson, was baffled by the apparent suicide, because Fisher had written, "Those who learn that they have killed themselves in past lives are quickly brought to the realization that suicide, far from being an answer to life's problems, is instead the violent breaking of the lifeline. If the suicide could only realize the resulting intensification of difficulty which must enter the life to come, suicide would never be contemplated."

Fisher's suicide left many of his friends and associates pondering whether his death had anything to do with the book and "weird experiences" he'd had while investigating the claims of channelers' and spirit guides.

They probably wondered if he might have been pushed off of the cliff or driven crazy by the entities he maligned.

Fisher's 'weird experiences' began when he attended a séance, and was told that his 'spirit guide' was a young Greek Girl, Filipa, who had been his lover in a previous incarnation.

The details she gave were deeply convincing to Fisher, and he eventually fell in love and became enamored with her.

Fisher was equally impressed by the other spirits he encountered, one who claimed to be an ex-Royal Air Force pilot, named Ernest Scott, and another who claimed to be a Cockney veteran of World War One named Harry Maddox.

Fisher's disillusionment began when he attempted to verify the spirit's stories, to find out if the names and details they related could be traced to actual historical records and individuals. It turned out that all of the spirit's information had been falsified-not by the channelers, whom he believed were unwitting participants, but by the spirits themselves.

"Their knowledge is impressive," writes Fisher of these four and other channeled entities he investigated, "their insight remarkable, their charismatic hold on their followers undeniable. Moreover, the voices' ostensible link to a higher and greater state of being seems to place them above suspicion in the minds of those who prize their counsel. Yet surely it is important-essential, even - to establish, if possible, the nature of the beast that is shuffling through the pipeline created by the trance. Who are these entities really? . . . The answer to that question is as unwelcome as it is unavoidable . . . the evidence left me in little doubt that earthbound spirits or 'hungry ghosts' have wormed their way into that juicy apple of spiritual regeneration known as The New Age."

Fisher's conclusion: the channeled entities were nothing more than malevolent ghosts who no longer had physical bodies, but longed to live again, and would take on the form of whatever the channeler consciously or unconsciously wanted them to be, simply for the ghoulish pleasure of reveling in another fleshly, human body on the earthly plane.

Image Credit: 19th Century, Gustave Dore

Fisher claims that at least two entities with which he was familiar with hungered for "vicarious sexual thrills" through their subjects; famed channeler, Seth, occasionally asked for a glass of wine or beer to enjoy the material realm through its channeler's senses.

Another famous channeler holds "wine ceremonies" during her sessions, and once commanded one of her followers in attendance to relate his sexual encounters with another entity while he was inebriated.

Sometimes the relationship between the channeler and the entity proves to be profitable beyond people's wildest imaginations. There are many channelers who make in excess of hundreds of thousands, and even millions of dollars a year. And they are usually not disposed to adopt the kind of humble, spiritual, unassuming lifestyle of a Native American or Tibetan Monk. They live in mansions, jet-set around the world, threaten and sue their critics, and gratify themselves with all the materiality of the world that wealth can buy.

Fisher further states: "Every reference that I uncovered concerning earthbound spirits seemed to fit the channeling phenomenon at large . . . Ancient spiritual teachings from a wide range of cultures tell of hosts of disembodied beings inhabiting a dimension which lies closet to earth. This lower astral realm, a gloomy cesspool of the dead peopled by the spirits of those who have lived base, ignorant, or selfish lives. Afflicted with all manner of craving for terrestrial pleasure, their decadent existence thrives on attachment to needy and unsuspecting individuals on Earth."

Image Credit: 19th Century, Gustave Dore

British psychologist Stan Gooch, in his book 'The Paranormal', describes the teachings of 'spiritual guides' as "a kind of intellectual candy-floss . . . when you chew on these utterances, there is nothing there. The mouth is empty."

In Tibetan Buddhist beliefs, these earthbound spirits are called pretas, or "hungry ghosts".

Pretas are individuals whose minds, at the moment of physical death, were unable to distangle themselves from earthly cravings and desires. So they have become trapped on the lower planes-as lost souls unable to pass on.

In Buddhist beliefs, after death, it is said that the earthly individuals power of resistance will be tried and tested by the Siren call's of the Hungry Ghosts.

The Tibetan Book of the Dead, an eighth-century guidebook mapping out the spiritual territory one has to negotiate once the body has perished, warns against the temptation to come:
". . . together with the wisdom of light, the soft yellow light of the hungry ghosts will also shine. Do not take pleasure in it; give up desire and yearning . . . If you are attracted to it, you will fall into the realm of the hungry ghosts and experience unbearable misery from hunger and thirst. It is an obstacle, blocking the path of liberation . . ."

On the subject of spirit guides, the late Tibetan Buddhist lama Namgyal Rinpoche, founder of the Dharma Center of Canada, offers this advice: "As a general spiritual law, no enlightened being would speak through an ordinary human. The disincarnate spirits who are making themselves' known through channeling are united in their desperate need for love. Their audience is a generation that is also hungry for love."

Image Credit: 19th Century, Gustave Dore

Mount Shasta has always been described as an ancient "power center" on the planet. There are many people who wonder if the vortex energies present here-this thinning of the veils, which helps sensitive's more easily reach discrete states of consciousness doesn't also help lower earthbound entities more easily interpenetrate matter, and come through from the other side to possess and manipulate unsuspecting people, or make them "go crazy", as Native Americans warned could happen.

Emaneul Swedenborg, the famous eighteenth century clairvoyant, who also believed people were putting themselves at risk in attempts to contact the spirit realm, warned:
"When spirits begin to speak with man, he must beware lest he believe in anything; for they say almost anything; things are fabricated of them, and they lie . . ."

Read part 1 of this article

Written by Dustin Naef - MessageToEagle.com Contributor

About the author:
Dustin Naef has been a student of ancient mysteries and the paranormal for as long as he can remember. He has worked in screenwriting, graphic design and illustration, produced and designed video best-selling games, and is currently involved in the production of a film documentary and book about the mysteries surrounding Mount Shasta, California.
If you wish to follow Dustin Naef:
Dustin's website:
http://www.dustinnaef.com
Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/dustinnaef.mountshasta
https://www.facebook.com/MountShastaFilm

 

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Mount Shasta: The Mountain of Madness?
Part 2
31 October, 2012

The Link: Mount Shasta: The Mountain of Madness? Part 2 - MessageToEagle.com

MessageToEagle.com-
Mount Shasta: Dwelling Place Of The Earthbound Spirits?
If you grew up during the 80's, and were at all familiar with the growing movement of alternative-spirituality, then you've probably heard of the bestselling books Life Between Life and The Case for Reincarnation, written by the Canadian journalist, Joe Fisher. Chances are you have a well-worn, dog-eared copy of one or both books stashed somewhere on your bookshelf. The 14th Dalai Lama himself wrote the forward for The Case for Reincarnation.
What you might not have heard is that Joe Fisher, at age 53, committed suicide by throwing himself off a limestone cliff at Elora Gorge, Canada.

Image Credit: Joe Fisher

What makes this story even more disturbing is that shortly before his death, Fisher's final book, The Siren Call of Hungry Ghosts, an investigation into channeling and spirit guides-described by his publisher as "his gripping journey into a realm of darkness and deception" was republished by Paraview Press.



In one of Fisher's last communications with his editor, he stated that the spirits he had angered as a result of writing the book were still causing him trouble.

Image Credit: 12th Century Buddhist depiction of earthbound spirit or "hungry ghost".

One of Fisher's close friends, author Colin Wilson, was baffled by the apparent suicide, because Fisher had written, "Those who learn that they have killed themselves in past lives are quickly brought to the realization that suicide, far from being an answer to life's problems, is instead the violent breaking of the lifeline. If the suicide could only realize the resulting intensification of difficulty which must enter the life to come, suicide would never be contemplated."
Fisher's suicide left many of his friends and associates pondering whether his death had anything to do with the book and "weird experiences" he'd had while investigating the claims of channelers' and spirit guides.
They probably wondered if he might have been pushed off of the cliff or driven crazy by the entities he maligned.

Fisher's 'weird experiences' began when he attended a séance, and was told that his 'spirit guide' was a young Greek Girl, Filipa, who had been his lover in a previous incarnation.
The details she gave were deeply convincing to Fisher, and he eventually fell in love and became enamored with her.
Fisher was equally impressed by the other spirits he encountered, one who claimed to be an ex-Royal Air Force pilot, named Ernest Scott, and another who claimed to be a Cockney veteran of World War One named Harry Maddox.
Fisher's disillusionment began when he attempted to verify the spirit's stories, to find out if the names and details they related could be traced to actual historical records and individuals. It turned out that all of the spirit's information had been falsified-not by the channelers, whom he believed were unwitting participants, but by the spirits themselves.
"Their knowledge is impressive," writes Fisher of these four and other channeled entities he investigated, "their insight remarkable, their charismatic hold on their followers undeniable. Moreover, the voices' ostensible link to a higher and greater state of being seems to place them above suspicion in the minds of those who prize their counsel. Yet surely it is important-essential, even - to establish, if possible, the nature of the beast that is shuffling through the pipeline created by the trance. Who are these entities really? . . . The answer to that question is as unwelcome as it is unavoidable . . . the evidence left me in little doubt that earthbound spirits or 'hungry ghosts' have wormed their way into that juicy apple of spiritual regeneration known as The New Age."
Fisher's conclusion: the channeled entities were nothing more than malevolent ghosts who no longer had physical bodies, but longed to live again, and would take on the form of whatever the channeler consciously or unconsciously wanted them to be, simply for the ghoulish pleasure of reveling in another fleshly, human body on the earthly plane.

Image Credit: 19th Century, Gustave Dore

Fisher claims that at least two entities with which he was familiar with hungered for "vicarious sexual thrills" through their subjects; famed channeler, Seth, occasionally asked for a glass of wine or beer to enjoy the material realm through its channeler's senses.
Another famous channeler holds "wine ceremonies" during her sessions, and once commanded one of her followers in attendance to relate his sexual encounters with another entity while he was inebriated.
Sometimes the relationship between the channeler and the entity proves to be profitable beyond people's wildest imaginations. There are many channelers who make in excess of hundreds of thousands, and even millions of dollars a year. And they are usually not disposed to adopt the kind of humble, spiritual, unassuming lifestyle of a Native American or Tibetan Monk. They live in mansions, jet-set around the world, threaten and sue their critics, and gratify themselves with all the materiality of the world that wealth can buy.
Fisher further states: "Every reference that I uncovered concerning earthbound spirits seemed to fit the channeling phenomenon at large . . . Ancient spiritual teachings from a wide range of cultures tell of hosts of disembodied beings inhabiting a dimension which lies closet to earth. This lower astral realm, a gloomy cesspool of the dead peopled by the spirits of those who have lived base, ignorant, or selfish lives. Afflicted with all manner of craving for terrestrial pleasure, their decadent existence thrives on attachment to needy and unsuspecting individuals on Earth."

Image Credit: 19th Century, Gustave Dore

British psychologist Stan Gooch, in his book 'The Paranormal', describes the teachings of 'spiritual guides' as "a kind of intellectual candy-floss . . . when you chew on these utterances, there is nothing there. The mouth is empty."
In Tibetan Buddhist beliefs, these earthbound spirits are called pretas, or "hungry ghosts".
Pretas are individuals whose minds, at the moment of physical death, were unable to distangle themselves from earthly cravings and desires. So they have become trapped on the lower planes-as lost souls unable to pass on.
In Buddhist beliefs, after death, it is said that the earthly individuals power of resistance will be tried and tested by the Siren call's of the Hungry Ghosts.
The Tibetan Book of the Dead, an eighth-century guidebook mapping out the spiritual territory one has to negotiate once the body has perished, warns against the temptation to come:
". . . together with the wisdom of light, the soft yellow light of the hungry ghosts will also shine. Do not take pleasure in it; give up desire and yearning . . . If you are attracted to it, you will fall into the realm of the hungry ghosts and experience unbearable misery from hunger and thirst. It is an obstacle, blocking the path of liberation . . ."
On the subject of spirit guides, the late Tibetan Buddhist lama Namgyal Rinpoche, founder of the Dharma Center of Canada, offers this advice: "As a general spiritual law, no enlightened being would speak through an ordinary human. The disincarnate spirits who are making themselves' known through channeling are united in their desperate need for love. Their audience is a generation that is also hungry for love."

Image Credit: 19th Century, Gustave Dore

Mount Shasta has always been described as an ancient "power center" on the planet. There are many people who wonder if the vortex energies present here-this thinning of the veils, which helps sensitive's more easily reach discrete states of consciousness doesn't also help lower earthbound entities more easily interpenetrate matter, and come through from the other side to possess and manipulate unsuspecting people, or make them "go crazy", as Native Americans warned could happen.
Emaneul Swedenborg, the famous eighteenth century clairvoyant, who also believed people were putting themselves at risk in attempts to contact the spirit realm, warned:
"When spirits begin to speak with man, he must beware lest he believe in anything; for they say almost anything; things are fabricated of them, and they lie . . ."
Read part 1 of this article
Written by Dustin Naef - MessageToEagle.com Contributor

About the author:
Dustin Naef has been a student of ancient mysteries and the paranormal for as long as he can remember. He has worked in screenwriting, graphic design and illustration, produced and designed video best-selling games, and is currently involved in the production of a film documentary and book about the mysteries surrounding Mount Shasta, California.
If you wish to follow Dustin Naef:
Dustin's website:
http://www.dustinnaef.com
Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/dustinnaef.mountshasta
https://www.facebook.com/MountShastaFilm

 

[Himalayan Hermit]

Good article. I did some reading on Mount Shasta while my HDR experiements was on going and even considered visiting the site once as I had heard that it's a giant vortex, but decided against it as I did not have enough know-how and company to deal with the trip.
Although, the thing about "Kalki" sounds like hogwash. It's hard to validate what John went through but either he hallucinated the entire trip or possibly ran into some hidden tribe residing in the area.
Alternate explanation could be that he crossed over to an alternate and/or subtle dimension where he interacted with the mentioned people.
Who's to say..