Spiritual
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In The Footsteps Of High John | John Michael Greer
April 15, 2020 (EcoSophia.net) -- Two weeks ago, while winding up the story of the colonial Rhode Island astrologer Joseph Stafford, I noted that the kind of occultism practiced by Stafford and ...
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The Astrologer of Narragansett Bay | John Michael Greer
Johannes Kelpius, painted by Christopher WittApril 1, 2020 (EcoSophia.net) -- A month ago, I recounted the story of Johannes Kelpius, the German occultist who crossed the Atlantic in 1694 with his ...
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A Magic Republic | John Michael Greer
March 4, 2020 (EcoSophia.net) -- Have you ever noticed that in America, magic is always mixed up in the popular imagination with premodern Europe? That’s not just an affectation of the Neopagan ...
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'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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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