Hearts Of Group Drummers Synchronize | Bar-Ilan University

Credit: CC0 Public Domain May 21, 2020 (MedicalXpress) -- The hearts of group drummers synchronize. In an interdisciplinary study published today in the journal Scientific Reports, researchers have r ...

The Flame and the Crucible | John Michael Greer

Alchemist May 20, 2020 (EcoSophia.net) -- Our journey through the hidden history of American occultism has focused so far entirely on traditions brought here from elsewhere -- the German Rosicrucian ...

I haven’t been touched in more than 2 months… | Mickey Z.

Mickey Z. -- World News Trust May 16, 2020 Photo credit: Mickey Z. Note: Please click on all the hyperlinks. On Sunday, March 8, as I was leaving a personal training client’s home, she gave me a hug. ...

The Arts Of The Cunning Folk | John Michael Greer

May 6, 2020 (EcoSophia.net) -- Two weeks ago we talked about the way that Bakongo spirituality made its way to the American colonies along with enslaved Africans from the Congo basin. Once here, it a ...

The ‘First Scientist’s’ 800-Year-Old Tonic For What Ails Us: The Truth | Richard Gunderman

William Blake -- Visionary Heads of Friar Roger Bacon and Poet Gray May 1, 2020 (The Conversation) -- It seems that science has been taking a beating lately. From decades of denial by the tobacco ind ...

Climb Every Mountain (Well, Maybe Not) | Mickey Z.

Gangkhar Puensum seen from Gophu La Pass; it is Bhutan's highest mountain at an elevation of 7,570 m (24,836 ft) and most likely the highest unclimbed mountain in the world. Image: Photo by Gradytheb ...

What the Pandemic Revealed: a Morally Bankrupt Culture | Charles Hugh Smith

Monopolies, quasi-monopolies and cartels are inherently exploitive and thus evil. May 1, 2020 (OfTwoMinds.com) -- What was "normal" for the past two decades was to turn a blind eye to the moral and f ...

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 Johan ...

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 fe ...

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 movem ...

'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 made ...