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First Instruction of the Wisdom Dakinis of Gaia-Sophia:
"You cannot become anything but more beautiful."
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LUNAR SHAKTIS, month by month
Shaktas, spiritual warriors, and natural-born mystics, I have not posted material on the lunar cycles since november. My apologies for not keeping you updated, but I have had overwhelming priorities due to instruction in a steady blaze. Now, in the shift of Kali Ma, January 16 - February 13, 2010, TELESTICS appears on metahistory.org and call to Gaian ecosorcery begins to resonate across this troubled world.
Think of Kali as the brute force of the protective wrath of the planetary animal mother, Gaia. She who protects also delivers. She is the guardian of our humanity and the slayer of our illusions, our individual and collective insanity.Kali = Deliverance.
And she is no fiction, not an imaginary being, not a Jungian archetype, not merely a goddess fantasy produced by human make-believe. She is as real as the Jet Stream. She is more powerful than HAARP. She is alive here and now and she invites you into her presence.
More soon... JLL 29 January 2010 Andalucia
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Tantra for the Planet: Shaktism Reinvented
The page you are viewing is the portal to an entirely new dimension of this site. The pulldown menu links to three folders of writings and audio files (forthcoming) that will present "Planetary Tantra." This term was suggested by Jay Weidner during my interview for a DVD (to be announced and linked) for his company and website, Sacred Mysteries. Its it titled "The Dawn of Planetary Tantra: Sophia Returning."
So, what is Planetary Tantra? It is not an appeal to revive the Mysteries, but it is a continuation of the Sophianic vision recovered and restored from Gnostic sources. It fuses it with Asian mystical practices and extrapolates it in some unusual ways. Starting from the Tantric conversion, Sophia :: Wisdom :: Vidya, this will be an experimental approach to a futuristic version of "goddess revival". Nothing faintly resembling organized dogmatic religion is intended, of course. Consistent with the critical spirit of metahistory.org, I do not endorse or promote received religious beliefs of any kind. But neither do I deny the need to explore and express the religious imagination of our species. My purpose is to indicate the direction in which that potent faculty of imagination might be aimed in the last two centuries of Kali Yuga (3102 BCE - 2216 CE).
First and foremost, Planetary Tantra is a path of interactive magic with Gaia-Sophia, a way to engage the supernatural powers of the Divine Feminine in every aspect of life, love, and destiny.
With Planetary Tantra, the aim of metahistory.org shifts from educational to experimental. I am not longer writing theoretically, nor even mythopoetically, about our connection to Sophia, the wisdom goddess embodied in the earth. Planetary Tantra is a novel extrapolation of Gnostic vision based on my own experience as a natural-born mystic and terton (Tibetan term for someone who discovers hidden wisdom or mind treasure).
Dakini Wisdom
This new material is the result of a series of experiences I underwent in the summer of 2008. It is, if you will, the fruit of a personal revelation, but this revelation is not restricted to me personally. It begins with me, but it does not belong to me. I am not the sole author of Planetary Tantra though I will initially appear to be so, simply because the group-generated initiation process it entails is just now getting underway. The Maine terton (pun intended) is the discoverer of this incomparable wisdom treasure, the Terma of Gaia Awakening. He is like a prospector who finds a rich vein of precious ore in a mountainside. Many will come and mine this ore, this lore. I am convinced that sacred and beautiful artifacts will be made from the substance of these writings, and this arcane teaching will serve commerce in future transactions in a catastrophic world. The discovery of this particular vein of goddess wisdom presages a bonanza, an exceptionally large and rich deposit. A veritable gold rush of open source spirituality.
Second, Planetary Tantra is the merge of love and the supernatural — historically speaking, the fusion of Romanticism with Vajrayana, the Tibetan path of dakini magic.
A dakini is a feminine supernatural being who confers wisdom and magical powers. Considered as expressions of Gaia, dakinis might be compared to veins of precious ore in the earth (the mining analogy again). The natural magic of Gaia is present all through the biosphere, in rocks and trees, clouds and the ocean, plants and animals, but veins of emerald, sapphire, ruby and other precious stones are not found everywhere. They are extraordinary deposits, rare extrusions of the material power of the earth. Just so, dakinis are rare extrusions of the living wisdom of the earth, Sophia. Planetary Tantra is a way to interact intimately with these dakinis and receive their instruction. They are "tutelary deities," witches who teach us the purposes of the Wisdom Goddess, among other things.
Finally, Planetary Tantra is the method of experimental mysticism uniquely based on a great mandala, the Shakti Cluster. Kali, a wrathful form of Gaia-Sophia, dominates this mandala, for Planetary Tantra is the fast-track approach to liberation for our time, the last two centuries of Kali Yuga (3102 BCE - 2216 CE).
Like Dzogchen, Planetary Tantra is not a gradualist approach but a way of "non-attainment," sudden illumination. In this respect, it also compares to Ch'an and Zen Buddhism. Kali is the primary supernatural agency to be recognized on this path of fast-track liberation. The Hindu goddess Kali is said to oversee the current age, Kali Yuga, and she emerges as the dominant presence in the human psyche as the age draws to a close. She is consequently the "strange attractor" for the religious imagination of our species at the moment when the very survival of humankind, morally and physically, is at stake.
Kali is an aspect of Gaia just now coming into view. She is not the wrath of Gaia, but the repository and reflex of the wrath of everyone who is enraged at the sickness of society, the global games of deceit and manipulation, and the venal exploitation and desecration of the earth. Due to human weakness, hypocrisy, cowardice, and moral reservations (so-called), most human wrath cannot be enacted or expressed in an effectual way, so that it would make a difference in the world at large. Kali receives our unexpelled wrath to turn it around and direct it back to humanity in ways that no individual can do.
Outrageous Freedom
The unity of love and the supernatural generates power of unimaginable intensity and scope: power to play, not control, to dissolve, not dominate, to enhance and enchant, not seduce, to teach and inspire, not deceive, to direct, not manipulate. One of the open secrets of Planetary Tantra is this: such power becomes available only to those who no longer care about having it. Traditionally, since the inception of Mahayana Buddhism around 150 CE, the Bodhisattva Vow has expressed the primary aim of Buddhist practice: namely, to strive for the liberation of all sentient beings. But in the closing years of Kali Yuga, this proposition becomes obsolete due to the chaotic decadence of the human condition. Under Kali and the Gaian Dakinis of the Shakti Cluster, the power required to liberate all sentient beings comes with the freedom to use it any way you like. Any way. How ultimate freedom of desire aligns with planetary magic is the sweet secret of this Tantra.
Planetary Tantra is a path of outrageous freedom, celebrated with outrageous love. This path has some precedents regarding spiritual orientation and technique, but it is without precedent in actual practice. Parallels with Indian and Tibetan Tantra can help to elucidate its unique nature and show how it is custom-made for this moment in historical time, right now. It is not a timeless method, but a tactic for near instanteous change. As such, it may also be called Kala Tantra, the Tantra of this instant: in Sanskrit, kala, "the present moment of time."
Collaboration with the Divine Feminine is a real experience, not a fantasy. It comes with the recogniton of the blissful wisdom display, the Shakti Cluster. The power required to liberate all sentient beings is beyond human holding capacity, and so to adopt the Bodhisattva Vow is, nowadays, futile and misleading. The power for liberation on that scale streams from the eighteen Gaian Dakinis of the Shakti Cluster, and nowhere else. These Dakinis are expressions of the Divine Feminine who align us as individuals to a different vow, a different intent: to make love interactive with the supernatural dimension wherefrom those Dakinis emanate.
Personal Disclaimer
In closing, let me address the concern that John Lash has finally gone off his rocker and turned into a religious fanatic, the leader of his private cult of "dakini magic". That he's recklessly pirating sacred Buddhist teachings for a sex-crazed power-trip, proposing weird games fed by his occult fantasies, passing off channeled material as divine revelation, and worse. These concerns are predictable and may well be heightened in some minds by the tone and content of what's to come.
If you have even riffled my last book, Not in Him Image, you will understand that I am the last person on the planet who wants to invite a messiah projection. I don't ask anyone to trust me or follow me as a leader or believe a single word I write. Just consider Planetary Tantra in a dispassionate, open-minded way, if you can. And if you dare to, go toward where it takes you.
May what I now begin to teach reach toward another kind of instruction, the awakening to the genius of your own mind under the sublime gaze of the Wisdom Goddess and her console of immanent powers, the Shakti Cluster.
Go rapturously where wisdom displays the magical powers of your non-originated knowing, at once selfbound and selfless. Let love merge you surely and sweetly into the luminous matrix of the Supernatural.
jll: Through Kamala 22 November 2008 Andalucia