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A Conversation with Nature | John Michael Greer

Feb. 20, 2019 (EcoSophia) -- There are many ways we can talk about the deeper roots of the crisis of our time, setting out from many different vantage points; as Charles Fort pointed out, one measures a circle, beginning anywhere. This week I want to start from that very curious branch of science called “invasion biology,” and more specifically with one of the bêtes noires of that science, the ze ...

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BOOKS: The Cosmic Doctrine: The Evolution of a Great Entity | John Michael Greer

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 Atom Part 5: Atomic Evolution upon the Cosmic Plane ...

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A Wilderness of Mirrors | John Michael Greer

Johann TetzelFeb. 6, 2019 (EcoSophia.net) -- Bloggers may take a month off now and then, but the world has a less flexible work schedule, and keeps on churning out days and weeks at the same unremitt ...

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The Dark Places of the Future | John Michael Greer

Image credit: deviantart.comDec. 26, 2018 (EcoSophia.net) -- Over most of the last decade now, I’ve watched celebrations of the New Year become more and more muted, and I think it’s far more likely t ...

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The Flight from Nature | John Michael Greer

Dec. 19, 2019 (EcoSophia.net) -- A couple of weeks ago one of my readers pointed me to an op-ed piece on climate change by Canadian journalist David Moscrop, titled “It’s time for climate change defe ...

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

An artist's illustration of a young, sun-like star encircled by its disk of gas and dust. The gas and dust will in time form exoplanets. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/T. Pyle Part 1: The Dawn of Manifesta ...

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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 ...

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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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BOOKS: 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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