Ballard

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 Guy Ballard’s death in 1939, Edna purchased property near Mount Shasta on the east side of the Sacramento River.

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.

“The expected absence of enforcement in the cryptocurrency market does not mean there are no legitimate issuers and products; it means the illegitimate ones may multiply and the maxim ‘buyer beware’ takes on greater importance,” said Terence Grugan, a Philadelphia-based attorney at Ballard Spahr.