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The Arc Of Our Future | John Michael Greer
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July 29, 2020 (EcoSophia.net) -- In last week’s open post, I noted that I didn’t have anything in particular planned for this fifth Wednesday of the month, and asked my readers what they wanted to hear about. Quite a few subjects got brought up for discussion -- among others, the novels of Hermann Hesse, Carl Jung’s concept of synchronicity, and the metaphysics of sex -- but the largest number of ...
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'Try!' | John Michael Greer
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July 15, 2020 (EcoSophia.net) -- One of the things that makes the magical history of America so, well, magical is the number of astonishing individuals who have played a central role in it. Even amon ...
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The Power of the Mind | John Michael Greer
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July 1, 2020 (EcoSophia.net) -- While Andrew Jackson Davis was attracting huge crowds with his discourses in trance, and the Fox sisters were listening to tapping noises, another important 19th-centu ...
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A Prophet and a Loss | John Michael Greer
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June 17, 2020 (EcoSophia.net) -- A word or two about history before we proceed. Two weeks ago, in response to my discussion of John Chapman, aka Johnny Appleseed, I fielded the inevitable comment fro ...
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In the Company of Angels | John Michael Greer
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June 3, 2020 (EcoSphia.net) -- So far in our exploration of the hidden history of American magic, we’ve talked mostly about people whose place in this nation’s history has been forgotten -- or, to be ...
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The Flame and the Crucible | John Michael Greer
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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 ...
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The Arts Of The Cunning Folk | John Michael Greer
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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 ...
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On the Far Side of Silence | John Michael Greer
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April 29, 2020 (EcoSophia.net) -- Over the last few months I’ve been discussing the forgotten (or, rather, systematically ignored) history of American occultism, partly because it’s interesting in it ...
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In The Footsteps Of High John | John Michael Greer
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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 ...
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The Astrologer of Narragansett Bay | John Michael Greer
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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 ...
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A Magic Republic | John Michael Greer
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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 ...