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The issue, as just about anyone in Dunsmuir can explain, is that the land on the east side of the river, where the waterfall spills down from the cliffs, is owned by the Saint Germain Foundation, a religious group that considers the waterfall and Mount Shasta sacred and doesn’t take kindly to the public wandering through.

Also known as the “I AM” movement, the group was formed in the 1930s, after a mining engineer, Guy Ballard, reported that while hiking on Mount Shasta he had encountered Saint Germain, a spiritual guide who Ballard said had ascended to a higher state of being.

Ballard said Saint Germain trained him as a messenger who could lead others toward enlightenment.

After Ballard descended Mount Shasta, he and his wife, Edna, started a foundation in their Chicago-area home, dedicated to the principles of self-empowerment and self-improvement they said Saint Germain had passed along.

Villa progressed further than City - who fell at the play-off stage - in the Champions League this season, reaching the quarter-finals before being edged out by Paris-St Germain.