Month: April 2026

War In Heaven?

John Michael Greer287 Comments

As most of my readers know by now, when there are five Wednesdays in a month, the topic of the fifth Wednesday post here gets decided by the readership via a flurry of nominations and votes. Since I have the weirdest as well as the best commentariat on the internet, fifth Wednesday topics so far…

April 2026 Open Post, Mark II

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I’m in the process of moving this blog to a new server. Most of the transfer process has gone very well, but in the process the open post I launched on Wednesday seems to have gone missing. While my new hosting company scrambles around seeing if it can be retrieved, I’m relaunching this to allow…

Situationism: The Art of the Dérive

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Our explorations of Situationism, that eccentric twentieth-century offspring of a drunken amour between avant-garde European art and radical post-Marxist politics, have already led in strange directions. The ground we’ve covered so far extends from postwar Paris to Lower Slobbovia and from Marxist dialectical materialism to the occult perspectives that most Marxists despise utterly. Nonetheless the…

A Vision: The Moon is Full

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With this post we continue our survey of the Great Wheel of the 28 lunar phases, the central symbolic mandala of Yeats’s A Vision. In last month’s episode we followed the arc of the evolving soul around the second quarter of the wheel, from the bitter conflict and unavoidable failure of the 8th phase to…

Minutes of the Grand Council of Five of the Bavarian Illuminati, 18th day of Discord, 5975 AM

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(see note 1) GRAND MASTER CORNELIUS SCHRECK, ILLUMINATUS PRIMUS: Well, I think we can begin at this point. Brother Sentinel, are we secure? GRAND GUARDIAN HENRY JAMES BALOR, ILLUMINATUS PRIMUS: Grand Master, the doors are sealed, the guards are at their stations, and the interdimensional horrors from the Slime Pits of Blagoonah are sniffing around…