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existence of a subterranean world, which was given the name of Tunnels to Ultima Thule Agharti, is universal and an integral part of the Buddhist faith. Rampa originally discussed the inner world and its inhabitants in Another sacred word amongst Buddhists is Shamballah, the name "The Subsurface World" chapter of the My Visit to Venus of the subterranean world capital." (Alec Maclellan, The Lost anthology. "There are a number of natural orifices on the world World of Agharthi) which give access to the inner world. One is in the Andes, another Nicholas Roerich had heard from learned lamas of undergroun in the Gobi Desert, and another...beyond the Shetland passages and a lake beneath the Potala: "If you have seen this Islands...eternally wrapped in swirling fog is known as Ultima underground lake, you must have been either a very great lama or Thule, the Last Island." The British Royal Navy once visited it to a torch bearer." Harrer recounted this story in his book Seven conduct a survey, but what they encountered became highly Years in Tibet (p. 185). classified. "Very strange happenings indeed took place, and in the In The Third Eye, Rampa described his visit to the tunnels of secret records of the British Admiralty there are records of truly the Potala. According to his Guide, a group of monks had once fantastic happenings on Ultima Thule, happenings which are so tried to explore this mysterious lake but some had drowned. The incredible that the reports have long been suppressed and kept survivors managed to exit the cave and found themselves in a under close guard." swamp about 40 miles from the Potala. Later Rampa was able to The very existence of this island is a mystery, as the only North study the passages himself, climbing ever downwards through Sea island which nominally fits Rampa's description of Ultima secret doors until he reached a lake which was the remnant of an = Thule is Jan Mayen, currently ruled by Norway. Uninhabited ancient sea. Years later, he returned to the except for a manned weather station, it is caverns to undergo the "Ceremony of the dominated by a huge active volcano, Little Death" amongst the mummified bodies Beerenberg. It is a bleak island, but there is of gigantic extraterrestrials who had once little else to recommend it as an island of walked the Earth as gods. great mystery. To make matters even more In Twilight, Rampa introduced Rigden confusing, in Chapters of Life Rampa Jyepo, the King of the world who dwells in . described Ultima Thule as a gateway to Shamballah. "In Tibetan lore there is much In As it Was, another dimension. mention of Shamballah where the King of all i In Germanic and Nordic mythologies, the world lives, the King who is hidden from the Lama Mingyar Ultima Thule is known as part of the sunken millions on the surface of the world. Dondup took continent of Hyperborea, but it has no place Tibetans firmly believe in the King of the on modern maps. Perhaps it is in the same world living inside the world, not as some Lobsang to another category as Peary's Crocker Land or Cook's sort of demon but as an extremely good king, complex of caverns Bradley Land which were observed in the a good spiritual ruler who is alive in A high Arctic and then disappeared, two planes at once, the physical, where hear Lhasa which probably because they were mirages. he lives for ever and ever, and the astral contained strange Furthermore, the mid-Atlantic Ridge is plane, where similarly he lives for ever artefacts and an area of intense seismic activity, as carvings. and ever... Tibetans believe that the was evidenced when the Icelandic King of the world gave his first island of Surtsey rose from the waves in instructions to the first Dalai Lama... the 1960s. In Invisible Horizons, who is the outer representative of the Vincent Gaddis wrote of literally inner-world king." (p. 20) dozens of islands which have been The current Dalai Lama has often charted and subsequently disappeared. been asked about Agharta and "That islands may sink below the waves Shamballah in Tibetan mythology. Ina is not in any way unbelievable or even non-committal way, he gave this extraordinary. Submarine archeologists enigmatic response: "Shamballah have mapped dozens of them along with exists, yes, but not in any conventional many quite deeply sunken coastlines. sense." (Hicks and Chogyam, Great Ocean, p. 92) Volcanic activity alone has accounted for many c of In 2003, Inner Light published My Visit to Agharta, which was submergence that have been properly and fully witnessed and purportedly retrieved from the estate papers of a New York book- examined." (p. 32) seller, Jim Rigberg. The publisher claims that Lobsang Rampa often sent Rigberg his rejected writings, which were incorporated — Inner-world Inhabitants into the 2003 edition. In this story, Rampa and his Guide jour- Rampa introduced the inner-world inhabitants in "The neyed through caverns to the inner kingdom of Agharta, encoun- Subsurface World" as: "...people who dislike those humans who tering both malevolent and benevolent races along the way. dwell upon the surface of the Earth. They are not benevolent Eventually they reached a vortex which transported them, and people at all: they have instead a horror dread of those who dwell millions of other enlightened souls, to the sacred land of Agharta in the sunlight. They are a small colony of people who live inside in the centre of the Earth. In Agharta, "the Creator" appeared as a the Earth." Their flight capability was "a glorified type of air luminous sphere, addressing each pilgrim separately with a mes- vehicle not a great deal better than the puny aircraft which we sage of love and hope. surface people possess, and these inner-worlders cannot travel any While this story has a feelgood "New Age" appeal, it does not _ great distance into space". An extinct volcano had created many sound like a Rampa creation. More suspiciously, Rampa's lava tubes through which the inner-worlders—"not unlike secretary Sheelagh Rouse has no recollection of ever typing it or humans"—sometimes visit the surface. Although they dislike the anything of that genre. surface dwellers, they never attack unless provoked. "Often they In As it Was, the Lama Mingyar Dondup took Lobsang to another complex of caverns near Lhasa which contained strange artefacts and carvings. Inner-world Inhabitants Rampa introduced the inner-world inhabitants in "The Subsurface World" as: "...people who dislike those humans who dwell upon the surface of the Earth. They are not benevolent people at all: they have instead a horror dread of those who dwell in the sunlight. They are a small colony of people who live inside the Earth." Their flight capability was "a glorified type of air vehicle not a great deal better than the puny aircraft which we surface people possess, and these inner-worlders cannot travel any great distance into space". An extinct volcano had created many lava tubes through which the inner-worlders—"not unlike humans"—sometimes visit the surface. Although they dislike the surface dwellers, they never attack unless provoked. "Often they 56 + NEXUS APRIL — MAY 2006 Tunnels to Ultima Thule www.nexusmagazine.com