'Wind is Changing!' | John Michael Greer

The "Wodwoses" have been described as a variant of the Green man, seen here on a medieval misericord in Ludlow. The Drúedain are a fictional race of Men which were counted amongst the Edain, who made ...

Dancers at the End of Time, Part Three: A Mortal Splendor | John Michael Greer

Nov. 13, 2019 (EcoSophia.net) -- Some of my critics like to insist that I never admit that I’m wrong. Those readers who have been following me for any length of time know that this isn’t true, but li ...

Dancers at the End of Time, Part Two: 'Facts are the Enemies of Truth' | John Michael Greer

Nov. 6, 2019 (EcoSophia.net) -- Last week, in Part One of this post, we explored the strange way that many people these days seem to have lost the ability to think clearly, or at all, about certain p ...

The Dream of a Managed Society | John Michael Greer

Plato. Luni marble, copy of the portrait made by Silanion ca. 370 BC for the Academia in Athens. From the sacred area in Largo Argentina.August 21, 2019 (EcoSophia.net) -- My essay here two weeks ago ...

How people engage with science can promote unbelief or beliefs about God | Arizona State University

Credit: CC0 Public Domain July 18, 2019 (MedicalXpress) -- Most Americans believe science and religion are incompatible, but a recent study suggests that scientific engagement can actually promote be ...

The Long View | John Michael Greer

July 3, 2019 (EcoSophia.net) -- For more than three years now, the themes of these online essays of mine -- here, and in my previous blog The Archdruid Report -- have had a relatively tight focus on ...

The Flight To The Fringes, And What Waits There | John Michael Greer

June 19, 2019 (EcoSophia.net) -- Several of my readers alerted me over the last week to an online essay by Christian writer Rod Dreher on the rising popularity of malevolent magic and demonolatry (th ...

The Path Between the Pillars | John Michael Greer

June 5, 2019 (EcoSophia.net) -- The issue we’ve been discussing for the last several months -- the conviction on the part of well-to-do Americans, and people of the industrial world’s privileged clas ...

Delusions of Omnipotence | John Michael Greer

Wizard puppet by Neil Tackaberry, Flickr (CC BY-ND 2.0)May 29, 2019 (EcoSophia) -- I hope my readers won’t object at this point if our conversation takes an excursion into the outer reaches of Americ ...

A Conversation with the World | John Michael Greer

May 15, 2019 (EcoSophia.net) -- Over the last three and a half months, I’ve spent most of my writing time on this blog tracing a series of trajectories that all spiral in toward a common center. Each ...

BOOKS: The Cosmic Doctrine: The Beginnings of Consciousness | John Michael Greer

FRED TOMASELLI/PRIVATE COLLECTION/BRIDGEMAN IMAGES Part 1: The Dawn of Manifestation Part 2: The Forces of (Negative) Evil Part 3: The 12 Rays and the Seven Cosmic Planes Part 4: The Building of the ...