Celebrate the Wesak Festival in Mount Shasta, California!
18th Annual Wesak Celebration, May 4-6, 2012
Theme: Choosing Your Timeline into the Future
Why did we pick these dates? More info, courtesy of Dr. Lewis Keizer: PDF | Video
NEW! Wesak presenters deliver message of hope for the future (Mt. Shasta Herald)
This year's event is also a fundraiser for our local Meals on Wheels Auxiliary. Part of the proceeds from Wesak 2012 will be donated to the program.
Our vending area is open to the public.
VENDORS: Click here for an important notice about your space.
Wesak Interview with Dawn Fazende and Sahadev
Dawn Fazende discusses Wesak 2012, interview by Judith Conrad
2012 Featured Speakers...
Einstein, the Crystal Skull (speaking through Carolyn Ford)
I am the "Skull of Consciousness" my purpose is vast. I am here to ignite the jewel that lives within each individual, through sharing, healing, reflecting and learning. As I share I also gather information in my vast database. My message for those I come in contact with is delivered through the language of light. This is a very high frequency of our original language, the language of creation where all is harmonious without exception. I imprint each individual with a message that is specifically for them in this language of light..... Read more.
Raymond Tarpey (MA, Edgar Cayce A.R.E. Historian)
Raymond is a trained historian. His main area of research is Mayan/Aztec history and spirituality. He also does extensive research on the spiritual legacies of the ancient cultures of China, Japan, the Anasazi, Maya and the Inca. This path, along with information from the Edgar Cayce readings has led him also to do major research on the 'lost continents' of Atlantis & Mu/Lemuria. Raymond also does Tzolk'in Calendar Readings in the Maya tradition..... Read more.
Stephen Mehler (MA, Crystal Skull Researcher, Egyptologist, Rosicrucian Research Scientist)
Stephen Mehler's fascination with ancient Egypt, which began at the age of eight, has guided his education and spiritual work all his life. Mehler holds three degrees in the sciences and is a trained field archaeologist and prehistorian. Mehler also served as a Staff research scientist for the Rosicrucian Order, AMORC, in San Jose, California from 1978-1980. For almost 16 years, 1992-2008, Mehler was a student, disciple, and close friend of Egyptian-born Egyptologist and indigenous wisdom keeper, Abd'El Hakim Awyan (1926-2008), popularly known as Hakim. Stephen has written two books, The Land of Osiris and From Light Into Darkness: The Evolution Of Religion In Ancient Egypt..... Read more.
Featured Speakers Ford, Tarpey and Mehler at a recent Crystal Skull event:
Ruth Broyde Sharone
A self-appointed peacemaker since she was a young girl, Ruth Broyde Sharone is convinced that people—not governments—will ultimately bring about the long-awaited and eagerly hoped-for era of global peace. Her combined talents as a journalist, filmmaker, community organizer, and peace activist all converged in the spring of 1991 when she orchestrated her first interfaith Passover Seder in Los Angeles. She has created a noteworthy legacy for the interfaith movement by documenting the minefields and miracles she encountered along the way, which formed the basis for her book, Minefields and Miracles: A Global Adventure in Interfaith..... Read more.
Gilla Nissan
For many years, people who wish to gain a deeper understanding of the ancient Hebraic texts as well as those who wish to explore modern expressions of Hebrew's contemporary forms have benefited from studying with Gilla Nissan. A native of Tel Aviv now living and teaching in Los Angeles, Gilla, a true Morah (Teacher) has enabled students of all ages to have a deeper understanding of the uniqueness of this ancient language. A long-time student of Kabbalah and Jewish mysticism as well as other contemplative traditions, Gilla now senses an urgency to share the spiritual depths of the 22 sacred Hebrew Letters. "The Letters themselves constitute a complete cosmology," Gilla explains. Through meditation, guided imagery and an understanding of the guidance of these 22 hyper-literal forces, Gilla initiates each seeker of truth into important and miraculous discovery: the mission of his/her soul..... Read more.
Meg Blackburn Losey (Ph.D)
Meg Blackburn, Ph.D., is the host of Cosmic Particles internet radio show. She is the author of the Bestselling books "Touching the Light", "The Secret History of Consciousness", the International Bestseller "The Children of Now", The Living Light Cards other great books. She is also the author of the "Online Messages" and is also a contributor to Bestselling "The Mystery of 2012 Anthology". Dr Meg is the creator of the Touching the Light Healing Modality and offers Certification courses. Information is available at touchingthelight.org..... Read more.
Jude Unegbu
Jude Unegbu has been a spiritual healer for over 16 years. Born in West Africa, he traveled with his Shaman grandfather, Job Unegbu, who offered healing to people afflicted with epilepsy, elemental attachments, leprosy, mental curses, depression, and other physical illnesses. His healing education was further enhanced by the techniques he learned from another great man, His Eminence, Sir George King, founder of The Aetherius Society, whose spiritual and yoga teachings offered a strong foundation from which Jude has built a life dedicated to serving humanity and loving all things..... Read more.
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2012 Featured Artist...
Cheryl Rose (Visionary Artist)
Cheryl Yambrach Rose is the author of the book "Art Through the Eyes of the Soul" and the "Art Through the Eyes of the Soul Oracle" deck (U.S. Games Systems) She is a clairvoyant visionary artist specializing in Spiritual portraiture and Neo-Mythic Art®. She paints in oils on linen in a synthesis of the old master style and her own unique technique of tuning in through the eyes. Her Spiritual portraits are Multi-dimensional paintings incorporating information accessed through the sight of the pineal gland or inner eye as it connects to the Source Field. Her Neo-Mythic Art® brings forth images out of the morphic fields surrounding sacred sites and vorticies within them. She has recently returned from Europe with new work from France, "The Black Madonna of Prague", and "The High Priestess" which is about choosing the positive timeline, to share for the Wesak event..... Read more.
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Description
Human beings operate in so many realms, above and beyond the miraculous but relatively mundane physical, mental, emotional, and energetic. But what is it that connects us, what are the virtues and substance of our true natures, as individual "consciousnesses" and as the infinite, magical, mystery of which we are all part? And as our world changes, as time seems to speed up, as our minds and bodies and technologies evolve, what remains true and essential? Has this changed? Surely our relationship to it has, as we grow in awareness. With so much changing so fast, how do we stay attuned and aligned to live our part consciously, both personally and universally?
Mount Shasta's Wesak festival is a "spiritual family reunion" begun, in what some consider one of the holiest places on this earth, by the late Dr. Joshua Stone and now under the direction of Dawn Fazende (editor of Mount Shasta Magazine).
Wesak is named for the legendary convergence of Buddha, Christ and other Masters in the hallowed Wesak Valley in the Himalayas during the Buddha full moon occurring in May each year. The convergence is celebrated variously in cultures throughout the world, including annual pilgrimages to the original site. The Mount Shasta Wesak Festival, however, is an event whose scope extends far beyond the Buddhist holiday with whom many associate the term Wesak.
As one of the seven sacred mountains in the world, Mount Shasta is uniquely suited for this annual North American Pilgrimage. The very atmosphere here is charged with powerful energetic currents and a profoundly restorative silence. The mountain is considered alternately as the Heart Chakra or the Head Chakra of the planet. The I AM Activity, a religion based on instructions dictated by St. Germain in the 1930s on Mt. Shasta, states that this is the place where Christ energy enters the planetary grid.
Local Native Americans believe Mt. Shasta is where God lives and Creation began. Many believe there is a city under the mountain and that Mt. Shasta is a portal between dimensions. It is said that the lenticular clouds so frequently seen here are generated when a vehicle moves between dimensions. Tibetan Buddhists, who are building a monastery here, have 28 specific criteria a mountain must meet to be called sacred. Mt. Shasta is the only one in the USA that meets all 28. People have been drawn to be present with Mt. Shasta's pristine and beautiful natural environment for years. They come to renew their souls and spirits and, at Wesak, to hear the best teachers available anywhere who assist with their personal development.
Wesak is an Eastern Tradition
Years ago our local Buddhist Abbey contacted us about the fact that we were using the wrong date to celebrate Wesak. They reminded me that Buddha was born a Hindu, under the Vedic (or Sidereal or Eastern) Astrological system. I checked online and virtually all the Buddhist countries celebrated Wesak at a different time than we were.
So I contacted a Vedic astrologer who cast the Wesak dates back to the time of Christ and found they Wesak was ALWAYS on the full moon of MAY which, in the Vedic system is Taurus. It seemed westerners had again taken an eastern tradition and made it conform to our specifics by using the Tropical (Western) Astrological system.
I looked into this very carefully and came to the conclusion that Alice Bailey made a typical western centric mistake — normal for her time and culture — and assumed Wesak was a western creation, under a western zodiac, the one with which she was familiar. She was told to celebrate on the Taurus Moon (and we all know it's really the Scorpio moon, Taurus sun.) I believe she went with what she knew — the western sun sign of Taurus running from April 21 to May 21.
Many of the descriptions given by various western spiritualists — including I am told Bailey herself — say that the festivals of the three moons are EASTERN in origin. The Buddha full moon is a Vedic tradition — an eastern tradition. (Remember DK is the Tibetan.) The down pouring of the Wesak blessing has always been tied in with Buddha's birth/death/enlightenment, according to Dr. Stone. Wesak is the date of this birth, death and enlightenment. This is celebrated by Buddhist countries as the first full moon in May. The Vedic system shows Taurus at varying times — because it actually calculated when the constellations are directly overhead — but roughly mid May to mid June.
Sun in Taurus, full moon in sun sign Taurus, occurs twice in a year — once in the Tropical and once in the Vedic systems. We decided to used the Vedic system as it seems to be more in keeping with Buddha's heritage and traditions.
Where two or more are gathered the Ascended ones will attend, no matter what the dates may be. It is only we on this plane who are constricted by such measurements. We are fully in touch with Wesak's spiritual energies. Our participants fully receive the outpouring being offered by the Ascended Masters. While doing that they also receive information to allow them to incorporate that energy into their lives.
Vendor Spaces
Would you like to be a vendor at Wesak?
Please or call 530-926-1762 for more information and to reserve the best booth location. Vending space is limited.
PLEASE NOTE: We DO NOT accept cash payments for vendor spaces. No representative of Wesak will ask you for a cash payment. Please pay by check or money order (made out to "Wesak"), credit card or PayPal.
Our vending area is open to the public.
Left: Audience interacting with one of our presenters.
Right: Early shoppers checking products at our Vendor Fair.
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