The Power of Mount Shasta

New age believers are flocking to the towns of Weed and Mount Shasta on the flanks of California's most majestic mountain. They report UFOs, a refugee from a lost continent, healing energy, giant faces of spirits, welcoming voices, and an energy vortex.

Local residents report sighting an increasing number of these "cosmic muffins" in their communities but their presence is not all together unwelcomed. The New Age believers bring an economic boost to a region dependent on timber and tourist.

Interest in Mount Shasta peaked with the "harmonic convergence", an alignment of the planets in 1987 that brought 5,000 New Age believers to celebrate on Shasta's flank. The volcano is now the home of several New Age groups, including I AM Activity, Planetary Citizens, Brotherhood of the White Temple, Radiant School of Seekers and Servers, and the League of Voluntary Effort (LOVE), and a Zen monastery.

Based on "New Age Believers Flocking to Volcano" by Steve Geissinger, Associated Press, published in the The Press Democrat, Santa Rosa, California, Monday, August 26, 1995 and Mt. Shasta History, Legend & Lore by Michael Zanger, Celestial Arts, Berkeley, California, 120 p.

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