suffering, want or old age. Love and wisdom reign and injustice is unknown. [...] The inhabitants are long-lived, wear beautiful and perfect bodies and possess supernatural powers; their spiritual knowledge is deep, their technological level highly advanced, their laws mild and their study of arts an science covers the full spectrum of cultural achievement, but on a far higher level than anything the outside world has attained. Into this basic theme of the northern Utopia popular folklore has woven strange and wonderful features. This place is invisible; it is made of subtle matter, it is an island in the sea of nectar, a heaven piercing mountain, forbidden territory. The grown is strewn with gold and silver, and precious jewels bedeck the trees - rubies, diamonds and garlands of jade; the place is guarded by great devas from another world and by walls as high as heaven; magic fountains, lakes of gems, or crystal and of the nectar of immortality, wish-fulfilling fruits and flying horses, stones that speak, subterranean caverns filled with all the treasures of the earth; these any many more wonders embellish the landscape of the primal paradise that seems to express the deepest yearnings of the human heart. [...] Numerous sources support the tradition that Shambhala once lay near the North Pole. The Scythian, a branch of the Vedic peoples who roamed the Central Asian steppe in the first millennium B.C., told of a wonderful place similar to Shambhala that lay far to the north. They said that if one travelled far enough, one came to lands of mythical and fantastic tribes and beyond them, to the Ripean mountains, which lay in a desolate waste of snow and darkness that no mortal could cross. Beyond that barrier lay a beautiful country, warm and sheltered from the icy winds outside, where the sun rose and set only once a year, as it does within the Arctic Circle, and there a happy race lived in parklands full of flowering trees. According to the ancient Greeks, this was the northern station of their Delphic god Apollo [the god of medicine] and the land of the legendary Hyperboreans to which Apollo returned every nineteen years, riding the sky on a chariot drawn by swans. It was a secret paradise where the heavens turned on the polar axle, which the Hyperboreans revered as the Pillar of Atlas and Heaven-Bearer, and it belonged to a wise and prosperous people who lived for a thousand years in harmony with each other, free from suffering, sickness and old age. To the Greeks these semi-deified sages were the stuff of myth, for their land was accessible only to gods and heroes, not to mere mortals, and could only be reached by an aerial way. The poet Pindar wrote that "neither by ship not by foot couldst thou find the wondrous way to the assembly of the Hyperboreans." [...] Air travel is another recurring theme in the legends of Shambhala. Interstellar travel was attributed to its inhabitants long before the development of modern technological and astronomical knowledge. According to ancient Chinese lore, the aircraft and space vehicles of the Immortals journey among the stars, observing the habitats of the other races and kingdoms. Andrew Tomas says there is a well-known Tibetan legend that the Chintamani Stone, whose inner radiation is said to be mightier than radium, was brought to earth on the back of a winged horse or Lung-ta, which he believed to be a metaphor for a space vehicle. Lung-ta was supposed to be able to traverse the whole universe as a messenger of the gods, and tales of Tibetan kings and saints making flights on it over enormous distances circulated in Tibet for centuries. Shambhala: The Fascinating Truth, by Victoria LePage, 1996
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Tibetan sacred texts speak of a mystical kingdom called Shambhala, hidden behind snow peaks somewhere north of Tibet, where the most sacred Buddhist teachings -- the Kalachakra or Wheel of Time -- are preserved. It is prophesied that a future king of Shambhala will come with a great army to free the world from barbarism and tyranny, and will usher in a golden age. Similarly, the Hindu Puranas say that a future world redeemer -- the kalki-avatara, the tenth and final manifestation of Vishnu -- will come from Shambhala. Both the Hindu and Buddhist traditions say it contains a magnificent central palace radiating a powerful, diamondlike light. Shambhala: a real place or only myths?, by bibliotecapleyades.net
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Though it's true location has never been found, its beginnings are unknown and its existence is unproven, Shambhala is recognized and honored by at least eight major religions, and is regarded by most esoteric traditions as the true center of the planet and the world's spiritual powerhouse. It is said to be inhabited by adepts from every race and culture who form an inner circle that secretly guides human evolution. This remarkable kingdom reputedly exists both above and below ground, with a network of tunnels hundreds of miles