Welcome to the Sacred Groves
The campus of Nemeta is open for exploration to all those who happen to find it. Anyone who comes to the School can access the landing pages of all 12 Courses, the 3 Vocations, plus the landing pages of 17 The Terma and the Terton and 18 Breaking Nous. In other words, anyone who finds Nemeta can take a tour around the campus but not attend classes. Opt to join free as a guest/visitor by registering with an email address and user name, and you can access many unit/pages of text and talk here and on Planetary Tantra, as well as the visitor’s forum, The Rookie Room. Only contributing members have access to the other material beyond the landing pages.
§ Nemeta is a non-profit educational platform supported by student-teachers who loan (not donate) to the school. For information on this support system and membership, click here.
The banyan tree with a mother trunk that spreads horizontally and roots into more trunks is the image of the Sophianic School with its branches of learning.
Link to the Great Recovery talks on John Lamb Lash YT
What I present on Nemeta for the restoration of the Humanities: The Synthesis of Learning
The Seven Groves of Nemeta
1. The OPEN GROVE for Visitors
This is where you are now, reading these words. From here you can go to any of the 18 landing pages described below. You can access the Courses through the drop-down menu on the portal page of the School, or by scrolling down that page to seven panels including Dog Zen.
2. The VAST GROVE of Planetary Tantra (16)
Here you find a range of material on the principles and practices of Planetary Tantra, including autogenic practice with the Shakti Cluster, observation of the lunar cycles (Dakini shifts), interactive magic with Gaia, and much more. PT is the delivery package for The Terma of Gaia Awakening introduced on metahistory.org in 2008. The original content of that site has been converted to units (lessons) in Nemeta to be edited, updated, and arranged in a user-friendly presentation. There are currently 699 units/lessons in Nemeta, of which about 50 are specific to Planetary Tantra, and new units are added each month. The campus is continually under construction. Your patience is appreciated!
Planetary Tantra is rapturous immersion through desire and imagination in the dreaming power of the earth. It is a precise and intimate way of bonding with the planetary animal mother, Gaia-Sophia.
3. The FLOWERED GROVE of the Twelve Courses (1 – 12)
Here you find the spectrum of diverse topics that distinguish Nemeta as a modern Mystery School based on the Maitreya Process. Nemeta is an “educational cult” designed to restore and revive the Humanities but reframed as the Sophianic Arts and Sciences. It does not seek to revive Gnosticism. Rather, it fosters participation in the unique living truth of Gnosis in the world today. The subject matter of the Courses is not mere content to be consumed. The Gnostic spirit that informs all these Courses is catalytic to a many-branched process of higher education. The motto of the School is “Teach as you learn.”
4. The DENSE GROVE of the Three Vocations (13, 14, 15)
Here you find the equivalent of post-graduate courses in a university curriculum. The Vocations differ from the Courses in the time commitment they require.
13 Celestics is a vast zone of astronomical and mythopoetic lore. It links to another platform, Celestics.org, which offers tutorials and
14 Mandela Effect Decoded is a reprise of 70 talks with text originally released on JLL YT from February 1017 to March 2018.
15 The GNE is a reprise of the Gaian Navigation Experiment conducted between March 2011 and March 2014.
5. The HIDDEN GROVE of Dog Zen
Here you find an idiosyncratic take on Buddhism, as well as a humorous takedown of it. Dog Zen features the “Jewel Ornament of Liberation,” the Dragonfly Sutra, a mantric composition of 11 lines and 55 words. The Sutra is a tool for sharpening rigpa, the power of attention inherent to human intelligence. Dog Zen is an exercise in comic relief framed as a metacritique of Buddhist dogma and discourse. It proposes the master trope of “booth side/theatre side” for clarification of mystical experiences including satori, samadhi, and pretences of enlightenment.
6. The ENTRANCE GROVE Where The Menhir Stands
Here is where both visitors and members come to find out what’s current in the School. Usually upon entering the School you will pass the Menhir to find recent uploads. In addition to updates, The Menhir features comments and links relevant to current events, such as astronomical phenomena, notable information, or madness in the world drama. The uploads to the Menhir are archived so that you can look back in time and review the activity of the School as it unfolded in previous months.
7. The SHELTERED GROVE Where Members Gather (17, 18)
Here is where the Maine Professor confers with the staff of student-teachers who support the School materially, morally, and creatively. 17 The Terma and the Terton covers topics of intimate concern to those committed to practice and propagate Planetary Tantra. In 18 Breaking Nous members receive monthly updates on current events relevant to the Sophianic vision of life, a timeline of celestial omens, and exclusive reports on a variety of Gnostic workpoints. This grove also includes the Members Forum (Treehouse). Contributing members can also use the forums dedicated to each of the 12 Courses.
THE SHRINE
Traditional Hindu shrine representing the union of Shiva (lingam) and Shakti (yoni), a powerful dyadic icon. All the material in Nemeta uses the syntax of duality consistent with Mayavada Vedanta. The dyad is not a unity of oneness, it is the union or coupling of two principles.
In the center of the seven Groves is the shrine dedicated to the master narrative of the Mysteries, the Fallen Goddess Scenario. In continual development since 2002, this is a sacred myth — meaning, it is a both a story of goddess power (Shakti), the biography of the living earth, and a guide to sharing that power. Originally presented in 9 episodes, the FGS is currently undergoing expansion to 18 episodes, FGS 1.18.
Added September 11th 2024: Link to free talks on the Playlist DOG ZEN on John Lamb Lash YT: URL
