The Way to Shambhala

[Dave Monroe]

>From Edwin Bernbaum, The Way to Shambhala: A Search for the Mythical
Kingdom beyond the Himalayas (Garden City, NY: Anchor, 1982; Boston:
Shambhala, 2001), Ch. 1, "Behind the Ranges," pp. 1-25 ...


Something hidden.  Go and find it.  Go and look behind the Ranges--
Something lost behind the Ranges.  Lost and waiting for you.  Go!

RUDYARD KIPLING


Behind the ice walls of the Himalayas lie the empty deserts and
remote mountains of Central Asia....

[...]

... Sven Hedin, a Swedish explorer who spent most of his life
exploring Central Asia, fund  a lost city buried in the sands ....

[...]

... The Theosophists .. spread their belief that spiritual supermen
with knowledge and powers far exceeding those known to science lived
somewhere behind the Himalayas, where they secretly guided the destiny
of the world....

[...]

   All this probably inspired James Hilton to write Lost Horizon, his
novel about Shangri-La....

[...]

... Franklin Roosevelt built a hideaway in the hills of Maryland and
named it after Hilton's idyllic monastery ....  During World War II,
in a twist of unwitting irony, Roosevelt announced that General James
Doolittle's bombing raid of Tokyo had originated in Shangri-La....

[...]

... Shambhala ....  There a line4 of enlightened kings is supposed to
be guarding the most secret teachings of Buddhism for a time when all
truth in the world outside is lost in war and the lust for power and
wealth ....

... Whoever manages to reach this distant sanctuary ... will find
there a secret teaching that will enable him to matser time and
liberate himslef from its bondage.  The texts warn, however, that only
those who are called and have the necessary spiritual preparation will
find Shambhala; others will find only blindness and empty
mountains--or even death. (pp. 1-5)

http://www.shambhala.com/

Rudyard Kipling, "The Explorer" (1898)

http://whitewolf.newcastle.edu.au/words/authors/K/KiplingRudyard/verse/p1/explorer.html

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