Magic in Mount Shasta
Mount Shasta is a mysterious, magical place. Considered by many the world over to be a spiritual vortex that is the root chakra of Mother Earth (although some believe it to be the crown chakra), there is no denying things feel different here than anywhere else I’ve been. As I sit here writing this from a beautiful cabin in the shadow of the mountain, I am filled with gratitude that I am here, especially now. . I first saw the Mountain while driving up the Five freeway from Los Angeles to Oregon. I was in the tenth hour of a fourteen hour journey. The year was 2001, July and I was on my way to one of the most profound experiences of my life , a Native American Sundance Ceremony. Being incredibly determined to get there, I hadn’t stopped at all to rest and the heat of the midsummer day along with the toil of the road had gotten to me. I was beginning to enter a state of having to slap myself awake when I caught my first glimpse of the crystalline white canopy of Mount Shasta.
My tired mind suddenly became alert and awake as if someone had shot pure energy into my veins. It was as if I had just entered a heightened reality where the frequency was so buoyant, it lifted me to meet it. I didn’t consciously know it then, but I know now the Mountain had a tremendous amount of wisdom to give me. A few times between that long, sweltering drive up the 5 and now I was called to engage in the mystery of the Mountain, but somehow something always came up that kept me away. Each time this occurred I felt worse about not heeding the call. But as I have been want to do, my memory of not heeding that call, faded. The feeling however, thankfully, would continue to persist, and I finally made it within Mama Mountain’s field in late September of 2019.
The pure peace and bliss I felt within her nurturing confines is difficult to describe in the words available to me at the present moment., but I’ll give it a shot! I felt like the crest of a wave escaping a storm, being beckoned by the warm calm sand, shining in the sun. It felt and still does, to be a place of rebirth. A place where the masculine and feminine coalesce in harmony. Everything that has happened to me here has allowed me to begin to look at life in new way… one of a greater connection to creation, Mother Earth and the spiritual seekers I have been fortunate enough to come across while here. The synchronicities that have presented themselves to me have moved me into a place of deeper understanding of the orchestration of things. Seemingly outside the collective reality, the veil to beyond seems thinner here allowing one to step into the flow much easier perhaps than in other locales. The endless rivers, streams, lakes and waterfalls that traverse the landscape of this magic land are constant reminders that this flow is ever-present.
My trust and faith in life has exponentially expanded since arriving in this eternal place of wonder and though I have many more travels to embark upon on this spectacular planet, Mount Shasta will forever be my home and has changed my life forever.