Toward Ecosophy

For your holiday listening pleasure, here's a new podcast of mine. It's another appearance on Hermitix with the ever-interesting James Ellis as host. Our topic is the magical work and writings of W.B. Yeats. Give it a listen: 

https://creators.spotify.com/pod/profile/hermitix/episodes/The-Magical-Writings-of-W-B-Yeats-with-John-Michael-Greer-e3ceu5k

Update: and in case you're not yet tired of listening to my dulcet voice, here's a second podcast, just out, on Therapeutic Astrology podcast with host Mannah Guldager. The theme is my recent book Revisioning the Tree of Life: Here's the Youtube version: 

https://youtu.be/i8p9kEZB0Fo

Here's her website, with all her recent podcasts (including mine): 

https://www.therapeuticastrologer.com/podcast

Enjoy! 

Two more podcasts have gone live for your listening pleasure. The first was kind of a special experience for me -- a conversation with Arthur Versluis and Christopher Macintosh. If you know your way around the last quarter century or so of writing on the Western esoteric traditions, you know both names; they're among the writers I studied closely when I was in the process of clawing my way up out of the mosh pit of practical occultism into the more refined balcony of occult philosophy. Our conversation was on paths forward into the future, and what the Western esoteric traditions have to offer along those lines; my book The King in Orange got a fair amount of discussion. Interested?  Check it out here.

The second was equally pleasant but a little less unexpected, at least for me. I was back on the Hermitix podcast with host James Ellis, and the theme of the discussion was much the same: cycles of history, the writings of Oswald Spengler and Arnold Toynbee, and what we can expect as the United States and the modern world stumble blindly forward into a future for which very few people have made any preparations at all. You can take this one in on Spotify here, or on YouTube here.  Enjoy!

This week my latest  two podcasts went up. The first is with Peter Koronios of the Arcanvm Podcast; we had a lively and enjoyable hour of conversation covering quite a bit of ground -- Druidry, the magical side of environmentalism, and occult fiction, for starters. You can listen in on YouTube here.

The second is another appearance on the Hermitix podcast with the ever-entertaining James Ellis. This conversation focused specifically on the newly released revised edition of A World Full of Gods, my book on polytheism as a live religious option in the present day. We had a constructive and at times intense conversation on the subject. You can listen in on Spotify here and on YouTube here.

This has been a busy year for me when it comes to podcasts, and here are two more!  Both of them are on my book The Twilight of Pluto.  

First, I'm back on the Hermitix podcast with host James, and we had as usual a great time getting deep into the implications of astrology and collective psychology. You can listen to it here on Anchor.fm and here on Youtube. 

Second, I was delighted to be on a new (for me) podcast, Stargazer, with host Rachel. She's a practicing astrologer with a fine grasp of the technical and spiritual sides of the science of the stars,. and we had a great conversation about Pluto's waning influence and the broader realm of mundane astrology. You can listen to it here. 

...and I'll be recording another podcast (not on The Twilight of Pluto later today. Interest in my ideas definitely seems to be heating up just now. 

I'm back on the Hermitix podcast again, talking with host James about my forthcoming book The King in Orange: The Magical and Occult Roots of Political Power (which will be out just over a month from now' you can read more about it here and preorder it here). As usual for this topic, it's a wide-ranging conversation about magic, politics, and American society. You can tune into the podcast via James' site here, or on YouTube here. 

Just when you thought it was safe to go back on the internet...

Yes, it's me again on the Hermitix podcast, with host James Ellis, talking about the eldritch, rugose, squamous horror that is the political system of the United States, with a focus on that dread being whose mere name is able to strike madness and terror into the minds of pundits, celebrities, and people who thought they were opposed to hatred until 2016. Yes, James and I spoke aloud of Donald Trump, the King in Orange, and lived to tell the tale. 

Are you prepared to see the Orange Sign, sound the cloudy depths of Demhe, and watch the cloud waves break on the black shores of Carcosa -- or at least to hear a discussion of American politics that flings down the conventional wisdom and dances on its tattered orange robes? Here's the link to the program on the Hermitix site, and here's a link to the program on YouTube. 

Podcast fans may be interested to know that I'm the featured guest on a new episode of the Hermitix podcast. The subject is the current CoVID-19 coronavirus outbreak -- well, that's where the conversation begins and ends, but if you've listened to my other podcasts at Hermitix you already know to expect a lot of strange territory in the middle, and you won't be disappointed in that expectation. Enjoy!