John Michael Greer
John Michael Greer (born 1962) is an American author and druid who writes on ecology, politics, appropriate technology, oil depletion and the occult. Personal life. Greer was born in Bremerton, Washington and was raised in the Seattle area. He is an initiate in Freemasonry and the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn. He currently lives in East Providence, Rhode Island with his wife Sara. Druidry. Greer came to Druidry by way of the Order of Bards, Ovates and Druids in 1995 after some twenty years’ involvement in Hermetic occult spirituality. He received the Mount Haemus Award in  2003 from OBOD for his lecture "Phallic Religion in the Druid Revival". He served as Grand Archdruid of the Ancient Order of Druids in America (AODA), an initiatory organization teaching Celtic nature spirituality, from 2003–2015. He wrote "The Druidry Handbook", which serves as the AODA’s core textbook and curriculum. Greer also created the training program for the Druidical Order of the Golden Dawn, an order which fuses druidry with Golden Dawn ceremonial magic, which he founded in 2013. He wrote "The Celtic Golden Dawn: An Original & Complete Curriculum of Druidical Study", which serves as the orders’s core textbook  and curriculum. Occultism. He has blogged on occult topics on "The Well of Galabes" (2014-2017), which is now hosted on "Ecosophia". He currently writes on political astrology using mundane ingress charts via the subscription services SubscribeStar and Patreon. Politics and nonfiction. Greer describes himself as a moderate Burkean conservative, influenced by the political theorist Edmund Burke. He is currently blogging at "Ecosophia", where he has written about the intersection of magic and politics. He previously blogged at "The Archdruid Report" on peak oil, economics, history, philosophy and related topics from 2006–2017. He believes that gradual societal collapse will ensue  as fossil fuel–powered industries and societies decline through resource depletion. In a 2009 blog post entitled "Hagbard's Law", he contrasted the attention global warming receives compared to peak oil. In a 2005 abstract, called "How Civilizations Fall: A Theory of Catabolic Collapse", he wrote an ecological model of collapse in which production fails to meet maintenance requirements for existing capital. In "The King in Orange" (2021), Greer analyses the contemporary American political landscape through class analysis and occult practices. Focusing on the election and opposition to Donald Trump as president of the United States, Greer predicts a continuing  combination of magic and politics from the various class factions of the country. He criticises the openness of liberal occultists, arguing that magical practices benefit from more obscurity and secrecy. Fiction. Greer has written many novels, including a series of eleven fantasy novels based on the worlds created by H.P. Lovecraft and his Cthulhu Mythos entitled "The Weird of Hali". He has also written deindustrial science fiction and a political-military thriller "Twilight’s Last Gleaming". Reception. Writing in "The Futurist" magazine, Rick Docksai declared that Greer's book "The Ecotechnic Future" is "as realistic a portrayal of the end  of civilization as one is likely to find." It was also positively reviewed in "" and was recommended in the industry journal "Energy Policy". The "International Journal of Agricultural Sustainability" referred to his book "The Wealth of Nature" as "challeng[ing] the paradigms that underlie the complex system of wealth distribution we know as economics." His book "The New Encyclopedia of the Occult" was selected as a reference text in 2005 by "American Libraries" and noted by "Booklist" and "Publishers Weekly".