John Michael Greer
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Karma is simply the rule that every action has consequences for good and ill, and these inevitably circle back to the person who did the action. It's very much cumulative, and its expression can unfold over many lives.
The heart of shadow projection is that you see in others what you refuse to see in yourself. So if there's something about yourself that's a matter of present choices but it's not something about which you're willing to be honest with yourself, it gets projected. Consider a…
Imagine that all over America, people were to start planting trees in their backyards suited for the ecology that will be arriving in their areas half a century from now. Imagine that some of them looked up what the climate in their neighborhood was like 6000 years ago during the…
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Civilizations have a life cycle; they are born, they grow, they mature, they age, and they die. That's true of all living things in the material world. We happen to be living at a time when the first known global civilization is sliding toward death. That's simply one of the…
The only technologies that anybody in the climate change movement is interested in talking about are the ones that made people more dependent on corporate systems, more easily exploited by those systems, and more vulnerable to system disruptions. Compare grid-linked rooftop…
Fifteen thousand years ago, Ice Age hunters ranging from their comfortable caves in southern and central France into the bleak but animal-rich tundra landscapes further north took to planting hazelnuts in sheltered areas all the way up to the edges of the ice sheets themselves.…
In most working class and lower middle class neighborhoods, you can put anything you want on your roof, nobody cares what trees you plant, and as long as your backyard livestock doesn’t make too much noise — rabbits are better than roosters! — nobody worries about it. It’s in the…
‘Human rationality is a thin and recently added veneer, perched unsteadily over the top of a tangled mass of drives, instincts, and inborn reactions that we share with other social primates.’ Read @JMGreerWriter 👇buff.ly/xd0Yw86
One of the results of added carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is that plant growth generally is picking up.