Next in the popular Element Encyclopedia series, comes the complete A-Z of alternative history. Discover everything you ever wanted to know about secret societies like the Freemasons, the historical mystery of Atlantis, why King Arthur, Leonardo da Vinci and Hitler are key figures, plus conspiracy t[...]
Discover everything you ever wanted to know about secret societies like the Freemasons, the historical mystery of Atlantis, why King Arthur, Leonardo da Vinci and Hitler are key figures, plus conspiracy theories, forgotten sciences and ancient wisdom. A complete and informative A to Z for one of the[...]
Subtitle: 'An Investigator's Guide to Magical Beings'.
Join ceremonial magician John Michael Greer as he takes readers on a harrowing journey into the reality of the impossible. The author also provides techniques of magical self-defense for those times when monsters pose a threat to [...]
Natural magic is the ancient and powerful art of using material substances - herbs, stones, incenses, oils, and much more - to tap into the hidden magical powers of nature, transforming your surroundings and yourself. Not just a cookbook of spells, the Encyclopedia of Natural Magic provides an intro[...]
Do UFOs exist? Are the lights and strange craft in our skies aliens from other galaxies-or the product of fraud, delusion, or mistaken identity? John Michael Greer - a respected authority on occult traditions - reveals the secret hidden at the centre of the UFO labyrinth. This meticulously researche[...]
Are mystic symbols embedded in Washington, D.C. landmarks? Was the Capitol?s street layout
designed using geomancy?an ancient divination technique? Did our Founding Fathers practice rituals in secret societies? What?s the truth behind the mystical elements inside Dan Brown?s blockbuster, [...]
A century ago, groups descending from the famed Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn fused the occult lore of the Western magical tradition with the nature spirituality of the Druid Revival. They invoked Pagan Celtic powers instead of the Judeo-Christian names and symbols. Respected occult author and G[...]
A challenging new vision of the future, "The Long Descent" traces the decline and fall of an industrial society fatally out of balance with planetary limits and shows how personal change and local action can shape a better tomorrow.[...]
In response to the coming impact of peak oil, John Michael Greer helps us envision the transition from an industrial society to a sustainable ecotechnic world -- not returning to the past, but creating a society that supports relatively advanced technology on a sustainable resource base. Fusing hum[...]
Our destructive obsession with money and economic growth has driven us to the brink of disaster. This book exposes the flaws in conventional economic theory and shows how through public policy initiatives and personal choices the economy can be restructured at an appropriate scale with a focus on th[...]
Merlin, Gandalf, Voldemort--these well-known sorcerers from popular culture are famed for their amazing spells and spectacular magical powers. In ancient times, however, a wizard was actually a freelance intellectual whose main stock in trade was good advice, supported by a thorough education in agr[...]
Things fall apart; the center cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world. Although he was writing nearly a century ago, William Butler Yeats could just as easily be describing the United States today. The decline and fall of America's global empire is the central feature of today's geopolit[...]
Progress is not just a goal in the West-it's a religion. Most people believe in its inherent value as enthusiastically and uncritically as medieval peasants believed in heaven and hell. Our faith in progress drives the popular insistence that peak oil and climate change don't actually matter-after a[...]
The Picatrix is the most famous grimoire of astrological magic and one of the most important works of medieval and Renaissance magic. With all four books, the complete text, in one volume, translated and annotated by the noted scholars, magicians and astrologers John Michael Greer and Christopher W[...]
With this one text, you will gain a thorough overview of the history and current state of the occult from a variety of Western European and North American traditions. Its pages offer the essential knowledge you need to make sense of the occult, along with references for further reading if you want t[...]