It basically said that there was a gigantic cavern under the Gobi Desert that has a replica of every evolving human being. Some were weird, some were goofy but the one I liked was found in Alice Bailey's Treatise On White Magic. So I did some research and found dozens of references to the word Shambala, the 5000-year-old word originating from Sanskrit. After recounting several past lives the letter ended with, 'My messenger tells me to tell you, 'Let your light shine in the halls of Shambala.'' In the phone conversation at that point Matthew said, 'Shambala, what the hell is that?' He had sent a letter to her requesting this information. 'In 1972 my brother, Matthew, called me and informed me that he had received a letter from Dorothy Beg at Lake Pleasant, Massachusetts that told him where and who he had been in his past lives. The song's writer, Daniel Moore, told us the story: The word 'Shambala' has a spiritual meaning in the Buddhist religion, and some Tibetan Buddhists believe that it is a mystical land hidden somewhere in the Himalaya mountains.

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