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BIG Ticket Discounts for Siskiyou County Residents for The Best of Mt Shasta Conference & Festival 2012 !!

admin — Wed, 11 Apr 2012 13:54:15 +0000

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Ticket Discounts for Locals

admin — Sat, 07 Apr 2012 21:14:43 +0000

Anyone living in Siskiyou County qualifies for these discounts

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Did you know:

The population of Siskiyou County is now considered very small and our status statewide has been changed from a rural county to a FRONTIER !!

The economics have hit everyone in this area hard – so we are making it easier for Siskiyou County residents to attend The Best of Mt Shasta Conference and Festival

All seniors, 65 and over, can attend the full five day conference for free!
One full day conference ticket is $70 per person instead of $100 per person – (includes all day and evening)
Each workshop ticket is $15 per person instead of $25 per person
And if you don’t have the budget for those tickets, come and volunteer in exchange

You need ID to prove you reside in Siskiyou County!

Click here to Register
Click here to Volunteer

Our Email = thebestofmtshasta@gmail.com

In addition to this, please note that everyone (Siskiyou County & Others)
gets one free ticket to one workshop of your own choosing

We may be small in population – but we have location, location, location – something special is happening here!

“The entire land base of Siskiyou County is 4,038,843 acres or 6,287 square miles… The Population of 44,301, classifies the county as “frontier.” There are nine small incorporated cities that date back to the California Gold Rush.”
March 20, 2012
House Natural Resources Committee
Sub-committee on National Parks, Forests and Public Lands United States House of Representatives

Support Video Project

admin — Sun, 25 Mar 2012 03:24:21 +0000

We are seeking funds for

The Best of Mt Shasta Video Project 2012

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Our project includes having Sahadev of Blue Skies Unlimited video tape the entire five day conference; involving students from the local community college, College of the Siskiyous, to assist in video taping the conference as well as create their own student videos of the conference. In addition, the project will also include post production with Sahadev and the students to create short clips and DVDs of all the conference workshops.

The students will be working with a professional, using professional equipment, learning on-the-job skills, as well as creating a student video for their portfolio.

More information on how you can donated to this project is forthcoming.

This video was quickly created as a student project during the TV Production Class at College of the Siskiyous. The proposed video project will be a state-of-the-art production.

Here are some photos from the show – click one of them to see larger photos in a slideshow:

Lemuria: Mt Shasta’s Most Well-Known Legend

admin — Thu, 15 Mar 2012 13:28:17 +0000

On the Origins of Lemuria

During a fundraising event for the Siskiyou Land Trust Feb. 7, historian and author Bill Miesse led a roomful of people on the trail that connects the lost continent of Lemuria with our very own Mt. Shasta.

More chairs had to be set up in the Mount Shasta Resort’s Highland Room to accommodate those who showed up for the presentation, which Miesse accentuated with slides and explanatory photographs.

Miesse said the term “Lemuria” came from scientists in the mid-19th century to describe a hypothetical submerged continent in the Indian Ocean which would explain the presence of lemurs from Madagascar to India. By the late 19th century, occult theories had developed the idea that the inhabitants of Lemuria were highly advanced beings, Miesse said, and the location of Lemuria changed over time.

In the 1880s, a young man named Frederick Spencer Oliver wrote (or more accurately, channeled from an entity named ‘Phylos the Thibetan’) a book called “A Dweller on Two Planets,” which described a secret city inside Mt. Shasta, and in passing mentioned Lemuria.

This connection became strengthened through reviews of Oliver’s book and further writings which elaborated on the Lemuria-Mt. Shasta concept, Miesse said.

In 1931, Wishar Spenle Cerve wrote and published “Lemuria, The Lost Continent of the Pacific: The Mystery People of Mount Shasta.” Cerve wrote that Lemurians were tall, graceful and agile, with larger heads than average humans. Lemurians would come to town and spend gold nuggets, Cerve wrote.

Today, the legend of the lost continent of Lemuria being inside Mt. Shasta is one of the mountain’s most well-known legends, Miesse said. The connection between the two is something he’s been researching in the past months.

Click here for more about the Lemuria legend

By Skye Kinkade

Mount Shasta Area Newspapers

Posted Feb 10, 2012 @ 12:01 PM

1905 Book: Dweller on Two Planets

admin — Thu, 15 Mar 2012 13:10:46 +0000

Mt Shasta: Its origin as a mecca for spiritual seekers

Sometimes truth is stranger than fiction. Consider the tale of the 18 year old Yreka boy whose writing influenced movie star-mystic Shirley MacLaine, science fiction author Robert Heinlein, and leader of the I AM movement, Guy Ballard.

For over a century, A Dweller on Two Planets has been considered, as Emilie Frank noted, the “most important book relating to the Mt. Shasta legend-cycle.”

By his own account, Frederick Spencer Oliver was an average student in school. He claimed, “I wanted to study, but lacked will power and concentration.” His teachers, in fact, called him “lackadaisical and even lazy.”

Nonetheless, Oliver said Phylos the Thibetan selected him to be his channel and to record his incarnations in Atlantis and on Mt. Shasta during California’s gold rush days.

Perhaps it was because his lineage, according to the 1952 edition of the book, “was traced by a Master Mind throughout one hundred and thirty-five thousand years of human history.”

Oliver claimed Phylos began sharing spiritual messages with him when he was 17 years old. He became preoccupied with the talks, initially keeping them secret from his parents. However, his father became so worried about his son’s behavior that he planned to have him treated for “approaching imbecility.” At that point, Oliver shared his experiences, eventually repeating Phylos’s accounts to a Yreka Theosophical circle.

In 1884, at 18, Oliver started writing Phylos’s channeled stories down.

“Sometimes I was awakened at night and wrote by lamplight or in total darkness. Phylos dictated, and it was as if he had the manuscript already prepared.” In 1886, Oliver completed the book, A Dweller on Two Planets with Phylos the Thibetan the author.

The 442 page, 25 chapter manuscript is divided into three books.

Book One describes Phylos’s 11,160 B.C. Atlantean incarnations. A 1905 Out West review commented, “It is perfectly evident that no one who was not on Atlantis… could have been personally cognizant of the facts related.”

Book Two recounts Phylos’s gold rush incarnation as Walter Pierson, including details about Pierson’s journey to Venus and his mystical experience on Mt. Shasta. This section is widely acknowledged as the reason the mountain became a mecca for those seeking spiritual enlightenment.

Book Three explores the concept of karma.

Throughout the book, Phylos chronicles the rise and fall of Atlantis and shares many Atlantean inventions and scientific concepts. The wireless telegraph, voice-operated typewriters, mass transit, anti-gravity, x-rays, and airships (now believed to be the origin of UFO myths) are a few of the concepts mentioned.

“Dweller” was first published in 1905 after Oliver’s death. “His mother, Mary Elizabeth Manley-Oliver, had the manuscript published quite possibly to make a living,” said Dennis Freeman, former COS Library Director who continues to add research material to the college’s Mt. Shasta Collection.

“It’s a perennially popular book with many editions, influencing many lives,” Freeman noted.

Shirley MacLaine said the book jumped out of a bookshelf into her hands in a New Age bookstore in Hong Kong.

It’s been used as the source material for many new age belief systems, including the Lemurian Fellowship.”

“All of Mt. Shasta’s myths date back to a common source,” noted Mt. Shasta cultural historian and bibliographer Bill Miesse, an expert on Mt. Shasta myths.

“Almost all those myths go back to Phylos; the book has influenced many of the spiritual leaders who have lived in Mt. Shasta.”

“I wonder why this story continues to have such an impact,” Freeman reflected. “I think it’s because there have always been spiritual seekers wanting to find meaning in life and answer the big life questions.”

Frederick Spencer Oliver continued to write after finishing Dweller. Records in the Mt. Shasta collection indicate he wrote at least 40 short stories and eventually became a newspaper writer.

His second book, “An Earth Dweller’s Return,” which he claims was channeled for Phylos, includes multiple references to Lemuria. However, the channeled Dweller remains his most popular and influential work.

Those hungry for more details about Oliver’s life, his writings, and A Dweller on Two Planets’ influence can explore the two and a half inch file Freeman has compiled and review Miesse’s annotated bibliography available in the COS library collection. The file includes photographs, news clippings, letters written by Oliver, his descendants, and friends. “We even have a first edition of the manuscript,” Freeman smiled. The library has Oliver’s books, video recordings, and several books inspired by the manuscript.
Oliver was often asked if he believed in the book’s information. He replied, “Unhesitatingly yes. I’ve come to know its truth over the years.”

In 1899, the San Francisco Daily Morning Call described Oliver as “the author of a new work which promises to create a literary sensation.” It has done that.

By Eve Thompson

Mount Shasta Area Newspapers

Posted Mar 14, 2012 @ 09:34 AM

March Ticket Discount

admin — Tue, 06 Mar 2012 00:17:38 +0000

Purchase Your Conference Ticket Today

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One ticket for the FULL FIVE DAY Conference:

Until the end of March the discount ticket is priced at $299

Normally the tickets are $350 each

The time is now to arrange your visit to Mount Shasta this summer

CLICK HERE for registration information and how to pay for your ticket

Any purchase by March 31, 2012 for one full five day conference ticket to The Best of Mt Shasta Conference held at the Mt Shasta City Park from July 26-30, 2012, qualifies for the discounted price of $299.00

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Native People of the Mount Shasta Area

admin — Sat, 25 Feb 2012 18:59:37 +0000

The College of the Siskiyous has collected a lot of history of the Mount Shasta Area

Here are their links to the Native People of the Mount Shasta area

Native Legends from the Mount Shasta Area

admin — Sat, 25 Feb 2012 18:52:56 +0000

The College of the Siskiyous has collected a lot of history of the Mount Shasta Area

Here are links to some of the legends from the Native People of the Mount Shasta area: Their Worldview: