Shasta (born September 29, 1944) is an American author of meditation books.
Some of his earliest writing is referenced in Mount Shasta: An Annotated Bibliography by William C.
Miesse.
He was interviewed by Emilie Frank in her book Mount Shasta: California's Mystic Mountain.
He is further mentioned by Madeline Duntley in her article Spiritual Tourism and Frontier Esotericism at Mount Shasta.According the his autobiographical writings, he was born in Florida and raised in New York State, dropping out of college to explore mysticism in California and in India.
After a period of depression, he met a person in Muir Woods, California who allegedly revealed himself to be the Ascended Master Saint Germain and directed him to Mt Shasta California, where he met his spiritual teacher Pearl Dorris.
Pearl instructed him further in the “teachings of the Ascended Masters.” He also studied Buddhism under Chogyam Trungpa and met numerous other spiritual teachers.