This volume is an A-Z of alternative history. It helps you discover everything you 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.

The Element Encyclopedia of Secret Societies

Humor & Entertainment

GREER, John Michael

Humor

Harper/Element

In the Geomancer's Handbook the renowned contemporary mage and geomancer John Michael Greer explains this ancient divinatory art clearly and succinctly, allowing the practitioner quick mastery of this precise and accurate method of prediction. Because geomancy uses a good deal of astrological technique, it is an excellent predictive method for astrologers without requiring the arduous effort necessary to learn traditional horary astrology. Greer combines teachings from traditional texts with his own deep knowledge of geomancy, distilling the essence of geomancy. A fascinating explanation of divinatory geomancy by the leading contemporary geomancer!

The Geomancer's Handbook: Divination and Magic

Religion & Spirituality

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Martial arts are not a distinctly Eastern phenomenon. The West has had numerous fighting forms that have developed sufficiently to be considered Martial arts. However, the vast majority of these Martial disciplines have not survived the advancement of the West toward technological combat. In this fascinating and highly instructive volume, John Michael Greer reveals a little known living tradition of swordsmanship that has survived into the twenty-first century behind the sealed doors of small and secretive fraternal lodges. Greer integrates these techniques of the sword with the development of the whole person along Qabalistic evolutionary principles that will be familiar to many Western esotericists. What emerges is a highly important component of the Western secret tradition, the nearly lost Art of the Sword. If you have ever longed to feel the power of live steel in your hand, face to face with a worthy adversary on the field of honorable combat, then this is the book for you.

The Spirit and the Sword

New Hermetics Pr

John Michael Greer, author and host of the popular weekly peak oil blog, "The Archdruid Report," returns with another collection of twelve tales from the post oil future. As Industrial civilization staggers beneath its myriad dysfunctions, ordinary people endure the long, slow descent that shapes the years of crisis. The old world passes away and a new age takes shape.

After Oil 2: The Years of Crisis

Science Fiction & Fantasy

Science Fiction

Founders House Publishing, LLC

Since 2006, author John Michael Greer has been sharing his perspectives on the fate of industrial civilization and more on his weekly blog, THE ARCHDRUID REPORT. His writing, both highly engaging and rooted in a depth of broad scholarship, has earned him thousands of readers who want to understand the trajectory our world has taken. Topics like energy, resource depletion, and the ideas behind some of our culture’s cherished beliefs have been explored. COLLAPSE NOW AND AVOID THE RUSH offers a selection of Greer’s best essays.

Collapse Now and Avoid the Rush: The Best of The Archdruid Report

Politics & Social Sciences

Politics & Government

In this latest installment, of the popular After Oil anthology series, John Michael Greer, author and host of the popular weekly peak oil blog, The Archdruid Report, brings us twelve original stories of a world centuries ahead where oil and fossil fuels have become a distant memory. A new era has dawned and for those far future cultures a time of renewal has arrived.

After Oil 3: The Years of Rebirth

Centuries after the death of Earth, an ancient evil stirs on the colony world of Eridan. Six killing machines have lunged out of the northern barrens to annihilate an isolated community. The one clue to the motive behind the killings is locked within the shattered mind of the only survivor. As helicopters race through the skies of Eridan and the warrior mystics of the Halka order brace themselves for the struggle, the survivor, Jerre Amadan, is flung headlong into a journey of transformation and terror that will take him to the core of his own mind, to the hiding place of a long-forgotten nightmare, and to the ultimate confrontation with THE FIRES OF SHALSHA.

The Fires of Shalsha

Literature & Fiction

Literary

In this fourth addition to the popular After Oil anthology series, John Michael Greer, author and host of the weekly peak oil big, The Archdruid Report, collects twelve new tales set in civilizations of the far future, a thousand years hence, in the world where the industrial age has faded into myth and legend.

After Oil 4: The Future's Distant Shores

Of course that monster hiding under your bed when you were little didn't really exist. Vampires, werewolves, zombies, demons―they're simply figments of our imagination, right? After all, their existence has never been scientifically proven. But there is one giant problem with such an easy dismissal of these creepy creatures: people keep encountering them. Join occult scholar John Michael Greer for a harrowing journey into the reality of the impossible. Combining folklore, Western magical philosophy, and actual field experience, Monsters: An Investigator's Guide to Magical Beings is required reading for both active and armchair monster hunters. Between these covers you'll find a chilling collection of fiendish facts and folklore, including: <ul>
<li>Why true vampires are the least attractive―and most destructive―of all monsters</li> <li>The five different kinds of ghosts</li> <li>Magical origins of the werewolf legends</li> <li>How to survive a chimera encounter (Jersey Devil, chupacabra, Mothman)</li> <li>The hidden connections between faery lore and UFOs</li> <li>Where dragons are found today</li> <li>How to investigate a monster sighting</li> <li>Natural and ritual magic techniques for dealing with hostile monsters</li> </ul>
This 10th anniversary edition of the quintessential guide to magical beings features a new preface, new chapters on chimeras and zombies, and updates on werewolves, dragons, and the fae.

Monsters: An Investigator's Guide to Magical Beings

Reference

Llewellyn Publications

You are the Architect of Your Own Destiny Expand your awareness of the universal patterns that shape your life with the Sacred Geometry Oracle. Now, for the first time, you can use this ancient wisdom as a tool for meditation, divination, and self-exploration. When we get to the point, run around in circles, or go off on a tangent, we're already interpreting our lives in geometrical terms. The same sort of awareness can be turned to the subtle and communicative designs of sacred geometry, making them into symbols that serve as a bridge between our intuitive awareness and the world of our experience. This Oracle includes: ·Thirty-three cards, each bearing an important diagram from the lore of traditional sacred geometry · ·An illustrated guidebook that presents the meaning of each card, how to cast and interpret readings, and meditation suggestions · ·Step-by-step exercises for constructing traditional geometric forms and patterns (with the help of your own geometer's tools: compass, straightedge, pencil, and paper), and tool-storing space in the kit box ·

Sacred Geometry Oracle

New Age & Spirituality

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