Shasta Time
“I consider the evening twilight on Mount Shasta one of the
grandest sights I have ever witnessed.”
— Theodore Roosevelt
Every year about this time I, along with a host of others, head to Mt. Shasta for an annual retreat and to partake of her spiritual goodies. My first trip up here was in the summer of 1972 when I was just 20 (that was an amazing trip and camping experience I should write about some day). I have come up every year at this time, except for one year when I went to climb around the pyramids of the Yucatan. So this will be my 41st retreat up to Shasta. And every year is different, each with its own set of spiritual challenges, lessons, progressions, and comprehensions. And of course, seeing old friends and meeting new ones.
As I write this I am just starting to get my camping gear together. But I also wonder how many more years I will be able to camp up there. I guess as long as my body will put up with it, hopefully until I am at least 80. There are times when hiking, meditating, or just hanging around my camp, when it feels like I am home. At least as much as you can feel at home in this physical corporeal existence.
Shasta has become a tradition every year, and during the rest of year a beacon to look forward to experiencing. I really wish I had kept a diary all these years of being up there, for there would be some amazing tales to tell. Possibly even enough to fill a book? Maybe I should try to put together what memories I still have and see what I come up with. For who knows how long the memories I still have will decide to hang around. Waiting until I am 80 would probably not be the best idea.
As I write this, oh so many things come to mind, and oh so many directions I could go in. But instead of doing all that, I think I’ll just wing it, free associate, and flow with a stream of consciousness that the moment presents.
Shasta is a time of change, of hard change, of growth, of hard growth, of challenge, of hard challenge … and freedom …
Being in the center of your field, the center of your own life, rejecting others’ illusions, finding your own true reality … and freedom …
Maintaining your own spiritual structures and energy systems, auras, chakras, levels, spiritual elevator, soul structure, divine egg, vertical access, your divine heritage, and being born into divine life, the real life, the great happiness, all towards the universe of universes… and freedom …
Meditating, acquiring, building, managing your spiritual energy for liftoff, for critical mass, for travel, towards the real life … and freedom …
That inner sound singing, higher and higher, finer and finer, lighter and lighter, towards … freedom.
Experiences, comprehending, learning, applying, growing, expanding, moving on towards … freedom.
Mt. Shasta, access point, energy center, sacred geometry, launch platform, altitude, attitude … freedom.
Freedom seems to be a theme here. Yet this type of freedom also implies a lot. Responsibility. Self Reliance. Alignment. Integrity.
Why are you here? What are you doing about it? Right now.
TMC