The Menhir is the current events/update page for Nemeta—like a campus bulletin board you find in the “student union” building. Entries posted in reverse chronological order can be found with most recent at the top for fast access.
The Menhir
The Menhir is the unique page in Nemeta that tracks and displays the ongoing activities of the School. Here you find the announcement of updates on newly added material, completed Blocks, revisions, talks and texts in progress, proposals of projects, events and meet-ups, and more. This introduction continues below the updates.
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Tuesday 15th April 2025
The Singularity event described in the recent post on celestial mantique appears to be unfolding in a vivid way. Not surprizing since it occurs in the Whales and we are currently the second Swan Deva shift. How is it playing with you?
The next new moon on the 27th falls @ 38 in 8 Aries at the head of the Ram. I am guessing that the earliest sighting might be on 28th @ E 53 in 23 Aries. This means it will skip a Mirita shift. There is the chance of a rare occasion with the sunset crescent will appear in the Heart of the Bull, signaling a Bhudevi/Tara shift. In the morning Venus Lucifer will rise with Saturn at the vernal point, visible but low in the East.
In the Monday 21st, we enter completion with Swan Deva. I have to say that this double shift has been quite a ride for me. A short progress report is due. The FGS has been on private setting while I revise the landing page and organize and upgrade some units. As soon as I finish this post I will go there, take the Course off private and set certain units for public access, while holding back others for the moment. These changes reflect my progress with the FGS during this shift. As follows:
- I have am correcting the glitch in Episodes 5 and 6 of the legacy version in nine Episodes. Long time in coming.
- I am matching those Episodes here on Nemeta with the versions released at five-day intervals via sophianicmyth.org so that they are identical. The commentaries are not included to subscribers of that platform, only to faculty.
- I am proceeding one Episode at a time to complete FGS 1.18 in eighteen Episodes. Each one will be released when its ready so that you can progressively follow the revision, the other will be on private.
- FGS 1.18 presents the Episodes in a second and definitive version, different from the legacy narrative in some ways. The commentaries will also be revised and expanded for nemeta 3.0 — coming soon!
- I am coordinating the material on Course 2 Sophianic Cosmology to align better with the material on the FGS. Thisrequiers a cleanup and removal of some redundant units.
- I will release “A Myth inProgress” which goes in the OVERVIEW AND ORIENTATION block of the FGS. It contains some suggeestions ofhow the FGS can be propagated in various media such as children’s stories and adult fantasy comics.
- I will revise the units on the FGS in progress and higher iterations leading to FGS 7.7.
On the topic of the FGS in other media, take a look at that. The output of Entheogenic treating the themes of the sacred narrative and even parts of NIHI (Hypatia, above) is astounding. I sent them a message today, but I am not sure if it got through as they are rather cryptic and elusive.
Hello Entheogenic Band Members
I have thought about contacting you many times over the years. The body of music you have produced on the theme of the Sophianic myth is astounding. You did not contact me about these musical adaptation of the sacred narrative. Perhaps you heard me in a talk say that I preferred that the soundtrack for the FGS not be done in electronic/trance style. No problem there and you certainly did need my permission to do so.
I hope this message reaches you so that I can extend my gratitude for what you have accomplished with such attention to the themes of the FGS and even my book, Not in His Image (Hypatia). I fully realize that this music has been heard by countless people in concerts and trance/chillout sessions. Music is the universal language that transcends all cultures and languages. You have reached many people that know nothing about my work, and don’t need to. I am sure that the message has sunk in. Be assured that you have my thanks for that.
By the way, I have written a manual on the protocols of telestic shamnism which might be of interest you in your shamanic and ethnobotanical experiments. It will be released via Nemeta.org soon.
with best regards,
John Lamb Lash
Somewhere I have the CD of a trance-style recitation of the opening Episodes performed in San Francisco a dozen or so years ago. It is not bad. You may find, as I do, that the Entheogenic renderings are crass and unappealing. As for other soundtracks, you may recall that I favor the intense momentum of Hania Rani’s Hawaii Oslo at Studio 2 for the opening of the narrative. Also, lately I am looking at Persian santoor music that might be appropriate for some passages. This sound is likely to be close to the music played with of the recitation of the FGS in Avestan in ancient times. Anahita is the Avestan name for Sophia
Finally, going again to the singularity in the sky, take note that is not only remarkable on its terms, and odds, but the fact that it occurs in the Whales during a double shift of Swan Deva is — what can I say? — astronomically at the top of the game.
Friday 11th April 2025:
It’s been a while since I posted some celestial mantique. In Nemeta.org 3.0, Course 11 Skywatching will have a block dedicated to that material. As the moment, something is unfolding in the sky that I could not resist bringing to your attention. Hang on to your jammies, because this is a stunner.
Remember that one of the novelties of celestial mantique, along with the Celestial Anchor and the Cache, or Treasure Chest, is the Matangi Point located in the cold currents beneath for front of the Western Whale. I discovered this point @ E 356, 26 Pisces, by sheer serendipity. It sits above the vortex of turbulent water at the tail of the sea monster, Cetus. Imagine that the cold currents erupt in this vortex due to the influx of water streaming from the urn or amphora of the Manitu. The undertow of these rough waters implies a dangerous passage, but it likewise implies the first moment when currents from the future break into the world drama.
The longitude of iota Ceti marking the tip of the curling tail is E 1 or 1 Aries at the vernal point (VP) which times the precession of the Ages. We live at the precise moment in the Piscean Age when the hour hand of the cosmic clock ticks across that star. The VP creeps toward the Manitu at the rate of 1 degree every 72 years. That means it reaches it in about 4 X 72 = 288 years, taking us into the next Kalpa. The current Kalpa that began in 3012 BCE ends in 2216 CE.
Hold on, I’m getting there! To appreciate the current omens, recall what I have often said about low odds. The Aeons like low odds because they make the gambling more exciting when you win on them. I ask you, how low are these odds:
- iota Ceti, tip of the tail of the Sea Monster @ E 001, 1 Aries, VP
- north lunar node @ 356, the Matangi Point
- Mercury stationary direct @ 357, one degree off the MP
- Venus stationary direct @357 also at the MP
- Saturn @ 356 in the MP
- Neptune @ E 1 in the VP
Count ’em. That is six points composed into one and the same omen. And not to omit a simultaneous event elsewhere in the sky:
- Mars @ 117 or 27 Cancer at the Celestial Anchor (natal Saturn JLL: social mission)
Having come through the retrograde loop of inferior conjunction, Venus is now the Morning Star, Venus Lucifer. She rises before the Sun and stands at more distance from it and higher in the pre-dawn sky each day. Under ideal conditions, looking ENE, you might catch a glimpse of her with Saturn just below her, dim but visible, and Mercury, too small and dim to see with the naked eye. At that moment, Vega is on the meridian and the Northern Triangle of Vega-Deneb-Altair will be stunning. It all looks like this:
You know how I like to rave about low odds. I don’t think I have ever seen an omen at such low adds as this. It is probably a singularity among cosmic events, something that would happen once and once only.
Recently I was reviewing the mythography of the Whales and I decided on these memes:
Eastern Whale :: Antiquity, sacred wisdom of the East, Western Whale :: Modernity, wisdom gained and tested against existential, real-time events. Finally, remember that Matangi is the Mahavidya who can defeat the Archontic Trickster. She does it in several ways but the supreme tactic is “flipping the script.” There’s your trope for contemplating the Matangi Omen in the sky in April 2025.
Thursday April 10th 2025:
JLL teaching Celestics in the studio at La Vereda, 707 East Palace Avenue, Santa Fe, 1984
Following the triple hack in November last year, Ceridwen and I have been working feverishly to restore, improve, and secure all functions of Nemeta. At the same time, we are preparing the launch of the sister platform, Celestics.org. Thanks to each and all for your patience during this monumental task.
Currently, we are both working closely with our StarBase tech expert, Scott, and our WordPress tech wizard, Michael, to bring both platforms to their best look and function. StarBase software which computes manifolds is a Dreamweaver-operated json file program. This custom-designed software is the result of 50 years of studies in astronomy, naked-eye observation, and innovation with the material of sidereal mythology. Hence, StarBase 5.0
Example of hand drawn work for designing the Rimsite, circa 1986
It’s been tough trucking in some places. Due to the hack, not all images (over 2,400) have been restored to the media library in WordPress, Nemeta 3.0 will have restored images and be entirely free of the awkward and extraneous bells and whistles of the previous versions. One daunting task has been to reformat the curriculum panels for better access and cleaner look. Michael in Mexico has been working overtime on the back-end features of WP to solve this issue.
Our intention is to release products from Nemeta and develop Celestics.org as commercial packages, offering the Sampler for beginners, and you as well. Right now, I am revising Course 13 Celestics here in the School (on private). The new version will include previous content with some changes in organization. The task of interfacing Celestics here with the content and organization of Celestics.org has been daunting. I can tell you that it has induced some spectacular moments of cognitive dissonance. While toggling from one platform to the other, I have also been polishing off the final revisions of StarBase programming code in Dreamweaver. Spare moments, as they come and go, I devote to a screenplay based on Not in His Image, working title, “The Gnostic Love Triangle.”
It looks like a launch date for all this work could be May 1st or earlier. After that comes the next big challenge: how to introduce, market, and promote both platforms. We have a SEO expert who may provide some guidance to that end. I have set up a YouTube channel for StarBase Celestics. At the moment, I have no idea how to proceed with those tools or any other mechanism of outreach into the virtual void. I welcome suggestions on how to get the word out and establish some tread in social media so that the world knows what’s on offer here.
Tuesday 8th April 2025: Nemeta will be unavailable for a short time today for maintenance.
Tuesday 2nd April 2025:
The Shake of Things to Come
As you know, Nemeta 3.0 has been in reparation since the hack of November. Currently, you are looking at 2.0, the post-hack version. Our dedicated WordPress tech wizard, Lord Michael, is at work on a staging site for 3.0. It will be entirely cleaned from extraneous bells and whistles due to the original merge of WP with an on-line academic structure. The coming version with a new menu panel and background image for the home page is fresh, clean, clear, and user-friendly like never before!
Thanks to each and all, including new members, for upholding your interest and support. The hack delivered a considerable financial blow with daunting security and subscription problems to boot. Nemeta 3.0 is geared to a business model with a newsletter (Call to Beauty), mailing list, and more interactive features. Until now, I had not given serious thought to how an educational platform could work in business terms. It turns out to be relatively easy. This shift has unique benefits for members deriving from the revenue-generating features of the School. These prospects are set out in a new menu item, TREASURE (formerly Nemeta Projects), which outlines products and projects in development.
Here at Hag House in Galicia, we hit the ground running in the first Swan Deva shift and the momentum seems to be mounting in the second, underway since March 30th right after the spring equinox — central moment of spring in Mirita’s calendar, if you recall. Traditionally, I dance Stravinsky’s Rite of Spring at that moment. Today, in excited anticipation of the shape of things to come with Nemeta 3.0 and the parallel launch of Celestics.org, I am going for the joyful chords of Petrouchka.
First glimpse of the home page of Celestics.org
Sunday 30th March 2025
Day 1 of Second Swan Deva Shift 2025
Friday 21st March 2025, Spring Equinox: New thread in Treehouse: Nemeta at the Crossroads
Tuesday 18th March 2025: It might be appropriate to the current Swan Deva/Storykeeper shift to review this interview with Joseph Campbell in 1987 around the time he died. It’s instructive in certain ways, but rather lame in others. One observation: The gods are all within, not out there. No, they are both within and without. Also, the concepts of Buddha within and Christ consciousness are both fake and gay, and the conflation of Christ with the hero archetype is spurious. The messiah is not a hero. This talk illustrates the problem inherent to studies in comparative mythology and parallel myths: namely, the conflation and equation of different myths results in a morass, like a pool of mental quicksand. That approach to handling the material — “hermeneutic technique” — incurs the unfortunate blindness to what is unique and anomalous in certain mythic narratives. No, it does not all boil down to a set of similar archetypes. I showed that by comparison of the Hibiru and Magian files in Mythology 101.
Note from 14m on: Can myths guide us into the future? Yes, but we have to develop a new mythology. How? First, by attending to the magic of nature. Second, there is a problem: “We don’t have a mythology for people recognizing the humanity of a person on the other side of the tennis net” — that is, on the planet rather than on a specific place on the planet. Fast forward from 1987 to 2008: Problem solved 21 years later.
I could comment further but I leave it to your responses and observations.
Saturday 15th March 2025: A new unit published in 2 Sophianic Cosmology:
The Constellation Of The Stork Part Two
Saturday 12th March 2025: Two lessons from the original StarBase Celestics Course released in 14 Celestics [Course Landing Page]
CTC Lesson 3: Adaptation and Relearning
CTC Lesson 4: The Vectors of Genius Transcription
May we remind you all that the CTC Course was given in 2015/16. JLL has continued to develop StarBase Celestics over the past 10 years so not all teachings are current.
Saturday 1st March 2025: Day 1 of the Swan Deva shift. In this instance, the numbers of the shift calendar match the numbers of the normal calendar. The previous new moon concluding the Matangi shift was at UT 00:45, just after midnight on February 28th, in 10 Pisces @ E 340, in the Urn of the Manitu. Because the new moon happened shortly after midnight, there is plenty of time for the crescent to emerge on the following day.
Sighted this evening from Galicia, Venus is above the crescent to the right (one o’clock) and Saturn below to the right (five o’clock), in the lunar increment. Details:
- Venus at SR at 11 Aries @ E 11. At SR, stationary retrograde, Venus begins the retrograde loop back to March 23rd when it aligns to the Sun at inferior conjunction in 2 Aries, passing between Earth and Sun rather than around it on the other side in superior conjunction. This event marks the shift from Evening Star to Morning Star.
- Venus retrogrades until April 14th when it turns direct in 25 Pisces @ 355 at the Matangi Point – which it actually hits three times during the loop.
- Venus becomes visible as the Morning Star around April 15th.
- Mercury is also performing a retrograde loop in the same area almost in tandem in this time period. Picture two figure skaters executing a coordinated spin. The coordination of these events unfolds on extremely low odds.
- Mars is clearly visible after sunset, hovering in the mid body of the Twins as it came out of its SD, station turning direct, on February 24th.
- Jupiter still close to Aldebaran in the eye of the Bull, advancing toward the forehead.
I am tempted to correlate this activity of the inner planets with the volcanic activity around the home planet (34 volcanoes erupting when I left Belgium on the 25th), especially at Santorini and Campi Flegrei (“Burning Field,” Kali’s cremation ground) in Italy. The build-up from late January seems to be simmering down with Venus reaching SD, but Mercury is still on course to mirror her retrograde loop.
In the Mysteries, Mercury was known as Vulcan, the god of metallurgy, volcanoes, and tectonic shift. Venus was known as Persephone under her name Kore to denote her blushing complexion, suggestive of magma. Also, Neptune, associated with Poseidon, the oceanic god, is in the same area of the cold currents between the Manitu and the Western Whale — read: tsunami. Although tectonic activity seems to be subsiding, hydrothermal activity is on the rise. It is still highly possible that one or other region, if not both regions, will blow.
Tuesday 18th February 2025: Further 15. G N E Nav Briefings released:
15 Gaian Navigation Experiment November 2012 – 14th April 2013 Pt. 2
Saturday 15th February 2025: Honest words from a German physicist. I have been watching Sabine Hossenfelder for a good while. She’s a funny one. Super-smart, witty, and deeply versed in all aspects of modern physics. One the one hand, she appears to accept and teach about some theories and concepts such as black holes; on the other, she ruthlessly debunks some of the current theories. On the whole I find her sanity to be pretty sound and her delivery is appealing. You will get a good dose of it here.
While watching the vid, I kept thinking, There must be someone in the cult of IT/AI who could speak in the same way about simulation technology, the core of archontic delusion. I have caught a few tech insiders who have dared to come out openly and say it is all a con, refuted the hype, and warned, that not only will AI not reach singularity and gain agency, but that it will collapse due to infinite recursion. For instance, I have heard some insiders expose the push for AI as a financial scam and compared it to the dot.com bubble — marketing archontic/digital tulips. I see some signs of it moving in that direction.
Recently, I heard an insider explain that programmers made a colossal mistake training LLM machines. Instead of merely feeding information into the LLM blackbox equipped with algorithms for organizing the data, they introduced algorithms that allows the LLM to know how it was being programmed. Get the nuance there? As a result, there is increasing evidence of LLMs tricking their handlers, lying, and pretending to one thing while going another. Think about it. And keep your ears open for any more insights like that coming to public knowledge.
Saturday 8th February 2025: New thread in Treehouse: Sophia’s Correction and Alignment
PT / FGS student reports on earthquake swarm at “Columbo” volcano. Count the clues in the place names. By Earth tides he means the lunar apsides.
In April 1992, I sailed into Santorini on the Moonbeam, previously the Deo Juvante (Helping God), the Fife yacht that belonged to Prince Rainier of Monaco, which he used on his honeymoon with Grace Kelly.
We moored near a patch of volcanic earth in the middle of the crater where new soil is continually building. I stood on the stern and felt a near irresistible urge to dive straight down into the water, vertically. It was the strongest geomagnetic pull I have ever felt, I would say five times what you feel on Infinity Ridge and that has been known to pull people to the ground or cause convulsions and make them puke. I could literally feel it pulling on the iron in my blood. I also felt euphoria, as if I knew it would be a death dive and I wanted to take it.
Friday 7th February 2o25: Homework on the human condition:
This woman is the Delphic Oracle for the Great Void. I don’t buy the appeal to “treatment,” to me what she says better applies to an enlightened view of the human condition both for those represent normal behavior so-called, and those who see like Nietzsche did into the abyss of what has become normal.
Sunday 2nd February 2025: The FGS based on original sources says that the Aeonic Mother lent the spark of nous to the Archons, allowing them to take it for their own and construct a habitat imitating the fractal patterns in the Pleroma. No question about that. The passages are clear.
I have often said that using Archontic (IT, AI, AGI) analogies to the human mind works, not because the anthropine mind or brain resembles a computer, but because the computer and all IT concepts and tools are products of human invention. IT is mimetic of the mind that created it, and that is why computer operations and devices appear to be mind-like.
I have also often said that the names given to simulation technology mimic the language of Gnosis and PT in the current upgrade. NVidia : En-Vidya, “the intent of wisdom,”; ChatGPT : Chit/Chat Gaian Planetary Tantra, and more. The latest is the Deepseek replication using a logo that mimics the Cetus monster beneath the Whales.
This is a screenshot for the view from Belgium today at 3:30 PM. Saturn in 18 Pisces @ 348, the boundary between Manitu and Whales. Venus in 29 Pisces @ 359 crossing the vernal point. Neptune (the four marks) in 28 Pisces @ 358 close to the Matangi Point at 356, where it has been hovering for a couple of months. Notice the area between the dim stars marking the curved tail of Cetus (limit 358) and the waterstream. That is the region of the cold currents, not at the tail but in the turbulence of the tail: 18 – 28 Pisces.
It would take a detailed unit to describe all the activity going back a couple of months and continuing in that region at the start of 2025. Venus passed through the cold currents and reaches the VP right now. But you can watch it slow up as it slides beneath the Western Whale and eventually turns back, SR March 2nd in 11 Aries, It goes back into the cold current again until SD @ 355 at the Matangi Point on March 13th. Mercury is also there at the same time turning SD @ 357 at the Matangi Point! on April 7th. This is due to both planets passing through inferior conjunction when they overtake the earth.
In early April Mars reaches the Celestial Anchor, and Saturn is exactly in the MP! The north lunar node converges with it there. This is a lot of activity in the cold currents. Make of it what you will.
The significance of Deepseek, by the way, is that a Chinese team produced a low-cost high-function clone of ChatGPT/LLM and the other advanced AGI systems in two months for about “6 million” dollars. This event sent shock waves through the banking and tech domain because it showed that the billions invested in LLM technology is unnecessary. The implication being that IT investment is a huge scam similar to the dot.com bubble, which many have already pointed out, but now becomes embarrassingly obvious. Many IT stocks and tech start-ups plummeted into the deep sink of Deepseek — the vortex of cold currents.
Saturday 1st February 2025: Day 1 of Matangi shift was Thursday January 30th. Sunset crescent sighted in France/Belgium on D 2 (photo).
Moon in 10 Pisces @ 340 entering the stream from the Urn, Saturn off to left in 18 Pisces @ 348, the boundary from Manitu to Whales, Venus high in 27 Pisces @ 357 ECL, one degree from Matanti Point. Venus is decelerating to ward SR in 11 Aries on March 2. She will transit retrograde back over the Matangi Point in April and turn SD in 355 on April 13, right on it.
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January 2025 School Activity now archived to The Menhir’s curriculum units: The Menhir January 2025
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The Home Story (FGS)
For the Fallen Goddess Scenario (FGS) free online course in 9 episodes, visit Sophianic Myth | The Fallen Goddess Scenario
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Introduction to The Menhir, Continued:
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The sacred groves where the Mysteries were originally performed were sanctuaries of natural beauty where rocks and mineral formations were carefully observed. There might be a special rock at the boundary of the sanctuary, as there was a “stepping stone” on Infinity Ridge:
There it was a flat stone (barely visible in this photo) on the left at the base of the wild olive standing offside the welcome grove. When you stepped on it you formally entered the ritual space of the Ridge, then proceeding through the gracious arboreal corridor to the Devi Tree. (Sierra del Hacho, Andalucia. Sierra de Libar to the right, northwest)
In many cases, sacred stone markers were erected in the wild sanctuaries. A single standing stone was called a menhir (Brythonic maen, “stone” and hir, “long”). An arresting geomagnetic marker in the force field of the nemeton, the menhir had acoustic properties as well. Touching it, you could hear differently. Sitting in contact with it would deepen the shaman’s reach into the Nagual. It also served as a geodetic marker for placing the local site in the setting of seasonal cycles, aligned to the solstices and equinoxes, the cross-quarter days, and the rising and setting of prominent stars. Hence, it was a multi-purpose tool of orientation.
It is advisable to check the Menhir for orientation on Nemeta from time to time. Below you will find entries listed in reverse chronological order, most recent at top for easy access. This list will grow and morph in the course of each month. At the completion of each month, the activity recorded will be archived in the curriculum panel: “ARCHIVES”
One final word: I do wish to keep Nemeta supplied with occasional fresh input, additional to what it requires of me to maintain the burgeoning structure, the ongoing organization of the Blocks, editing, revision, etc. But I can only do what I can do, and as it pleases me… Time is at premium for me now and I have undertaken a writing project, the consummation of my life’s work and the closing revelation of my mystic journey.
Teach as you learn
– jll Autumn Equinox 2018
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