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An extraordinary exploration of the forgotten history of the esoteric and its unexpected possibilities in our time.
List of contents
CONTENTS
ABOUT THE AUTHOR vii
FOREWORD ix
CHAPTER ONE
A magical education 1
CHAPTER TWO
Magical ecology 25
CHAPTER THREE
The secret history of Neopaganism 41
CHAPTER FOUR
Victorian sex magic 67
CHAPTER FIVE
Understanding Renaissance magic 87
CHAPTER SIX
Magic, metapolitics, and reality 109
CHAPTER SEVEN
Alchemical initiation 129
CHAPTER EIGHT
Healing through the elements 149
CHAPTER NINE
Paganism and the future 171
INDEX 197
About the author
John Michael Greer is the award-winning author of more than fifty books, including The New Encyclopedia of the Occult, The Druidry Handbook, The Celtic Golden Dawn and Circles of Power: An Introduction to Hermetic Magic. An initiate in Freemasonry, the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, the Martinist Order, and three Druid traditions, Greer served as the Grand Archdruid of the Ancient Order of Druids in America (AODA) for twelve years. He is also the author of seventeen fantasy and science fiction novels and ten nonfiction books on peak oil and the future of industrial society. He lives in Rhode Island and blogs weekly on politics, magic, and the future at www.ecosophia.net.
Summary
An extraordinary exploration of the forgotten history of the esoteric and its unexpected possibilities in our time.
In these talks, written and presented to a variety of audiences between 2001 and 2010, John Michael Greer explores the forgotten history of occultism and its unexpected possibilities in our time.
From practical methods of occult training to the politics and metapolitics of magic, from the shadowy world of Victorian sex magic to the alchemy of initiatory ritual, from the complex origins of modern Neopaganism to the approaching twilight of Neopagan pop culture and what comes next, the talks collected in this book seek to inspire curiosity and reflection, not to set out an ironclad case for this or that point of view.
This book is an extraordinary insight into the life and work of a working magician and occultist.
