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The Negative-Sum Economy | John Michael Greer

Sept. 15, 2021 (EcoSophia.net) -- There are tides and seasons in the comments I field for posts here on my blog, certain questions that get asked at regular intervals, certain saliva-flecked tirades I can count on getting whenever certain things appear in my writings or happen in the world. One of the more frequent of the questions is how to preserve wealth in the face of a difficult future. This ...

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A Prayer for Nonbelievers | John Michael Greer

A familiar volume.Sept. 1, 2021 (EcoSophia) -- I was 10 years old when The Limits to Growth first saw print. I have a dim memory of seeing a newspaper article or two about it, but I had other things ...

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Potemkin Nation | John Michael Greer

Aug. 18, 2021 (EcoSophia.net) -- There are advantages to learning about history. One of the big ones is that patterns repeat themselves across historical time, and if you know what happened just befo ...

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The Future Is A Landscape | John Michael Greer

Aug. 4, 2021 (EcoSophia.net) -- I’ve been reflecting of late about the way that our habitual expectations about change blind us to the way that change actually happens. One of the most important of t ...

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What We Can Still Accomplish | John Michael Greer

July 7, 2021 (EcoSophia.net} -- One of the unexpected benefits of posting my reflections on the future of industrial society in public is that quite often I get advance warning of events on the horiz ...

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Whispers From Antiquity | John Michael Greer

June 30, 2021 (EcoSophia.net) -- One of the things I find fascinating about the deepening twilight of industrial society is how rigid our modern notions of technology have become. Most people these d ...

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In Search of Immortality | John Michael Greer

June 16, 2021 (EcoSophia.net) -- The explosive growth of interest in occultism that followed the rise of the Theosophical Society in the late 19th century set many currents of thought and practice in ...

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BOOKS: The Doctrine of High Magic: Chapter 1 | John Michael Greer

June 9, 2021 (EcoSophia.net) -- With this post we continue a monthly chapter-by-chapter discussion of The Doctrine and Ritual of High Magic by Eliphas Lévi, the book that launched the modern magical ...

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The Legacy of Luxor | John Michael Greer

May 19, 2021 (EcoSophia.net) -- Late last year, before veering off on several necessary tangents, we brought the story of American occultism up to the point when the Theosophical Society was hitting ...

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BOOKS: The Doctrine Of High Magic: Introduction | John Michael Greer

May 12, 2021 (EcoSophia.net) -- With this post we begin a monthly chapter-by-chapter discussion of The Doctrine and Ritual of High Magic by Eliphas Lévi, the book that launched the modern magical rev ...

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Conversation as Commons | John Michael Greer

May 5, 2021 (EcoSophia) -- A little while back I fielded yet another attempt to bully me into censoring my comments pages. It was the same schtick as always. One of my commenters had expressed a poin ...

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