Mt. Shasta, California - Jerusalem for the Weird

Posted on April 4, 2006

Mt. Shasta from Mc Cloud, California ©2002 Russell Johnson
Mt. Shasta, California
Jerusalem for the Weird
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Why do the gods always live on mountains while the trolls, barrators, falsifiers and other pointy-tailed deadbeats dwell in the muck beneath the bridges? (As an occasional glutton, I stand just a foul breath’s distance from the status of troll in Dante’s scheme.) Why do the ordinary people scramble in chaos around the friezes at the bottoms of temples while the enlightened ones quietly meditate at the top? (May have something to do with money). High places have always been magnets for seekers, scientists, lunatics and people like me (a bit of all of the above), who are intrigued by their unseen possibilities and awed by their beauty. Mt. Shasta is such a place. (MORE)