A Russian Eco-Cult Community in California
Boingboing guestblogger Paul Spinrad:
If you’re looking for a way to get back to the land and enjoy an integrated life while society collapses, The Shambhala-Shasta Anastasia Eco-Settlement Project has 466 acres of land and is looking for settlers. It sounds nice!
I’ve long fantasized about this kind of thing. Maybe now’s the time. The “Anastasia” in their name refers to the heroine of the “Ringing Cedars” series of books by Vladimir Megre, which came out in Russia during the mid-1990’s and started being translated into English beginning in 2004.
If numerous websites are to be believed, the series has a large following not just in Russia, but around the world. “Ringing Cedars” refers to the books’ claim that when a Siberian Pine tree (sometimes translated as “Cedar”) reaches 500 years of age, it becomes a sort of cosmic energy-channeling antenna.
And so also rings the New Age BS detector, but please stay with me here…
