John Michael Greer: Esoteric Wisdom, Solve et Coagula and Civilizational Collapse Ep 9 Wisdom Keeper
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- Опубліковано 7 вер 2024
- #johnmichaelgreer #magick #alchemy #astrology #collapse
Widely respected author and blogger in fields ranging from nature spirituality, Druidry, ceremonial magick, hermeticism, alchemy, mundane astrology, and the future of industrial society, John Michael Greer (JMG) is the prolific author of more than seventy books, including sixteen novels, and blogs weekly at ecosophia.net. He lives in Rhode Island with his wife Sara.
In this episode of the Wisdom Keeper Podcast, JMG and I discuss:
- an intellectual history of esoteric traditions from ancient Egypt and Greece to India and China, cross pollinating via the Silk Roads.
- ancient and advanced civilizations such as Atlantis and Lumeria, that might have influenced Egypt and Sumeria, and which have been lost in the historical record.
- the thread that binds all esoteric traditions, the art of resurrection: dying before you die, in order to be reborn.
- The history and practice of Alchemy from early textual sources to the Middle Ages, including the meaning of the alchemical notion Solve et Coagula
- The relationship between Western alchemy, magick and Tibetan Buddhism
- Astrology, its history, relevance, and how it works including Jung's notion of synchronicity.
- How we need to live from a symbolic or mythologic perspective to experience a more meaningful life.
- Mundane astrology and how to use planetary alignments for predictive purposes in worldly affairs from politics to economics.
- Catabolic collapse and the slow descent of our civilization.
- How to "collapse now, and avoid the rush", and advise for preparing for the inevitable cycles of death and rebirth on the civilizational level.
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Learn how to be poor in relative comfort. Esoteric traditions offer the solve et coagula to cope. Thank you Dr. Neale and John Michael Greer.
I got the Warnock & Greer version of the Picatrix. This book is awesome!! I am on Lesson 14 of C.Warnock's Astrological Magic Course. I have been plodding away at this for over two years now, plus just signed up for the Natal Astrology Course. The Picatrix authors are right, it has to be learned. I also have the Picatrix from Dan Attrell and David Porreca. Both these books complement each other. Be prepared to study the analytical aspects of Astrology, have a passion for it. If the Egyptians did it, I want to learn it!!!!!
Thanks for this. I have followed JMG for about 10 years. His blog is the best. His books are as accurate as I have found. The Long Descent is a great place to start.
where can I find his Vlogs ? im dipping my toes in the esoteric pool of knowledge. JMG inspires me
JMG is great. Great conversation.
when he stops interrupting
I just discovered Dr. Neale on The Sacred Speaks, and now I find he has an interview with my favorite author! Can't wait to listen
host was excellent
really great input from both dudes
Great insights, great conversation 👍🏼👍🏼
Hi, Dr. Neale! Regarding how astrology might work...well, I think/feel we are extremely fortunate in these times, with people like Harri Aalto having the generosity of sharing his ongoing, daily experience...how about an interview with him, I'd dare to say...(smile)?
Harri Aalto:" Meditating with consciousness luminously unbounded, with silence a vastness, I open my eyes and look outside: the profound stillness flows blissfully as the objects of my experience and the distance from inside to outside experience dissolves. The pure-knowledge vision inside somehow squeezes into the smallest sight without losing any Absoluteness.
The inner experience of my body is composed of uncountable points of brilliant golden light that are the percolating, material field of my awareness. Clearly these points of light are describing the outline and inner workings of my physiology. The knowledge structure of my body has come more and more into focus and luminous detail, until I experience my whole physical structure as tangible waves of the connectedness of whirling points of the purest light of consciousness. Consciousness has a wonderful organized thickness and a bliss pulse of unifying Soma. I experience reverberating Self-awareness objectified concretely as specific knowledge patterns and functions of my body with my immediate, surroundings in unified play.
Then I have the thought that since even my physical experience is known and perceived as divine consciousness, surely it is not just localized. Immediately I experience these waves and churning concentrations of knowledge-bubbles within, and also silently entering my body, from every conceivable direction. I see myself as a very orderly, specific organization or fluid knowledge grid of the fullness of the dynamics of the Self-awake space around me. This experience expands to regions further and further around me and continues to be no different than the impulses of nature within my inner awareness and body. Suddenly, I hear the universe as my physical-to-universal body loudly roaring as a cosmic switchboard of humming silence. I see the same points of light and sheaths of brilliance moving synchronously within my body as the movements and placements of the galaxies and stars in universal space. The great, immeasurable space between the stars and me is no space at all and is a universal, Self-perpetuating, personal exchange of pure intelligence-one sparking, joyous connected totality. It is a magnificent fullness of heaven-spanning divine personifications of natural laws that express in my life, everyone’s life as the fundamental knowledge structures of the Ved. It is this activity that is the all-pervading content of unified awareness.
I am the totality of the Knower as silent consciousness, the totality of the Devata with their cosmic responsibilities and finally the totality of physical creation-all just one unbounded, Self-contained personal, concrete awareness. I see the orbits, positions and the on-going communications between the stars-between each other and the planets-mimicked in the specific and collected layers and functions of my consciousness and body. I experience the whole, universe and its activities as the content of a universally expanded and concentrated, personal Self-awareness. I am, we all are, the Self-effulgent, eternal kindling that is a golden confluence of infinite God-and-Goddess-born-light where every ray carries the total informational packets of cosmic existence to all of earthly and individual life...." (The Stars As The Shimmer Of Universal-To-Individual Consciousness)
Great interview. Love JMG!
Such fluid authenticity is what I’ve witnessed for JMG, tied in so well together by the host🙏🏿
Relating to JMG constantly and realising even more prior to the time I knew about him.
The broader perspective is never desired and such is my plight in voicing the realities of civilisation.. sad but true, however my 40 years of off grid sustainability has allowed me the time to see it without a bias that causes ignorance repeatedly
Fascinating thank you
Glad you enjoyed it
Love to all. The only way is love and gentleness. Show oindness to your neighbour.
I really enjoyed this. One part I'm not sure about is the length that humans have been on the earth. The generally accepted timeline is 200,000 years, not 2 million years.
John Michael Greer was referring to the Homo genus, i.e. all human species, when citing the 2 million year timeline. The single surviving modern human species we call Homo sapiens has indeed been around for 200,000-300,000 years.
Don’t forget Saturn entering Pisces ♓️, economic collapse is guaranteed
But a collapse by who’s definition? Don’t be so willing to co-create something catastrophic, a “tower moment” often creates room for something beautiful…
@@TheFragrantClerk you’re implying that I’m saying this will be a bad thing 🤔
Couldn’t be further from the truth
@@theseersays Beautiful! I can’t wait to see the coming decades unfold, exciting times!!!
I think you should also look at the continuity of druidic influence in Irish Catholic school
Sorry to have to break it to you Dr John but you lot never played golf on the moon. Bit of shite keeping going on there.
Yes so common ism is a reflection of individualism, in the sky
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