August 1, 2007
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Mount Shasta is a 14,179 foot (4,322 m) stratovolcano. It is the second highest peak in the Casade Range, and the fifth highest peak in California. It is a member of the Cascade Volcanic Arc. It is located in Siskiyou County, California, United States of America. It is considered to be one of the Sacred Mountains on Mother Earth.
Mt. Shasta
Bibliography, Links, Resources
Ascension Secrets, Alchemy, Teachings and Techniques from the Acended Master Saint Germain
Imagine, Ritual Spaces, Mt. Shasta
Meditation Walks Around Mt. Shasta
The Mt. Shasta Book: A Guide to Hiking, Climbing, Skiing, and
Exploring the Mountain and Surrounding Area. By Andy Selters and Michael
Zanger. 3rd Edition.
Mt.
Shasta: California's Mystic Mountain. By Emilie A. Frank.
Klamath River, CA, Living Gold Press, 1998, 2006. Bibliography, 210 pages. ISBN: 1888740086. VSCL.
Mt. Shasta Chamber of Commerce
Mt. Shasta Fact Sheet, College of the Siskiyou's Written by
William Miesse. 4 pages. 2005
Mt. Shasta Fact Sheet with References, College of the Siskiyou's.
Written by William Miesse. 34 pages.
Mt.
Shasta: History, Legend and Lore. By Michael Zanger. Berkeley,
CA, Celestial
Arts, 1992. References, 120 pages. ISBN: 0890876746. VSCL.
Mt. Shasta Magazine: New Age,
Spirituality
On Assignment with Adama: Mt. Shasta, Telos, Lemuria, and Sacred Earth Sites,
Book I. By Susan Isabelle.
Author House, 2005. 296 pages. ISBN: 1420842781.
Photo Gallery for Mount
Shasta
Places to Visit in the
Mt. Shasta Area The Sacred Center of Mt. Shasta.
Secrets
from Mt. Shasta. By Earlyne C. Chaney. Astara, 1953.
77 pages. ISBN: 0918936101.
Shasta Abbey Buddhist Monastery
Shasta Vortex Adventures.
Tours, Retreats, Adventures. Organized by Ashalyn.
Soul Connections. A
Golden Age Emporium.
Valley Spirit Center, Red
Bluff, California
VSCL = Valley Spirit Center Library. Home library of Mike and Karen
Garofalo.
Walking: Bibliography,
Links, Quotations. By Mike Garofalo.
Walking Meditation. By Mike Garofalo.
Wesak
Celebration, Early May, Mt. Shasta
Mt. Shasta
Quotations: Facts, Lore, Poetry, Information, Legends
"When I first caught sight of Mt. Shasta, over the braided folds
of the Sacramento Valley, I was fifty miles away and afoot, alone and weary.
Yet all my blood turned to wine, and I have not been weary since."
- John Muir, 1874
"In the last few decades Mount Shasta has become known locally as one of the
‘Seven Sacred Mountains of the World,’ however there is no officially recognized
world list of seven sacred mountains and regional lists of sacred mountains (of
the Navaho people or of China, for example) do not include Shasta. Nonetheless
Shasta as a sacred mountain does have a well established and widespread legacy.
To generations of Native Americans the mountain was and is a highly important
place of reverence and a place of balance between earth and universe. To early
Californian explorers, climbers, and settlers it was a source of awe and
inspiration. To travel writers of the late 1800’s it was “The Keystone of
California Scenery” and “California’s Fuji-san.” But it was in the early
20th century that three books firmly established Shasta’s reputation as a most
unusual and sacred mountain. These three books, A Dweller on Two Planets,
Lemuria, and Unveiled Mysteries, gave Shasta a body of myth
and legend that is perhaps unrivaled in all of North American mountain
literature."
- William Meisse,
Mt. Shasta Fact Sheet, 2005
"Mount Shasta, a 14,179-foot (4,322 m)[1]
stratovolcano, is the second-highest peak in the
Cascade Range and the
fifth highest peak in
California.
It is a member in the
Cascade Volcanic Arc and is located in
Siskiyou County, and has an estimated volume of 108 cubic miles (450 km³),
making it the most voluminous stratovolcano of the Cascades.[5]
Physically unconnected to any nearby mountain, and rising abruptly from miles of
level ground which encircle it, Mount Shasta stands some 10,000 feet (3,000 m)
above the surrounding area.
- Mt. Shasta,
Wikipedia
"And well this Golden State shall thrive, if like its own Mount Shasta, sovereign law shall lift itself in pure atmosphere - so high." John Rollin Ridge, 1854
"The Mount Shasta Region has been a
destination for relaxation and rejuvenation since the late 1800's with its
pristine glacial waters, natural mineral springs, pure mountain air and
unsurpassed alpine scenery. Mount Shasta, at 14,612 feet elevation, is
internationally recognized as a sacred energy vortex. It attracts thousands of
people year-round for personal and group retreats and workshops, spiritual
pilgrimages, vision quests, healing and such. The many indigenous Native
Americans that once lived around the mountain have always considered Mount
Shasta to be sacred ground, especially above tree line. Even today, they
continue their sacred ceremonies there."
- Shasta Vortex
Adventures
"Mount Shasta - a vision of immensity such as pertains to the
vast universe rather than to our own planet."
- James Dwight Dana, 1849
"I first met
Chang San-Feng above the forest,
near the clear spring,
when gathering clouds darkened the day,
and Mt. Shasta was silent.
His long beard was black as
emptiness,
ear lobes to his shoulders,
holding obsidian in his hand,
pointing to the sun,
eyes staring into infinity,
his long body clothed in silence.
We exchanged "hellos"
smiled and bowed,
a barbarian and an Immortal,
both panting from the climb,
laughing,
ten-thousand echoes
between our rocky minds.
After billions upon billions of
heartbeats past
(for he must have been 888 years old),
I was so bold
as to ask the ancient one
for the sacred mantra of yore.
He lifted his whisk,
and brushed my face,
I could not speak,
my lips were stone,
ideas stopped -
I was alone."
- Michael P. Garofalo,
Meetings with Master
Chang San-Feng
Mt. Shasta
Notes, Observations, Comments by Mike Garofalo
June 29, 2007, Friday
Karen and I spent some time on The Mountain and in Mt. Shasta City today. We enjoyed visiting the the spring at the Mt. Shasta City Park that is called the "headwaters of the Sacramento River." Many children were using the park for a children's summer camp program. A group of 10 adults were gathered in a circle in a far corner of the lawn of the park and were involved with a pagan ritual and shaking rattles. The spring in this park gushes out of the side of The Mountain (Mt. Shasta) and into this densely forested park. Hundreds of creeks and streams drain from the surrounding mountains down the canyons into the Sacramento River, flowing south to Sacramento, and then west into San Francisco Bay.
We drove up above Panther Meadows to the end of Everett Highway. We spent some time at the picnic area enjoying the views to the south. Today, we enjoyed very comfortable temperatures in the mid 60's. There was very little snow this year on Mt. Shasta.
Geogological Facts about Mt. Shasta
Mount Shasta is 14,179 feet (4,322 m) high.
It is a stratovolcano.
It has an estimated volume of 108 cubic miles (450 km³), making it the
most voluminous stratovolcano of the Cascade Range.
It
is the second highest peak in the Casade Mountain Range, the highest being
Mt. Ranier, Washington,
14,410 feet (4,392 m).
It is the fifth highest peak in California, the highest being
Mt. Whitney 14,505 feet
(4,421 m).
It is part of the
Cascade Volcanic Arc, a range of volcanoes from Northern California to
Southern Canada.
It is located in Siskiyou County, California, United States of America, North
America, World.
It has one of the largest base-to-summit rises of the world's mountains, from
10,000 to 11,000 feet above the surrounding area.
It one of the great singular mountains, rising alone from the surrounding
countryside, unconnected to other mountain peaks, like
Mt. Fuji in Japan (12,388',
3,776m) a stratovolcano, and
Mt. Kilmanjaro in
Africa (19,340', 5,875m) a stratovolcano.
It has a sattelite cone, Shastina, 12,330 feet (3,758 m) to the west of
the main peak.
There are seven named
glaciers on
Shasta, with the four largest (Whitney,
Bolam,
Hotlum, and
Wintun) radiating down the from high on the main summit cone to below 10,000
ft (3,000 m) primarily on the north and east sides.
Experts estimate that the last eruption on Mt. Shasta was in 1800 CE.
Sacred Mountains of the World
Mt. Kailash in Tibet (21,778', 6,638m), sacred to Buddhism, Hinduism, Jainism, and Bon religions.
Mt. Shasta in California, USA, (14,179', 4,322m) sacred to Native Americans, Neo-Pagans, New Agers.
Random Gatherings:
Images of Mt. Shasta
http://www.tierrawiki.org/wiki/Image:Mount_shasta_234324.jpg By F. Jackson.
Great Altar above the Sacramento Valley
White Pyramid below the Winter Moon
Grey-black Stratovolcano shimmering in the Summer Sun
Lonely as Olympus on the New Moon
Surrounded by the bowing Black Forests of NorCalifia
- Mike Garofalo, Genus loci Giganticus
Valley Spirit Center, Red Bluff, California
Meditation Research and
Education
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County, North Sacramento Valley, Northern California, U.S.A.
Cities in the area: Oroville, Paradise, Durham, Chico, Hamilton City, Orland,
Corning,
Rancho Tehama, Los Molinos, Tehama, Gerber, Manton, Cottonwood,
Anderson, Shasta Lake, Palo Cedro, and Redding, CA
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