Debunking Saint Germain

 

The Why Files take on the ever-evolving legends about the Count of Saint Germain, a mysterious French character who officially died in 1784. I admit that some of the content in this video was new even to me! Apparently, there is a "tradition" in Lousiana that Saint Germain was a vampire and lived in the state for a number of years. Another tall tale claims that he was taken prisoner by German soldiers during the First World War and predicted Hitler´s rise and fall. As late as the 1970´s, some stage magician in France claimed to *be* Saint Germain. 

All the standard legends about the Count are of course also incuded in the video, such as the claim that he persuaded the Founding Fathers to sign the Declaration of Independence, or that Voltaire un-ironically called him "the man who never dies". The Why Files also briefly mention Guy Ballard and the Mighty I AM Activity, the American New Religious Movement which treats Saint Germain almost as a god.

There is no doubt that the Count of Saint Germain was a real person, although nothing for certain is known about his origins. The "count" was probably an Italian adventurer and con man who claimed to be an alchemist. At some point, he had overstayed his welcome at the French royal court and had to make a run for it to Schleswig-Holstein, where he is also buried. As a good Scandinavian, I couldn´t help noticing that the Why Files refer to the Count´s final residence as "Germany". Not wrong, but at the time Schleswig-Holstein was in union with Denmark!

For whatever reason, this colorful character was turned into a semi-divine being by 19th century Theosophists ("Master Rakoczi") and 20th century Theosophy-inspired groups ("Ascended Master Saint Germain"). But that´s another show, as they say. 

Messianism without transformation

 

Credit: Jeffrey Gammon

Not sure how to double check this, but it does fit a broader pattern. 

Panaceas connected to banking/money reform are very common in the United States, and so are conspiracy theories. I vaguely remember some kind of Ascended Masters / proto-QAnon interface circa 2016. And QAnon was of course real. Even the right-wing militia / New Age synthesis has existed before. Remember Elizabeth Clare Prophet´s contretemps in Montana? 

ChatGPT sounds like a whining "skeptic" here, but it´s still somewhat interesting. And "messianism without transformation" is a keeper! 

Can you tell me something about the NESARA or GESARA spiritual-financial cults?

Yes. NESARA / GESARA are best understood as a hybrid of conspiracy theory, millenarian religion, and financial salvation myth that has evolved over several decades. They are not just “bad economics”; they function psychologically and socially like a cultic belief system.

I’ll explain this in layers: origin → transformation → spiritualization → why it persists.

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1. What NESARA originally was (the seed)

NESARA = National Economic Security and Reformation Act

• In the 1990s, a small group of US activists promoted a proposed economic reform package:

  • Abolish income tax

  • Return to gold-backed currency

  • Cancel certain debts

  • Reform banking

It was never passed, never close to passing, and largely incoherent as legislation.

However, this proposal provided a name and a hook for something very different.

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2. How it became a conspiracy theory

By the late 1990s–early 2000s, NESARA was reimagined as:

• A secret law already passed

• Suppressed by:

  • Banks

  • Governments

  • “Elites”

• Waiting to be revealed at the right moment

This is the first crucial shift:

From failed reform → hidden salvation

At this stage, NESARA already had classic conspiracy features:

• Secret knowledge

• Malevolent hidden enemies

• Imminent revelation

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3. GESARA: globalizing the myth

GESARA = Global Economic Security and Reformation Act

GESARA:

• Does not exist in any legal sense

• Has never been proposed by any legitimate body

But within the belief system, it becomes:

• The worldwide version of NESARA

• Coordinated by:

  • “White hats”

  • Military alliances

  • Benevolent elites

  • Sometimes extraterrestrials

At this point, the narrative leaves politics and enters mythology.

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4. The spiritual turn (where it becomes a cult)

Over time, NESARA/GESARA absorbed elements from:

• New Age spirituality

• Ascension narratives

• Channeling

• UFO religions

• Christian apocalypticism

• Eastern concepts (karma, vibration, awakening)

Common beliefs now include:

• A coming “financial reset”

• Total debt forgiveness

• Instant wealth redistribution

• The collapse of “fiat money”

• A transition to 5D consciousness

• Earth’s “liberation” from dark forces

Money becomes spiritualized:

• Wealth = reward for awakening

• Poverty = illusion of the old world

• Patience = spiritual virtue

This is key:

Economic fantasy is reframed as spiritual initiation.

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5. Why NESARA/GESARA functions like a cult

Even without a single leader, it shows cultic dynamics.

A. Apocalyptic postponement

Predictions constantly fail:

• “Next month”

• “After the election”

• “After disclosure”

• “After the arrests”

Each failure is reinterpreted as:

• A delay

• A test

• Proof of how powerful the enemy is

This is classic millenarian elasticity.

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B. Immunization against falsification

Contradictory evidence is explained away:

• “It’s classified”

• “You’re not awake yet”

• “The mainstream is lying”

Belief becomes non-falsifiable, which is the hallmark of cult cognition.

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C. Emotional investment without agency

Followers are encouraged to:

• Wait

• Trust the plan

• Do nothing practical

This creates:

• Learned helplessness

• Dependency on the narrative

• A sense of being chosen but powerless

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6. Relationship to QAnon

NESARA/GESARA often overlaps with QAnon, but they are not identical.

• QAnon → political-military salvation

• NESARA/GESARA → financial-spiritual salvation

They frequently merge:

• Mass arrests + debt forgiveness

• Evil elites removed + instant prosperity

Together, they form a totalizing worldview:

• Explains suffering

• Promises reversal

• Eliminates uncertainty

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7. Why it appeals to intelligent people

This is important: believers are not stupid.

The belief system appeals because it:

• Offers moral clarity

• Explains economic injustice without complexity

• Transforms helplessness into hidden significance

• Avoids painful trade-offs and systemic thinking

It is, psychologically:

A response to real economic precarity using myth rather than analysis.

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8. Why it’s spiritually corrosive

From a genuinely spiritual or philosophical standpoint (including Buddhist or contemplative traditions you’ve engaged with), NESARA/GESARA is problematic because it:

• Externalizes liberation

• Confuses awakening with reward

• Turns greed into virtue

• Replaces practice with anticipation

In classical spiritual terms:

It is messianism without transformation.

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9. One-sentence summary

NESARA/GESARA is not a hidden financial system but a modern millenarian myth that fuses economic anxiety, conspiracy thinking, and New Age spirituality into a cult-like promise of effortless salvation.

Is anything known about the concrete history of the NESARA / GESARA phenomenon?

Yes — the concrete, documentable history of NESARA/GESARA is actually quite well known, and when you strip away later mythmaking it turns out to be much more mundane, traceable, and revealing than believers assume.

Below is a clean historical reconstruction, separating what is verifiably real from what was later invented.

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1. The real origin: a failed 1990s tax-reform proposal

Harvey Francis Barnard (1938–2016)

• A Utah-based engineer and eccentric monetary reform activist

• Not a mystic, not a banker, not connected to intelligence agencies

• In the late 1980s–1990s, Barnard proposed a radical economic reform he called NESARA:

  • National Economic Security and Reformation Act

What Barnard actually proposed

A self-published plan including:

• Abolishing income tax

• Replacing it with a national sales tax

• Abolishing the IRS

• Reforming monetary policy

• Reducing government debt

This was:

• Never introduced as a bill

• Never voted on

• Never taken seriously by economists

• Circulated only in activist and crank monetary-reform circles

Barnard died believing his ideas were suppressed, but there was nothing secret about their failure — they simply had no support.

This is the only part of NESARA that ever existed in reality.

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2. The decisive transformation: Shaini Goodwin (late 1990s–2000s)

This is the key moment most people miss

Around 1999–2000, a woman named Shaini Candace Goodwin (also known as Dove of Oneness) radically reinterpreted Barnard’s failed proposal.

She claimed:

• NESARA had already passed secretly

• The Supreme Court had approved it

• Judges were killed or threatened

• The media was gagged

• Military forces were involved

None of this was true.

But this is where NESARA becomes a conspiracy religion.

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3. The role of Ascended Masters ideology

Goodwin was deeply immersed in:

• Theosophy-derived Ascended Masters teachings

• “Lightworker” communities

• Channeling culture

She reframed NESARA as:

• A divinely guided plan

• Overseen by Ascended Masters

• Enforced by benevolent hidden authorities

• Delayed to protect humanity’s spiritual readiness

From this point on:

NESARA ceased to be political and became millenarian.

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4. Early online spread (2000–2010)

Mechanisms of spread

• Email chains

• Yahoo Groups

• Early blogs

• Alternative news sites

Typical messages included:

• “Any day now”

• “Blackout imminent”

• “Mass arrests”

• “Debt forgiveness”

• “New gold-backed currency”

Predictions repeatedly failed.

Each failure was explained as:

• “Mercy”

• “Timeline adjustment”

• “Dark forces interfering”

Classic apocalyptic pattern.

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5. GESARA: a pure invention (post-2010)

Important point

GESARA never had an origin document.

• It stands for Global Economic Security and Reformation Act

• No author

• No proposal

• No text

• No date

GESARA appears only after NESARA had already become mythologized.

It was added because:

• Globalization anxiety increased

• Financial crises (2008) demanded a global salvation myth

• The internet rewarded ever-bigger claims

GESARA is NESARA without even a real starting point.

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6. Fusion with QAnon (2017–2021)

This is when NESARA/GESARA reached peak visibility.

QAnon provided:

• Military “white hats”

• Mass arrests

• Sealed indictments

• A narrative of imminent justice

NESARA supplied:

• Economic redemption

• Debt cancellation

• Wealth redistribution

Together they formed a total salvation myth:

• Moral

• Political

• Economic

• Spiritual

This was not coordinated — it was memetic convergence.

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7. Post-2021 fragmentation and decline

After repeated failures:

• Trump didn’t return

• No reset happened

• No debts were canceled

The belief system adapted by:

• Spiritualizing further (“5D rollout”)

• Abandoning dates

• Shifting to crypto fantasies

• Targeting smaller, more committed audiences

Today it survives as:

• A belief residue

• A monetized niche

• A cautionary example

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8. Why historians and sociologists take it seriously

NESARA/GESARA is now studied as:

• A digital-age millenarian movement

• A cargo-cult–like response to financial complexity

• A case study in belief persistence after falsification

It is not dismissed as mere stupidity — it reveals real structural anxieties.

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9. One-paragraph synthesis

NESARA began as a failed 1990s tax-reform proposal by an obscure activist, was transformed around 2000 into a conspiracy religion by Ascended Masters believers, expanded online through millenarian logic, globalized into GESARA without any factual basis, fused with QAnon during the Trump era, and now persists as a spiritualized, unfalsifiable belief system divorced entirely from political reality.

No surprise

 

This exchange with ChatGPT speaks for itself. Bizarre fact: when I asked Microsoft Bing to make an illustration of Saint Germain meeting an American president, it generated a picture of a child-president. Not sure why, but it fits with the idea that Trump´s son Barron is the Messiah! See further below.  

Can you give some examples/sources of how groups or individuals connect Trump with Saint Germain?

Yes, there are indeed groups and individuals within New Age and esoteric circles who associate Donald Trump with Saint Germain, an Ascended Master in Theosophical and New Age traditions. This connection often portrays Trump as a spiritual figure destined to lead or transform America. Here are some notable examples:

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🔮 1. Trump as an Aspect of Saint Germain

A 2016 article on BlogPyramid cites Jennifer Snell, a Certified Angel Practitioner and Akashic Records Consultant, who claims that Donald Trump is an aspect of Saint Germain. According to Snell, Saint Germain conveyed that Trump is part of the Divine Plan for the New Earth, chosen to usher in change due to his lack of energetic ties to dark forces. The article encourages lightworkers to support Trump and send the Violet Flame to the U.S. government. blogpyramid.com+1Hindustan Times+1

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📖 2. Channeled Dialogues with Saint Germain

In the book Divine Dialogues with St Germain by Joel D. Anastasi and Phillip Elton Collins, Saint Germain is channeled to discuss the spiritual implications of Trump's presidency. Saint Germain describes Trump's term as a wake-up call for Americans to restore the nation's mission as a beacon of light for the world. The dialogues aim to refocus attention on America's divine purpose and explore broader spiritual topics. Amazon

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👶 3. Barron Trump as an Incarnation of Saint Germain

Some New Age sources suggest that Barron Trump, Donald Trump's son, is an incarnation of Saint Germain. For instance, a post on RoseRambles.org claims that Barron is an Arcturian soul named BEKEE LAMES, who has incarnated on Earth to lead humanity into a new era. The post describes Barron as possessing one of the highest IQs in the world and being destined for greatness. Family of Taygeta+1Rose Rambles...+1

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🧙 4. Saint Germain's Insights on Trump's Return

A Pinterest post from CrystalWind.ca features a channeled message from Saint Germain discussing Donald Trump's potential return as America's 47th President. The message explores spiritual perspectives on Trump's role and the impact on the nation's future. Pinterest+1Pinterest+1Pinterest+1Pinterest+1

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These examples illustrate how certain New Age and esoteric communities integrate contemporary political figures like Donald Trump into their spiritual frameworks, often attributing to them cosmic significance or divine missions. While these views are not mainstream, they reflect the syncretic nature of modern spiritual movements, where political and spiritual narratives can intertwine.

If you're interested in a deeper exploration of how political figures are mythologized within spiritual movements, or how these narratives develop and spread, feel free to ask!

Pageant

 

Exactly 58 seconds of the Saint Germain Foundation Jesus pageant at Mount Shasta. The video is 12 years old. Reposted here for no particular reason. 

A new birth of freedom?

 

I should have posted this on the 4th of July, but here we go. Elizabeth Clare Prophet´s crazy take on the founding of the United States. Or not so crazy, because surely this is just a mutant version of American civic religion?  

Ascension to INNER Earth

 

Peter Mount Shasta (Peter Mt. Shasta) is not only a spiritual teacher in the I AM tradition actually living in the town of Mount Shasta, California. He is also a UFO contactee. I previously linked to a video in which he claimed to have met Semjasse (as he spells her name), the alien female from the Pleiades mostly associated with Billy Meier.

In this interview, Peter continues his story. If I read him right, Semjasse took him on a tour through the Hollow Earth by an entrance at the North Pole. Admiral Byrd is explicitly mentioned. There is an apocalyptic undertone in the interview, Peter claiming to have heard a prophecy by Ascended Master Saint Germain that cataclysmic events will make it necessary to evacuate the Earth surface. However, the chosen ones will not be beamed up to spaceships, but rather taken to the interior of the planet, which is paradise-like, these conditions being the result of the Inner Earth vibrating on a higher frequency.

One intriguing feature of Peter Mount Shasta´s message is that it sounds less negative than similar channeled messages about an impending “world evacuation”. Everyone is called upon to meditate and cleanse their karma, forgive their enemies, and in general spread compassion and light around. By thus avoiding negative energy, more people can perhaps be saved from the destruction at the last moment.

In the second clip, Peter shows pictures of the UFO-shaped clouds around Mount Shasta (the actual mountain), claims that the aliens created us, and discusses the recent “disclosure” in Washington DC.

It is what it is

 

Peter Mount Shasta (actually spelled Peter Mt. Shasta, but my word-processor can´t always process it) is a spiritual teacher living in – wait for it – the small town of Mount Shasta close to the actual mountain, a dormant volcano in northern California. “It Is What It Is: Further Adventures of a Western Mystic” is a small book published by Peter in 2019. It´s apparently an Amazon Kindle best-seller, but I admit it wasn´t *that* interesting. Perhaps it´s intended as a kind of teaser trailer to the wider oeuvre of this particular writer?

The book is a collection of short anecdotes with a spiritual undertone, not in chronological order. The underlying theme is that the Ascended Masters and/or the I AM Presence can guide you and help you both in spiritual matters and in more mundane situations. At least sometimes, the short stories also have a certain sense of humor. The Masters appear dressed as hoodlums, Walmart employees with the face of Eckhart Tolle, or police officers in the forests at 10pm. They can fix Peter´s Word program, tell him to board a bus…or interrupt his advanced meditation by a literal lightning strike! Peter Mount Shasta himself has apparently gained some supernatural powers too over the years, such as the ability to fly a UFO or levitate while meditating. He also has a certain sense of humor – the photo on the book cover shows him on Boulevard Saint Germain, presumably in Paris. Yes, Saint Germain is the name of Peter´s higher plane guru…

The author´s spirituality is an eclectic blend of Guy Ballard´s I AM teachings (said to hail from the Ascended Master Saint Germain) as interpreted by Ballard´s former secretary Pearl Dorris, and Vajrayana Buddhism. But then, the I AM teachings themselves tend to be pretty eclectic. In one anecdote, Peter reveals that he was on a first name basis with Wendelle Stevens, the controversial UFO-logist and former US military officer who vouched for Swiss contactee Billy Meier. The chapter is illustrated with a picture of Mary and her immaculate heart, perhaps a hint that Mary and Semjase are supposed to be the same person? Mary also appears during an Ayahuasca experience, to set matters straight! More problematic is the author´s great respect for Sathya Sai Baba. The book even contains a bizarre miracle story about how Sai Baba appears in Mount Shasta after his physical death, driving the same kind of black BMW Peter wanted for Christmas?!

The most intriguing chapters claim that a Chinese Master of Esoteric Buddhism, a certain Yu, wanted Peter Mount Shasta to become his successor, at least in the United States, and would be able to keep half of the proceeds. Peter (dis)respectfully declined. It seems Yu was somewhat angry at this unexpected development. There is also an interesting story of how another Hanmi master attained Rainbow Body. Another interesting chapter deals with the author´s friend Jonathan, who tried to live like a sadhu both on the slopes of Mount Shasta and in a jungle in Hawaii. His Parkinson´s disease was supposedly a way to bear the karma of people suffering in the Buddhist Hell-realms…

All the sensational stories co-exist rather uneasily with more down-to-earth scenarios featuring the author helping his family with cooking and washing, trying to learn unruly New Age people to meditate properly, removing trees from the vicinity of his cabin, driving through fly-over country, and so on. Perhaps spiritual seekers of a broadly New Age type do find this material interesting, but personally, I´m probably moving boldly towards other pursuits.

It is what it is.

In search of Crystal City

 

- Dude, what´s up with this Mount Shasta stuff?
- No idea, some of my disciples just can´t sit still
and do the practice!

A short but quite good summary of the Mount Shasta situation.  

A Mountain of Many Legends

Where heaven and earth meet

 

So I read somewhere that Madame Blavatsky visited Mount Shasta in California. Which I never heard before. Nor you, I imagine. Searching for “Blavatsky Mount Shasta” didn´t reveal any relevant information about this factoid (probably an urban legend), but instead I stumbled on a text titled “Spiritual Tourism and Frontier Esotericism at Mount Shasta, California” by Madeline Duntley, published in the International Journal for the Study of New Religions 5.2. (2014). The article is freely available on the web. It feels badly edited and somewhat “stream of consciousness”, as if the author has spent too much time with hippies at the location under discussion. Actually, she was at a nearby archive, the College of the Siskiyous (COS) Library!

Be that as it may, some interesting information can nevertheless be gleaned from this 28-page article. It seems Mount Shasta “always” played a spiritual, quasi-spiritual or proto-spiritual role for the White Euro-American settlers coming to California. Poets and painters extolled the majestic mountain in “cosmic” and spiritual terms. Its mineral springs drew both tourists and people “on retreat”. In language clearly drawn from the gold rush, people looked for “treasure” on the mountain, although presumably of a less tangible kind. An ascent to the top was often depicted in quasi-religious terms, including travails and suffering. The mountain was called an “altar” and those climbing it were “pilgrims”. Christian hymnals, religious magazines and a temperance flag were left at the summit. It´s not clear to me, however, if any of this was typical of Mount Shasta in particular, or simply another expression of nature or frontier romanticism in general. Weird factoid: the author refers to mountaineer tales as “ascension narratives”. Yes, as in ascent to the summit of a mountain. But note that Ascension is also what Jesus did after the resurrection, and what occultists strive for today…

Speaking of which: the first time somebody connected Mount Shasta to modern esotericism seems to have been in 1897, when one Duncan Cumming published the novel “A Change with the Seasons”, which features a Buddhist studying Theosophical lore. But the big splash – unsurprisingly – came in 1905 with Frederick Spencer Oliver´s “A Dweller on Two Planets”. I never read it, but I sure heard about it. Supposedly a channeled message from Phylos the Tibetan, the book seems to be broadly Theosophical in nature. It´s interesting to note that Oliver was a painter (perhaps a Symbolist?). He clearly inspired the next big splash, Guy Ballard´s 1930 supposed encounter with the Ascended Master named Saint Germain on Mount Shasta and the subsequent formation and proliferation of the so-called I AM Activity and its offshoots. During the hippie and New Age craze, the small town of Mount Shasta close to the actual mountain became the epicenter of a thriving subculture of spiritual seekers and finders. It still is. Many businesses affiliated with the local Chamber of Commerce are of an “alternative” character, and the CoC itself has chosen as its motto “Mount Shasta: Where Heaven and Earth meet”. The local college library has a large archive of books, periodicals and personal testimonies pertaining to this subculture.

The author believes that there are clear parallels in how modern American seekers look at Mount Shasta and how Buddhists see sacred mountains. She doesn´t say so, but I assume a Buddhist holy peak is an analogue to Mount Meru, the axis mundi at which various otherworldly beings dwell. In the same way, modern US occultists believe that there are secret cities, UFO bases and treasure caves inside Mount Shasta. (In one of Peter Mt Shasta´s books, I read about White Americans trying to live like Hindu sadhus in the forests of Mount Shasta, making the parallel to Tibet even more obvious, regardless of whether the stories are true or not.) However, there are also traces of American nationalism in the Mount Shasta-centered spirituality. Mount Shasta is said to be the last remaining portion of ancient Lemuria, which was older than Atlantis. Spiritual guidance and perhaps ascension can therefore take place from an American site, rather than from India or Tibet. Again, I can refer here to one of Peter Mt Shasta´s books, in which he meets his White Euro-American guru in the town of Mount Shasta after dizzying odysseys in India. (Irrelevant side point: Madeline Duntley at one point erroneously refers to lemurs as “marsupials”. They are prosimians.)

One peculiar trait of the Mount Shastan metaphysical subculture is that it seems to have certain “old fashioned” traits. The nationalist angle is one example. Another is the Christian ditto. The Saint Germain Foundation (the current iteration of Guy and Edna Ballard´s movement) apparently organizes an annual Jesus pageant in the town of Mount Shasta, called I AM COME. It centers on the Ascension of Christ from Mount Olivet (of course!) rather than the passion story. During the play, the actor starring Jesus “ascends” up a large tree. More modern aspects of the Mount Shasta experience include people looking for UFOs and (perhaps) being vindicated by seeing the curiously-shaped clouds hovering around the mountain. It´s actually somewhat fascinating to see this strange blend of Eastern and Western, old and new, coalesce around a dormant volcano in northern California…

With that, I leave you for now. Oh, and it seems HPB never visited Mount Shasta...

The Wish-Fulfilling Jewel

 

“My Search in Tibet for the Secret Wish-Fulfilling Jewel” is a somewhat confusing book by Peter Mount Shasta (as I decided to spell his name due to the vicissitudes of my word-processor – it´s actually Peter Mt. Shasta). The author is a spiritual teacher and really lives in the town of Mount Shasta, California. His teachings are based on the I AM Discourses of Ascended Master Saint Germain, channeled by Guy Ballard during the 1930´s. Peter´s guru Pearl had apparently been Ballard´s secretary back in the days. What makes Peter Mount Shasta special is that he combines the I AM teachings with Tibetan Tantric Buddhism. He has even introduced a new “deity” called Violet Tara, obviously a combination of the Tibetan bodhisattva Tara and Saint Germain´s Violet Flame. She is not mentioned in this particular book, however, which was published in 2017 and supposedly details the author´s visit to Nepal, Tibet and India in 1994. I say “supposedly”, for although the book does contain photos of Peter at various Tibetan landmarks, the story itself is very hard to believe. It reads like a novel and may in fact be inspired by James Redfield´s “The Celestine Prophecy”. It´s also uneven.

The first few chapters are hilariously funny, as when the former Karmapa appears to Peter in a vision in the US, instructing him to visit the new Karmapa in Tibet. As Peter points out himself, this is absurd since according to Tibetan belief the two Karmapas are really the same person who has reincarnated! Why can´t they just chat in the vision? (The Karmapa is a prominent lama within the Kagyu sect of Tibetan Buddhism.) Then, he meets the Dalai lama in his bathroom?! The second half of the book is more boring, unless you are very immersed in the spiritual undergrowth of California. Some lose ends are never explained. For instance, the living Karmapa in Tibet has no idea who Peter even is when he finally manages to get access. Nor does he ever meet the Dalai lama in Dharamsala. It´s also unclear why Peter´s supposed wife from a previous life in Mongolia is suddenly introduced into the story, and so on.

That being said, it´s somewhat interesting to see how Peter Mount Shasta has syncretized Tantric Buddhism with the I AM messaging. He criticizes post-Ballard I AM practitioners and most of the New Age believers for being egotistic and more interested in wealth or worldly success than actual spirituality. Of course, you could criticize Ballard himself for exactly the same things! It´s interesting that the author turns to Tibetan Buddhism rather than, say, regular Christianity in order to make the I AM teachings more compassionate and ascetic. It´s also interesting, to be sure, that he interprets esoteric Tantric Buddhism as a very life-affirming and compassionate practice. I often get the impression that Western aficionados of Tibetan Tantrism have other goals in mind. Occult powers, perhaps, or hedonistic Left Hand orgies. This book has entirely different “vibes”. The impersonal god isn´t some kind of empty sky or dreamless sleep, but a conscious and blissful reality.

Peter Mount Shasta tries to correlate the I AM concepts and those of Tantrism as best as he can. The I AM Presence is the Dharmakaya, Ascension is the same thing as attaining the Rainbow Body, and although he never says so explicitly, the Violet Flame might be shakti. The Ascended Masters could be bodhisattvas. Both I AM affirmations and Tibetan mantras are given in the book. Peter´s quest in Tibet is in pursuit of a mysterious object known as the Wish-Fulfilling Jewel. On one level, the jewel turns out to be a real physical object, some kind of alternative medicine ingested in the form of powder put in a liquid. (There is a video featuring Peter Mount Shasta on YouTube where he drinks a mysterious blue water.) On another level, however, the jewel is really shakti, the creative energy of “Mother” permeating all of existence and bringing all things into manifestation. If you find this power within you, you have found the secret wish-fulfilling jewel…

Oh, and the book comes with a short preface from Saint Germain himself.

If “alternative Tibet” is your thing, this could be for you. Could perhaps also benefit precisely the people the author criticizes: new agey prosperity gospel types. 

Saint Germain never left

 

Peter Mt Shasta is an independent I AM teacher based in the town of Mount Shasta in California. And yes, both he and the town are named after the mountain, which has become a popular New Age pilgrimage site. 

In the clip above, he recounts his paranormal experiences as a child in the United States and later as a young man on the hippie trail to India. The short story is that Richard Alpert´s guru Karoli Baba almost hit Peter with a rock and told him to go home to America, since Jesus Christ was his guru?! 

Somewhat later, Peter had a spiritual breakthrough in Muir Woods at Mount Tamalpais, where he met "the Ascended Master Saint Germain" and had to take a de facto bodhisattva wove. Saint Germain then sent him to Mount Shasta. A bizarre detail is that Peter (who looked like a very stereotypical hippie) then had to visit a local diner with a huge "No hippies allowed" sign in order to wait for his spiritual teacher! The teacher turned out to be a female named Pearl, who instructed him in the I AM teachings associated with Guy Ballard, who claimed to have met Saint Germain during a hike on Mount Shasta...

The latter portion of the interview unveils some of these mysterious teachings, or rather Peter Mt Shasta´s version of them. It seems to be a Buddhaized and Tibetanized morph of the I AM message.

Quite interesting, although I admit the funny anecdotes in the first half are my favorites! 

I AM Mount Shasta

 

I never read Peter Mt Shasta´s books, but in the YouTube clip above he retells the most pivotal part of his spiritual quest. As a young man who looked like a hippie version of Jesus, Peter encountered Ascended Master Saint Germain in the Muir Woods, California. At first, Saint Germain looked like an ordinary hiker... 

Later, he was sent to the town of Mount Shasta, at the flanks of the mountain of the same name. At the time, Mount Shasta wasn´t the New Age-related site it became later. At one point, Peter had to enter a working class-dominated diner with a huge sign saying "No hippies allowed"! Still, he seems to have met his guru, Pearl Dorris, in this small town. She taught him a version of the I AM Teachings of Guy Ballard, who do indeed center on Saint Germain (another well known version is associated with Elizabeth Clare Prophet). Note that Ballard claimed to have met Saint Germain during a hike on Mount Shasta back in 1930. Pearl had apparently been associated with Ballard back in the days.

The message does seem to have *some* unfortunate aspects, such as Peter Mt Shasta (yes, he is named after the mountain) looking at Sai Baba as one of his masters, or his later claim that he met the space alien Semjase and was offered a ride in her UFO. Still, the old man does look sympathetic enough. The teachings on offer sound like the I AM Activity with a stronger "Tibetan" flavor, but minus the unfortunate political overtones of Ballard and Prophet. 

In some strange sense, Peter Mt Shasta has become part of the lore surrounding the old Californian volcano...  

Meetings with Semjase

 

The independent I AM teacher with the strange name Peter Mt Shasta (that´s Mount Shasta in California) looks like a sympathetic guy, but some of his claims are hard to believe. 

Back in the good old days, Peter was on a friendly basis with UFO researcher Wendelle Stevens, who was a retired US Air Force colonel. Stevens promoted the wild claims of Swiss contactee Billy Meier, who claimed to have been visited by aliens from the Pleiades, including a blonde bombshell named Semjase (here spelled Semjasse). According to Peter, Stevens once saw how Meier literally disappeared right in front of him, apparently "beamed up" to the Pleiadian UFO! 

Peter Mt Shasta claims to have met Semjase too, and went onboard her spaceship, where he also encountered Ascended Master Saint Germain. He is careful to distance himself from Meier´s later "communications" with the aliens, presumably a reference to the anti-Semitic and bizarre screed "The Talmud of Jmmanuel".

I´m surprised that I never linked to Peter Mt Shasta before, since I look at I AM-related content now and then, so here we go!  

The man who never dies

 

The Why Files take on the mysterious Count of Saint Germain, "the man who never dies". The first part contains the legend, the second and somewhat shorter part attempts a debunking. Never heard the claim that Saint Germain is really Cartophilus (the Wandering Jew), but I suppose now I have! 

The Michael Flynn something-burger

 

For a moment, I assumed I had discovered something huge, something so sinister that it could potentially overshadow...I don´t know...the J6 Committee investigation or whatever.

Alas, it seems it´s a nothing-burger.

In the clip above, prominent Trump supporter Michael Flynn is leading the masses in Christian prayer...or is he? The prayer he recites seems to come from Elizabeth Clare Prophet, often accused of being a cult leader! Is General Flynn secretely a supporter of the Church Universal and Triumphant a.k.a. The Montana Doomsday Cult? 

It seems the answer is no. Damn!

The explanation seems to be that Prophet´s organization handed out printed versions of some of her channeled messages rather promiscuously, and Flynn presumably picked it up by mistake.

Somebody who calls himself Back to Facts writes in the commentary section: 

>>>The funny part about all of this is that he was reading from a card that Elizabeth’s organization put out that was a transcript of that channeling event. It was laminated and people used to hand them out like the Hare Krishnas handed out literature at airports. In fact, some people still hand out those cards to strangers.

>>>It’s amazing how quickly people will jump to conclusions and any like he had some sinister motive. He probably has never even seen that video you’re playing. Because he was reading off the back of a freaking picture of St Michael the Archangel that resonated with him when he received it spontaneously from a stranger.

>>>I’m sorry, is it a crime to feel moved by literature that someone gave you? I mean the Communists still do it! 

ADDENDUM. I´ve been doing some thinking. Maybe Flynn´s mistake wasn´t entirely innocent. After all, Prophet´s right-wing political positions were strikingly similar to those of Flynn (as far as I understand them). Also, Flynn may be a Catholic, and Prophet´s group sounded quasi-Catholic. Maybe the old general met these people somewhere?