Month: July 2025

Mitigation and Other Unspeakable Horrors

John Michael Greer178 Comments

In two recent posts (here and here) I’ve discussed the steaming mess of confusion, hypocrisy, and genuine trouble that goes under the label “global climate change.” As I pointed out in those essays, yes, the climate is changing. Yes, emissions from our smokestacks and tailpipes are part, though only part, of the reason. No, we’re…

A Vision: Stories of Michael Robartes and his Friends

John Michael Greer78 Comments

Perhaps the most important thing that sets A Vision apart from other works of occult philosophy in its time is that its author was one of the greatest writers and poets of the age. The occult revival that Eliphas Lévi launched in 1854 with the first volume of Doctrine and Ritual of High Magic produced…

Climate Change: An Unwelcome Future

John Michael Greer362 Comments

The audience reaction to the last two essays I’ve put up here turned out to be something of a surprise to me. A month and a half ago—has it been that long already?—I posted the first of two parts of an essay on climate change, listing three things that each side of today’s climate debates…