Altai: Mountains and Places of Power Story + photos      По-русски: Места Силы на Алтае

Altai. Mount Belukha. This place is the famous place of power, and it is one of the geographic centers of the planet. It is possible to get some energy there.

Altai: Places of Power, magical places

James Hilton, a popular British author, wrote about such a magical place back in 1933. His bestselling novel, Lost Horizon, immortalized a mystical, beautiful Utopia in Middle Asia referred to as Shangri-la.

Shangri-la was snugly nestled in a hidden valley beyond the Himalayas, past the towering points of the icy peaks of the Kun Lun mountain range, and sheltered a mysterious community of sages. In this exotic Utopia enlightened masters who possessed the secrets of longevity and incredible mystical and psychic powers lived, studied, and taught to those with an open mind.
Legend and tale have always indicated that Hilton modeled Shangri-la on a similar legendary place in Asia called Chang Shambhala, northern Shambhala (so-called to distinguish it from another town called Shambhala to the south, in India). Chang Shambhala was a place known to be the utmost of bliss.  Hilton had read about this place in the memoirs of a Catholic missionary Abbé Huc who had travelled through Tibet’s mystical regions in the nineteenth century. Abbé learned about the kingdom of Shambhala from the Buddhist followers of the Panchen Lama in Shigatse. These Buddhists were members of an arcane brotherhood who claimed that the mystical kingdom lay somewhere between the Tien Shan and the Altai mountains. It was believed that this kingdom lye in the Dzungaria Basin.

Huc was not the only source for Hilton to obtain information about the kingdom of Shambhala. Since the end of the Middle Ages, Catholic missionaries went out on countless missions in efforts to convert the Tibetans and Chinese to Christianity. Every time they arrived back from their journey’s they would be filled with wondrous stories about this magical, rich place that was somewhere in Middle Asia. They described it as a natural paradise in which all the inhabitants were full of wisdom and justice reigned. There was no suffering and old age like in other parts of the world. It was indeed a place where the spirits from above had brought down favorable blessing upon its very land and people.

This hidden paradise is an idyllic region that embraces peace and beatitude that come from spiritual practices that are initiated by a great wisdom that has been passed down for centuries.

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