{"id":330,"date":"2012-03-22T12:57:41","date_gmt":"2012-03-22T19:57:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/news\/?p=330"},"modified":"2015-11-12T19:24:01","modified_gmt":"2015-11-13T03:24:01","slug":"white-witch-maja-tour-explores-hollywoods-spiritual-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/news\/white-witch-maja-tour-explores-hollywoods-spiritual-history\/","title":{"rendered":"White Witch Maja Tour Explores Hollywood&#8217;s Spiritual History"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For more than a century, the west coast of America has been a hotbed of esoteric spiritual belief and cultural transformation. Obscura Day 2012 (obscuraday.com) is the time to learn about Maja D&#8217;Aoust, The White Witch of L.A. Esotouric bus adventure, &#8220;Maja&#8217;s Mysteries: Rapture &amp; Release,&#8221; is one of hundreds of Obscura Day events happening worldwide on April 28, 2012.<\/p>\n<p>WHEN: Saturday, April 28, 10:30am-3:30pm<br \/>\nCOST: $63\/person, includes snacks<br \/>\nesotouric.com\u00a0 Call: 323-223-2767<br \/>\nWHERE: Millennium Biltmore Hotel, 506 South Grand Avenue, Los Angeles, CA 90071<\/p>\n<p>Maja&#8217;s guests will gather in the lobby of the Biltmore Hotel (on the exact site of the guru Yogananda&#8217;s remarkable 1952 death during a banquet) to take a metaphysical journey into history, faith and salvation, with in-depth visits to some of L.A.&#8217;s most compelling and mysterious spiritual sites. At each stop, Maja and her co-host, Esotouric&#8217;s Richard Schave, will introduce passengers to members of the faith, lead a tour of worship space, and put the group&#8217;s history and beliefs into context<br \/>\nin the histories of religion and L.A.<\/p>\n<p>Stops include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>THE AETHERIUS SOCIETY, a center for cosmic consciousness and healing founded in 1955 by UFOcontactee Dr. George King, dedicated to promoting peace on earth and beyond.<\/li>\n<li>KROTONA APARTMENTS, a former Theosophical retreat founded in 1914, where guests will have a rare opportunity to visit the beautiful central courtyard pond and view the Rosicrucian window of this now-private residence.<\/li>\n<li>SISTER AIMEE SEMPLE MCPHERSON&#8217;S PARSONAGE, the beautifully restored private home and museum to the life of the influential and charismatic founder of the Foursquare Church on the edge of Echo Park.<\/li>\n<li>THE VEDANTA SOCIETY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA, founded in 1930 to bring sacred Hindu philosophy to the West, where guests will be given a presentation on the Society&#8217;s history and programming, and browse in its fine gift shop.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For more than a century, the west coast of America has been a hotbed of esoteric spiritual belief and cultural transformation. Obscura Day 2012 (obscuraday.com) is the time to learn about Maja D&#8217;Aoust, The White Witch of L.A. Esotouric bus adventure, &#8220;Maja&#8217;s Mysteries: Rapture &amp; Release,&#8221; is one of hundreds of Obscura Day events happening [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[153],"class_list":["post-330","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-information","tag-spiritual-los-angeles-tours"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=330"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":573,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330\/revisions\/573"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}