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, and the Order of Bards, Ovates and Druids, Greer served as the Grand Archdruid of the Ancient Order of Druids in America (AODA) for twelve years. He lives in Rhode Island with his wife Sara. Greer is also the author of eleven fantasy and science fiction novels and ten nonfiction books on peak oil and the future of industrial society, and also blogs weekly on politics, magic, and the future at www.ecosophia.net.
CONTENTS
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
