People believe a lot of strange things. One of the strangest happens to be about a place 50 miles south of the BRI’s headquarters: picturesque Mt. Shasta in northern California. It’s known for its hiking, skiing…and the invisible people who live inside the mountain.
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Towering 14,179 feet above sea level, Mt. Shasta’s snowcapped peak has been surrounded by mystery and legend since indigenous people first encountered it thousands of years ago. And ever since white settlers arrived in the area in the mid-1800s, the mountain—as well as the nearby town by the same name—has been the scene of some very weird sightings, including UFOs and mystical creatures roaming around the mountain’s slopes. In fact, Shasta City was one of the first centers of the “New Age” movement in the United States. It’s still home to hundreds of energy readers, spiritualists, psychics, and alien-seekers.
Shasta’s New Age movement can be traced back to 1886, when 18-year-old Frederick Oliver, from the nearby town of Yreka, first visited the mountain and fell into a trance. Under the control of “other forces,” Oliver wrote A Dweller on Two Planets. And to thousands of people, the book—still in print today—is not science fiction, but the source material for their belief system.
Dweller tells the history of Mt. Shasta, which Oliver claimed was channeled directly to his mind by an immortal creature named Phylos, whose race, the Lemurians, once lived on a Pacific Ocean continent called Mu. Like Atlantis, Mu was a “lost continent” that modern scientists say never existed.
Lemurians, Oliver wrote, talk to each other telepathically in a language called Solara Maruvia, but Phylos spoke English to Oliver (curiously, with an English accent). Oliver described the Lemurians as physically stunning—seven feet tall with long, flowing hair and lean, graceful bodies. They wore white robes lined with sacred stones, and jewel-encrusted sandals. Technologically advanced even by today’s standards, the ancient Lemurians developed water generators, antigravity machines, high-speed trains, and devices comparable to cellular phones and televisions.
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But for all their expertise, the Lemurians could not prevent the cataclysmic earthquake they knew was coming. One night about 12,000 years ago, Mu began shaking and sinking into the sea. But the 25,000 Lemurians were ready—they all boarded tall ships bound for the uninhabited land of what is now northern California. Once there, their engineers hollowed out Mt. Shasta and constructed a subterranean city called Telos. According to Oliver/Phylos, they chose that particular mountain because it’s “the earthly incarnation of the Great Central Sun, the source of all physical and spiritual energy in the universe.” And so, for twelve millennia, the Lemurians have lived peacefully inside the mountain.
Floating in the sky directly above Mt. Shasta, Oliver went on, is yet another Lemurian city: “The Crystal City of the Seven Rays.” It’s visible only to the most tuned-in human psychics, who describe it as a huge, floating, purple pyramid, the point of which extends into space. From within the Crystal City, the Lemurians operate interplanetary, interdimensional spaceships called the “Silver Fleet” (which would seem to explain all of the UFO sightings near Mt. Shasta). The Lemurians represent our galaxy in the intergalactic “Confederation of Planets.”
Good luck actually seeing a Lemurian yourself, or one of their spaceships, or their Giant Purple Pyramid City. Few people have. That’s because the Lemurians merely exist on a “vibrational level” to which humans are not physically attuned (in other words, they’re invisible). Thankfully, there are dozens of books out there about the mountain’s inhabitants and its spiritual energy, all of them based on Oliver’s…er, Phylos’s A Dweller on Two Planets.
But time may be short for the city of Telos: The mountain the Lemurians moved into is actually a dormant volcano, which the United States Geological Survey warns may erupt again in the next 200 years. So if you happen to live in another area on Earth that contains a massive pocket of spiritual energy, you may soon be getting some beautiful, seven-foot-tall, invisible neighbors.
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