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The Kek Wars, Part Three: Triumph of the Frog God | John Michael Greer

Frog God by wegs. ©2011-2018 wegsAug. 1, 2018 (EcoSophia) -- In last week’s thrilling episode of The Kek Wars, we saw how thousands of disaffected young people who’d been shut out of our society’s ci ...

The Kek Wars, Part Two: In the Shadow of the Cathedral | John Michael Greer

July 25, 2018 (EcoSophia.net) -- In last week’s thrilling episode of The Kek Wars, we talked about the way that America’s managerial aristocracy and its broad penumbra of lackeys and hangers-on retre ...

The Kek Wars, Part One: Aristocracy and its Discontents | John Michael Greer

Pepe the FrogJuly 18, 2018 (EcoSophia.net) -- Every month or so since the 2016 presidential election campaign hit high tide, somebody has asked me to say something about the weirdest and most interes ...

BOOKS: The Cosmic Doctrine: The Forces of (Negative) Evil | John Michael Greer

July 11, 2018 (EcoSophia.net) -- This week we continue a monthly discussion of The Cosmic Doctrine by Dion Fortune, which I consider the most important work of 20th-century occult philosophy. Climb i ...

The Alt-Right, the Ctrl-Left, and the Esc-Center | John Michael Greer

July 4, 2018 (EcoSophia.net) -- When I predicted back in January of 2016 that Donald Trump would be the next president of the United States, I suggested that his candidacy would mark a sea change in ...

An Astrological Interlude: Cancer Ingress 2018 | John Michael Greer

June 20, 2018 (EcoSophia.net) -- Three months ago, we marked the beginning of the astrological year by discussing the Aries ingress chart for the United States. Those of you who weren’t part of that ...

BOOKS: The Cosmic Doctrine: The Dawn of Manifestation | John Michael Greer

June 13, 2018 (EcoSophia.net) -- With this post we begin a monthly discussion of The Cosmic Doctrine by Dion Fortune, which I consider the most important work of 20th-century occult philosophy. Climb ...

Bad Faith and Worse Hairstyles | John Michael Greer

June 6, 2018 (EcoSophia.net) -- For the last few weeks, I’ve been making my way through the dense prose of Jean-Paul Sartre’s Being and Nothingness, the most important work to come out of the existen ...

On Occult Literature: A Diversion of Sorts | John Michael Greer

Occult vibrations 1600 block of Lamont Street, NW. By rockcreek, Flickr (CC BY-NC-SA 2.0)May 30, 2018 (EcoSophia.net) -- It so happens that last week’s post on reading books by dead people had a curi ...

The Choice of a Canon | John Michael Greer

May 23, 2018 (EcoSophia.net) -- Last week’s post on the spooky dimensions of reading -- the one-on-one encounter, in the silent places of the mind, with another person’s thinking -- sparked a lively ...

The Taste of Another’s Thoughts | John Michael Greer

May 16, 2018 (EcoSopha.net) -- We’ve taken a somewhat rambling route in our discussion of how each of us can haul ourselves up out of the swamp of abstractions in which modern industrial society is s ...