Nemeta.org is John Lamb Lash’s online university dedicated to the restoration of the Humanities, and the preservation of the Pagan Mysteries. Nemeta is the “Sophianic School of Arts and Sciences.” There are a variety of free materials available to visiting guests. Simply sign up with a guest membership (no charge) to access all of the materials in the Visitors section, Course 16 Planetary Tantra, The Menhir pages, and much more.

This “Nemeta Preview” audio (part one) on youtube is a good introduction:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5NWrAA–0e4

The full audio is available on this Nemeta Visitors page:
https://nemeta.org/unit/approaching-nemeta-how-i-teach/

Here is a partial extract from the unit linked above:

§ Upon going through the overhaul of Nemeta in the summer of 2022, it occurred to me to distinguish what I teach from how I teach it. I am convinced that an explanation of how I teach will benefit newcomers in approaching Nemeta. [full audio is on the Nemeta page, linked above]

Rather like a “larping autist,” I appear on the campus at Nemeta in different guises or assumed identities. Veteran students fondly call me “the Maine professor” to imply “main, primary, basic,” making a pun on my hometown [home state of Maine]. The pet name may fit, but be assured, I do not mainly or exclusively teach one thing. I am certain that the “main” difficulty in approaching Nemeta is the diversity and magnitude of the topics on offer at the School. It may be helpful if I list the various and sundry roles or assumed identities at play in my delivery:

  • A professor of the Humanities. Define Humanities: the study and application in life of the moral values and guidelines expressed in exceptional works of literature, poetry, painting, architecture, sculpture, music, the performing arts, including in modern times, cinema. The tap-root of the Humanities in Western civilization is found in Greek and Latin works from antiquity, but in a broader sense, the Humanities can be traced to other cultures as well. Indigenous cultures do not supply the material of the Humanities which are the product and privilege of a literate and educated class, wherever and whenever it appears.
  • A self-taught scholar covering the history of religions, philosophy, and occult and esoteric systems
  • A critic of belief-systems. (Course 5 Metacritique)
  • A proponent of goddess reclamation
  • A contemporary Gnostic heretic
  • A proxy of Socrates
  • An instructor in applied noetics, theory and practice
  • A veteran of the Sixties, skilled in entheogenic practice and the special case of the telestic trance
  • A beneficiary of Modernist tradition, poetics and literature
  • A revivalist of the Romantic Movement of the late 18th and 19th centuries, extending into the late or post-Romantic Movement of the 20th Century
  • A lyric poet in the Modernist tradition
  • The lead of a forensic team investigating the crime scene of the human condition
  • The whiz kid who decoded the Mandela Effect
  • The creator of Celestics, the astrology of the future
  • Creator of a new genre, directive mythology
  • A sky-diviner who teaches naked-eye astronomy and sidereal mythology
  • A comparative mythologist who emphasizes the supreme guiding narrative, the FGS or Home Story
  • The navigator of the Gaian Navigation Experiment
  • The public relations agent for the Maitreya Process
  • Alter ego of Asuramaya, a mystical poet from the mirror world of the earth, located in the M31, the Andromeda Galaxy
  • A key figure in the Company of the Grail or Grailkeepers who find their reflection in the Grail Legend
  • A terton or treasure-finder  who discovered the Terma of Gaia Awakening
  • A modern-day telestes who intends to show how to practice Gnosis today. This program of upscaling Gnostic teachings includes the telestic method of trance-learning, “instruction by the Light,” which was the secret practice in the Pagan Mysteries of the Levant. The autobiographical work (due to appear in Course 17 The Terma and the Terton), titled “Severed Rose,” describes many intimate details about this technique of experimental mysticism.
  • A preceptor of moral ideology. Preceptor: someone who sets out the initial terms of a worldview or moral agenda. Course 12 Ideosophy presents a refutation of critical race theory (CRT) and gender ideology.

And, if that’s not bad enough, there are some comedic roles:

  • A counterpart to Colombo, the detective in the famous TV series starring Peter Falk
  • Other outlandish guises such as Deputy Dawg (another detective trope), Lash Larue (American comic book cowboy), the Lone Ranger (another comic cowboy hero), and Lone/Long John Silver of Treasure Island.
  • And finally, the salacious madman Lama Luv Mutt who teaches DOG ZEN, an outrageous and irreverent takedown of Buddhism in all its sizes and flavors

Read more at this link:
https://nemeta.org/unit/approaching-nemeta-how-i-teach/

Thumbnail Image: The Stoic Philosopher Diogenes