Mount Shasta
Why Assume the Mountain as a Name?
I did not willingly change my name. When the Master Saint Germain appeared to me on Mount Shasta in 1972 after five days of fasting and told me to use the mountain as my last name, I said “No way!” If I had not asked Neem Karoli Baba for a Hindu name on my recent trip to India, as most of the Westerners had, including Professor Richard Alpert who changed his name to Ram Dass, I was not now going to take a new name at the request of
some etheric being. After refusing the master’s request several times, he finally said, “We shall see.” (Read the full story of my first pilgrimage to Mount Shasta in the first volume of my autobiography: Adventures of a Western Mystic, Vol. I: Search for the Guru.) Eventually, when I started to write, I decided that using a pen name wasn’t a bad idea, but had no intention of living in Mount Shasta as the master had said I would. Yet a year later, after Saint Germain appeared to me in a physical body, he gave such powerful direction that I did return to Mount Shasta to study with Pearl and make the mountain my home (Read this story in Adventures of a Western Mystic, Vol. II: Apprentice to the Masters).
What brought me to Mount Shasta in the first place? I wanted to stay in India and live in a cave like Mahavatar Babaji and the many holy men I met in the Himalayas, but my visa was about to expire and Neem Karoli Baba came to me in a dream and told me that my work was in the West. During my last couple of weeks in India three different people came up to me, one at the renowned spiritual festival known as the Kumbh Mela, and volunteered, “You should go to Mount Shasta!”
Mount Shasta Is A Sacred Place
Mount Shasta is one of the earth’s sacred mountains along with the Royal Teton, Mount Kailash, Mount Popocatepetl, Mount Kilamanjaro, Mount Fujiyama, and others. There is no reason why it should be considered the earth’s root chakra as a psychic channeled many years ago, but anyone who visits Mount Shasta can attest to its spiritual power and ability to raise consciousness. Like many other legends about Mount Shasta, once a psychic gives the “message” many other psychics jump on the bandwagon and add their own legends and interpretations. The legend of Telos was started in 1978 in a similar way. There was no Telos when I arrived in 1972. But now it has become established as a focus for people visiting the mountain. Fortunately, if people are sincerely seek guidance, God will appear to them in whatever form they need.
The local Native American tribes have their own legends about the mountain, and there are many stories dating back hundreds of years of UFOs disappearing into and emerging from the mountain. There are also many people who claim to have been taken into Mount Shasta to receive guidance from masters wearing long white robes. In fact, the I AM Teachings of the Saint Germain Foundation got their start when in 1930 the Master Saint Germain appeared to Godfre Ray King on the slopes of the mountain and gave him the first instructions of the I AM Teachings on how to find your individual God Presence and call it forth as a master in the world.
Should You Visit Mount Shasta?
Mount Shasta has long been a focus of consciousness and a retreat of the masters known in Theosophy as the Great White Brotherhood, but which I call the Ascended Council of Light. The truth is often not as glamorous as the messages channeled by psychics, but if found within one’s own being in the inner silence, can have a profound effect on one’s life and spiritual evolution. The most trustworthy guidance is always found within one’s own soul, often perceived as a simple feeling rather than audible words. It was in learning to perceive that inner direction that was my first great lesson in Mount Shasta.
Many of my most profound revelations when I first came to Mount Shasta did not take place on the mountain, but sitting in my teacher Pearl’s living room in open-eyed meditation. She did not “channel,” but acted as a mirror for me to find guidance and the Masters inner revelations. Once you find your own center you will find that the hidden doorway into Mount Shasta is within you. However, in search of that inner doorway, many visit Mount Shasta every year to go on retreat or find spiritual community to support them on that inner quest.
