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 on Planetary Tantra can be found here in Archives.

When metahistory.org migrated to Nemeta in 2018, I left the PT material on that site where it can still be found in the original versions. Reviewing that former platform recently, I was struck by the length and depth of some of the writings (circa 2008) on the Tantric Conversion. Astonished would perhaps be a better term. The essays that reference Long Chen Pa are especially dazzling. With eyes on that material, I can follow it and more or less remember how I composed it, but I could not by a long shot repeat that performance today.

Bear in mind that from August 2008 into spring of 2009, I was continually in a manic state. Most of the Yeats Conversions were written in that interval. The break came in March 2009 when I parted ways with the Shakti OTM of the Terma, Jeanne Kenney. The scholarship that went into the Tantric Conversion was the result of years of study and free-form experimentation based on what I found in source materials of Vajrayana, especially in Long Chen Pa and Jigme Lingpa. Sure enough, but the momentum behind those writings came from the impact of the Terma. I was surfing in the tunnel of a momentous wave of euphoric lucidity. No doubt, also — in my so-called mind, at least — the momentum was fed by downloading the mind mandate transmission I received from the audience with Dudjom Rinpoche around 1987 in Santa Fe.

Fine, all that is said and done. It is part of the legacy now. In review, as I look at the original PT banner (above), I still wonder about using the word magic. Recently, I discovered an astronomer who worked for 40 years at an observatory in Germany, Andrea di Domenico. In her long docu-vid on The Star of Bethlehem, there is a long passage on the Magi. See The Star of Bethlehem 2: The Wise Men From the East.

Stargazer relies on Biblical sources for historical and textual context, but she does not promote the Jewish-scripted narrative. The handwritten document from the Codex Vaticanus dates to 350 CE. Remarkably, this within a few decades of the dating of the NHC. You see the New Testament written in upper case Greek. Note that the Greek letter sigma, the S, occurs as C in these documents. At 7m she isolates the word MAGOI with the G written at an upside down L. This is first reference in the Biblical texts where the Magians come into view.

The following passage on the identity of the “three wise men” is elaborate, finely detailed, and closely documented. Outstanding points:

astronomical knowledge of the Magi.
magios: sorcerer, magician.
Trilingual inscription of Darius, 500 BC, first occurrence.
The “three kings” is a later Jewish interpolation, introduced in the 1oth century.
Earliest depictions with the Phrygian caps, signature of the Persian master class.
Pagan astrologers, magicians, soothsayers — the adepts of PT today.
relics of the Magi in Cologne cathedral? I have always been strangely attracted to that site, whereas as churches and cathedrals generally repulse me.
Luther: Magi are soothsayers, “learned and experienced people with a knowledge of nature, naturalists and priests”!
a tribe or caste of priests from Media in Iran.
negative connotations, i.e., early slandering of the Gnostics, fear of sorcery, suspected of witchcraft.
She calls them “natural scholars,” negatively reputed as “the epitome of sorcery, magician.”
Zoroastrianism is a splinter cult that dissented from the Magian worldview into cosmic duality which accorded well with the Jewish mythogen, who adopted it.
East Iranian highlands.
the winged figure symbolizes the “human spirit”, i.e, Faravahar. Oddly, that would be a synoptic view of the human species as the progeny of Zoe/Eros, the flame-born daughter of Sophia who confers the warmth of the blood to the human animal. The name for the Anthropos in Avestan writings is Gayomart.
Babylonian star knowledge, long before the Medes and Parthians.
Babylon conquered by the Persian king Cyrus in 539 BCE, midpoint of Kali Yuga.
Medes left no written sources: Magian knowledge was transmitted orally.
Hammurabi, same date at Abraham, 1800 BCE.
Sun, Moon, and Venus, the three astral gods of the Babylonian sky.
“A deed that cannot be admired enough.” The Babylonians transferred their gods to the sky and thereby rendered their actions predictable. Thus the Magi were able to predict the “star” (triple Jupiter-Saturn conjunction in the Fishes), long in advance. I reckon they tracked it from as early at 184 BCE when that series of conjunctions, moving at 60 year intervals, crossed the boundary from Manitu/Enki into the Fishes @ 348 ECL. The follow-up events of triple conjunctions in the Fishes occurred in 968 AD (transmission of the Grail) and again in 1821 (Romantic movement). She notes the triple conjunctions of Jupiter and Saturn are rare and anomalous. Only 20 have occurred since 1000 BCE. In 3000 years, there are 150 great conjunctions.
Marduk :: Jupiter, regarded by the Magians as the celestial instructor.
‘The study of the celestial bodies was the highest form of religious practice,” supplanted today by PT.
Cuneiform script: dating back to 2000 BC. 25,000 tablets from Ninevah, Sargon, 2800 BCE. VP in the BULL near Aldebaran.
Babylonians invented the Zodiac.
“The Babylonian [Magians] developed a calculating astronomy” — Celestics, forensic astronomy today!
They observed Marduk from the ziggarat : we follow Jupiter as the instructor of Correction.
Jews lack any connection to the stars, but they are hard-wired into the Archontic planetary stereoma which they falsely represent in their rip off of the Mysteries, the Kabala and Zohar
Jews prohibited to practice astrology, but they do it in their own way, deviantly. For instance, they see Jupiter/Marduk as Zaddik, the signature of transhuman entitlement in their mythogen.
“King of the Jews” was an insult used by Roman authorities against the Zealots.
Parthians ruled 1st C BCE – 2 CE, at the turn of the Piscean Age and dawn of the pandemic of salvationism. They opposed Rome where Christianity became the state religion.
Magi left from Ecbatana in Eastern Iran to Palestine.
Palmyra in Syria was a Magian stronghold like Damascus, both attacked in the war against Syria. Muslim fanatics destroyed the temple and sculptures there.
At Petra, the Nabatteans were close allies to the Magians.

I conclude that “magic” can pass in the original definition of PT although we know it today as autogenics rather than magic. PT is not merely the outgrowth of the Terma of Gaia Awakening. It is also the update and revision of the legacy of the Magian Order of sorcerers, soothsayers, astrologers, astronomers, and natural philosophers. That would be you, today. I rest my case.

§ Added July 13, 2025 Galicia

The text below is the original landing page for Planetary Tantra.

Essentials of Planetary Tantra

Planetary Tantra (PT) is a practice proposed by the Maine Professor, JLL, sixteen years ago. Although the scope of PT is vast and its foundations are deep, the essential practice is simple and user-friendly. Initially defined (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 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.

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.

SUMMARY

As explained in the first talk, everything you find in Nemeta is based on four factors, like the four cornerstones of a monument:

The Primacy of Self-Love: An essential teaching that provides a new answer to the debate over human goodness. Is it innate to everyone? This topic leads into the distinction between genuine self-love and the three pernicious variants of narcissism, the religious, solipsistic, and social.
The Origin Myth: The Fallen Goddess scenario is the master narrative of Planetary Tantra. It supports and frames everything else in the Nemeta. You will find an introduction on sophianicmyth.org. This site provides a way to receive the nine episodes by email every five days. (Bear in mind that the FGS is currently in revision toward its final version. Some aspects of the story and some events in the narrative are not quite as you find them in those episodes.)
Basic Practices of PT: Registered guests can participate in The Rookie Room forum which is dedicated to discussing PT and related issues, and read the PT Forum (Archived).

The Restoration of the Humanities: Traditionally defined in academic terms (from the Encyclopedia Brittanica), the humanities are “those branches of knowledge that concern themselves with human beings and their culture or with analytic and critical methods of inquiry derived from an appreciation of human values and of the unique ability of the human spirit to express itself. As a group of educational disciplines, the humanities are distinguished in content and method from the physical and biological sciences and, somewhat less decisively, from the social sciences. The humanities include the study of all languages and literature, the arts, history, and philosophy.”

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