Content by author: John Michael Greer

The Cosmic Doctrine: The Building of the Atom | John Michael Greer

Sept. 12, 2018 (EcoSophia) -- This week we continue a monthly discussion of The Cosmic Doctrine by Dion Fortune, which I consider the most important work of 20th-century occult philosophy. Climb in and fasten your belts; it’s turning out to be as wild a ride as I expected. If you’re just joining us now, please go back and read the previous commentaries; the material covered in these earlier posts ...

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A Few Notes on American Magic | John Michael Greer

Lessons from the New Thought correspondence school, the Order of Essenes, opened by Burks L. Hamner in Tampa, Florida, in 1938 and shut down by his daughter some time in the early 1970s.Sept. 5, 2018 ...

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An Astrological Interlude: Brexit | John Michael Greer

Aug. 29, 2018 (EcoSophia.net) -- The noise and bustle generated by the ongoing three-ring circus of U.S. politics in the era of Trump can make it hard sometimes to notice that performances just as co ...

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The Cosmic Doctrine: The Twelve Rays and the Seven Cosmic Planes | John Michael Greer

Aug. 15, 2018 (EcoSophia.net) -- This week we continue a monthly discussion of The Cosmic Doctrine by Dion Fortune, which I consider the most important work of 20th-century occult philosophy. Climb i ...

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The Kek Wars, Part Three: Triumph of the Frog God | John Michael Greer

Frog God by wegs. ©2011-2018 wegsAug. 1, 2018 (EcoSophia) -- In last week’s thrilling episode of The Kek Wars, we saw how thousands of disaffected young people who’d been shut out of our society’s ci ...

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The Kek Wars, Part Two: In the Shadow of the Cathedral | John Michael Greer

July 25, 2018 (EcoSophia.net) -- In last week’s thrilling episode of The Kek Wars, we talked about the way that America’s managerial aristocracy and its broad penumbra of lackeys and hangers-on retre ...

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The Kek Wars, Part One: Aristocracy and its Discontents | John Michael Greer

Pepe the FrogJuly 18, 2018 (EcoSophia.net) -- Every month or so since the 2016 presidential election campaign hit high tide, somebody has asked me to say something about the weirdest and most interes ...

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The Cosmic Doctrine: The Forces of (Negative) Evil | John Michael Greer

July 11, 2018 (EcoSophia.net) -- This week we continue a monthly discussion of The Cosmic Doctrine by Dion Fortune, which I consider the most important work of 20th-century occult philosophy. Climb i ...

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The Alt-Right, the Ctrl-Left, and the Esc-Center | John Michael Greer

July 4, 2018 (EcoSophia.net) -- When I predicted back in January of 2016 that Donald Trump would be the next president of the United States, I suggested that his candidacy would mark a sea change in ...

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An Astrological Interlude: Cancer Ingress 2018 | John Michael Greer

June 20, 2018 (EcoSophia.net) -- Three months ago, we marked the beginning of the astrological year by discussing the Aries ingress chart for the United States. Those of you who weren’t part of that ...

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