BOOKS: The Doctrine Of High Magic: Introduction | John Michael Greer

May 12, 2021 (EcoSophia.net) -- With this post we begin a monthly chapter-by-chapter discussion of The Doctrine and Ritual of High Magic by Eliphas Lévi, the book that launched the modern magical rev ...

BOOKS: The Doctrine and Ritual of High Magic: Preliminaries | John Michael Greer

April 14, 2021 (EciSophia.net) -- Last month we wrapped up three years of monthly discussions of The Cosmic Doctrine by Dion Fortune, arguably the 20th century’s most important work of occult philoso ...

The Algorithm is Gonna Get You — Mickey Z.

(credit unknown) Mickey Z. — World News Trust April 12, 2021 "This is the whole point of technology. It creates an appetite for immortality on the one hand. It threatens universal extinction on the o ...

Hanging Out with Arnold at the Gym — Mickey Z.

(YouTube screenshot) Mickey Z. — Worlds News Trust March 1, 2021 I recently told you a little about my gig at the Vertical Club (VC). Think of it as Studio 54 with bench pressing (or is that redundan ...

Limbaugh, Obama, and the “Monsters” We Choose to See — Mickey Z.

(AP photos) Mickey Z. — World News Trust February 23, 2021 “They say that what you mock/Will surely overtake you And you become a monster/So the monster will not break you” (“Peace on Earth,” U2) NOT ...

When Andrea Dworkin and Catharine MacKinnon Tried to Show Us the Way — Mickey Z.

Photo: John Goetz Mickey Z. — World News Trust February 21, 2021 I’ve written plenty of valid critiques of “activism,” e.g. here and here and here and here. A common knee-jerk reaction to my work is ...

A Gathering of Long Lost Friends | John Michael Greer

Feb. 17, 2021 (EcoSophia.net) -- Regular readers will be aware that many of last year’s posts on this blog were devoted to what we might call the history of American magic, or perhaps the magical his ...

That Time I Became Robin Hood — Mickey Z.

Eduard Muzhevskyi / Science Photo Library Mickey Z. — World News Trust February 7, 2021 With “Robin Hood” in the news recently, it’s made me hark back to a time when I engaged in some “steal from the ...

Billy Blanks Still Owes Me $150 (and other tales from my “acting” career) — Mickey Z.

Billy Blanks and me, on the set of Low Blow (courtesy of Mickey Z.) Mickey Z. — World News Trust February 2, 2021 Like most martial artists of my generation, I dreamt of being the next Bruce Lee. The ...

The Grand Mutation: An Astrological Interlude | John Michael Greer

Dec. 23, 2020 (EcoSophia.net) -- Over the last year, and especially over the last month, I’ve fielded a flurry of questions about the astrological meaning of the conjunction of Jupiter and Saturn tha ...

What Will Your 2021 MixTape Sound Like? — Mickey Z.

(credit unknown) Mickey Z. — World News Trust December 30, 2020 There was a time when I was a very popular mixtape maker. (Mixtape = “a compilation of favorite pieces of music, typically by different ...