Lost lands and peoples are not the province only of far-flung oceans. The west- coast region of the United States has also been attributed to have once been a part of Lemuria, remaining above water when it sank, and then becoming attached to another continent. Related to this notion has been the emergence of Mount Shasta in northern California as the purported site of a select colony of Lemurians. Frederick Spencer Oliver in an 1894 novel A Dweller on Two Planets, set in a Utopian Atlantis, speaks of Lemuria, a community of sages established on Mount Shasta to preserve the wisdom of the ancients, and a subterranean temple located inside a hollow chamber of the mountain. A 1932 article in the Los Angeles Times Star claimed to have observed Lemurians holding sacred night-lit ceremonies on the mountain's slopes. Though the article was proved to be a fraud, this did not deter the formation of a Lemurian Fellowship in 1936, which has further developed the idea of Shasta's inner mountain temple to include a great stone door in the mountain and a series of passageways leading to an entire inhabited underground realm. Lemurian 'adepts' are in there, it is said, and occasionally come out. They have been sighted performing rituals, dressed in long white robes.
A Lemuria-related Shasta mystique endures. In 1987 the Harmonic Convergence, a New Age event focused on centers of sacred energy, drew several thousand to the mountain. A group of artists, the New Visionaries, take their inspiration from the sacred mountain.

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