Description
Book SynopsisStudies on druidry, Jungian psychology, politics, history and the time ahead In 2003 John Michael Greer became the seventh Grand Archdruid of the Ancient Order of Druids in America (AODA), an initiatory organization teaching Celtic nature spirituality which was founded in 1912. The outcome was that his writings began to stray into territory very far from the Hermetic occult philosophy that had been the previous focus of his career. The essays included in this volume chronicle some of the themes he explored as a result: Druidry, Jungian psychology, politics, history, and the shape of the future in a society in decline.
Table of ContentsCONTENTS
INTRODUCTION
DRUIDRY
Phallic religion in the Druid Revival
William Blake and the Druid Revival
The myth of Einigan
The Coelbren of the Bards
The fourth quaternio
RELIGION AND OCCULTISM
The god from the house of bread
The hidden church of the Golden Dawn
The place of mingled powers
POLITICS, WAR, AND MAGIC
Getting beyond the narratives
Magic and the end of history
Asymmetric tactical shock: a first reconnaissance
Fascism and the future
THE ROAD AHEAD
How civilizations fall
The long road down
The falling years
The Next Ten Billion Years
The coming of the Post-Axial Age
Toward the deep future
INDEX
