John Michael Greer

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John Michael Greer is an American author, independent scholar, historian of ideas, cultural critic, Neo-druid leader, Hermeticist, environmentalist/conservationist, blogger, novelist, and occultist/esotericist who currently resides in Cumberland, Maryland. The author, to date, of twenty-seven nonfiction books and one science fiction novel, he also writes the Archdruid Report, a weekly blog on peak oil and the future of industrial society, and serves as the presiding officer of a contemporary Druid order, the Ancient Order of Druids in America. 
http://thearchdruidreport.blogspot.com

John Michael Greer - Apocalypse Not

The central feature of today's geopolitical landscape is the decline and fall of America's global empire. The nature of our response to it will determine much of our future trajectory, with repercussions reaching far beyond the United States' borders.

John Michael Greer challenges the conventional wisdom of empire, offering a wealth of historical examples combined with groundbreaking original analysis. Greer illustrates how, in the pursuit of political and economic power, the USA has backed itself into a corner, explores the inevitable consequences of imperial collapse, and argues the only constructive way forward is a renewal of democratic institutions.

Rather than ask whether today's American empire should survive, Greer examines whether it can survive, and argues persuasively that the answer to the latter question is "no," An invaluable contribution to the body of speculative post-industrial literature, Decline and Fall is a must-read for anyone concerned about the state of the Union or who believes that it is time to reinvent the American Dream. 


Audiobook: Decline and Fall, John Michael Greer

here one of 4 tracks of  my latest productions " autumn movement", released on silent season. (( thx for that))

http://shop.silentseason.com/album/martin-nonstatic-autumn-movement-ss16


Martin nonstatic "soundforest"   silent season -ss16     autumn movement

From the passionate lands of France, Arnaud Galoppe, known as Focal and Kinosura, has hand-mixed an emotional labyrinth of dark techno and melancholy ambience in Ultimae’s latest compilation.
Polarity is a double-sided conglomerate of electronic expressions from all over the world, spanning across atmospheric soundworlds of intimate drone and deep, industrial progressions.
This collection of heartwarming soundscapes and foot-stomping house beats is smoother than butter, a series of 26 top-notch tracks that paint an interesting, auditory adventure. 
Although the album has a minimalistic approach, it offers a surprisingly detailed production. Each track is layered with expert craftsmanship and hypnotic melodies laced against diverse, psychedelic noise echoing in the distance.
Polarity is certainly an experience worth traversing, and we are proud to host it as an excellent addition to any electronica connoisseur's sound-library.

The Polarity artwork was imagined by plasticians Suzy Lelièvre and Raphaël Kuntz.
From a sphere, they conceived a parametric deformation protocol for a decomposition in several stages. While Suzy imagines shapes and the potential modifications to impact, Raphaël works on the incarnation process to extract a mineral matter look, something geological, almost chemical. As they materialise, with slow lighting work, shapes undergo random offsets, revealing the tension between a near scientific protocol and its subjective interpretation. Beyond the infinite production of singular shapes, the goal of both artists, especially for this project, is to invent new processes that invite a reconsideration of our attitude to shapes.
In the same way, from Ambient to Techno, through a game of modulation of pads, rhythms and frequencies, Polarity offers a variety of musical spectra flowing into one another, a melodic exploration of the twists and turns which link both universes.

Mastered by Vincent Villuis & Vladislav Isaev at Ultimae Studios. 
Original Artworks by Suzy Lelièvre & Raphaël Kuntz.
Artwork by Arnaud Galoppe.
Text credits : Emmanuelle Hebert & Nick Sumbles.

POLARITY | mixed by Focal

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John Michael Greer is a deeply ecological, historical thinker and gifted writer.

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Awakening Dub

The book "PRONOIA Is the Antidote for Paranoia" is a conversation, not a dictation. It's an inquiry, not dogma. 

We're explorers in search of the ever-evolving truth, not authorities proclaiming doctrine from on high. We refuse to be salespeople intent on getting you to be like us or buy our ideas. In fact, let's look at the downsides of the perspectives we celebrate.

The first thing you should consider before leaping into a relationship with pronoia is that it is utterly at odds with conventional wisdom. The 19th-century poet John Keats said that if something is not beautiful, it is probably not true. But the vast majority of modern storytellers -- journalists, filmmakers, novelists, talk-show hosts, and poets -- assert the opposite: If something is not ugly, it is probably not true.

In a world that equates pessimism with acumen and regards stories about things falling apart as having the highest entertainment value, pronoia is deviant. It is a taboo so taboo that it's not even recognized as a taboo.

The average American child sees 20,000 simulated murders before reaching age 18. This is considered normal. There are thousands of films, television shows, and electronic games that depict people doing terrible things to each other. If you read newspapers and news sites on the Internet, you have every right to believe that Bad Nasty Things compose 90 percent of the human experience. The authors of thousands of books published this year will hope to lure you in through the glamour of killing, addiction, self-hatred, sexual pathology, shame, betrayal, extortion, robbery, cancer, arson, and torture.

But you will be hard-pressed to find more than a few novels, films, news stories, and TV shows that dare to depict life as a gift whose purpose is to enrich the human soul.

If you cultivate an affinity for pronoia, people you respect may wonder if you have lost your way. You might appear to them as naive, eccentric, unrealistic, misguided, or even stupid. Your reputation could suffer and your social status could decline.

But that may be relatively easy to deal with compared to your struggle to create a new relationship with yourself. For starters, you will have to acknowledge that what you previously considered a strong-willed faculty -- the ability to discern the weakness in everything -- might actually be a mark of cowardice and laziness. Far from being evidence of your power and uniqueness, your drive to produce hard-edged opinions stoked by hostility is likely a sign that you've been brainwashed by the pedestrian influences of pop nihilism.

Before the onset of pronoia, you may feel fine about the fact that you generate much of your dynamic energy through anger, agitation, discomfort, and judgmental scorn. But once the pronoia kicks in, you'll naturally want more positive feelings to be your high-octane fuel. That will require extensive retraining. The work could be arduous, delicate, and time-consuming.

Are you truly ready to shed the values and self-images that keep you locked into alignment with the dying civilization? Will you have the stamina and inspiration necessary to dream up bigger, better, more original sins and wilder, wetter, more interesting problems? Do you realize how demanding it will be to turn yourself into a wildly disciplined, radically curious, fiercely tender, ironically sincere, ingeniously loving, aggressively sensitive, blasphemously reverent, lustfully compassionate master of rowdy bliss?

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Try saying this aloud: "I die daily." It's one of our favorite formulas for success. Is it right for you? Say it again, using a different tone of voice this time. "I die daily." Chant it in a fake foreign accent. Sing it to the tune of the nursery rhyme "Frere Jacques." Play with it in the voice of the cartoon character you loved best as a child. Repeat it 10 times, or try other vocal experiments. Then muse on the following questions.

What do you need to kill off in yourself in order to tune in to the beauty that's hidden from you? What worn-out shticks are blinding you to the blessings that life is conspiring to give you? Which of your acerbic theories may have been useful and even brilliant in the past but are now keeping you from becoming aware of the ever-fresh creation that unfolds before you?

"I die daily" means that it's not enough to terminate your stale mental habits just once. The price of admission into pronoia is a commitment to continual dying. You'll have to ask yourself rude questions and kick your own ass again and again. Today's versions of beauty, truth, love, goodness, justice, and liberation will pass away. To keep abreast of the latest developments -- to cultivate tomorrow's versions of pronoia -- you will have to immerse yourself regularly in the waters of chaos. Your relationship with pronoia will have to be a never-ending improvisation.

The dream of a steady-state utopia is anathema to Beauty and Truth Lab researchers. We're allergic to any paradise that resembles a spotless shopping mall within the walls of a gated community in heaven.

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Pronoia is fueled by a drive to cultivate happiness and a determination to practice an aggressive form of gratitude that systematically identifies the things that are working well. But it is not a soothing diversion meant for timid Pollyannas strung out on optimistic delusions. It's not a feel-good New Age fantasy used to deny the harsh facts about existence. Those of us who perceive the world pronoiacally refuse to be polite shills for sentimental hopefulness.

On the contrary, we build our optimism not through a repression of difficulty, but rather a vigorous engagement with it. We understand that the best way to attract blessings is to grapple with the knottiest enigmas.

Each fresh puzzle is a potential source of future bliss -- an exciting teaching that may usher us to our next breakthrough.

Do you want to be a pronoiac player? Blend anarchistic rebelliousness with open-hearted exuberance. Root your insurrectionary fervor in expansive joy instead of withering hatred. Enjoy saying "no!" but don't make it the wellspring of your vitality. Be fueled by blood-red yeses that rip against the grain of comfortable ugliness. 

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"A Spell to Commit Pronoia," by psychotherapist Jennifer Welwood:

Willing to experience aloneness,
I discover connection everywhere;
Turning to face my fear,
I meet the warrior who lives within;
Opening to my loss,
I am given unimaginable gifts;
Surrendering into emptiness,
I find fullness without end.

Each condition I flee from pursues me.
Each condition I welcome transforms me
And becomes itself transformed
Into its radiant jewel-like essence.

I bow to the one who has made it so,
Who has crafted this Master Game;
To play it is pure delight,
To honor it is true devotion.

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This is a piece from the soundtrack for my book, 
<a href="http://www.amazon.com/Pronoia-Antidote-Paranoia-Revised-Expanded/dp/1556438184/ref=ed_oe_p"><i>PRONOIA Is the Antidote for Paranoia</i></a>.

Pronoia Is a Dangerous Taboo

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JMG - The - Long - Descent - 2

In this podcast David uses Yoga Sutra 1:33 and discusses the four different attitudes to take to go from a clouded mind to a clear mind.

4 Attitudes To Clear Your Mind

A fresh episode of Lucid Dreams, broadcasted yesterday on Neringa FM. Here is a tracklist for your attention:

1. Röyksopp - Rising Urge (Lost Tapes) (Original)
2. Tycho - Into The Woods (Christopher Willits Remix)
3. Catching Flies – Daymarks
4. Bonobo – Kiara 
5. Mézigue - Jtbgd92
6. Aera - Distance Beyond 
7. Jimpster - Spend the Night
8. DJ OK - Cyber Sensuality
9. Apparat – Arcadia
10. Gidge – Huldra
11. Citizen Maze - Glade Hollow
12. Klaus Benedek – The One
13. Cropper - Sunlight (feat. A.Z)

Follow Lucid dreams here: @luciddreamsonair

Photo credit Kristaps Grundsteins

Lucid Dreams #4 by Darius Dudonis

Part 2 - taking a retrospective look at 2020, highlighting tracks, artists and labels that have been some of the stand outs for me. Split over two weeks as one show is just not enough 
- The microphone when talking is a low - sorry

Gil Scott-Heron - Where Did The Night Go 
(A Reimagining by Makaya McCraven)	
Khruangbin - Connaissais de Face	
Plants and Animals - Love That Boy	
Mount Obsidian - Ride	
Ofege - It’s Not Easy	
Ihsan Al-Munzer - Night Entertainer (Azef El Layl)	
Gerardo Frisina - Naihis Son	
Paulor - WE	
Reptaliens - Just A Creature	
Sleaford Mods - Mork n Mindy ft Billy No Mates	
Squid - Sludge	
Blanketman - Beach Body	
Methel Ethel - Majestic AF	
Use No Hooks - The Hook	
No Zu - Talking To a Stranger
Alex Puddu - Fight Together	
Super Mama Djombo - Dissan Na MŽbera (Daniel Haaksman edit)	
The Mauskovic Dance Band - Space Drum Machine 
(Detroit Swindle's Flute Mix)	
Golden Bug and The Limiñanas - Variation Sur 3 Bancs	
Middle Sky Boom - Dreamy Route	
Ryan Downey - Good Time Girl	
Overmono - Everything u Need	
Wajatta - Tonight	
!!! - Walk It Off	
Duncan Gray - Steve Killage

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The Shizzle : 2020 Highlights Part 2

Michael Dowd died October 2023. This soundcloud list is a substantial part of his legacy. Here he shares, via his voice, the major books, blogs, and other texts that instructed his own worldview shift into recognizing the multiple causes of the civilizational collapse underway and wisdom for moving into a postdoom perspective of clarity, calm, and compassionate love-in-action. As a Postdoom pastor, Michael aimed to support others in deeply adapting to abrupt climate change and societal and ecological breakdowns. Websites: https://www.postdoom.com and http://thegreatstory.org

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