Content by author: John Michael Greer

What Is Art For? | John Michael Greer

Dec. 5, 2018 (EcoSophia.net) -- The discussion of the foibles and failures of modern art that appeared here two weeks ago was of course not the last word on that vast and intricate subject. This week I want to take the discussion further, starting from a deceptively simple question: what is art for? What’s the point or purpose of all these odd, impractical aspects of human culture we call the art ...

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This Flight from Failure | John Michael Greer

Nov. 21, 2018 (EcoSophia) -- A little while back I attended an open house at the newly founded What Cheer Writers Club across the river in Providence. Half coworking space, half social center for the ...

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The Cosmic Doctrine: The Beginnings of a Solar System | John Michael Greer

A.B. Lagrelius and Westphal, adapted by S. Egts. From: ScienceNews.orgPart 1: The Dawn of Manifestation Part 2: The Forces of (Negative) Evil Part 3: The 12 Rays and the Seven Cosmic Planes Part 4: T ...

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The Twilight of the Intelligentsia | John Michael Greer

John Michael Greer. Photo: YouTubeNov. 7, 2018 (EcoSophia.net) -- I promise, I didn’t time this sequence of posts so that this one would come out the morning after one of the most bitterly fought mid ...

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America and Russia: Tamanous and Sobornost | John Michael Greer

Credit: El Pomar Space GalleryOct. 31, 2018 (EcoSophia.net) -- In the first two essays in this sequence (here) and (here), I sketched out the framework of Oswald Spengler’s vision of the process by w ...

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America and Russia, Part Two: The Far Side of Progress | John Michael Greer

Credit: Dawid MichalczykOct. 17, 2018 (EcoSophia.net) -- Two weeks ago, in the first part of this sequence of posts, we explored the way that Oswald Spengler’s insights into the cycles of history can ...

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The Cosmic Doctrine: Atomic Evolution upon the Cosmic Planes | John Michael Greer

The Cosmic Doctrine: The Dawn of Manifestation The Cosmic Doctrine: The Forces of (Negative) Evil The Cosmic Doctrine: The 12 Rays and the Seven Cosmic Planes The Cosmic Doctrine: The Building of the ...

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America and Russia, Part I: Stirrings in the Borderlands | John Michael Greer

Oct. 3, 2018 (EcoSophia.net) -- To my mind, one of the main sources of collective stupidity in modern American society is our pervasive bad habit of short-term thinking. It’s embarrassingly rare for ...

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An Astrological Interlude: Libra Ingress 2018 | John Michael Greer

Sept. 19, 2018 (EcoSophia.net) -- The autumn equinox is nearly on us, and with it comes the mainstay of the political astrologer, the ingress chart. Regular readers who’ve been following the discussi ...

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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 a ...

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