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A Magic Republic | John Michael Greer
March 4, 2020 (EcoSophia.net) -- Have you ever noticed that in America, magic is always mixed up in the popular imagination with premodern Europe? That’s not just an affectation of the Neopagan ...
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Toward the Next America | John Michael Greer
The U.S. Courthouse in Salt Lake City. Ricardo630 | Wikimedia CommonsFeb. 19, 2020 (EcoSophia.net) -- When I mentioned in a post two weeks ago that America was heading into a new phase of its ...
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The End of the Dream | John Michael Greer
Feb. 5, 2020 (EcoSophia.net) -- It may not be quite accurate to say that it’s all over but the shouting, but something of that sense seems to be catching on in America these days. The collapse of ...
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To the Shores of a Surging Ocean | John Michael Greer
By Moehre1992 - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=12135443Dec. 25, 2019 (EcoSophia.net) -- I hope all of my readers who, like me, celebrated the solstice on ...
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'Wind is Changing!' | John Michael Greer
The "Wodwoses" have been described as a variant of the Green man, seen here on a medieval misericord in Ludlow. The Drúedain are a fictional race of Men which were counted amongst the Edain, who ...
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A Place For Books | John Michael Greer
Dec. 4, 2019 (Eco.Sophia.net) -- As one of my readers pointed out last week -- tip of the hat to Patricia Mathews -- we’ve now embarked on the most sacred season of the American year, the season of ...
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Dancers at the End of Time, Part Three: A Mortal Splendor | John Michael Greer
Nov. 13, 2019 (EcoSophia.net) -- Some of my critics like to insist that I never admit that I’m wrong. Those readers who have been following me for any length of time know that this isn’t true, but ...
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Dancers at the End of Time, Part Two: 'Facts are the Enemies of Truth' | John Michael Greer
Nov. 6, 2019 (EcoSophia.net) -- Last week, in Part One of this post, we explored the strange way that many people these days seem to have lost the ability to think clearly, or at all, about certain ...
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Dancers at the End of Time, Part One: The Flight from Reason | John Michael Greer
Oct. 30, 2019 (EcoSophia.net) -- For quite some time now I’ve been mulling over how to talk about one of the strangest features of our era -- the way that certain very simple kinds of reasoning have ...
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Heating Up The Political Climate | John Michael Greer
Oct. 16, 2019 (EcoSophia.net) -- Yes, we need to talk about climate change again, and it’s probably necessary to start with a point I’ve made on this blog several times already: anthropogenic ...
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Waiting for the Next Panic | John Michael Greer
Oct. 2, 2019 (EcoSophia.net) -- When I first started blogging more than 13 years ago, the main focus of my online essays was peak oil. It was a good time to discuss such things. The price of crude ...
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