Los Angeles Visionaries Association

MAJA'S MYSTERIES is a guided excursion to some of the city's most fascinating spiritual sites hosted by Maja D'Aoust, the White Witch of Los Angeles, in association with Kim Cooper and Richard Schave of Esotouric. Come join us on an Esotouric bus adventure into the hidden realms of Los Angeles spirituality, with stops at some of the most unique and compelling worship spaces in the Southland.

TOUR THEME: This tour explores the fundamental contradiction in the two primary paths to salvation: Grace or Karma. The concept of Grace sees salvation and the Messiah (rapture) as imminent and tangible. Karma is predicated on reincarnation, the cycle of many, many lives lived through selflessness and right action as the soul strives to achieve release. These two notions, while irreconcilable, both inspire real and profound relationships with God in Los Angeles, from the church basements where believers speak in tongues, or in brightly light congregation rooms praying over gigantic crystals. Join Maja as we explore tantric Vedic practices, the Pentecostal rapture, the channeled Venusian stylings of an alien entity and other fascinating paths to salvation.

TOUR LOCATIONS: The Aetherius Society. A center for cosmic consciousness and healing founded in 1955 by UFO contactee Dr. George King, where we will hear actual recordings of an extraterrestrial voice conveying significant messages. Krotona Apartments. A former Theosophical retreat founded in 1914, where we will have a rare opportunity to visit the central courtyard and view the Rosicrucian window of this now-private residence. Parsonage of Sister Aimee Semple McPherson. On the northern edge of Echo Park lake is the rock upon which Sister Aimee Semple McPherson built her Foursquare Church. One of Los Angeles’ most charismatic characters, Sister Aimee spread her technologically-inspired Pentecostal gospel from the Angelus Temple, while enjoying quiet moments in her adjoining Parsonage home. Recently restored, the Parsonage is now a museum of her life and work, which to this day contains to ring clear to millions of believers worldwide. The Vedanta Society of Southern California. Founded in 1930 to bring sacred Hindu philosophy to the West, where we will be given a presentation on the Society’s history and programming, and browse in its fine gift shop.

PRESS CLIPS: Whole Life Times feature on Maja's bus tour.

The Crown City masquerades as a calm and refined retreat, where well-bred ladies glide around their perfect bungalows and everyone knows what fork to use first. But don't be fooled by appearances. Dip into the confidential files of old Pasadena and meet assassins and oddballs, kidnappers and slashers, Satanists and all manner of maniac in a delightful little tour you WON'T find recommended by the better class of people! From celebrated cases like the RFK assassination (with a visit to Sirhan Sirhan's folks' house), "Eraserhead" star Jack Nance's strange end, black magician/rocket scientist Jack Parsons' death-by-misadventure and the 1926 Rose Parade grand stand collapse, to fascinating obscurities, the tour's dozens of murders, arsons, kidnappings, robberies, suicides, auto wrecks and oddball happening sites provide a alternate history of Pasadena that's as fascinating as it is creepy. Passengers will tour the old Millionaire's Row on Orange Grove, thrill to the shocking Sphinx Murder on the steps of the downtown Masonic Hall and discover why people named Judd should think twice before moving to Pasadena.

Maja D'Aoust, the White Witch of Los Angeles, hosts a new metaphysical lecture series held on the second Sunday of each month in the historic Annie Besant Lodge in Beachwood Canyon. Maja is the librarian at Manly P. Hall's Philosophical Research Society, where she lectured for four years, the co-author of "The Secret Source: The Law of Attraction is One Of Seven Hermetic Laws, Here are the Other Six" and hostess of the Maja's Mysteries series of Esotouric bus adventures. The theme of tonight's lecture: Le Petit Mort-Moments When Life & Death are One.

Maja D'Aoust, the White Witch of Los Angeles, hosts a new metaphysical lecture series held on the second Sunday of each month in the historic Annie Besant Lodge in Beachwood Canyon. Maja is the librarian at Manly P. Hall's Philosophical Research Society, where she lectured for four years, the co-author of "The Secret Source: The Law of Attraction is One Of Seven Hermetic Laws, Here are the Other Six" and hostess of the Maja's Mysteries series of Esotouric bus adventures. The theme of tonight's lecture: Evaporation, Spontaneous Combustion, & Turning Into Light.

The Crown City masquerades as a calm and refined retreat, where well-bred ladies glide around their perfect bungalows and everyone knows what fork to use first. But don't be fooled by appearances. On Esotouric's tour featuring Crimebo the Clown, come dip into the confidential files of old Pasadena and meet assassins and oddballs, kidnappers and slashers, Satanists and all manner of maniac in a delightful little tour you WON'T find recommended by the better class of people! From celebrated cases like the RFK assassination (with a visit to Sirhan Sirhan's folks' house), "Eraserhead" star Jack Nance's strange end, black magician/rocket scientist Jack Parsons' death-by-misadventure and the 1926 Rose Parade grand stand collapse, to fascinating obscurities, the tour's dozens of murders, arsons, kidnappings, robberies, suicides, auto wrecks and oddball happening sites provide a alternate history of Pasadena that's as fascinating as it is creepy. Passengers will tour the old Millionaire's Row on Orange Grove, thrill to the shocking Sphinx Murder on the steps of the downtown Masonic Hall and discover why people named Judd should think twice before moving to Pasadena.

Maja D'Aoust, the White Witch of Los Angeles, hosts a new metaphysical lecture series held on the second Sunday of each month in the historic Annie Besant Lodge in Beachwood Canyon. Maja is the librarian at Manly P. Hall's Philosophical Research Society, where she lectured for four years, the co-author of "The Secret Source: The Law of Attraction is One Of Seven Hermetic Laws, Here are the Other Six" and hostess of the Maja's Mysteries series of Esotouric bus adventures. The theme of tonight's lecture: A Dream of Dying: The Underworld & the Slumberworld.

Los Angeles Filmforum and the Disembodied Theater Corporation

at: piXel (+) freQuency  931 E Pico Blvd. STE 202. Los Angeles, CA 90021
Friday, Aug. 26th and Sat., Aug. 27th. 9:00 p.m. sharp starttime. door 8:30
arrive early for seating / floor space.*        $10.00.

Secular magic is the alchemical act of transmuting everyday life into fiction, and vice versa. The traveling, continually evolving Inquiry examines actions both State-sanctioned and autonomous, and includes live cinema performances, archival documents, films, artworks, and artifacts. EXPERIENCE AND OBSERVE: strange objects, questionable events, and unknown histories in a bewildering tapestry of transfigured reality!

* - THIS IS A BYOS event: Bring Your Own Seating! There are some chairs and sofas, but not enough. Plenty of floor space, so small folding chairs, cushions and blankets encouraged. Floor is hard so bring something comfortable.

The proceedings include:

Ross Lipman's THE BOOK OF PARADISE HAS NO AUTHOR, a live documentary on the Cave People of the Philippines
Marcy Saude’s illustrated lecture on George Van Tassel, inventor of the Integratron
Stephen Berkman’s  authentic contemporary Ambrotypes
Luke's embryonic brains as nightmare
Liz Goetz's "astronomically correct" cut-out star quilt
Anjali Sundaram's reseach on the legendary Daughter of Kong
Nina Hoechtl’s video installation on the Emperor and Empress of Mexico, Maximilian and Carlota,
and their strange relationship to the comedian Cantinflas
Inna-Marie Strazhnik’s medical illustrations and astounding prosthetic eye
and live music and sounds by Eric Potter

Los Angeles Filmforum and the Disembodied Theater Corporation

at: piXel (+) freQuency  931 E Pico Blvd. STE 202. Los Angeles, CA 90021
Friday, Aug. 26th and Sat., Aug. 27th. 9:00 p.m. sharp starttime. door 8:30
arrive early for seating / floor space.*        $10.00.

Secular magic is the alchemical act of transmuting everyday life into fiction, and vice versa. The traveling, continually evolving Inquiry examines actions both State-sanctioned and autonomous, and includes live cinema performances, archival documents, films, artworks, and artifacts. EXPERIENCE AND OBSERVE: strange objects, questionable events, and unknown histories in a bewildering tapestry of transfigured reality!

* - THIS IS A BYOS event: Bring Your Own Seating! There are some chairs and sofas, but not enough. Plenty of floor space, so small folding chairs, cushions and blankets encouraged. Floor is hard so bring something comfortable.

The proceedings include:

Ross Lipman's THE BOOK OF PARADISE HAS NO AUTHOR, a live documentary on the Cave People of the Philippines
Marcy Saude’s illustrated lecture on George Van Tassel, inventor of the Integratron
Stephen Berkman’s  authentic contemporary Ambrotypes
Luke's embryonic brains as nightmare
Liz Goetz's "astronomically correct" cut-out star quilt
Anjali Sundaram's reseach on the legendary Daughter of Kong
Nina Hoechtl’s video installation on the Emperor and Empress of Mexico, Maximilian and Carlota,
and their strange relationship to the comedian Cantinflas
Inna-Marie Strazhnik’s medical illustrations and astounding prosthetic eye
and live music and sounds by Eric Potter

This tour is now sold out; limited standby spots may be available on tour day.

On August 30th 1985, Richard Ramirez, the satanic serial killer and rapist named "The Night Stalker," was chased down, beaten and captured by an angry mob in East Los Angeles, California.

His bloody rampage came to an end on that August morning as angry blows crashed down upon his head to the cries of "Es El! El Maton!" ("It's HIM! The Killer!"). Bloodied and dazed, Ramirez begged for the mercy he never granted his victims, and ironically, he thanked God and the arriving rookie Deputy Sheriff for saving his life.

On this tour we will retrace Ramirez's last fateful steps leading to his arrest and capture. We will follow the chronicles of his crimes within the living backdrop of the actual streets, stores and neighborhoods that once bore the shadows of "The Night Stalker." We will walk the path of his final run and meet the unassuming heroes who ultimately lifted the bloody veil of horror from a terrified, sleepless city in that sweltering summer, the hottest summer L.A. had experienced in 100 years.

Tour guide Al Guerrero says "This tour’s journey actually began 26 years ago. During the Hellishly hot summer of 1985, when nightfall brought only sleepless fear, bloody nightmares, cold sweat, and doors and windows locked tight, Richard Ramirez, “The Night Stalker,” became a part of my psyche on many levels. Ramirez and I were born within two years of each other, and raised within a few blocks of each other in El Paso, Texas. Decades later, his path of death would cross my very own East Los Angeles neighborhood. We feared his shadow lurking on our streets, as mere minutes away, he prowled and killed in the neighboring cities of Monterey Park and Whittier. Richard Ramirez was the reason my parents installed security windows on our home. I often, unknowingly, surely crossed paths with Ramirez as we both frequented the same downtown L.A. locations within the very same time period. His capture within a few miles of my home involved friends I’ve known for most of my life. My family and the rest of the city of L.A. experienced "The Night Stalker’s" terror during that blistering summer in 1985, and it seems that I have been formulating this tour ever since. In 2010, on the 25th anniversary of Richard Ramirez’ capture, the time had come to stir the demons of the Night Stalker’s satanic legacy once more…"

After the overwhelming response to last year’s sold-out 25th Anniversary Night Stalker Tour, and having completed work this year as creative consultant for a U.K. documentary based on the life of Richard Ramirez, Al Guerrero will re-embark on a 2011 tour narrative based on extensive research and interviews with the principal players of "The Night Stalker" case, including the late author Philip Carlo, Homicide detective Gil Carrillo, indirect communication with Ramirez himself, and surprising new revelations from the residents of East L.A.'s Hubbard Street who were responsible for the killer's capture.

Tour guests will be chilled by the shadow of “The Night Stalker” as we explore one of the most horrifying and terror filled chapters in Los Angeles crime lore.

For more info, visit this link or email nightstalkertourATgmailDOTcom

Prior to the tour, Al Guerrero will give a short LAVA Salon presentation on "The Night Stalker" case and the experience of living through L.A.’s “summer of fear.” Following the presentation, the tour will embark from Clifton’s Cafeteria after the 2 p.m. conclusion of LAVA Salon. This event was a complete sell-out last year, so reservations are strongly recommended. Also, guests are advised as to the graphic nature of some portions of the tour.

Boyle Heights Paranormal Project along with The Linda Vista Hospital Paranormal Collaborative will offer a tour and investigation of this historic location in an effort to provide education and assistance to individuals who harbor an interest in paranormal research.

Opened in 1904 by the Santa Fe Railroad to serve the healthcare needs of its employees and closed down in 1991, only to be resurrected as a busy filming locale and currently known as one of the most reputedly haunted locations in the world. We invite you to discover Linda Vista's rich and terrifying history and to discover for yourself what remains...

$50 per person

You may pay, (Cash Only), at the gate the night of the event or purchase your ticket in advance at BHPP's office at Linda Vista Mon-Fri, 9:00 - 5:00.