Month: June 2026

June 2026 Open Post

John Michael Greer443 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 Game of Musical Chairs

John Michael Greer333 Comments

Some turning points in history are impossible to miss. They involve battle-cries and the clash of weapons, gatherings making decisions that can never be undone, and equally obvious events. Then there are the turning points that slip past unnoticed by most of the people whose lives they will overturn. I’ve come to think that one…

A Vision: The Final Quarter

John Michael Greer134 Comments

In this post we will complete our first pass around the wheel of the lunar phases, the central symbolic mandala of William Butler Yeats’s occult teaching. It’s been a long journey from the first stirrings of consciousness, three quarters of the way around the great arc of spiritual unfoldment Yeats traces out. Now the journey…

Sex, Politics, and Operation Dildo Blitz

John Michael Greer263 Comments

I planned on posting an essay on a different subject today. In fact, I had another essay all written and revised, waiting for whatever fame and fortune a weekly blog post by a writer well out on the cultural fringes can expect these days. That essay is going to be cooling its heels for another…