Talking Back to Flying Heads

John Michael Greer299 Comments

As a writer with an unruly muse, I’ve gotten used to accepting inspiration no matter the quarter from which it arrives. Even for me, though, this essay is a little odd. We’re going to be talking about one of the weirdest movies of the early 1970s, which is of course saying something; about a widely…

A Few Notes on Matriarchy

John Michael Greer401 Comments

You don’t actually understand an idea until you know its history. That lesson is one that most people have been doing their level best not to learn in recent years. Their unwillingness isn’t any kind of accident. Once you know where an idea came from and what kind of vagrant wanderings it’s been through on…

July 2025 Open Post

John Michael Greer407 Comments

This week’s Ecosophian offering is the monthly open post to field questions and encourage discussion among my readers. All the standard rules apply (no profanity, no sales pitches, no trolling, no rudeness, no paid propagandizing, no long screeds proclaiming the infallible truth of fill in the blank, no endless rehashes of questions I’ve already answered)…

Mitigation and Other Unspeakable Horrors

John Michael Greer305 Comments

In two recent posts (here and here) I’ve discussed the steaming mess of confusion, hypocrisy, and genuine trouble that goes under the label “global climate change.” As I pointed out in those essays, yes, the climate is changing. Yes, emissions from our smokestacks and tailpipes are part, though only part, of the reason. No, we’re…

A Vision: Stories of Michael Robartes and his Friends

John Michael Greer81 Comments

Perhaps the most important thing that sets A Vision apart from other works of occult philosophy in its time is that its author was one of the greatest writers and poets of the age. The occult revival that Eliphas Lévi launched in 1854 with the first volume of Doctrine and Ritual of High Magic produced…

Climate Change: An Unwelcome Future

John Michael Greer362 Comments

The audience reaction to the last two essays I’ve put up here turned out to be something of a surprise to me. A month and a half ago—has it been that long already?—I posted the first of two parts of an essay on climate change, listing three things that each side of today’s climate debates…

June 2025 Open Post

John Michael Greer356 Comments

This week’s Ecosophian offering is the monthly open post to field questions and encourage discussion among my readers. All the standard rules apply (no profanity, no sales pitches, no trolling, no rudeness, no paid propagandizing, no long screeds proclaiming the infallible truth of fill in the blank, no endless rehashes of questions I’ve already answered)…

A Brief Guide to Status Panic

John Michael Greer356 Comments

Yes, I know I said I was going to return to the theme of climate change as soon as I got back from my working trip to England. Regular readers will know that my muse is an unpredictable lady, however, and what she decides to talk about is not always what I had in mind.…

On Hiatus

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Just a reminder to my readers that this blog will be on hiatus until June 18. I’ll continue to put comments through on the previous open post when I have the chance, but long delays are pretty likely. See you then!

May 2025 Open Post

John Michael Greer307 Comments

This week’s Ecosophian offering is the monthly open post to field questions and encourage discussion among my readers. All the standard rules apply (no profanity, no sales pitches, no trolling, no rudeness, no paid propagandizing, no long screeds proclaiming the infallible truth of fill in the blank, no endless rehashes of questions I’ve already answered)…