John Michael Greer's Writings
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Nov.07.2008
Keynote address for the fifth Community Solutions Peak Oil conference, Rochester Hills, MI, 10/31-11/2, 2008
I’d like to start by thanking all of you for coming to this conference, and the conference organizers and the sponsoring organizations—Community Solutions and the Upland Hills Ecological Awareness Center—for making it happen. We have a lot to talk about this weekend. There’s some good news to share, some good ideas to exchange, and no shortage of major challenges...
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Jun.10.2008
A talk given at Pantheacon 12 in San Jose, CA, this account of the occultism of our great-grandparents raised a bit of a stir at the time; some of the themes have appeared since then in my Element Encyclopedia of Secret Societies and other works.
One of the pieces of received wisdom about the past we all get in the course of growing up in modern America is the...
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Jun.10.2008
This essay began life as an open letter to two activist friends discussing a book edited by David Solnit, “Globalize Liberation” (SF: City Lights Book, 2004). It ended up in circulation among the activist community in the US, and was published several times on the internet. I have left it in its original form, as I think this adds more than it subtracts. -- JMG...
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About John Michael
Born in the gritty Navy town of Bremerton, Washington and raised in the south Seattle suburbs, I began writing about as soon as I could hold a pencil. SF editor George Scithers' dictum that all would-be writers have a million words of so of bad prose in them...
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John Michael’s Favorite Books
An eclectic mess of fiction and nonfiction: Giorgio de Santillana and Hertha von Dechend's "Hamlet's Mill," M. John Harrison's "The Pastel City," John Michell'...