This nicely written piece tells about how the Aetherius Society, given that “Mountains have long been associated with holiness,” led one of its periodic pilgrimages to the top of Mount Baldy, where “participants of different faiths prayed and meditated together.” In the article, people talked about the fact that they weren’t there to support the Society, but because it’s so good for the faiths to come together. Right on! Paul Nugent, a transplanted Brit who heads the Los Angeles branch of this worldwide organization, is the narrator in my film of a re-creation of a story about the circles that appeared in 1880, in Nature, the English journal I wrote about in the last post. He led the pilgrimage, and the LA Times piece ends with a quote from him:

“I think to get 100 people all the way up there on the mountain is a good showing. But I think that more than that, the energy and the atmosphere was very collaborative and it was uplifting. … You just feel good afterward. You feel pure. You feel as if you’ve done something just good. Basic goodness.”