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[Caterpillar]

Update: Abednego's Journal

[Caterpillar]

I'm going out on a limb in assuming we probably won't have to count sentences or paragraphs of this one!lol

~cem

[Tien....why don't you also introduce the Good Reverand to the concept of a paragraph (ala cabalagent23)...lol]

[Caterpillar]

"... they took 1 ate and 1 for and turned them into 2 windup toys and eradicated nearly everything in their path and mike was strong and so was eye and the situation was reversed...."

1-ate{8} and (+) 1-for{4}


"...and i choose to enter into the equation and i believe that 1=2 and that grate minds think all like and that there is more than one factory now and that the one near the border was a testing ground somewhere else is the bigger and better ones and they are churning these out by the dozens and the hundreds and after all who is going to miss them anyway...."


"....we run and the librarian is calling calling calling and please redo your answering machine message now because the text is garbled and the voice sounds like mine and the static drowns everything but know that we are still out here ..."

Hmmmm....methinks we might be getting a phone number to work out.

~cem

[monkeypants]

Goreman

[Leigh]

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[cemgate]

I don't think you're off, I think Shasta is a very good possibility

http://www.siskiyous.edu/shasta/fol/lem/index.htm
Meisse points out that Oliver's novel of spiritual fiction is "The single most important source of Mount Shasta's esoteric legends. The book contains the first published references linking Mt. Shasta to:
1) a mystical brotherhood;
2) a tunnel entrance to a secret city inside Mount Shasta;
3) Lemuria;
4) the concept of "I AM";
5) "channeling" of ethreal spirits;
6)a panther surprise"

Today the belief that Lemurians inhabit the mountain is still very popular, and anyone visiting the local bookstores will likely be suprised by the plethora of texts on the subject.


http://www.siskiyous.edu/shasta/fol/asc/index.htm
Perhaps the most intriguing legend associated with our mountain concerns Guy Ballard's claim to have met the Ascended Master Saint Germain in 1930 while hiking on the mountain. Ballard's encounter, as well as subsequent interactions with Ascended Masters, were published under the pseudonym of Godfre Ray King in a series of books that now serve (along with The Bible) as the texts for the "I AM" religious activity.

According to Gordon Melton's Encyclopedic Handbook of Cults in America, "I AM" is the name God uses for Himself in Exodus (3:14). The "I AM" followers believe that God's energy, as well as the energy from Ascended Masters, can be tapped by each person's "higher self." Before becoming an Ascended Master, Saint Germain used this connection to divine energy to purify himself and then "ascend" to God. "I AM" members also consider themselves Christian in that they believe Jesus (also an Ascended Master) is responsible for the "Christ Light," the Divine Light of Love available to those wishing to ascend from darkness to light. The "I AM" student studies how to tap into the "Christ Light" (or Mighty I AM Presence) to eliminate evil, purify themselves, and eventually (with the help of the Ascended Masters) perhaps ascend to become an Ascended Master as well.


http://www.siskiyous.edu/shasta/fol/har/index.htm
a fairly large and diverse gathering on Mount Shasta--the Harmonic Convergence. While the event started out as a one-time calendar celebration, the subsequent yearly celebrations on August 17th allow the event to be considered a "festival" from a folklore perspective.

Purpose of the Harmonic Convergence
Like other festivals, the Harmonic Convergence started primarily as a celebration of shared values or beliefs. What made the Convergence a bit different, however, is that the "community" came from all over the world, and the uniting beliefs were a mix of the New Age, the Bible, and ancient Mayan astronomy. The Convergence apparently had its origin in the book "The Mayan Factor" by Jose Arguelles, published early 1987. Arguelles' text argued that during a critical time (August 16-17) the prophecies of the Bible, Aztec and Mayan calendars indicated that the world would either begin a new age or be destroyed. If 144,000
self-chosen people were "resonating" with peace during this important time, worldwide, though especially at the "power centers" like Mount Shasta, Arguelles believed the world could be saved from destruction.


http://www.siskiyous.edu/shasta/fol/big/index.htm
Native American narratives that refer to man-like giants do exist, and one of the earliest narratives come from the Blue Mountain region of southeastern Washington. The reference can be found in an April 1840 letter written by the Reverend Elkanah Walker, a Protestant missionary to the Spokane Indians. Preserved in the Holland Library archives on the Washington State University campus, the letter states that a Washington tribe believed "in the existence of a race of giants which inhabit a certain mountain off to the west of us.

~cem

[Guest]

As if you haven't read enough...lol...here's another:

http://www.shastahome.com/esoteric.htm

[Caterpillar]

Sorry forgot to sign in....yes it's me doing all the yammering above...lol

~cem

[Jen]

Phone#

[sapagoo]

Re: Phone#

[cemgate]

Yeah....I'm getting nowhere fast with this. I thought with the number refs and then the references to the librarian calling and the answering machine, that it could have been a phone number. I still think the 1ate, 1for and 1=2, 2 windups may turn out to mean something.

~cem