Talk:I AM Foundation

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 * This info is a muddle and badly researched.
 * I believe I've read everything Guy Ballard (Godfre Ray King) wrote, including his rare recordings from the 1930s. No where does he speak of Lemurians nor tunnels in Mount Shasta. He does describe his personal observations, but mostly he emphasized what he learned about the "Law of Life," meaning how to manage your energy and Plan of Life,  and the "Individualized Presence of God, I AM."  This was the basis for the still current "religious movement" that this entry feebly and hastily presented--and far more important than trivia about bizarre sightings. If this was a graduate paper: grade F.
 * The entry might better be retitled: "I AM" Religious Activity, and/or its organization, Saint Germain Foundation.  Who came up with the name, "I AM" Foundation?  Never heard of it.  Cannot be tied to Ballard or Saint Germain Press.
 * The reference to Saint Germain Press is legit, and would verify that there is no publication about Lemurians inside the mountain. The statement that the author (GRK) met the Divine Master Saint Germain on the side of Mount Shasta ("Unveiled Mysteries," chapter 1), however, is the impetus for this Teaching, along with the succeeding two books at the least.  Read the right stuff.

If Ballard didn't talk about the Lemurians (and I don't remember reading that he did), attribution of Lemurians to Ballard is an easy mistake since the I AM and many other similar groups sell (or at least used to sell) copies of Frederick Spencer Oliver's A Dweller On Two Planets and highly recommend it. A fantasy novel written by a bedridden teenager, probably inspired by Marie Corelli and other psychic/spiritual stuff his parents had lying around the house, it's typical of its genre for the period. This is the book that explains how the Lemurians moved to Mt. Shasta and built the tunnels. Plenty of I AM followers believe every word Oliver wrote as gospel. I've got a copy of it right here, and one of these days I'll write a short Wiki article about it.

I plan to tackle this article and clean it up, but can't do it now. In fact, once I get it cut down to size I'm going to move it to I AM Activity since they are essentially about the same thing ... --Bluejay Young 17:37, 10 May 2006 (UTC)

I have no opinion on its content, just doing a tidy-up. - brenneman (t) (c)  00:17, 25 November 2005 (UTC)