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.

Please note: Ensure you are enrolled on the relevant courses to obtain direct access to internal unit links published on The Menhir.

Faculty and guests may have noticed that theme songs have been chosen for some but not all courses. For the School itself, the Maine Professor has chosen THIS ONE.

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LO QUE SALTA

Wednesday 2nd October 2024: Attention faculty and registered guests to a new feature in the School. Some time ago we added a list of forums for each of the 12 Courses, which now appears in the right-hand column of all units. The intention was to encourage comments specific to each Course. After a while I noticed there was no activity and eventually I concluded that this was a good thing. Here’s why.

The mission statement for Nemeta says that this platform is “the on-line portal to a range of in-life experimental learning paths.” My intention from the start was not to propose a program of education in the virtual, but merely to provide a virtual portal for practices in real life (as it is now quaintly called). That being so, I encourage you to take what you find here into your lives as suits your disposition and circumstances. I am confident that you do so. And again, that being so, I find it not surprizing that there has been no activity in these 12 forums.

If I were either a registered visitor or faculty member, I would not be inclined to expend my precious time in virtual keyboard interactivity. The admin tells me that all members read the threads in The Treehouse, but only a handful respond. Again, this is correct and consistent with the way the School operates.

I have decided to address this issue of avoidance of virtual interactivity by adding a unique forum thread linked here on the Menhir: LO QUE SALTA. In the future you will find it at the top of The Menhir posts as seen above. You can ignore the other forums, but, if you are disposed to make an immediate comment on ongoing posts on The Menhir, there is where to go. This way there is a kind of daily hotline where you can respond to what ever jumps at you, “lo que salta,” when you come to The Menhir for an update. Think of it as sharing a flash with the Lash and his entourage.

The post opens with a paragraph I wrote intending to put it at the head of each of the 12 forums to encourage participation. The meme: “lo que salta” comes from Paco de Lucia who used it genially to describe the spontaneous jolt of Duende in Flamenco, or any genuine art form: what jumps out at you, what startles you in the moment. It is likely that each of you who come to The Menhir may have an immediate response to new material or to something in your circumstances, a striking event or brief insight, a thought or quote for the day, whatever. If so, click immediately on the link and make your comment. Make it fast and easy. In future, I rely on this thread in the Rookie Room as the foremost and perhaps sole facet for virtual interactivity, apart from what members want to discuss in The Treehouse.

Tuesday 1st October 2024, next to the last day of the first Shodashi shift. Next new moon 6:68 PM  UTC, October 2nd, the New Hunter’s Moon. A couple of weeks ago I came across the channel linked below. Watching a couple of clips, I wondered if the content was plagiarism or merely excellent parallel work. I still don’t know. I made the exception, first time ever, to contribute $20 on Patreon and wrote a polite note of introduction. Crickets.

There is no question who bought and paid for Peterstein. Be sure to read the comments which are as revealing as the content. I do not suggest that anyone try to contact The Ark in my behalf. I insist that you don’t. I am resigned to exclusion, not only from grifters like Jay Weidner, but even by presumably sympathetic parties who appear to share my orientation and goals. Nothing to be done there. 18K subs is 10K more than me. I can’t explain that but then I don’t need to. It’s a relief not to care.

Sunday 29th September 2024: New unit in 14 Celestics:

14 My Hollywood Valentine

Friday 28th September 2024: In completion with Shodashi. Recently in the mood of this shift I had occasion to revisit a poem by Rilke, Wendung, “Turning Point.” I was looking for a citation he added to the poem which was rare as he almost never did this. It came from the works of his lifetime friend, Rudolf Kassner:

The road from intensity to greatness passes through sacrifice.

Odd, really, because I have never throughout my life thought of anything I’ve done or attempted to do as a sacrifice. It’s an alien concept. But it turns out that I am thinking a lot about that concept right now. Does the revelation of Beauty require sacrifice for the one who reveals it? When I chose to break the vow of silence of the Mysteries, it never for a moment crossed my mind that I would face anything like that. But it turns out after all that I do.

… Whatever the case, the link to Rilke led me to this upload. It is not easy to read and pronounce what Rilke said in the language of German — which, as some astute critics have noted, he made into a language of his own, as if there is the German language as such, and then there is what Rilke wrote in German, and it is his own distinct creation. I find that the linked upload is a pretty good rendering in English of what he wrote. It consists of extracts from various works in poetry and prose. I hold it as a version of the Credo of Shodashi, the Thrice-Beautiful One, Tripurasundari. Make of it what you will, however it pleases and suits you, or not.

Monday September 23rd 2024: Five minutes of Celtic Dreaming.

The modern-day inhabitants of Galicia in northwest Spain do not consider themselves to be Spanish except in a loose  frame of national identity. Rather, they are Celtic. Gallego, the local dialect, is a long way from Castilian Spanish and almost unintelligible to non Gallego speaker. It sounds more Portuguese than Spanish. Although signs of Celtic presence such as dolmens are rare, having been uprooted and ploughed under by farmers, the older ethnic flavor lingers like a vapor over the landscape which itself can be reminiscent of Ireland, Cornwall, or Wales. And there are places to the west and north where the mountains meet the sea. As here:

The drum is a gift from the Maine Professor to Xose. The lilt of the Celtic air is unmistakable, poignant, almost tragic, yet “gay.” Enjoy five minutes of Celtic Dreaming. And remember the opening line of Aurelia by French Romantic Gerard de Nerval: Le reve est une second vie. “Dreaming is a second life, another life.”

Friday 20th September 2024: New unit in 12 Ideosophy with one talk and a second in preparation:
The Infliction of Suffering and the Frontier Code

By the way, regarding the previous message here, I’m not going anywhere soon in any sense.

Wednesday 18th September 2024: On this day, I find an incoming message, “Come Home.” (See below, The Friendship of Strangers). Well, Spain is my home in exile, but not my native home. The ledges around Martin’s Point, the colors of the autumn leaves, those pathways in the stillness of the Maine woods… you see what made the child who would come to bring Gaian Alchemy to the world.

Heath’s upload is so timely. It is right around this time in Maine in mid-September when the leaves turn in the alchemical wonder of metallic transmutation of colors, proof of the power of the Aeonic Mother to materialize before our eyes. And by October 10th or so, as if timed to exactitude, comes the melody of the sudden autumn wind (Akikazi No Kyoku) that blows them all at once to the ground, one pentatonic note at a time.

I have been feeling the call to come home for some time now and with compelling escalation. The questions are, when, how, and where? This song captures the feeling.

“Oh babe, I hate to go.” Oh Babe, My Fucking Spain! I hate to go but I have to go. To stand on the land of my country and speak its language. To go off-side and off-set in the land of my natural birth, contrasted to the land of my supernatual birth in the obliterating beauty of Spain.

The Big Beautiful Goodbye

Correction: 24m. Sems = mentation, ordinary mind. Sems-nyid = mind-itself, which is equivalent to rigpa, not the Void. Tsong Pa = void.  Tsong pa-nyid == Voidness. The Tsong Pa Kid.

1st Shodashi Shift 2nd-3rd September 2024: 12 Virgo @ 162 in Lion, crescent at head of Virgin

2nd Shodashi Shift 1st-2nd October 2024: 10 Libra at the Grail Cup @ 190, crescent at the knees of the Virgin

BodhiMa Shift 1st-2nd November 2024: 10 Scorpio @ 220 in the Cache, Treasure Chest at Kambhalia, crescent visible fleetingly in the Scales shifting toward the Correction Zone

Scorpion-Snaketamer Shift 1st-2nd December 2024: 10 Sagittarius @ 250 near Antares in the Scorpion, crescent visible in the Snaketamer

The song strikes a lot of themes, some quite personal or pertinent to myself, that you will decode immediately without even thinking about them. But no, it goes wrong in the end  — the “indigo child ” is a spurious and delusional new age meme — the Earth will not forget me or  you, ever.  As long as your divine mother remembers you, you stay with her, sail with her, even in death.

Tuesday 17th september 2024: To celebrate the opening of the 7th year of Nemeta, you will find a revision of the organization of all material in DOG ZEN, with some new text in certain units and text in process on others. All in all, there are 27 unit/pages, each with a talk. Previously, a unit/page could carry more than one talk, which was extremely confusing. In the new organization, there are 5 BLOCKS with all talks on their pages distributed in a more or less orderly way.

View of the Zen rock garden of Ryoanji at “the temple of the dragon’s respose,” in Kyoto.

You perhaps will have noticed that there is a playlist on DOG ZEN on my YT channel. To enter the 7th year of the School, I am repurposing that channel to promote projects and products coming from Nemeta with the intent to generate revenues for the continuance of the School. The DZ uploads are the final material I am posting for free on that channel. So far, two have been released. Three or four more will follow, and that’s it. They are teasers.

You may have noticed that Dog Zen was on and off the private setting recently. That was due to work in progress. The new organization required changing some URLs so you may not find those units if you saved them as bookmarks or favorites. However, you can find all units easily from the course landing page. Complementary to Dog Zen, there is a new feature titled “The Maitreya Up Close and Personal,” due to be released soon.

Lunar eclipse in 356 Pisces at Matangi Point in the lunar increment near Saturn.

Remember that the lunar increment is that unique moment every month when the Aeonic Mother tightens and directs the tensegrity of the biospheric web — comparable to an archer pulling the bow to its highest tension before release. Considering what some rumors say about what’s happening or is about to happen in the world drama, this is significant timing. Note also, that after sunset Venus is clearly visibile at Spora in the Virgin.

One can always expect the worse from the enemies of life, of course. But their game is wearing down and they are running scared as the inversion/Aikido tactics of Matangi come into definition in way that cannot be ignored or concealed. Whether or not there is an election in the USA in November, the president has already been selected. I suspect that DT may not make it to the finish line. His handlers have enforced their deal on him and he is not happy about what they demand. In exchange for following their orders and agenda, there is probably some option for him, leading him to believe he will live to see it out, but the chances of them backstabbing him on the deal are very high. No one wants Commie Kamala, even the handlers.

It remains to be seen what hilarious, and possibly destructive event they have in mind on that issue. Brace for an horrendous shitshow. Don’t get caught off the back foot by incoming trauma.

Whatever the case, I invite you to consider that the lunar eclipse at the Matangi Point on the eve of the 7th year of Nemeta is an omen of failsafe. Reflect on what that might mean.

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Sunday 15th September 2024: Tibetan master Dzongsar Khentse recommends for first reading of Buddhist literature the same two sutras highlighted by Lama Luv Mutt, The Diamond and Heart Sutras.

“Shunyata-oriented texts”: Shunyata = voidness, translated by LLM as the co-presence of the dual and the nondual, and/or the union (coupling, not unity) of your presence in the world-setting with the presence of the world-setting. The Tibetans have as many definitions of “Void” as the Inuit have words for snow. I initially got keen on Void from reading German-Canadian Buddhist H. V. Guenther (The Life and Teachings of Naropa, 1963) who gave it an existentialist spin. He proposed that void/voidness not be misconceived as emptiness, rather as the plenum of contingency in which all things and acts are interdependent with all other things and acts.

Contingency is an existential trope related to the ethical concept of engagement. D’etre engage, to be engaged, is moral and situational commitment to the awareness that everything done, every act performed, including mental acts, and even sensations, arises in a plenum of contingency which itself is empty of dependencies even though it provides the ground of all dependencies. In some later works (such as Ecstatic Spontaneity, 1993), Guenther took the existentialist spin too far and over determined its application to Vajrayana syntax, leading to tongue-tangled garble. Yet when he did hit the mark, he hit it in the bullseye.

I cited Guenther in Heart Drop Medicine and other essays in The Tantric Conversion (October, 2008).

Friday 6th September 2024:

For those of you who have had good viewing conditions, here is the trajectory of the sunset crescent for the current Shodashi shift. The new moon @ E 162 (12 Virgo) occurred in the loins of the Lion so that first sighting of the crescent would have been in the throat of the Virgin and then again down the length of her body. The succeeding new moon will fall @ 190 (10 Libra) on October 2nd, aligned to the Grail Cup (Vindamaitrix, 11 Libra), which means that the first sighting can be as early as 190 + 14-16, around 205 (25 Libra) aligned to Spora in the sheaf of Wheat. Hence a second Shodashi shift.

This poses the prospect of a second Shodashi shift running until November 1st with the new moon @220 (10 Scorpio). This is in the Cache or Treasure Chest at the knees of the Virgin, E 218 – 224 (8 – 14 Scorpio), at Kambhalia, the Alchemist’s Star. From that longitude the sunset crescent can appear at the earliest @ 220 + 15 = 235, in the Scales on the left side. So, there is a prospect of two Shodashi shifts followed by a rare Bodhi Ma shift starting on D 1, November 2nd.

Revised syntax for PT:

“Some of you who have been on board with my work for a while may recall the Kalika saying,

“The highest desire of the Diamond-Sky Dakinis is that you command them — by pleasure.”

It happens that coming into this Shodashi shift, my rigpa directed me to that statement and highlighted a detail of the syntax. It specifies the Diamond-Sky Dakinis, doesn’t it? Those are the five Dakinis on the florette: 11 Swan Deva, 12 Tantra Mother, 13 Kurukula, 14 Vudasi, 15 BodhiMa. They are distinguished as liberationist agencies, contrasted to the ten Devatas on the oval, which are desideristic agencies. This difference is essential to confidence of practice with the Shakti Cluster.

In the traditional schema of the Mahavidyas derived the cult of Shri Vidya (Auspicious Wisdom) of southern India, the desideristic powers “grant boons” and confer personal favors and benefits, such as wealth, health, beauty, abundance and more; and they also can curse, harm, and disable personal enemies. If they stand distinct from the Diamond-Sly Dakinis, would the familiar saying above also apply to them? No, not exactly. Consider this:

“The highest pleasure of the Mahavidyas is that you command them — by your desire.”

It’s the same formula with terms transposed in accord with the different powers of the two groups.  The formula for the Mahavidyas asserts that it is the strength of your desires that commands them, and gives them pleasure as a result. On the other hand, pleasure is not the result of commanding the Diamond-Sky Dakinis, it is the requirement, and in that manner their highest desire is satisfied. Until now, I had not made this distinction totally clear in my mind. If you get it, you can see how it changes the dynamics of interactivity. The liberationist agencies hold as their highest desire that you command them by pleasure — but the pleasure of what? The answer resides in the character of the liberationist powers by which you liberate your own mind from everything that impedes its innate enlightened activity. It is the pleasure of mastering your own mind that commands them and invites them to enter, inform, and direct your mind through the prompt of rigpa. Such is the revision of that original syntax.

From The Tantric Conversion, I:

Earth-Touching Mudra

In the last sentence of her book, Buddhist Goddesses of India, Miranda Shaw expresses the hope that, “in view of its extensive female pantheon, Buddhism may rightly take a place among the world’s goddess religions.” I noted in the introduction of Planetary Tantra that I will not be citing scholars or backing up my outrageous claims with textual quotes and statements from the experts. But I would crawl across Times Square at rush hour to kiss the feet of Miranda Shaw for the gift of this book, and the follow-up to her equally magnificent offering, Passionate Enlightenment. Shaw is one of a small band of fearless woman scholars who are breaking Buddhism out of its patriarchal mold and liberating the goddess elements. She is a champion of the Divine Feminine.

Buddhism as a goddess religion? How can this be? Well, Shaw opens with an argument that can hardly be refuted, if you ask me. She recounts the classic legend of the enlightenment of Shakyamuni, focusing on the theme of victory over Mara, the lord of illusion. Various biographies describe how the earth goddess, called Prithivi or Sthavara, intervened to dispel the illusions of Mara, leaving Shakyamuni in the perfect concentration required to attain enlightenment. Still, there came a moment of confrontation. Mara claimed that the Indian prince had nothing to show for his alleged superlative acts of generosity, not a single witness to attest that he, the man who would be a Buddha, had benefited humanity in any way. In other words, Mara accused Shakyamuni of being a narcissist, hung up in a self-centered quest for liberation.

Shakyamuni replied to this challenge by the words, “Let this great and solid earth be my witness,” and by a movement of his hand, the bhumisparsa mudra, the gesture of touching the earth.

Miranda Shaw says that, because the “seat of enlightenment” is the earth itself, the earth goddess supports enlightenment. Through 519 pages she elaborates on a wide range of Asian earth goddesses who represent enlightened wisdom in ways that correlate to the Gnostic Sophia, without however once mentioning Sophia by name. This oversight does not mar the book. Rather, it clears the atmosphere and prepares reception for the Tantric conversion.

Wednesday 4th September 2024:

Day 1 of Shodashi Shift 2024

Tuesday 3rd September 2024: JLL on YT: Freedom Dawning: A Terrible Beauty Is Born

Thursday 22nd August 2024: Alignment Alert: It’s plausible to infer that recent and ongoing events here and there involving eruptions of violence and rage are fitting for the Bhairavi shift. Two navigational parameters to observe. First, Mars is transiting El Nath/Morbido in the next five days. I reckon it’s about time someone murdered the right person. Second, the Zil is exact with Jupiter at 18 Gemini and Saturn at 18 Pisces, 17 – 24th August.

In the context of current events, these lines from Easter, 1916 by Yeats keep echoing in my mind:

Changed, utterly changed,
A terrible beauty is born.

Bhairavi means “the terrible one, she who is daunting, violent.” There is no way that the Beauty to Come, which you already embody, can come in the ordinary world without mass expression of hate and violence. What’s happening now is not revolution (Jewish meme for the bait-and-switch of Communism), it is revulsion. And it’s about time!

BTW, this is incidental because Venus does not figure in the navigational parameters of Alignment, but I spotted her for the first time this evening in 172 @ Denebola, the tail-star of the Lion, very low on the horizon. Following the new moon on September 3 @ 162 in the lions of the Lion, the sunset crescent will appear with Venus @ 188-9 aligned to the Grail Cup, and then the evening star, Venus Hesperus, will proceed to conj.  Spora on the 18th. Easy viewing, don’t miss it. Sweet run-up to the 6th anniversary of Nemeta.

14 Celestics Launch, announcing the plan to release Celestics as a revenue-generating project for Nemeta. Deadlines are:

September 1 – 18: get out the word about what’s to be offered (The Celestics Sampler) and link Nemeta to the dedicated website (in development) http://celestics.org/

September 18: Sampler ready to release, Celestics.org revised and updated

In StarBase forum: Outreach and Networking for Celestics Launch

Monday 19th August 2024: Lama Luv Mutt on Sexuality and the Maitreya challenge in Introductory Woofs (scroll down)

Saturday 17th August 2024: New unit in 02 Sophianic Cosmology:

2.100 The Saturn Zil 2024

Thursday 15th August 2024: The Menhir audio downloads added to: Planetary Tantra : Course Landing Page Audio Downloads

Wednesday 14th August 2024:

Announcement of Alignment Day

Here, the archontic simulation of Stellarium.org shows what you can now observe in the evening sky, wherever you are on the planet, starting from after midnight until predawn: Jupiter rising in the east and Saturn approaching the meridian at a separation of 90 degrees, the square aspect. That is the Saturn Zil, a signal uniquely known to the Grailkeepers of modern times.

Navigator’s Commentary:

The navigational manual for Alignment includes many technicalities of astronomical physics known to the navigator, but not necessary for the crew in tracking the event. The manual illustrates the breakaway of the mothership from capture of the archontic planetary system in a way a child can understand and visualize. It uses the analogy of three tugboats, one small and free-moving (Mars) and two other large vessels (Jupiter and Saturn)  attached by massive tow-lines to the mothership. Using the illustration of the solar system from above in the frame of the zodiac (Rimsite), the navigator can show how the three tugs cooperate to release the home planet from capture. Actually, mothership earth co-opts and deploys the physical dynamics of the “orbital elements” of those three planets — nodal points, apsidal lines, inclinations of orbital planes, velocities, retrograde periods, stellar alignments —  to her sovereign purpose. Alignment is attainment of “dead reckoning” on her future course through the galactic arms, independent of other planetary influences. The date of its completion is August 8, 2025.

3.105 The Saturn Zil

Monday 12th August 2024: Do you wonder what the Maine Professor feels coming in the air tonight, at this moment, D8 with the war drums of Bhariavi rolling across the world?

“I’ve been waiting for this moment all my life.” And what is this moment? It’s when the recognition that comes to me matches the magnitude of what’s coming through me. (I am no fan of the singer but the mood and lyrics are appropriate.)

Well, I remember, I remember, don’t worry
How could I ever forget?
It’s the first time
The last time we ever met
But I know the reason why you keep your silence up
No, you don’t fool me
Well, the hurt doesn’t show, but the pain still grows
It’s no stranger to you and me

Although I waited without expectation, often in despair, half-way delirious, and often unable to bear to tell myself what I was waiting for… I now see that if that moment ever comes, it can only come when the unspoken accumulation of hidden hurt and growing pain erupt. The growing pains of A-11. When the angst of humanity breaks open like the purulent abscess of a wound pierced by the lancing knife, and that silence finally breaks. Is that knife a variation of the blade that severed the wild rose from its stem? Perhaps it is. As Novalis said, “The more poetic, the more true.

With the launch of Frank Jacob’s Time Capsule Webinar, you see the first occasion when anyone has attempted to showcase me and the Sophianic message on a far-reaching internet platform. What does this event portend? I don’t know, can’t say, and won’t speculate. Whatever happens in consequence of this presentation, there is a parallel and complementary event underway in the directing beam of divine imagination. I can’t claim that I intend to make it happen, but I assure you that I will always be the singular (but not sole) instrument through which it happens. And it is my heart’s highest desire to live with you to see it.

I don’t know if you are following the commentary on the Webinar, with part one released so far. It is one of four or five super-intense projects I have running at this moment. It takes time to get out such material to you, and my time runs second by second to keep apace with the obliterating rush of DI coming from the planetary animal mother in this shift.

Mantique: South node of the Moon conjunct the lunar apogee in 8-10 Libra aligned to Vindamiatrix, the Grail Cup :: natal Neptune of JLL. Neptune represents the capacity of an individual to achieve cult status by constellating a mission in the small loop of the Strange Attractor.

Meanwhile, I am undergoing the mother of all transits, as I noted to Ceridwen, with Saturn making a loop in Pisces, in the Manitu, triggering my Mercury on the 20/20 line. When it began I got the message, “You can have a super charge of 40,000 volt telluric force that allows you to live as long as you want, but the strength of the dose might kill you.” That’s Aeonic humor at its best.

Sunday 11th August 2024: An impromptu talk on the pineal gland, often identified with the “third eye.”  Working with the Time Capsule Webinar of Frank Jacob prompted me to comment on this topic. I place it here for visitors to hear although eventually I will locate it in an appropriate block of units in 18 Breaking Nous. I regard this correction on misinfo about the pineal gland to be, although highly esoteric, fundamental instruction to visitor and faculty alike.

Note: amygdala not indicated. It situates directly behind the pituitary gland. The three accessories or sub-stations of the thalamus are pituitary gland, hypothalamus, and amygdala.

Commentary on the Cerebral Transceiver:

Correction, I say that the vagus is the carnal instrument of the 2nd, the mirroring attention. That should be the 3rd attention.

Frank has proposed that he and I do a series of follow-up interviews after the Webinar has been completely released late this month. I look forward to discussing this topic with him.

Note to faculty: As often happens, I can’t find specific material I have loaded on Nemeta. Somewhere in the exposition of the Chthonian Romance, I featured a photo of two acorns hanging from an oak tree. That is the esoteric trope for the male testicles. Amazingly, they have the shape of acorns and might politely, during sexual discourse, be addressed in that way. So, the the pineal gland which in primordial times supplied the Y chromosome that makes the male genetically what he is, is a mythopoetic trope for human cerebral structure, and the acorn is a similar trope for male reproductive gear.  Taking a step more, and a delicate one, it could be that the formation of the oak gall prefigures and represents residually the enclosure of the paired acorns. “Oak galls are abnormal plant growths found on foliage and twigs that are produced by small oak gall wasps. Shapes of galls vary from spherical to urn-shaped to star-shaped to fuzzy.” Remind you of anything? All in all, mythopoetic construction of the prehistory of prehistory always emerges along these lines. Everything given in the instrumentality of the human animal today has emerged from primordial events in which external nature shaped that instrumentality.

It’s possible in elaborating the Chtonian Romance in FGS 2.0, that a narrative might emerge about the specific role of the oak-tree nymphs in accomplishing the first sexual/meiotic congress with the Orion Men, while the pine-tree nymphs oversaw and regulated that event. Just sayin’.

8th August 2024: In celebration of the 16th Anniversary of the Terma of Gaia Awakening, I invite staff and guests to review this talk from Mythology 101, the complete, university-level series on comparative mythology that I delivered some years ago.

As many of you will recall, I undertook the challenge to define and upscale the concept of diorthosis with caution and reticence. From the outset around 2002, I had to exercise considerable care in developing this theme, taking it beyond the slight clues to be found in the Greek Coptic material. In the GNE, you find a meticulous account, using astronomical data, of how I tracked the theme, “The Wisdom Goddess resets the Scales.” Then, later in the MED sequence, I delved even deeper into the dynamics of Correction by offering proof of interactivity with the planetary entelechy through anomalies of memory. That record of descriptive syntax for Correction stands today and contains many cues for implementation. Steady as She goes.

This morning, musing over a whore’s breakfast — coffee and a fag, but pretending to smoke — I took a moment to relisten to Mythology 101.12. The summary of Correction versus Tikkun Olam highlights vividly the battle for the narrative that decides the outcome of the world-drama. I find that it also holds up well. In fact, I don’t see how I could have said it better than I did. I emphasized that Correction is a world-historical event in linear time. Recently, the theme of “divine intervention” has entered mass mind discourse through the Trump shooting. How that event happened, orchestrated or accidental or neither, does not matter. It is a plot-twist manifested in the world drama that now anchors that theme in the center of public attention. I am proud and happy to have put out that message. Better than any other talk, it summarizes all the work I have done to elucidate Sophia’s Correction and provide guidelines and techniques for interactivity with the planetary animal mother.

In 18 Breaking Nous,  audio track with commentary from the Webinar of Frank Jacob: 18 Time Capsule Webinar Part One A

Monday 5th August 2024: New unit and related forum thread in 18 Breaking Nous:

18 Prompt for the Raglan Heresy?

Day 1 of Bhairavi Shift 2024

Sunday 4th August 2024: New thread by JLL in Treehouse Forum:

Frazer’s Trope: Sacrifice of the King

Friday 2nd August 2024: Audio on “Overview of Theocracy” added to 3.103 Kingship of the Grail

In 3 Grail Studies:

3 The Radiant Wisdom Stone

June & July 2024 School Activity now archived to The Menhir’s curriculum units: The Menhir June 2024, The Menhir July 2024

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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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Dog Zen

DOG ZEN

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Introduction to The Menhir, Continued:

Notifications sent out via the Mailing List to both Members and Subscribers will also inform you of these ongoing activities. This page mirrors those periodic announcements by email and in some cases alerts you to new content, be it talk or text, that gets omitted from the announcements due to the rapidity and fluidity of John’s ongoing efforts to amplify the curricula, refine and reframe the content, and provide clear and “simplific” direction for your studies.

Announcements at the Menhir consistently track progressing content throughout the School and in 16. Planetary Tantra, free to all. It will also signal content on 18. Breaking Nous, and 17. The Terma and the Terton, available to Members only.

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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