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That Untraversed Land | John Michael Greer
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Oct. 6 ,2021 (EcoSophia.net) -- It’s been just over a month since I started talking about how the predictions set out in 1972 by The Limits to Growth were coming true in our time. Since then the situation has become steadily worse. As I write this, rolling blackouts are leaving millions of people in China to huddle in the dark and shutting down yet another round of factories on which the West’s c ...
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The Way of Participation: A Response to Paul Kingsnorth | John Michael Greer
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Paul Kingsnorth, 2011. By Navjoat Kingsnorth - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0Sept. 29, 2021 (EcoSophia.net) -- A fair number of my readers also follow the writings of the English writer Paul Kingsnorth, who ...
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The Negative-Sum Economy | John Michael Greer
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Sept. 15, 2021 (EcoSophia.net) -- There are tides and seasons in the comments I field for posts here on my blog, certain questions that get asked at regular intervals, certain saliva-flecked tirades ...
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A Prayer for Nonbelievers | John Michael Greer
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A familiar volume.Sept. 1, 2021 (EcoSophia) -- I was 10 years old when The Limits to Growth first saw print. I have a dim memory of seeing a newspaper article or two about it, but I had other things ...
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Potemkin Nation | John Michael Greer
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Aug. 18, 2021 (EcoSophia.net) -- There are advantages to learning about history. One of the big ones is that patterns repeat themselves across historical time, and if you know what happened just befo ...
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The Future Is A Landscape | John Michael Greer
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Aug. 4, 2021 (EcoSophia.net) -- I’ve been reflecting of late about the way that our habitual expectations about change blind us to the way that change actually happens. One of the most important of t ...
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What We Can Still Accomplish | John Michael Greer
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July 7, 2021 (EcoSophia.net} -- One of the unexpected benefits of posting my reflections on the future of industrial society in public is that quite often I get advance warning of events on the horiz ...
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Whispers From Antiquity | John Michael Greer
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June 30, 2021 (EcoSophia.net) -- One of the things I find fascinating about the deepening twilight of industrial society is how rigid our modern notions of technology have become. Most people these d ...
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In Search of Immortality | John Michael Greer
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June 16, 2021 (EcoSophia.net) -- The explosive growth of interest in occultism that followed the rise of the Theosophical Society in the late 19th century set many currents of thought and practice in ...
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BOOKS: The Doctrine of High Magic: Chapter 1 | John Michael Greer
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June 9, 2021 (EcoSophia.net) -- With this post we continue a monthly chapter-by-chapter discussion of The Doctrine and Ritual of High Magic by Eliphas Lévi, the book that launched the modern magical ...
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The Legacy of Luxor | John Michael Greer
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May 19, 2021 (EcoSophia.net) -- Late last year, before veering off on several necessary tangents, we brought the story of American occultism up to the point when the Theosophical Society was hitting ...