2024-01-02 21:58
Contemporary values are reflected in competing historical narratives, which may result in more than one history. As a result, not all people adhere to the Darwinian theory of evolution supp… Read More
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Historical investigations into the myths and legends about Mount Shasta in Siskiyou county, California. The myths include Atlantis, Lemuria, Hollow Earth, and occult groups.
2024-01-02 21:54
Myths are a Reliable Source of Information
Not really.
Both history and myth provide a method for studying the past. Though myths contain some legendary and historical qualities, they… Read More
2023-12-30 01:15
Are Myths A Legitimate Form of History?
The systematic study of myths provides a method for studying the past. However, though myths contain some legendary and historical qualities, it is… Read More
2023-12-30 01:12
Stonehenge, England
Myths express what happened in the past and what will happen in the future, told in the present. They bridge time between the past and today.
Myth as a… Read More
2023-12-30 01:06
The Geology of Mount Shasta
The geology of California is unique. There are two high masses, the Sierra Nevada and the lower mountains in the northwest. Between these masses is a lower pla… Read More
2023-12-30 00:38
Psychic Dictatorship in America (1940) by Gerald B. Bryan reveals unpleasant facts about the I AM group. His book “is a study of strange psychological forces revealed mainly through th… Read More
2023-12-21 20:17
The Manahunes did not work with stone but were laborers and considered the lowest-serving class of the Little People society. Originally, the Manahunes are tiny people from Tahiti, Tuamotus… Read More
2023-12-20 20:33
The Manahunes did not work with stone but were laborers and considered the lowest-serving class of the Little People society. Originally, the Manahunes are tiny people from Tahiti, Tuamotus… Read More
2023-12-20 20:01
The Menehune
The Little People, known as the Menehune are related to the Mu, who are hairy and have beards. According to Puku’i, the Mu was a primarily banana-eating people and were… Read More
2023-12-20 19:45
William Reed
William Reed (1830-1920) draws his conclusions about Hollow Earth from the journals of polar explorers in his book Phantom of the Poles (1906). Reed concludes that the captai… Read More
2023-12-19 20:33
The occultists of the Romantic Period (1798-1837) place the North American Native American civilizations as post-destruction colonies of Atlantis. This means that all indigenous groups were… Read More
2023-06-11 16:50
People are either looking in the wrong places – or these continents never existed
Lemuria and Atlantis are in the most unlikely areas on Earth. The greatest areas of deep sima are i… Read More
2023-06-11 16:44
Some cryptid animals that were once considered mythical but have been proven to exist:
The giant squid
Komodo dragon
Platypus
Okapi – a weird animal in the Congo
Gorilla… Read More
2023-05-12 17:51
What is Cryptozoology?
Some cryptid animals, such as the giant squid, Komodo dragon, platypus, okapi, gorilla, and bondegezou, a type of marsupial, were once considered mythical but have… Read More
2023-04-20 21:56
It is one thing to argue that unknown, large animals can exist undetected, but another to suppose that they could continue to exist without evidence.
The most famous cryptid in Mount Sh… Read More
2023-02-07 23:08
Lemuria and Atlantis are in the most unlikely areas on Earth. The greatest areas of deep sima are in the central Pacific Ocean, the southern Indian Ocean, and the Artic Oceans. This means th… Read More
2023-02-07 23:07
The Romantics and occultists subvert this problem by placing the Native American civilizations as colonies of Atlantis. Native Americans have also been named as descendants of the Egyptians… Read More
2023-01-25 20:26
Reed draws his conclusions from the journals of polar explorers. Reed concludes that the captains had not erred but were “lost” because they were unaware that their ships had ent… Read More
2023-01-25 19:35
Here are some recent developments about Hollow Earth theory and Mount Shasta:
The Oera Linda Book claims the King of Atlantis led his remaining peoples through an ancient tunnel network t… Read More
2023-01-25 19:15
The Yaktavians at Mount Shasta
There is also another group of Little People that reportedly live on Mt. Shasta. The Yaktavians, also called the Secret Commonwealth, create bells that anno… Read More
2023-01-25 19:14
Interestingly, the Menehune are related to the Mu, who are hairy and have beards. According to Puku’i, the Mu was primarily banana-eating people and were a tribe of the Menehune. Accor… Read More
2023-01-25 19:13
In their descriptions, the Manahunes did not work with stone but were laborers and considered the lowest-serving class of society. Manahunes are tiny people from Tahiti, Tuamotus, and Raroto… Read More
2023-01-25 19:12
The Menehune myths are best known in Hawaii and throughout Polynesia, where they are called the Manahune or Manaune. Katherine Luomala writes “that there is an ancient Hawaiian traditi… Read More
2023-01-25 18:37
Count St. Germain is said to be a member of the Illuminati and the Masons, a conspirator in the French Revolution of 1789… Read More
2023-01-25 18:35
Psychic Dictatorship in America (1940) by Gerald B. Bryan reveals unpleasant facts about the I AM group. His book “ is… Read More
2023-01-25 18:34
The basic belief of the I AM Movement is that there is one God, who is omnipresent, omniscient, and omnipotent. The Great C… Read More
2023-01-25 18:31
For the I AM followers, an Ascended Master is a person who has gone through the process of ascension and has a high state o… Read More
2023-01-13 22:55
Myths are a Type of History
The systematic study of myths provides a method for studying the past. However, though m… Read More
2023-01-13 22:35
Evolution of a human man from chimp to caveman to human.
Contemporary values are reflected in competing historical narratives, which may result in more than one history. As a result, not all… Read More
2023-01-13 22:31
Vintage illustration from an 18th Century book, History of Joseph and his Brethren. The period from 1680 to 1860 is critical for understanding twenty-first-century interpretations… Read More
2023-01-13 22:31
Myth and Science in Mount Shasta
Myths and science serve the purpose of unifying their narratives of seeking truth and facts and solving earthly mysteries. Myths serve a function similar… Read More
2023-01-13 22:30
The Destruction of Lemuria and Mount Toba
The destruction of Lemuria is well documented in occult literature. Lemurians had a difficult time with a warming climate, unexpected volcanic er… Read More
2023-01-13 22:30
The Geology of Mount Shasta
The geology of California is unique. There are two high masses, the Sierra Nevada and the lower mountains in the northwest. Between these masses is a lower pla… Read More
2023-01-13 22:29
Ray Palmer and Richard S. Shaver
The modern conception of subterranean worlds was largely influenced by Ray Palmer and Richard S. Shaver (1907-1975). In 1932, Shaver was employed as a wel… Read More
2023-01-13 21:52
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2023-01-13 20:33
The Occult Version of Location
There are two occult versions of Shamballah and Agartha. Agartha, the underground dwelling place of the Ascended Masters, is sometimes at odds with another… Read More
2023-01-13 20:27
Rudolph Steiner (1861-1925)
Theosophist Rudolph Steiner argued that Jesus Christ will return and reveal the true location of Shamballah with his Second Coming. Steiner and Blavatsky empha… Read More
2023-01-13 19:37
Rudolph Steiner (1861-1925)
Rudolf Steiner broke from the Theosophical Society in 1907 and founded the Anthroposophical Society, headquartered in Dornach, Switzerland. Steiner, in The Sub… Read More
2023-01-13 19:34
“Ideas and arts were communicated in early times, slowly, by a hand-to-had process, over many extensive distances, and myths and artifacts, tools, and even slaves and captives have b… Read More
2023-01-13 19:17
What is Theosophy?
The word theosophy is from the Greek theos, meaning God, and sophia meaning wisdom. The occult version of Lemuria began in the 1880s as a submerged origin of the Third… Read More
2023-01-13 18:37
19th Century Geology and Science: Wright
For nineteenth-century geologists, the last glacial period was explained by two opposing viewpoints. The first was an astronomical theory that exp… Read More
2023-01-13 18:36
18th Century Geology and Science: Leclerc and Nicholson
In the eighteenth century Georges Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon (1707-1788), in Natural History of the Globe, of Man, of Beasts, B… Read More
2023-01-13 18:22
Charles Lyell and Charles Darwin were the first to argue against catastrophism. They argued a slow, gradual change known as Uniformitarianism, a theory of geological processes that states ch… Read More
2023-01-13 18:21
Georges Dagobert and Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
French anatomist Georges Léopold Chrétien Frédéic Dagobert, Baron Cuvier (1769-1832) concluded fossils bones belonge… Read More
2023-01-12 23:18
The word theosophy is from the Greek theos, meaning God, and sophia meaning wisdom. The occult version of Lemuria began in… Read More
2023-01-12 23:15
The outer part of the Earth’s body acts as a thermal insulator that prevents intense heat from escaping to the surface. Within the core, the temperature is a few thousand degrees, wher… Read More
2023-01-12 23:14
In 1908, Admiral Robert Peary (1856-1920) set out on his quest for the North Pole from Ellesmere Island, accompanied by Matthew Henson and four Inuits. He claimed to have reached the North P… Read More
2023-01-12 23:12
A different perspective of Hollow Earth theory is proposed by William F. Lyon and Marshall B. Bardner. Lyon, in The Hollow Globe (1871), argued that the earth was created by spirits, not one… Read More
2023-01-12 23:11
Koresh, also known as Cyrus Reed Teed (1839-1906), believed the earth was hollow and that people lived inside its interior, which had a shell 100 miles thick and consisted of seventeen layer… Read More
2023-01-12 23:10
John Cleves Symmes (1779-1829), an American supporter of the Hollow Earth theory, went on an expedition to the North Pole to prove that the earth was hollow. He claimed in his book… Read More
2023-01-12 23:09
Cotton Mather (1663-1728), a Puritan clergyman in New England, made famous for inciting the Salem Witchcraft mania, repeated Halley’s hypothesis about an inner world. Mather also b… Read More
2023-01-12 23:07
The more recent history of Hollow Earth theory begins with Athanasius Kircher (1602-1680), a Jesuit priest who wrote Mundus Subterraneus, published in 1669. He is one of the first to sup… Read More
2023-01-12 23:05
Plato’s Hollow Earth
The first historical reference to a Hollow Earth is by Plato, in Phædo Paras. In history, the Hollow Earth theory explained natural phenomena prior to sci… Read More
2023-01-12 22:58
Hollow Earth Theory at Mount Shasta
People believe that the descendants of Lemuria and Atlantis live inside Mt. Shasta. Hollow Earth theories have remained popular for several reasons, ev… Read More
2023-01-12 21:09
Ten Lost Tribes of Israel and Atlantis
Also connected to Atlantis and Lemuria are Native American groups and the lost Ten Tribes of Israel. Early historians described the Native Americans… Read More
2023-01-12 21:07
Other “Missing” Islands
In addition to Atlantis and Lemuria, many other islands have also “disappeared.” During the Dark and Middle Ages, there were many myths abo… Read More
2023-01-12 21:06
Myths are an Alternative Form of History
Both history and myth provide a method for studying the past. Though myths contain some legendary and historical qualities, they are not accurate… Read More
2023-01-12 21:03
Mount Shasta City Park has the headwaters for the Upper Sacramento River, located about a mile out of town.
About a week ago, we were talking about searching for Big Foot with a neighbor… Read More
2023-01-12 20:57
Petroglyphs at the lava tubes at Lava Beds National MonumentMarking Place Through Petroglyphs at Lava Beds National Monument
Petroglyphs appear at openings in the earth, such a… Read More
2023-01-12 20:56
Myths are a Type of History
The systematic study of myths provides a method for studying the past. However, though m… Read More
2023-01-12 20:53
Aphrodite18th Century and the Romantic Movement
In the late eighteenth century, there was a movement away from the rational thinking of the Enlightenment to an emphasis on emoti… Read More
2023-01-12 17:27
There were several dominant methods of interpreting myths in the nineteenth century. The most widely accepted method was studying myth as a pre-scientific explanation of nature. Pr… Read More
2023-01-12 17:21
Mount Shasta, California The Importance of Myth and Place
Myths help to negotiate concerns of life and provide a framewo… Read More
2023-01-11 23:15
Classical Ancient Greek silhouettes
The studies of mythologies prior to the 1760s were not a body of sacred stories but the science of allegorical reading.
Ancient Greeks were… Read More
2023-01-11 23:14
Will Occult Groups Succeed?
Occult groups that incorporate new ideas with old ones are most likely to succeed. For examp… Read More
2023-01-11 23:12
Northeast side of Mount Shasta, Northern California.Sacred Places
Fixed places in the environment like Mt. Shasta allow people to &ld&hell…Read More
2023-01-11 23:11
One popular way that myths have been interpreted is through a feminist approach. This method of interpretation requires attention to gender differences, patriarchy, and sexual poli… Read More
2023-01-11 23:08
The New Age engages science, religion, feminism, biomedicine, psychotherapy, environmentalism and non-western philosoph… Read More
2023-01-11 23:08
Many New Age adherents view God with Christian bias but incorporate fairies, angels and nature spirits. Buddhist mediat… Read More
2023-01-11 21:55
The New Age is not a Movement
Groups such as the I AM Movement, Rosicrucians, the Lemurian Fellowship, Theosophy, and Do… Read More
2023-01-11 21:53
Defining the Occult
The word occult is derived from the Latin word occultus, which means “to conceal from view.&rd&hell…Read More
2023-01-11 21:52
The dominant theme of the occult groups is the neo-platonic concept of a hierarchical universe with impersonal gods. In this view, humans are composed of a mind, body, and spirit, which are… Read More
2023-01-11 21:51
Mount Shasta, CaliforniaBefore the sinking of Lemuria and Atlantis, there was an Atlantean colony in northern California. When the great flood submerged Atlantis and Lemuria, those who were… Read More
2023-01-10 23:13
Evolution of a human man from chimp to caveman to human.
Contemporary values are reflected in competing historical narratives, which may result in more than one history. As a result, not all… Read More
2023-01-10 23:07
The Lemurian Fellowship’s Evidence of Lemuria
The Lemurian Fellowship points to archaeological evidence in the Pol… Read More
2023-01-10 23:05
John Ballou Newbrough
John Ballou Newbrough, who wrote Oahspé (1891), recounts another version of the Lemurian ci… Read More
2023-01-10 23:04
Phylos, The Tibetan
According to The Lemurian Fellowship, Phylos the Tibetan, who met Frederick Spencer Oliv… Read More
2023-01-10 23:01
Phylos the TibetanThe Lemurian Fellowship: Ramona, California
For adherents of the Lemurian Fellowship, Lemuria is a place that will re-em… Read More
2023-01-10 22:59
Chinese Traditional Pattern-Phoenix and PeonyModern Investigations of Mythology and Mircea Eliade
The study of mythology in the current century differs dramatically from the nin… Read More
2021-12-21 22:21
California is unique because people were reluctant to accept traditional forms of religion. There is a historical link to Protestant Anglo-Americans and utilizing alternative sour… Read More
2021-12-15 20:22
Harvey Spencer Lewis, 33° 66° 95° Harvey Spencer Lewis (aka Wishar S. Cervé)
Rosicrucian, Harvey Spencer Lewis, who wrote under the pseudonym Wishar S… Read More
2021-12-13 02:43
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2021-12-13 02:05
Col. James Churchward Rosicrucian, Col. James Churchward is significant in that he placed Mu in the Pacific Ocean, different… Read More
2021-12-13 02:04
Mr. Augustus LePlongeon, Archaeologist and HistorianAugustus LePlongeon
Rosicrucian and anthropologist Augustus LePlonge… Read More
2021-12-13 02:01
Col. James Churchward, Raymond W. Bernard, and Rear Admiral Richard E. Byrd
Col. James Churchward, Raymond W. Bernard, a… Read More
2021-12-13 01:58
Lewis Spence (1874-1955) Occult scholar Lewis Spence (1874-1955) wrote in The Problem of Lemuria (1933) that Easter Island, Me… Read More
2021-12-13 01:58
“The Messenger” Painting by Nicholas RoerichGeorge Dorcheff and Max Heindel
Rosicrucian groups have rel… Read More
2021-12-13 01:53
Chinese Traditional Pattern-Phoenix and PeonyModern Investigations of Mythology and Mircea Eliade
The study of mythology in the current century differs dramatically from the nin… Read More
2021-12-13 01:49
Phylos the TibetanThe Lemurian Fellowship – Located in Romana, California
For adherents of the Lemurian Fellowship, Lemuria is a pla… Read More
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