16 Planetary Tantra

Brave Seeker, recognize and claim
the dreaming power that brings you here!

Gotta make your own rules, child
Gotta break your own chains
The dreams that possess you
Can blossom and bless you
Or run you insane

The Hawk Written by Kris Kristofferson, sung by Richie Havens

With the upgrade to Nemeta 3.0, all content previously in 16 Planetary Tantra can be found here in, Archives.

Original banner for PT on metahistory.org (2008)

This course landing page, accessible to anyone who comes across it, introduces Planetary Tantra. Only contributing members can access the unit lessons in the curriculum panel below. However, subscribers to Nemeta can go here: Visitors, where you’ll have access to everything one needs to know to practice PT. Upon the release of PT I stated that PT is open source content, free to anyone. That is still the case, albeit with some modifications and restricted access to some of the more esoteric background to PT.

Human Singularity

Planetary Tantra (PT) is a practice proposed by the Maine Professor, JLL, in 2009, sixteen years ago. Although the scope of PT is vast and its foundations are deep, the essential practice is simple and user-friendly. This practice is non-ritualistic and autogenic. Initially defined (on metahistory.org, 2008) as “interactive magic with Gaia,” PT can also be described a biofeedback technique for connecting to the mother planet, given that the planet is understood and appreciated to be a living physical entity identical to the superorganism defined in the Gaia Hypothesis of Lovelock and Margulis is the 1970s. The deep background of PT is the legacy of the Gnostic movement and the Mystery Schools of antiquity. That legacy (restored and upgraded in Not in His Image) identifies the divine presence embodied in the mother planet as the Wisdom Goddess, Sophia. Hence the honorific title, Gaia-Sophia.

PT relies on the account of ritual practices in the Pagan Mysteries, described at length in Not in His Image. That book was published in November 2006, 28 months before PT was released on metahisory.org. It presented the legacy nine-episode version of the Fallen Goddess Scenario which is the narrative frame for PT (more on that topic below). The telestai of the Mysteries practiced a version of PT in their own time and setting. The Terma of Gaia Awakening (8/8/08) was the prompt for a makeover and upscaling of their method, of “Instruction by the Light.”

Gnosis is cognitive ecstasy. It is the technique of learning from Sophia and acquiring privileged knowledge of “divine matters.” Gnostics considered the serpent in the Garden of Eden to be an ally and instructor for humanity, not a malicious tempter who lead the primal parents to disobey the father god, Yahweh — the story according to Jewish legend. The secret of the Mysteries revealed in Not in His Image is a simple and singular assertion: Earth is a radiant body. In divine mathesis, “Instruction by the Light,” Gnostics encountered this radiance and interacted with it. Telestic shamanism is the technique of entering an ecstatic trance by the ingestion of a potion of entheogenic plants. The plant-teachers are emissaries who allow the initiate to witness the field of telluric radiance, the Organic Light. Beholding the OL can also occur in ordinary awareness, but it is rare. The telestic method enables routine and deliberate access to the OL.

Approaching PT, it is imperative to grasp that telestic shamanism is not required for the practice. It is an elite and rigorous discipline, and not for the feint of heart. The purpose of PT is bonding and attunement to the living earth, affectionately called PAM, short for “planetary animal mother.” The Mother is Other. Sophia is not human, she is a superhuman entity on a galactic scale. The FGS is an astronomical myth. PT is designed for those who are disposed to recognize the mother source in nature. The Tragedy of the Mother explains how this disposition is lacking in many people today. That is the tragedy of the human species due to the destruction of the Mysteries.

PT affords access to the intelligence of the mother planet without resorting to telestic shamanism. This practice is autogenic, the original term for what is called biofeedback. The source materials in the Greek/Coptic Codices from Nag Hammadi contain two words that signal the purpose of PT which is the makeover and upscaling of sacred ritual of the Mysteries. These words in Greek are:

autogenes: self-generating. Note that it is the basis of autogenic, hence the fundamental premise of biofeedback between the human animal and the source of life, Gaia-Sophia.

monogenes: usually translated “only-begotten.” More correctly, it means singularity.

In theory, PT assumes that the Universe is autogenetic. It self-generates from a primal source called PI-OT, the Originator, also called the Presence. The single and supreme Originator is the source of the multiple Aeons, the Generators. The Aeon Sophia is a Generator and the FGS is her biography. Autogenesis — called autopoesis in the Gaia Hypothesis — is scalar, meaning that it operates in exactly the same way at different scales, in different frames of awareness. Recently, autogenetics has come to definition in the paradigm of complexity theory which assumes that nature is not a finished “creation” that runs on static laws, but a perpetually emergent event. The human animal on earth is situated in this matrix of emergence. This is the Parinama or mechanism of cosmic projection.

That being so, there resides in the human animal a capacity to act as monogenes, a singularity. This capacity is not present in all human beings, however. PT is the opportunity to discover if you can be a singularity. Consistent with the FGS, this practice assumes that the biosphere of Earth is the setting for a divine experiment. The human singularity emerges in those individuals who realize that they are in a divine experiment, know how it was set up, know who designed the human genome, recognize the presence of the Aeon Sophia in nature, and can act on that knowledge.

Complexity theory asserts that turbulence is not chaos or disorder. Rather, it is the evidence of emergence in predictable patterns that allow exception from those patterns: that is singularity. This is true in the order of nature, and in another way, in the social order uniquely created by human animals in the divine experiment. If this is a correct notion, it begs the question, How does a singularity occur in the human-made social order (culture)? The answer is simple: It happens when an individual makes the choice to ground their life in the the immediate source of life, the living planet. PT is nothing more than a set of tools for grounding and bonding your life-force autogenically into the telluric matrix that is saturated by the presence of the Wisdom Goddess, Sophia. You seal you life into the sacred power of mother earth. In that way, you become a singularity in the social order.

Geode kiss of the planetary animal mother, PAM
PT is like a lover’s pact, “sealed with a kiss”

The Basic Practices

The practice of PT includes, first and foremost, learning the Fallen Goddess Scenario. See Sophia*. As noted above, this is the narrative frame of PT practice. Course 5 Metacritique explains that humans are story-telling animals. They behave as they believe and all beliefs are carried, or encoded, in narratives. There is no exception to this rule, but the FGS is an exceptional case. How so? It does not encode beliefs. Instead, it frames the discipline of Gnosis and sets the course for an adventure of discovery, enlightenment, and empowerment unlike any other. In Gnosis, you know and confirm what you know by evidence and experimentation. You do not have to believe the FGS because, unlike a belief-system which is non-falsifiable, you can test its veracity in the circumstances of your own life, actionally and existentially. Gnosis is the alternative to all religions. Nemeta is an educational program for this alternative.

On that basis, there are four other exercises in the practice:

The Gaian Tantric Vow
Follow the lunar cycles or Dakini Shifts
Use the Shakti Cluster app
Learn applied noetics

The order given here is a good way to proceed, although the practice is not linear or hierarchal with one step depending on the next. They all cohere in dynamic unity so that the practice of one exercise, whenever you do it, or how many times you do it, enhances the other practices. The FGS comes first because it is the narrative frame for PT and to practice interactive magic (autogenics) with the Mother Source, you have to know her story. Next comes the Gaian Tantric Vow which you can perform alone or with another person, or others.

1. The Gaian Tantric Vow

This is the only exercise in PT with a quasi-ritualistic look, including the option of cording. Meditation, mantras, ritual acts and recitations are entirely absent from PT. There is no hierarchy or authoritarian dogma.

Here is the text of the Gaian Tantric Vow:

Gaian Tantra Vow Text

To perform the Vow, you read the text aloud (using “I” or “we”) and after the closing line, “To You we pronounce this vow,” you then read silently or recite from memory, but do not speak aloud, a concise statement for your Vow that you have composed to state your personal commitment to bond with the Mother Source, Gaia-Sophia. Do not use the words serve, or service or sacrifice in your Vow. The Vow seals an act of consecration — preferable to the word “empowerment” minus its new age narcissistic connotations. Consecration means power-sharing. With this Vow, you declare your intention to hold the power of the Aeonic Mother in your own power. It makes you a Shakta, one who holds the power of Shakti, the divine telluric ground force.

Simply state your intention to bond with Gaia-Sophia and handle her power in the most direct way you can. Express, if you can, how you intend to consecrate your life to the designs and purposes of the Earth Mother. You can revise and repeat the Vow more than once, and alter it as you see fit.

Once you have pronounced (in sub-vocal language) your Vow, prick your thumb with a thorn, let it bleed, and press it into the ground. This is an act of iron-bonding with the earth, and completes the exercise.

Optionally, you may perform a cording within the enactment of the Vow. Look at the examples here: Cording: A Gaian Tantric Rite . I strongly advise to do the GTV first with no cording, then go on to learn how to do a cording, if it pleases you.

Jeanne’s cording (August 2008) at the grove of Ava Gardner Oaks, Gaucin, Andalucia, Spain

Original Introductory Talk on the Gaian Tantric Vow

2. Follow the lunar cycles of Dakini Shifts

The Gnostic source materials tell us that Sophia herself, upon turning into the earth, set the Zodiac in the sky. It is something like a cosmic memory bank displayed in a sequence of mythic images, the tableaux of visible constellations. The Zodiac also provides a guidance system for human singularities living in the divine experiment. The exercise of Skywatching (see: 11 Skywatching) is an accessory to PT. If you cannot easily or frequently observe the night sky, use Stellarium for this part of the practice, but do not rely on IT simulation to interact with the celestial panorama once you have familiarized yourself with the real-sky constellations. Do not allow it to become a crutch.

“The Tantric Conversion” released in January 2009 correlates the thirteen principal constellations (not the starless astrological signs!! as you will learn from reading 11. Skywatching landing page) to the modalities of the Shakti Cluster. You track the frequencies of Sophia’s telluric-atmospheric field in linear time based on observation of the lunar cycles of 28-29 days. Fifteen dots on the Shakti Cluster icon identify distinct frequencies in the full-spectrum field of telluric forces of the Earth Mother. 18 is the ground frequency (zero Hertz) of the Wisdom Goddess, 17 is the lightning-rod vibration that protects the SC from interference or distortion, and 16 is the log-on frequency for all users, called the telecom.

The 10 frequencies of the black oval are terrestrial, earth-bound, and the others in the gold-colored florette, 11 – 15, are ambient, atmospherically generated. The remaining three dots, 16, 17, and 18 have special, overriding functions like the config.sys command of a program. The configure the other 15 frequencies can be tracked through the 13 constellations. How come only 13? One constellation, the BULL, carries two coordinated frequencies, Tara and Bhudevi, one Mahavidya, Dhumavati, has no specific constellation. She is called the Floater, the Sweeper, the Gitana, Our lady of Grief.

Needless to say, even this cursory introduction of PT brings up many technicalities including the Hindu-Sanskrit names for the modalities of the SC. I have addressed the issue of encumberment of language in PT elsewhere.

To follow the lunar cycles, you begin by visually observing the first crescent moon in the west after sunset each month. This is the signal for the start of a Dakini Shift when one of the 15 frequencies dominates the field. The most elaborate factor of PT is learning how to notice and receive these frequencies, and that takes time and determination to follow the cycles, month by month, and learn the signatures, themes, memes, and lore of the Devatas of the SC. Devata : radiation, emanation.

To put it fast and simple, you attune to the specific band of intel streaming from Earth by tracking the lunar shifts. The crescent moon is the ping that captures your attention and entrains it to the current Dakini Shift. You look to the sky to detect specific intel and attune yourself to the moods, themes, and incentives of Sophia during each month. Dakini : sky dancer.

The sunset crescent, generally observable on the 2nd or third day after a new moon. It is called the crescent of the right hand because it resembles the shaped formed by the thumb and index finger of the right hand when you hook the finger. The first sighting of the crescent is the optical signal that imprints your neuro-linguistic circuit with the frequency of the shift.

3. Using the Shakti Cluster App

Learning to use the app comes out of 3, tracking the Dakini shifts. How to do so is not written in an inclusive and comprehensive way in the material for PT. It is distributed in many different places in the units below. I will not elaborate here except to emphasize that the Shakti Cluster is the hands-on tool for PT. It actually functions an app of the kind you would upload to a smartphone and use in your hand. The buttons are similar to icons on a touch screen that would press to access different functions or programs installed in the device.

4. Learn Applied Noetics

I propose that Gnosticism is the study of a lost tradition of spirituality and as such, it is a scholarly undertaking. Gnosis today is another matter. The application and upscaling of what can be found in the Gnostic Greek/Coptic source materials is applied noetics. This is the study of how to use your mind in the way it is designed to work. Mind is the instrument of your intelligence. If you do not know how your mind works, you cannot use it correctly, consistently, or with clear purpose; hence, you cannot benefit optimally from your own intelligence. Dog Zen presents the distillation of applied noetics. It is accessory to PT for obvious reasons, but it also stands alone. You can learn applied noetics on its own terms, independent from the other 4 features of PT.

Planetary Tantra is real-time, in-life experimental program derived from, The Terma of Gaia Awakening. In effect, it is the delivery system for the Terma. At noted at the top of this unit, you can go to VISITORS and scroll down to the block titled Portal to Planetary Tantra to access free material on the theory and practice of PT,

“Some days I don’t know whether to laugh or cry. So I do both at the same time. ” JLL

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