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SHAMBHALA VALLEY OF THE IMMORTALS SHAMBHALA VALLEY IMMORTALS THE Journey to the Sacred Kingdom he general populace living in the sky-brushing land of Asia, aptly called the Roof of the World, has been acutely conscious of the verity of Shambhala for centuries now. The belief in a secret Kingdom of Wise People has lived on throughout the ages, and the existence of Shambhala is further supported by a 1,000-year-old record. It comes to us rom a Russian source, found in 1893 in a manuscript at the Unusual events, Vyshenski—Uspenski hermitage near Shatsk in Tambov Province. Called "The i; 4 i Saga of Belovodye" (Belovodye is Russian for Shambhala, or Land of the Living amazing sightings Gods), the story appeared in the 4 April 1949 edition of Novaya Zarya ("New and strange Dawn"), a Russian newspaper in San Francisco. It relays the account of a young Slavic monk named Sergius, who spent several years in a monastery on Mount Athos in northern Greece, beside the discoveries in Tibet present a series of Aegean Sea. The ill health of his father caused him to return to Kiev, and some ime after his arrival Sergius, then nearing 30 years of age, obtained an phenomena that, audience with Prince Vladimir the Great (956-1015 CE). His purpose was to relay to him what he had learnt in the monastic library about a mysterious When plotted ona “land in the East where virtue and justice prevailed" ("The Saga of Belovodye", map, mark out ova Zarya, ibid.) Prince lagi was so fascinated by the Story “ he " egendary land that in the year e appointed Sergius leader of a large The Shambhala expeditionary party that he equipped and dispatched in search of this Asiatic ° " ince’ ‘ j “mi 7 Triangle , wonderland. The prince's advisers estimated the 6,000-mile (9,660-km) round journey would take three years, but decades passed without a word from the expedition. The people of Kiev believed that all members of the team had perished; but in 1043 an old man appeared in Kiev, declaring himself to be the monk Sergius whom Vladimir the Great had sent in search of the Valley of the mmortals some 56 years earlier. The essence of his story was duly recorded and preserved among the mystics of a Russian monastery, and it was that document that was found in 1893. Father Sergius said that at the end of the second year of their difficult journey, many people and animals in the group had died, either of extreme weather conditions or from attacks by wolves and bears. In one desolate erritory, their party came across a pile of skeletons of men, horses, camels and donkeys and they were so terrified that they refused to go any further. Only two of the party agreed to continue with Sergius, and at the end of the third year of ravel these two companions were left in a village because of their failing ealth. Father Sergius himself had reached the limit of endurance but was determined to complete his journey or die. Rumours he heard from the people Website: of various regions through which he passed indicated that such a fabulous www.tonybushby.com and as Shambhala did exist and that he was heading in the rig nt direction. He employed another guide who assured him that he could take him closer to the Sacred Kingdom, which the locals called "the Forbidden Land...the Land of Living Gods and the Land of Wonders" ("The Saga of Belovodye", ibid.). Part 2 of 2 by Tony Bushby © June 2009 Unusual events, amazing sightings and strange discoveries in Tibet present a series of phenomena that, when plotted on a map, mark out "The Shambhala Triangle". Website: NEXUS ¢ 49 by Tony Bushby © June 2009 www.tonybushby.com OCTOBER - NOVEMBER 2009 www.nexusmagazine.com