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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, Dakini Weather Watch (Who is on Shift), 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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Thursday 25th April 2024: “Where Stands the Agnishvatta”

Blue flower in flame (CGI)

There is no path beyond, so hold the gaze
humanity returns, those strangers roaming in a maze
Be flawless for one moment is
usually enough to outlast life
And not abandoned
not defiant against yourself
stay with us a while longer
All that is ours is yours

Live to withold us nothing that we may divine
all that we are
realized in what you are

Who suffered death to play its haunting pauses
in youth surrendered, one vagabond child
lost under ochre skies, abandoned with humanity
like acid in your eyes you braved a cruel new world
where angels sweeten fire in the heart
You, homeless, led us home

And no, will never be another you
who suffered to come back alive
and finding on your own what’s ours,
found what it takes
to withhold
nothing and
to behold the Unreal
with real eyes

These lines from “Prodigal heart” in Translations from the Andromedan stand as a cue to what’s coming next on Nemeta. And that would be, knowing where the Agnishvatta stands. The word will probably be unfamiliar to you, unknown so far. It occurs in a line from the sloka: “Agnishvatta, sweeten this pain.”

Agniṣvātta (अग्निष्वात्त).—m. pl.

(-ttāḥ) Demigods or names to whom funeral oblations are presented.  E. agni, sva own, and ātta taken, “taken by fire, those who receive what is offered them by fire as their own.” (Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Benfey Sanskrit-English Dictionary)

You may wonder, as I myself do, what is the point of introducing yet another Sanskrit word to the already cluttered, Indo-European bias in the complex jargon of PT? And where does it fit into the schema of the Shakti Cluster, if it does? It is the last such term coming from me, I promise. The final word which I deem necessary so that… I won’t say yet. The introduction requires that I prompt you with a question: What does it take that you still don’t see or own about this School, the Sophianic message, and the legacy of the Grail, to bring your commitment into ultimate focus and efficacy?

The Agnishvatta is something like a guardian spirit, the flame-born guardian. Agni = fire, flame. What is that flame? Where is it? Where does the Agnishvatta stand?

Recently, I pointed out that the proposition that “everything is material” has to be proven by contrast to the Immaterial, and I explained what that is. Simple enough, no? So, what is that you call Reality? Can you verify it without contrast to the Unreal? No. So, what is the Unreal? Contemplate that question if it engages you but go soft, go easy, don’t speculate recklessly. Watch your mind as it faces that question. Observe how your rigpa behaves with it. Goddess willing, I will get back to you on it soon. Meanwhile, a clue: It is not death, but through the undeniable reality of death you are looking straight at it.

‘Nuff said.

Thursday 11th April 2024: A new unit published in 9 Biomysticism:

9.100 How to Stop the World (Maybe)

Wednesday 10th April 2024: Post-eclipse crescent moon seen in northern Spain @ Taurus 19 conjunct Jupiter and Uranus.

Hind part of the RAM = 17-23 Taurus E 47-53,

Heart of the BULL = 24-30 Taurus  E 54-60.

So…Technically, the sunset crescent in the RAM, the shift goes to Mirita/Ekajati/Bodhisattva poised over Cetus. Potent signal of kairos, the fortunate moment. Upcoming shift May 9, definitely in the BULL, the next shift goes of Bhudevi and Tara, the Selector. Figure it! I would say, yes, Mirita shift with an overtone of Bhudevi and Tara, followed by a full-on shift of those two. So, I correct the call made below for this shift.

Elongation from sun to moon, 27.5 degrees, illumination at 5.7%, a tiny sliver. This is a remarkable distance of elongation for such a thin crescent. Explained by the fact that the moon came through its perigee, near point, on April 7 in 5 Aries E 5 in the Western Fish. Hence, moving at close to maximum velocity. Accomplished skywatchers can actually detect such nuances!

By the time it is visible over the USA and Canada, the Moon will have advanced slightly beyond Jupiter and Uranus, putting it in the heart of the BULL. [JLL lunar perigee at 47 in the heart of the Bull.]

Tuesday 9th April 2024:

Day 1 Mirita/Ekajati/Bodhisattva Shift 2024

Saturday 6th April 2024: From 12 pm here in Spain now to 6 PM Monday the 8th, 54 hours.

UNSEALING THE EVIDENCE

[New Treehouse Thread]

I am the thought that dwells in the light,
the movement that underlies all that endures,
She in whom everything resides, the first-born of all those
who exist in the presence of the All. I dwell in those who came to be.
I move in everyone and I delve into them all.

I walk uprightly and those who sleep, I awaken.
I am the sight of those who dwell in sleep.
I am the invisible one within the all.
It is I who counsel those who are hidden…

– Trim. Prot. 35: 1-25

The Ram undertow or riptide: a strong offshore current that is caused by the tide pulling water through an inlet along a barrier beach, at a lagoon or inland marina where tide water flows steadily out to sea during ebb tide. It is a strong tidal flow of water within estuaries and other enclosed tidal areas. The riptides become the strongest where the flow is constricted. When there is a falling or ebbing tide, the outflow water is strongly flowing through an inlet toward the sea.

Noon UT Saturday the 6th – to 6PM Monday the 8th (solar eclipse) – to Tuesday  9  or Wednesday 10 sunset

> Moon-Saturn 15 Pisces E 345, Mars 12 Pisces E 342, in the lunar increment in the currents of the Urn of the Manitu (Matangi, Trickster)
> Moon in the Matangi Point, cold currents [Mars reaches MP April 25]
> Moon-Venus 6 Aries E 6, belly of the Western Whale at lunar Apogee [correction: Perigee, maximum velocity]
> Moon in Ascending node 16 Aries E 16, cord of the Whales
> Moon-Sun total eclipse in 20 Aries E 20 cord of the Whales
> Moon-Mercury SR 27 Aries E 27 Eastern Whale, aligned to M31
> sunrise crescent in 20 Taurus E 50 with Jupiter and Uranus, Heart of the Bull.

There is a lot to unpack here. I repeat, I have never seen such an alignment. Consider it like a zipper with the latch at the opening moment, Moon-Saturn-Mars in the lunar increment as I write these words. The line up then “upzips” all the way to the sunset crescent announcing the next shift. The action suggests a ripping or shearing in the fabric of spacetime, equivalent in the collective psyche to an apocalyptic or unveiling moment. What is being unveiled or unsealed?  Well, ask yourselves what has been sealed so far? That is, unseen and unknown to the masses? What so far is the sealed evidence of Correction?

In a parallel event, consider the Idaho 4 case in which all the evidence has been sealed. I am guessing that this case might be symptomatic of the world-scale problem of Correction, namely, that apart from the ground force, those in the world-drama at large do not see evidence of Correction. Were it to be unsealed, they would not not be unable to see it. Is this the moment at hand?

As for what eclipses, solar and lunar, might signify (on Her terms) I will hold off on comment for the moment, but I am guessing that the lines cited from Trimorphic Protennoia might hold some clues. Remember that the “three-bodied inceptive thought” is the ideal three-body system for the Anthropos.

Great American Eclipse
Wednesday 3rd April 2024:

If you were me, what would you make of this?

I have only listened to the first five minutes. I can’t bear to listen to more. It is too demoralizing. I have to so someting so that it does not ruin my day.

After Skool has 3.13 M subs and she has 182K. Notice that she does not state her qualifications and cites no sources for her paradigm of ascending-descending arcs of evolution. She loads every sentence with pulpy new cage jargon and empty pretentious cliches that have been repeated thousands of times. This is my competition. When you consider what I have done in the GNE and then with the MED to explain how to participate in the mitosis of the planetary animal mother, and how I have described the mutation of A-11….

Of course, I can plead the case of the Great Recovery with beauty, humour, and eloquence as I have done with my previous self-assigned projects. But will I? With 8.2K subs, I get on average 1500 YT views and within those statistics (for what they are worth) I get about 20-40 comments, usually from the same people, and the average listening time is 12 minutes. 71 % of listeners do not got to the end of the talk.

I ask you again, If you were me, what would you make of this? Put yourself in my skin and see how it feels. Tell me how it looks to you.

Bear in mind that no one with large presence on the internet invites or allows anyone on their platform that might damage their reputation or compromise their appeal, leading to loss of subs and revenues. If you are thinking that it’s normal and obvious that Sarah Elkhaldy would want to have a conversation with me, the outstanding expert in the world on what she’s talking about, you would be seriously wrong.

This video showed up this morning as I was contemplating how and if to continue with the Great Recovery talks which you will know represent a kind of popular or soft-touch appeal for the mutation of A-11. And I am wondering, what is the point of continuing to do this, and what’s in it for me? I am ready to sign off permanently and devote my precious little time to Nemeta and books I want to see published.

670 enrolled on the Menhir, 1348 PT, 964 visitors…. ? Ceridwen tells me that some enrolled haven’t been here for a year or more. I am guessing there are maybe 10 at most who would respond to this announcement.  Write me with your comments if you can be bothered to show that you care and it matters to you what becomes of me and my legacy.

After Skool : send us an email at afterskool100@gmail.com

§ Next shift begins on April 9. We are in completion with Swan Deva, the Storykeeper.

Monday April 1st 2024: When I introduced course 12 Ideosophy, I proposed that my contributions would be written in aphorisms, Nietzsche-style. It has not turned out that way so far. In fact, writing aphoristically is extremely demanding. Try it and see what I mean.

The link here is a pretty good short talk on Nietzsche’s essential message, much of which you find vividly echoed here on Nemeta, for instance, the inspiration of the Troubadours in “The Gay Science.” You can see how often and exactly what I say is a rephrase of what he said. I offer this link for your enjoyment. I could be featured in a unit/page in Ideosophy with comment, but it really does not require comment.

Regarding the Eternal Return, I have pointed out in The Treehouse that you experience this enigma at each moment that your memory, routinely occupied with reminding you of events in the past, continually reminds you of where you are in the present moment, right now in place and time. You eternally return to the present moment. That is the short solution to the enigma of ER, the erigma.The long answer is something else together. I strongly feel that the erigma played a huge role in Nietzsche’s madness, because he could not describe it fully or accurately. Can anyone? The quotations show that he posited that the erigma happens with “nothing new in it.” Did he assume or consider that it might happen with the possibility of change, of something new happening? Apparently not.

March 31st 2024: The Secret of Everything I Have Done

The view north from Pokhara, looking from the Damside of the lake.

On the left, Machapuchare, on the right Annapurna

Text and Talk in preparation…. I have cropped the photograph to show what I saw in March 1966, 58 years ago. The crop eliminates the view of the large city now in the foreground. When I was there, there was no city, only a small town.

View looking W-SW from the lake at Pokhara, March 1966. Note the prominence of Sirius, low on the horizon

A while ago (June, 2019) I offered a free year membership to Nemeta to anyone who could solve the riddle contained in the short story, Prost, which I wrote in Pokhara in March 1966. There were no takers. It may be that I invited you to look into an incident of autistic elaboration which, in the first place, simply does not capture your interest, or, in the second place, even if it does, may stand beyond the range of neurotypical faculties of comprehension. Yet this story contains the secret of everything I have done.

The story tells about a man named Prost who comes into “my place” with a story to tell. Thus it is a story within a story. The riddle becomes obvious by simple observation of the structure of the story: What happened to Prost in that meeting  is told by the narrator, not Prost. Upon hearing from Prost that he has met the “mythical old seaman” — the only words spoken by Prost in the story — the narrator relates how he then asked him “Where?” — the only word spoken by the narrator in dialogue.  And the story ends with the line, “But Prost could not answer my question.”

How then could the story be known if Prost does not tell it?  Again, the riddle is obvious. The narrator tells what happened to Prost when he wandered into the dining hall and lounge of a seaside hotel for retired seamen. How does the narrator know this, even if Prost cannot answer the question, “where” did it happen? Obviously, it happened at “my place,” the narrator’s establishment. Thus the setting of the incident that Prost cannot explain is the “place” of the narrator who witnessed the entire event: thus, he is the one to narrate it. That is the answer to the riddle.

No one solved this riddle. Yet it is flagrantly simple and obvious: the narrator could tell what happend in the meeting between Prost and the “mythical old seaman,” because he witnessed in happening at his place, his hotel for old seaman. What does that tell me about you? Or anyone? The takeaway of the story is, framed in a question, “If you cannot see the obvious, how can you see the Mystery, the presence of the Supernatural?” Yes, this is a test.

There is the obvious that you see. That is an everyday habitual experience, perfectly normal, completely neurotypical. But you can only see the obvious if you remember the present moment, where and when you are in the present, passing moment, right now — distinguished from the memory of the past or past moments.  The memory of the present moment is the Obvious. The memory of the Eternal Now is the Non-Obvious, the Mystery of existing in the first place, in “my place” or your place in time. The question of the narrator is “Where?” You live materially where the Obvious and the Non-Obvious merge. Otherwise, neither can be, and neither can you be. Or have even been.

March 30th 2024: Looking ahead at the celestial code.

Celestial alignment coming up in one month

This screenshot does not show the names of the  planets clearly. They are, from right to left:

Saturn in 15 Pisces E 345 in the stream of the Urn, bordering the Western Fish

Mars in 26-8 Pisces E 356, the Matangi Point, cold currents. Also, the lunar Perigee (not visible) is hovering at the MP

Mercury in 16 Aries E 16 in the Perihelion of Jupiter

Venus in 29 Aries E 29 Aligned to M 31, Andromeda Galaxy

Sun in 9 Taurus, E49 at the head of the Ram/Bodhisattva

Uranus and Jupiter in Taurus 22 E 52, entering the heart of the Bull

I have never seen an alignment this long and exact in any time of all my years of skywatching.

Tuesday 26th March 2024: Talk added in Parinama: The Back-End Assembly: Everything is Material Except!

Friday 21st March 2024: Sun transits the starless astrological sign Aries until April 19th.

Redesigned glyph for Aries: V-shape opening like a flower (spring season), circle at its root. “Growth from the source still connected to source, the awareness of knowing your true origins and wholeness.” Copyright JLL 1981

Wednesday 20th March 2024: Don’t excuse me for saying I said so, but assessing the prospect of Matangi’s triumph over the Archontic trickster and Mephisto rules — “You are not allowed to see what is not there to see.” — I said that the entire world-drama suddenly shifts to the advantage of truth when things start happening that cannot be concealed. The absurd events concerning Brigitte, wife of French president Macron, and Kate Middleton in the UK, dismissed by many as to trivial to bother about, are just that, yes, trivial. But the triviality is perhaps an apt illustration of my assertion: Not being able to hide something so trivial signals no longer being able to hide what matters, either. I rest my case.

§ The FGS Home Story Course and 17 The Terma and the Terton are on private for development in the indefinite future. JLL

Homework for the Swan Deva Shift:

Nunc fluens facit tempus, nunc stans facit aeternitatum.

“The now that passes produces time, the now that remains produces eternity.” Boethius, The Consolation of Philosophy, written in 523 in Pavia, Italy.

Published today in 12 Ideosophy:

12 An Epiphany of Lady Sophia

Thursday 14th March 2024:

The age-old enigma of ancient archetecture continues. I find it timely that this vid appears at the start of the Swan Deva shift. The topic clearly belongs to the repertoire of the Storykeeper.

New feature in Course 16 on The Great Recovery. JLL has discontinued posting this material, or any material, on his YT channels. Going forward, talks on this theme (if any) can be accessed here by registered guests. The foundation concept for this theme can be found in Essential Education.

The Adult Child is a five-gear vehicle with telestic overdrive.
Drive wisely and mind what gear you are using.

Monday 11th March 2024:

Day 1 of Swan Deva shift 2024

Notice: 16 Planetary Tantra course is currently on a private setting for organisation.

Saturday 9th March 2024: Three new units published in 14 Celestics Vocation, let’s call it the Foundation Course for StarBase Celestics:

Forensic Astronomy 1-4

Forensic Astronomy 5-8

Forensic Astronomy 9-12

And, a new forum thread for faculty members: Moving Forward With Celestics

Thursday 7th March 2024: JLL on yt: GR 9 Are You Vunerable, And If So, How Do You Handle It?
Tuesday 5th March 2024: JLL on yt: Great Recovery 8: Are You Ingenuous, and If So, So What?
Monday 4th March 2024: 6 AM, last quarter of the Matangi cycle, in completion, Moon on the hinge at Antares in the Scorpion setting to the south west.

Have you ever had the impression, as you move through your days and nights, habitually comfortable in the flow of the passing moment, everything around you that is stable and familiar, and known, and you effortlessly present in the scene and setting — the impression that it all has come into existence at that exact single moment? As if you and all of it, and you in it all, did not exist before, did not have to exist before, did not have to go through a process in time and linear duration, to come to this moment, to be here in this immediate event of being alive?

Rilke born in the all-seeing heart of the Scorpion tried to explain his notion of life-in-death and death-in-life as if they were complementing planes that meet at a perfect edge, the edge of this moment  which in some uncanny way captures you dead in life and alive in death, deathless in Eternity. That impression, as if everything has come to exist instantaneously in this single passing moment of the Now — that impression is, I reckon, the sense of being deathlessly alive and the supreme way to truly know what the event of being alive is, as if you could know in perfection how it all looks already to death itself, death looking at life.

Samsara and this enlightenment have the same look.

Love your solitude, my friends. It is the only genuine place you have to come from to be solid with others and right with the world.

February 2024 School Activity now archived to The Menhir’s curriculum units: The Menhir February 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

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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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