The purpose of this guide is twofold: provide one-click access to any text on the

site, and showcase the topics and themes treated in those texts. To assist
navigation through this material, the guide follows the buttons on the menu
panel. This is a teachng site so each button can be regarded as a classroom, or a
course being offered there. This guide shows where you go by entering each
classroom and previews the topics to be explored, the subject matter on offer, etc.

Please note indications of unfinished work.

PLANETARY TANTRA has its own site guide: Tantra Tour. The link to Planetary
Tantra is found at the top of the home page: click on the banner beneath the menu
panel. This link is consistent on all pages with the metahistory heading. Pages in PT
have a different heading with the link back to metahistory through the tree and well
logo in the lefthand column.

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See the French Site Liberterre for translations of many articles from
metahistory.org, plus chapters from Not in His Image

HOME PAGE

defines metahistory.org as a teaching site and states its dual purpose: to critique
beliefs and invite a future myth to guide humanity. The "future myth"proposed in
metahistory is not the author's personal invention, and not a channeled scenario. It is a
recovery and extrapolation of the sacred narrative of the fallen goddess Sophia
derived from the Pagan Mysteries of pre-Christian Europe, Egypt, and the Levant.
Hence the mission statement links immediately to the story of Gaia-Sophia, a myth in
progress.

Throughout the site, a click on the Tree and Well logo in the upper lefthand of the first
page of every file returns you to the home page. Or use the menu panel at the end of
each document. How Metahistory Works (starting beneath the cartouche that signals
recently posted material) is the opening orientation essay with emphasis on the
Socratic angle of the site. Both these essays belong to the category (/folder) of

GUIDELINES
Essential orientation to the concept of metahistory, its assumptions, themes, and
applications.
 Socrates in dialogue. Raphael, The School of Athens

How Metahistory Works sets out the Socratic orientation of the site and examines the
problems posed by the inveterate need to believe in what cannot be proven or tested.

The death of Socrates in 399 BCE was said to have been a voluntary
act, self-applied euthanasia. The old sage had several offers to leave
Athens, but chose to stay and face conviction on two bogus charges:
"corrupting the youth" and asebia, impiety—refusal to honor the
accepted dieties of high Athenian culture. On that count, you could
say he died for what he did not believe. i.e., the spiritual authorities.
This was his greatest heresy, and it is also his finest legacy. Hemlock
smoothie, anyone?

Socrates in the Last Days offers an idiosyncratic portrait of the

mascot of metahistory and takes a wild shot at explaining his unique
position in the Western intellectual tradition.

On the Hidden Deception in Believing is a mock-up of a dialogue

with Socrates who opens with this challenging suggestion: What if
we do not adopt beliefs because we find truth in them, but only, once
they are adopted, come to regard them as true? He contrasts the truth
value of a belief to its expedient value, the reason why it was
adopted. This dialogue exemplifies the technique of dereasoning
beliefs, the third basic tool of metacritique. The other two are:
assessing belief by the behavior it produces, and defusing belief by
analysis of the rationale constructed around it.