Summer of the Pyramid
It has been quite the summer for Pilot Mountain! It started with an Eastern Band of the Cherokee summer solstice ceremony with Yona FrenchHawk that was hosted by George Howard and Stephanie Mark of Cosmic Summit. That ceremony took place right on Pilot Mountain on Friday, June 20, 2025. Author/Podcaster, Hugh Newman, compared Pilot Mountain to Stonehendge and was shocked he’d never heard of it before. A lot of people got to experience the pyramid shadow of Pilot Mountain in person on the solstice for the Cosmic Summit excursion.
On July 7, 2025, at 11:11 A.M. another summer solstice ceremony took place on the mountain at the first overlook from the parking area toward the Little Pinnacle with Yona FrenchHawk. Well over a dozen turkey buzzards played a role in that ceremony that amazed the small gathering put together that morning. First, three turkey buzzards flew by, then one and later nine flew right over our heads.
Then on July 30, 2025, both Yona FrenchHawk and the author, J.P. McKelvey, taped a Randall Carlson Podcast. There will be some sort of book celebration when that podcast is released so keep an eye here for that announcement.
August is a great time to head to the mountains or the beach here in North Carolina. Why not grab either the non-fiction “Faces of Pilot Mountain” that is filled with stories based on 270 years of written information on the mountain directly quoted from the ancestors writing? Or if you like historical fiction the book “Lessons of Pilot Mountain” will give you an insight into the oral history of Pilot Mountain from the Native American stories about the mountain.
In any event, enjoy your summer and try to see the mountain this summer to recharge in that sacred space spiritual calm and restored energy.. You simply take your shoes and socks off, even just for a moment, on the huge quartzite slabs on the Little Pinnacle or any safe area you find of your choosing! As I said at the summer solstice ceremony on the 20th, this is a sacred mountain with a scientific foundation to that sacredness right in the quartzite! It is easy to compare 1,400-foot-tall crystalline Pilot Mountain with Great Pyramid of Giza, Stonehenge, Machu Picchu, Chichen Itza, Newgrange, Chaco Canyon, Serpent Mound, Tulum and the Great Sphinx but it is right here in North Carolina.
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Summer of the pyramid started here !
It turned out to be a beautiful evening for the Cosmic Summit bus excursion to witness an Eastern Band of the Cherokee ceremony on Pilot Mountain. This is a “Where is Waldo?” image for the summer of the pyramid.
Do you see Dr. Robert Schoch on the left, Cosmic Summit producer George Howard in the back, the Khufu Project scientists up in the right corner? Randall Carlson is somewhere in the middle of them up there. They were all trying to look at the pyramid shadow on Pilot Mountain in Surry County, North Carolina. It was at the end of a summer solstice ceremony on June 20, 2025 with Eastern Band of the Cherokee wisdom keeper, Yona FrenchHawk.
Also on the summer solstice just as the sun went behind the Blue Ridge Mountains.
On June 7, 2025 the historical fiction book, “Lessons of Pilot Mountain,” based on extensive oral history stories about the sacred mountain, was released. Later, the book had an official book launch on June 20-24, 2025 at Cosmic Summit in Greensboro, North Carolina.
This is an audience video filmed during the Cosmic Summit bus excursion on June 20, 2025 in 720 that is closed captioned. The video was filmed by Tyrone Ellington, a “rebirthoftheword” podcaster who has become a friend of the author since Cosmic Summit. The cover shot of this video is just moments before the pyramid shadow fades from view in broad daylight as the sun sinks below the Blue Ridge Mountains horizon. We appreciate Tyrone for his help with the Pilot Mountain project with this video and also thank him for his service to our nation during four tours of duty.
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