Subject: How To Get Well.          Feb. 13, 2008.

  As I have stated in the past there was a
chance that had become a diabetic.

  It's was not uncommon for me to eat one
half of a large, one lb. Hershey's Choclate bar
and then wash it down with a coke.

  My doctor had me fast for 8 hours and then
they checked my blood.  I showed to high of
a sugar content in my blood.  I failed that
test.  They then had me not eat anything for
another 2 hours and tested my blood to see
how my body was taking care of the sugar from
drinking a liguid that had about 6 teaspoons
of glucose, which is a form of sugar, and see
if my body would take care of it.  I still read
too high and failed that test.  They then
sent me to a dietician for training on how
to eat to controlled diabetes.  They showed
me how to test my own blood with the pucture
needle and device to check my blood sugar.
They gave me one of these devices and had
me us it quite often.

  I followed their advice and went on a more
strick diet than they suggested.  I ate
pratical nothing with sugar in it and very
very little carbs, which are things like
bread and pasta.

  In 18 days I have lost 18 lbs and my blood
sugar level is down to within the normal
limits which is 100 to 119. The excetable
upper limit of a normal person without diabetes
is 120.
  So I'm doing Ok.  All I have to do is
watch my diet very chosely. Now the only
problem is my pants are nearly falling off.

  Here is some information that was sent to
me.

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  http://products.mercola.com

  HEALTH BOMB #1: High fructose corn syrup
(HFCS) has become a modern-day plague. Not
only does it contribute to our obesity epidemic,
but it has also been linked to:

  Pancreas dysfunction, diabetes and insulin
resistance
  High cholesterol and heart disease
  C-ncer
  High blood pressure
  Anemia
  Liver damage
  Infertility
  And more

  Sadly, the average consumption of fructose
has doubled between 1980 and 1994. Soft
drinks and some fruit drinks are a major
source of HFCS, but it is also found in
many other products, from crackers to
salad dressing.
  Fructose contains zero enzymes, vitamins
or minerals and it leeches micronutrients
from your body.
  Why is it found in so many products?
Because, after air, water, and salt, it's
the cheapest ingredient in the American
food chain (and we know how the food
industry likes to save money).
  I'd also urge you to  be on the lookout
for HFCS in its many disguises conveniently
(for the food industry) labeled as chicory,
inulin, iso glucose, glucose-fructose syrup,
fruit fructose, and others.

  Another major health torpedo you want to
watch out for is
  HEALTH BOMB #2: Gluten Wheat (and other
grains containing gluten) is NOT your
friend. My experience has shown that you
could well be one of the estimated 1 in
10 people who have at least a subclinical
intolerance to gluten protein. This is
actually a food allergy.
  I recommend avoiding gluten, even the
organic whole-grain types.
  Gluten intolerance has been linked to
miscarriage, autism, intestinal disease
(including irritable bowel syndrome),
malnutrition, rheumatoid a-thritis,
heart disease, and developmental delay
in children, just to name a few.
Oftentimes, your gluten sensitivity may
present with various unexplained symptoms.

  Getting rid of these two health bombs
will go a long way toward improving your
health
_______________________________________

John Winston.  johfw@mlode.com


Subject: Letters, I Get Letters.       Feb. 16, 2008.

  Here are some letters that were sent my way.

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  From: Jonathan David B-yne <boyne@hawaii.edu>

  Subject: latest wanderer "first contact"

  Subject: I just don't know
  To: boyne@hawaii.edu

  J-dy, in 1998 I was introduced to a man who said
he had been abducted in the 70's. Through
regression and "other means" he told me he had been
in a fight with Ra over Ra's daughter and was
banished to earth where he and he and others built
the pyramids. This man, John C-ark, was introduced
to me by Senator Ben K-ighthorse C-mpbell who said
he thought I really needed to get to know John.
John later said that the three of us were
martians. All of this came from a man who wore a
suit and worked on capitol hill in DC.

  At about the same time, a broken down,
alchoholic vietnam vet named Gary, had the most
profound s-iritual awakening that I still can not
believe it even though I saw the transformation
and saw the border-line skid row marine suddenly
accompanied by 5 enormous Indian body guards. He
now carries a staff during Mayan rituals attended
by the former head of the World Bank, Mr.
W-lfens----.

  Both the Indian and John warned me to find a
s-iritual path for some great calamity was
coming. That was ten years ago and suddenly I
find myself drawn to websites like yours looking
for answers.

  I read some of your site but frankly, I find
it incomprehensible. I feel torn and if the
books you suggest reading are anything like your
website, they will be of no help to me. Just
let me know if you think there could be any
truth to the John Cl-rk story.

......

  Hi S-eve,

  Finally finding some time to get back to you.
If this is the same John Cla-k, I find him
listed as a speaker at the upcoming February-
March 2008 International Ufo Congress in
Laughlin Nevada and his bio reads:

----

http://www.ufocongress.com/speakers.html

  John Cla-k is an investigative reporter. He
has written many articles and conducted many
investigations including the attack on the
p-ntagon. John is also a c-ngressional liaison
and a documentary film maker.
  Pozan is a true story about how John Clark
lived in sheer terror for ten years after a
close encounter, while on a camping trip with
family and friends near the Mojave Desert.
  Many bizarre things happened to John during
that ten year period including winning an
airplane on a slot machine at a Lake Tahoe
casino and then finding out months later that
a UFO was hovering over the casino where he had
won the airplane!
----

  Hypnotic regression can elicit accurate
information though it can also be mixed with
other psychological material, and John's
recollections might be a bit of a mix. My
understanding is that the Mars population
did r-incarnate to Earth several thousand
years ago after they destroyed their
biosphere in w-rs, so many people on Earth
have some vague recollections and a sense of
association with Mars.
  These refugees did have much to do with
past periods of earth history, and John may
well have been in Egypt and had conflicts over
a woman, though the part about her being Ra's
daughter may or may not be accurate - one
for the 'who knows?' shelf.

  My understanding is that a society that
had lived its human (3rd dimensional) period
on Venus in the far past when it was hospitable
to life, evolved over millions of years
through the 4th, 5th and into the 6th
dimensional developmental stage, and helped
and continues to help Mars and Earth people
during their development.
  This society also helped the Egyptians,
and took the name Ra which was the Egyptians'
name for their sun g-d and the closest
conception they had to the concept of unity,
which was a concept the higher dimensional
society hoped to help the Egyptians develop
so as to reduce conflict and make positive
progress.

  If you're familiar with the chakras, the
7 main body energy centers, the dimensions
are the same structure, and not only
individuals but also societies and planets
themselves go through these stages of
development over millions of years. Earth
and Earth society are now at the end of their
3D stage, the solar plexus, having to do
with what psychology calls the social self
or ego. Earth is entering the 4th stage, the
heart, having to do with the development of
compassion. Both Freud and human society
have had difficulty moving 'above the belt'!
R-ligions are having the same difficulty
progressing, stuck in the Old T-stament
preoccupation with laws rather than moving into
New Te-tament forgiveness.

  In psychology these are described as stages
of moral development - in the earlier stage
people obey moral laws so as to avoid negative
consequences, while in more advanced stages,
individuals have developed an inner moral
sense that can make choices independently of
their social-tribal group, especially when
the group majority may be in the wrong, as
in mob behavior and unjustified wa-.

  Not all on Earth are ready to develop
into the 4D stage, just as people take different
time periods to go through the normal stages of
human development of a single lifetime. We know
that humans are capable of acting in a
consistently compassionate manner, but relatively
few do, yet. Those continuing in the 3D stage will
re-ncarnate on other 3D worlds as Earth enters
more fully into 4D.
  And up to that point we'll see increasing good
and bad actions. There are people on Earth who
have inc-rnated here from many different planets,
not only from Mars, which makes for more conflict
than a monocultural society.

  As to your finding a sp-ritual path, I like
the Indian saying that you ride the horse in the
direction it's going. Once we start seeking, we
tend to find what we need. I don't recommend
books or practices unless I'm asked for material
on a specific subject, and I always tell people
to trust their intuitions. Books and practices
have a way of finding us. And we are all members
of some team, and have what I like to call a
pit crew of unseen beings whose advice we can
keep an ear open for. It's no s-cret the near
future will be uncertain and changing, but
many of us go where we feel called to live
and work and can try to trust that.

  Circumstances arise as people and society
make their choices and we encounter
situations and people our individual
abilities can help.
  Point being that we need not plan too much.
That said, my plan is to move to our family's
place on an island in British Columbia and live
as sustainably as possible! Let me know if I
can ramble on about anything more specific.
The main thing is to try to help others as we
feel called to and do no harm, remembering we're
all part of a whole.

  Aloha, J-dy

  Holy C-ap, that is John alright. How strange
to see his name. I remember him showing me the
Pozan script in 1998. I went into network news
and reality programming after the bar biz and
he spoke to me about shooting something for him.

  That's about the time he left and I changed
direction into television. Your response to
my questions are very much appreciated though,
I must say a little beyond the scope of my
knowledge. Perhaps most comforting is the
idea that resources will come available as
needed. I have had a powerful urge to begin
storing supplies and if possible, building a
fortified retreat. I try to not allow the
nagging fear to get in the way of going about
my business but I am afraid for my family
on a physical level but ironically, I feel
as if something positive is happening to me
on sp-ritual level. I at night when I
meditate, I used to feel as if my s-ul
filled up the room and stopped at the ceiling.
Now I go right through the ceiling up into
space and look down on virginia as if I
were in a sattelite.
  Two weeks ago, I rushed my 1 year old
daughter to the ER. She was having seizures.
The doctors could not stop them. I went into
meditation and felt myself expanding. It
truly drained me but it worked. I went
from total fear to such a state of serenity
that I was also able to sooth my frantic
wife. I tried to explain to her what I did
but she thinks I am nuts and does not like
speaking about aliens, world change or
other strange topics.

  How shall I start educating myself so I
may understand what you are speaking about
as far as 3D, 4D, chakras etc.? Thanks
again.

.....

Hi S-eve,

  I found John's book at Amazon.com:

http://www.amazon.com/Pozan-John-Clark/dp/1599758008

  Which has a "Search inside this book" feature
   I used to search for pages according to words
in interesting chapter titles. Curiously, some
pages were not available "for s-curity reasons",
such as those having to do with the C-A's Dr.
H-tcher. John's experience may have been contact
with negative ETs, with hallmarks of fear,
intimidation and abridgement of his free will,
ie the 'abduction' rather than the positive ET
'contact' scenario in which free will is respected
and any fear is avoided as much as possible.

  I know what you mean about wanting to stock
supplies and 'circle the wagons' and many feel
similarly. I've read quite a lot along the
spectrum about this and the most reasonable
suggestion is to live in an area with enough
resources and a small enough population size
that allows people to know and support each
other, like a relatively self-sufficient
semi-rural community. It's been said that
while r-fles are useful for hunting, though
there will always be someone with more g-ns.
Also, that the issue is spi-itual integrity,
over physical survival, saving the sou- over
the body and all that. Better to share food
than s-oot the hungry who might steal it.
Our island in British Columbia has around
10,000 people, many with a variety of
practical know-how, and I hope to learn.
I think and hope we'll see a 'medium'
landing of society and the economy rather
than a hard one, so that the necessary
infrastructure and adjustments can be done.

Part 1.

John Winston.  johfw@mlode.com

Subject: Letters. I Get Letters.    Part 2 of 2.
Feb. 17, 2008.

  Here is a discussion about chakras.

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  Your experience of expansion beyond the body
helps with our fears for our physical lives
(somewhat!) and gives us a knowing that we are
more, and have more to look forward to (return
to). That type of experience is how we are at
the 6th chakra, the single eye and sight that
sees and begins to experience unity. The 1st
chakra at the base of the spine is what Freud
identified as aggression, but more accurately
matters of physical survival and bodily health.
The 2nd, genital, chakra has to do with physical
sexuality and our sense of personal self. 3rd,
solar plexus chakra is close to what is often
called the 'ego' and has to do with our social
self, our relations to our 'tribes' and
community. 4th chakra, heart, is the first
spiritual stage, having to do with learning
compassion. 5th or throat has to do with
speaking and freely and truthfully and
hearing openly. In the 6th we see ourselves
and others as one, and in the 7th we
experience that fully.

  Here's a page with some discussion and
excerpts about each chakra:
http://www.llresearch.org/homecomings/homecoming_2006/
homecoming_2006.htm

  Practically, it's mostly useful to know
that we and others may act on a variety of
levels, sometimes for personal survival
and gain, sometimes out of loyalty to tribe
and group, and less often, out of selfless
compassion and unity. We see and will see
increasing selfish and selfless actions in
the near future. In difficult times, some
hoard, some loot, some share. Hoarding for
self and tribe is 'normal' 3rd chakra, 3D
behavior. Looting is on the path of
service-to-self development, a viable path
through 5th chakra / 5D. Eventually,
controlling all others and resources to
serve self requires too much energy, is
realized to be inefficient, and those on
the negative path let go their separation
and rejoin the positive mainstream.
  Sharing is the next stage of positive
human development, and earth is beecoming
a positive 4D planet, on which will soon
be only positive, 4th chakra awakened
people in 4D bodies. In my understanding,
the 3D bodies most of us are in will pass
in the usual ways. And that there are some
who have recently graduated into 4D who are
being born in recent years into combination
3/4D bodies who are sometimes called Starkids
or Indigo Children, with unusual understanding
and sometimes paranormal abilities. These
are/will give birth to children in fully 4D
bodies who will be the 4D population of earth.

  There are also 'wanderers' to earth from
4D, 5D and 6D who have been here to try to
help during this period of transition. These
are the folks I tend to hear from and that
my site was largely meant to reach. All
beings go through the same developmental
stages, and wanderers haven't yet fully
entered into a state of unity, we just are
able to sometimes. We try to share that
and do whatever else we can to help, whether
baking, counseling, nursing, etc. 6th chakra
is also our sense of intuition, that we can
tune into to get a sense of who, when and
how to help, and where and when to go
somewhere or do something. I'm big on
intuition, though I worry as much as anyone,
so join the club.

  So off now from the library to home, our
little place here near the university, where
our selfish old bat of a landlady has a
severe case of empty nest syndrome and
wants us to move out because she wants
company but we're too busy working and
paying the rent. We shall see...

  Write anytime, Aloha, Jo-y

Part  2 of 2.

John Winston.  johnfw@2mlode.com

Subject: The Inner Earth.            Feb. 16, 2008.

  Here is some information about the inner Earth.

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  Part 4: Mythology, Paradise, and the Inner World
  (JW  I don't know where parts 1, 2 and three are
of this material.)

  1.
http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/dp5/inner4.htm
  The Imperishable Sacred Land
  2.
http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/dp5/inner4.htm
Shambhala
  3.
http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/dp5/inner4.htm
northern paradise
  4.
http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/dp5/inner4.htm
  Inner kingdoms
  http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/dp5/inner4.htm
  1. The Imperishable Sacred Land
  Theosophy teaches that a series of seven
root-r-ces or humanities will develop during
the present fourth round of the earth's e-olution.
  The first humanity is said to have appeared
in the mid-Paleozoic, about 150 million years
ago (according to the theosophical timescale),
and we are currently in the fifth. Each lives
on its own 'continent', a word referring not
only to the main continental area where the
ev-lution of a root-ra-e takes place but also
to all the dry land that exists during the
life-period a particular root-r-ce. Just as
the root-ra-es overlap, so parts of the
continents of one root-rac- become
incorporated into the continental system
of the next [1].
  The first continent is known as the
Imperishable Sacred Land and is the most
mysterious of the seven continents. It
is said to be located in the region of
the north pole.
  This 'S-cred Land' . . . is stated never
to have shared the fate of the other
continents; because it is the only one whose
destiny it is to last from the beginning
to the end of the Manvantara throughout
each Round. It is the cradle of the first
man and the dwelling of the last d-vine
mortal, chosen as a Shishta for the future
seed of humanity. Of this mysterious and
sa-red land very little can be said,
except, perhaps, according to a poetical
expression in one of the Commentaries,
that the 'polestar has its watchful eye
upon it, from the dawn to the close of
the twilight of "a day" of the GREAT
BREATH' [In India called 'The Day of
Brahma.']. [2]
  The statement that the first continent
never sinks or perishes is repeated
many times, and this characteristic
distinguishes it from the other continents
[3].
  The first continent surrounded and
included the north pole and extended
somewhat southwards from the pole in
seven different zones, like the leaves
of a lotus. These zones included Greenland,
Spitzbergen, Sweden, Norway, and Siberia,
together with other former land areas
in the far north that have since been
submerged.
  The central locality of the first
continent was right at the north pole.
H.P. B-avatsky writes:
  If, then, the teaching is understood
correctly, the first continent which
came into existence capped over the
whole North Pole like one unbroken
crust, and remains so to this day,
beyond that inland sea which seemed
like an unreachable mirage to the few
arctic travellers who perceived it. [4]
  G. de Purucker drew attention to the
phrase 'If, then, the teaching is
understood correctly', and pointed out that
Blavatsky was not permitted to give out
all she had been taught [5].
  If the earth is hollow, as Bl-vatsky's
review of The Hollow Globe by Lyon and
Sherman implies, then the first continent
could refer to two different things: the
polar land on the outer surface of the
earth, and the sa-red central land or
'inner circle' in the earth's interior,
which will continue to exist until the
earth reaches the end of its life-period.
Likewise, terms such as 'the blessed
land of eternal light and summer' and
'the land of the eternal sun'[6] could
refer either to the polar land at a
time when the earth's axis was more or less
upright and the polar regions were in
sunlight, or to the inner central land if
the earth's interior is self-luminous or
contains a central sun.
  2. Shambhala
  Tibetan sacred texts speak of a mystical
kingdom called Shambhala, hidden behind
snow peaks somewhere north of Tibet, where
the most sacred Buddhist teachings -- the
Kalachakra or Wheel of Time -- are preserved.
  It is prophesied that a future king of
Shambhala will come with a great army to
free the world from barbarism and tyranny,
and will usher in a golden age.
  Similarly, the Hindu Puranas say that a
future world redeemer -- the kalki-avatara,
the tenth and final manifestation of Vishnu
-- will come from Shambhala. Both the Hindu
and Buddhist traditions say it contains a
magnificent central palace radiating a
powerful, diamondlike light.
  The mythical paradise of Shambhala is
known under many different names:
  It has been called the Forbidden Land,
the Land of White Waters . .;, the Land
of Radiant Spirits, the Land of Living
Fire, the Land of the Living Gods and
the Land of Wonders. Hindus have known
it as Aryavarsha, the land from which
the Vedas come; the Chinese as Hsi Tien,
the Western Paradise of Hsi Wang Mu,
the Royal Mother of the West; the
Russian Old Believers, a nineteenth-century
Christian sect, knew it as Belovodye and
the Kirghiz people as Janaidar. But
throughout Asia it is best known by its
Sanskrit name, Shambhala, meaning 'the
place of peace, of tranquillity,' or as
Chang Shambhala, northern Shambhala,
the name Hindus use to distinguish it
from an Indian town of the same name. .
  At the end of his life the Chinese Taoist
teacher Lao-Tzu, returned to Shambhala,
although he called it Tebu Land. .It is
regarded by most esoteric traditions as
the true center of the planet, as the
world's spiritual powerhouse and the
heartland of a brotherhood of adepts from
every race and country who have been
influential in every major religion,
every scientific advance and every social
movement in history. [1]
  Buddhist texts say that Shambhala can
be reached only by a long and difficult
journey across a wilderness of deserts
and mountains, and warn that only those
who are called and have the necessary
spiritual preparation will be able to
find it; others will find only blinding
storms, empty mountains, or even death.
One text says that the kingdom of Shambhala
is round, but it is usually depicted as an
eight-petalled lotus blossom -- a symbol
of the heart chakra. Indeed, an old
Tibetan story states that 'The kingdom of
Shambhala is in your own heart.' As Edwin
Bernbaum points out, the guidebooks to
Shambhala, whose puzzling directions are a
mixture of realism and fantasy, can be
read, on one level, as 'instructions for
taking an inner journey from the familiar
world of the surface consciousness
through the wilds of the subconscious to
the hidden sanctuary of the superconscious'
[2].
  The Land of Shambhala.
  In the center are Mount Meru and the
King's palace, surrounded by 8 petal-shaped
regions with their 96 principalities.
  Nevertheless, the idea that Shambhala is
also located in the material world is firmly
rooted in Tibetan tradition. Opinions on
where the kingdom might lie, however, differ
markedly.
  Some Tibetans think it might be in Tibet,
perhaps in the Kunlun mountains; more point
toward the region around Mongolia and
Sinkiang province of China; but most believe
that Shambhala is in Siberia or some other
part of Russia.
  Some lamas believe it is hidden in the
desolate, uninhabited wastes of the Arctic.
According to Lama Kunga Rimpoche, 'Shambhala
is probably at the North Pole, since the
North Pole is surrounded by ice, and
Shambhala is surrounded by ice mountains.'
  Finally, a few lamas believe that
Shambhala exists outside the earth on
another planet or in another 'dimension'
[3].
  Bernbaum once had a dream of going with
a guide to the north pole. As they
approached the pole, the air became warmer
and the snow cover thinner until there
was only grassy tundra, flowers, and a
balmy breeze. Finally they came to a round
pond with a small island that had a pole
right at the center. He turned to his guide
and protested, 'But this is impossible!
  This can't be the north pole; there's
supposed to be ice and snow up here.' The
guide merely pointed at the island and
said with a smile, 'There's the pole.'
Bernbaum related his dream to Lama
Chopgye Trichen Rimpoche, who remarked:
'That may have been the entrance to
Shambhala' [4].
  The Russian artist, philosopher, and
explorer Nicholas Roerich (1874-1947)
travelled through China and Mongolia
to the borders of Tibet in 1925-1928.
During a conversation with a lama, he
was told: 'Great Shambhala is far beyond
the ocean. It is the mighty heavenly
domain. It has nothing to do with our
Earth. .
  Only in some places, in the Far North, can you
discern the resplendent rays of Shambhala.'
When pressed by Roerich, the lama conceded that
the heavenly Shambhala had an earthly counterpart.
Indeed, the expression 'the resplendent rays of
Shambhala' seems to be a reference to the aurora
that manifests in the polar region. But the
lama also described Shambhala as a 'far-off
valley', hidden in the midst of high mountains,
with hot springs and rich vegetation.
  The lama stated that the ruler of Shambhala
is 'ever vigilant in the cause of mankind':
he sees all the events of earth in his 'magic
mirror' and 'the might of his thought penetrates
into far-off lands'. He continued: 'Uncountable
are the inhabitants of Shambhala. Numerous
are the splendid new forces and achievements
which are being prepared there for humanity.'
The lama confirmed that messengers from
Shambhala are at work in the world, and that
even the ruler himself sometimes appears in
human form. He stressed that the secrets of
Shambhala are well guarded, and that it is
impossible for anybody to reach Shambhala
unless their karma is ready and they are
called [5].
  The modern theosophical tradition, too,
recognizes that Shambhala is a real place:

Part 1.
John Winston.  johnfw@mlode.com

Subject: The Inner Earth. Part 2.  Feb. 17, 2008.

  This talks about where the place is.

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  Shambhala . . although no erudite Orientalist has yet
succeeded in locating it geographically, is an actual
land or district, the seat of the greatest brotherhood
of s-iritual adepts and their chiefs on earth today.
From Shambhala at certain times in the history of the
world, or more accurately of our own fifth root-r-ce,
come forth the messengers or envoys for sp-ritual
and intellectual work among men.
  This Great Brotherhood has branches in various
parts of the world, but Shambhala is the center or
chief lodge. We may tentatively locate it in a
little-known and remote district of the high
tablelands of central Asia, more particularly in
Tibet. [6]
  It is surrounded by an akashic veil of invisibility;
and an a-my of airplanes might fly over it and
see it not. All the ar-ies of all the nations on
earth might pass it by and not know that it existed.
  It is quite an extensive tract of country. .
  In it are gathered some of the most valuable
records of the human r-ce.
  There, surrounded by the greatest and most
evolved human beings, the Silent Watcher of the
Earth has his invisible abode. [7]
  Shambhala, our 'spi-itual home', is said in
theosophy to comprise two localities on earth.
One of them is 'situated in the highlands of
Asia, somewhere to the westward of the meridian
line passing through Lhassa' [8].
  Long ago, this locality was a s-cred island
in a vast Central Asian inland sea, known as
the 'abyss of learning' or 'sea of knowledge',
and was accessible via subterranean passages.
  According to tradition, this place exists
to this day as an oasis surrounded by the Gobi
desert [9].
  But there is also another h-ly locality,
alluded to in all the great exoteric r-ligions:
  This spot is the summit of what in the Hindu
Puranas is called Shveta-dvipa, Mount Meru or
Sumeru. It is the north pole of the earth,
so chosen not for its geographical qualities,
if such there be, but on account of its
astronomical position. .;. It is the mystical
north pole, geographically identical with the
north pole of the earth, but mystically quite
different . [10]
  In other words, Shambhala, in one of its
meanings, is the Sa-red Imperishable Land.
Theosophical literature also states that there
is an even higher Shambhala located in the sun,
and that all these different localities are
inhabited by classes of entities with which
the human rac- is spirit-ally and intellectually
connected.
  Bearing in mind that the Central Asian
Shambhala is said to be protected by an
'akashic veil' which renders it invisible and
impenetrable, it is interesting to note that
in the review of The Hollow Earth, B-avatsky
suggests that explorers may have been prevented
from penetrating further north into what was
then suspected to be an open polar sea by
'the exercise of some o-cult power'. This
could be interpreted to mean that there is
something in the northern polar region that is
being concealed -- not by a m-litary/g-vernment
c-nspiracy, but by oc-ult forces.
  3. A northern paradise
  Traditions of a paradisiacal, primeval land
in the far north are universal. Sometimes this
sacred land is said to be located in the `center'
or 'navel' of the earth. In one sense, this
refers to the north pole, which appears to
be in the 'center' of the earth if the planet
is viewed from above the pole. But clearly
such expressions could also refer to the earth's
interior. The northern paradise is often
associated with a world tree, a world mountain
or pillar from which four rivers emerge, and
a world-engirdling serpent. The pillar,
mountain, or tree links our own 'middle earth'
with the upper and lower worlds [1].
  All these symbolic features can be interpreted
on different levels -- terrestrial, astronomical,
and spi-itual.
 The Scandinavian tree of life (Yggdrasil), growing
on the cosmic mountain [2].
  In Hindu mythology Meru* is the mystical mountain
at the center of the world, where Indra, king of
the g-ds, has his jewelled palace. Victoria LePage points out that 'Mount
Meru is conceived of as the earth's navel as well as its central staff, its
source of life and power spreading out from the
central region to the eight outer zones, and from thence to the world' [3].
  The symbolism here is derived from embryology: just
as the embryo grows from the navel outwards, so does the earth. 'Meru'
actually has several different meanings, including a mountain in Asia, the n
orth geographical pole, the north celestial pole, the earth's spin axis, the
world axis connecting earth to higher realms, and the cerebrospinal axis of
the
human body.
  *Like the Egyptians and the Akkadians, the Indians
conceived of two opposed polar mounts: the arctic
Meru, known as Sumeru (su = good, beautiful), was
the dwelling of the go-s, and the antarctic Meru, or
Kumeru (ku = bad, miserable), was the dwelling of the d-mons.
  Meru, the Olympus of the Indians, is said to be situated in the centre or
navel of the earth. It was
guarded by serpents, which 'watched the entrance to
the realm of Se-ret Knowledge'.

Part 2.

John Winston.  johnfw@mlode.com