Celebrate the Wesak Festival in Mount Shasta, California!

Welcome to the 16th Annual Wesak Celebration, May 28-30, 2010

This year's event is focused on Living Your Bliss
Event starts 7pm Friday, May 28th; ends 9 pm Sunday, May 30th

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Wesak 2010 promises to be the most exciting and powerful event yet. Teachers, healers, channels and musicians of the highest caliber will be offering their gifts, helping those in attendance climb to new heights of spiritual understanding and inner peace. By tuning in to the ecstatic energies of Wesak funneled through sacred Mt. Shasta everyone present will be uplifted beyond our daily lives and into the magical world of the Buddha, the Christ and the Masters. Our presenters will help us all make that experience deeply personal and show us how to bring it home with us home with us, to sustain our spirits and encourage our souls throughout the year and beyond.

This year's event is also a fundraiser for our local Meals on Wheels Auxiliary. Part of the proceeds from Wesak 2010 will be donated to the program.

Our vending area is open to the public.

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.

The only full moon in may this year is May 27 — the date is marked on religious calendars as Wesak.

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 — this year May 27th. 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. In Tropical it is April this year. In the eastern system it is the Vedic Astrological system that determines the date of Wesak and this year that date is May 27th. 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.

Left: Audience interacting with one of our presenters.
Right: Early shoppers checking products at our Vendor Fair.

Featured Speakers...

Terry Cole Whittaker (Ph.D, D.Div)

World renowned, inspiring and motivating speaker, teacher, best-selling author, television producer, business consultant and counselor to the "stars", Terry Cole-Whittaker is a catalyst for Wealth, Happiness, Health, and Enlightenment.

At 17 years of age Terry was given the gift of a teacher who shared with her the knowledge that would open up Terry's mind to her unlimited possibilities and give her many of the tools to achieve them. Between that time and now, Terry, by using what she had learned from this teacher and other teachers has accomplished everything she desired and much more than she had known was even possible. The spiritual benefits she has gained are far beyond the material benefits because each step on our life's path leads to the next if we are willing to continue until we attain what we have been seeking in our heart of hearts. It is at this point that we are fully alive and celebrating the joy..... Read more.

Meg Blackburn Losey (Ph.D)

Meg Blackburn Losey, Ph.D., SpiritLite.com, is the author of the upcoming The Secret History of Consciousness, Parenting the Children of Now, the international best seller, The Children of Now, Conversations with the Children of Now, Pyramids of Light, Awakening to Multi-Dimensional Realities and the Online Messages which are distributed globally. She is also a co-author of The Mysteries of 2012. Her audiences lovingly call her "Dr. Meg". She has been a consultant to 20/20 and Good Morning America, and travels to sacred sites all over the globe sharing the wisdom and cultures of ancient people..... Read more.

Jasmuheen

Visionary and channel Jasmuheen, a breatharian, is founder of the Self Empowerment Academy and the Embassy of Peace. An international lecturer on metaphysics, she is also the author of 33 books in 18 languages. Jasmuheen is a musician, researcher of pranic nourishment, and an artist. In Bangalore, India she is president of the Global Congress. Today is now focused on providing free videos for education & entertainment on her YouTube Channel, creating education DVD's, art and music..... 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.

Vendor Spaces

Would you like to be a vendor at Wesak?

Please or call Dawn at 530-926-1762 for more information and to reserve the best booth location. Vending space is limited.

Our vending area is open to the public.

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