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During a fundraising event for the Siskiyou Land Trust Feb. 7, historian and author Bill Miesse led a roomful of people on the trail that connects the lost continent of Lemuria with our very own Mt. Shasta.
More chairs had to be set up in the Mount Shasta Resort’s Highland Room to accommodate those who showed up for the presentation, which Miesse accentuated with slides and explanatory photographs.
Miesse said the term “Lemuria” came from scientists in the mid-19th century to describe a hypothetical submerged continent in the Indian Ocean which would explain the presence of lemurs from Madagascar to India. By the late 19th century, occult theories had developed the idea that the inhabitants of Lemuria were highly advanced beings, Miesse said, and the location of Lemuria changed over time.
In the 1880s, a young man named Frederick Spencer Oliver wrote (or more accurately, channeled from an entity named ‘Phylos the Thibetan’) a book called “A Dweller on Two Planets,” which described a secret city inside Mt. Shasta, and in passing mentioned Lemuria.
This connection became strengthened through reviews of Oliver’s book and further writings which elaborated on the Lemuria-Mt. Shasta concept, Miesse said.
In 1931, Wishar Spenle Cerve wrote and published “Lemuria, The Lost Continent of the Pacific: The Mystery People of Mount Shasta.” Cerve wrote that Lemurians were tall, graceful and agile, with larger heads than average humans. Lemurians would come to town and spend gold nuggets, Cerve wrote.
Today, the legend of the lost continent of Lemuria being inside Mt. Shasta is one of the mountain’s most well-known legends, Miesse said. The connection between the two is something he’s been researching in the past months.
For more about the Lemuria legend, go to : www.siskiyous.edu/shasta/fol/lem/index.htm
During a fundraising event for the Siskiyou Land Trust Feb. 7, historian and author Bill Miesse led a roomful of people on the trail that connects the lost continent of Lemuria with our very own Mt. Shasta.
More chairs had to be set up in the Mount Shasta Resort’s Highland Room to accommodate those who showed up for the presentation, which Miesse accentuated with slides and explanatory photographs.
Miesse said the term “Lemuria” came from scientists in the mid-19th century to describe a hypothetical submerged continent in the Indian Ocean which would explain the presence of lemurs from Madagascar to India. By the late 19th century, occult theories had developed the idea that the inhabitants of Lemuria were highly advanced beings, Miesse said, and the location of Lemuria changed over time.
In the 1880s, a young man named Frederick Spencer Oliver wrote (or more accurately, channeled from an entity named ‘Phylos the Thibetan’) a book called “A Dweller on Two Planets,” which described a secret city inside Mt. Shasta, and in passing mentioned Lemuria.
This connection became strengthened through reviews of Oliver’s book and further writings which elaborated on the Lemuria-Mt. Shasta concept, Miesse said.
In 1931, Wishar Spenle Cerve wrote and published “Lemuria, The Lost Continent of the Pacific: The Mystery People of Mount Shasta.” Cerve wrote that Lemurians were tall, graceful and agile, with larger heads than average humans. Lemurians would come to town and spend gold nuggets, Cerve wrote.
Today, the legend of the lost continent of Lemuria being inside Mt. Shasta is one of the mountain’s most well-known legends, Miesse said. The connection between the two is something he’s been researching in the past months.
For more about the Lemuria legend, go to : www.siskiyous.edu/shasta/fol/lem/index.htm
