John Michael Greer Books in Order

Greer introduces the magical Cabala through its philosophy, Tree of Life, and practical disciplines. Explanations of the spheres and paths connect symbolism with exercises for self-knowledge within the Golden Dawn and broader Western esoteric traditions.

Drawing on Golden Dawn teachings, Greer explains the theory and practice of Hermetic ceremonial magic. Rituals and commentary connect historical documents with practical work, offering students an accessible route into a system often obscured by specialized language.

Greer examines how magical lodges organize people, symbolism, ritual, and initiation into a working tradition. The guide explores both practical group structure and ceremonial methods, addressing readers curious about joining, understanding, or establishing an esoteric lodge.

An introduction to geomancy explains its history, symbolic figures, and methods of divination. Greer guides readers through the interpretation of patterns made from single and double points, placing the practice within the Western magical tradition.

This guide explores traditional magical uses of herbs, stones, oils, and other natural materials. Greer combines an encyclopedia of correspondences with instructions for creating ritual objects, preparing mixtures, and developing a garden suited to magical practice.

Greer surveys supernatural creatures through folklore, occult philosophy, and accounts of investigation. Discussions of vampires, ghosts, werewolves, and other beings accompany guidance on examining reported encounters and understanding the magical traditions surrounding them.

Thirty-three geometric figures form the basis of an oracle system for reflection, meditation, and divination. The accompanying book explains the cards’ meanings and esoteric philosophy, inviting readers to connect symbolic patterns with their own experiences.

An alphabetical reference surveys the history, people, practices, and organizations of Western occultism. Greer examines traditions ranging from alchemy and astrology to ceremonial magic and modern paganism, distinguishing documented history from influential but misleading legends.

Designed for solitary practitioners, this manual builds a foundation in Western ritual magic through regular exercises. Meditation and work with imagination, memory, and will precede more advanced practice, culminating in a ceremony of self-initiation.

Greer introduces a contemporary Druid practice through seasonal ritual, meditation, and attention to nature. The handbook connects spiritual philosophy with ecological responsibility, offering practical ways to build a life rooted in the living Earth.

Greer traces the Atlantis story from Plato through occult traditions and alternative histories. Examining how its meaning has changed, he asks what the legend of a drowned civilization might suggest about contemporary industrial society and environmental change.

Greer and Clare Vaughn introduce the design, creation, and use of prayer beads within pagan spiritual practice. Practical instruction connects beadwork with prayer, meditation, and personal symbolism, helping readers create rosaries suited to their own traditions.

Greer presents a system of ritual magic grounded in Druidry and the natural world. Instructions for spells and ceremonies use Welsh traditions while explaining how practitioners can adapt the work to the deities and symbols meaningful to them.

Greer argues that industrial civilisation faces a prolonged decline rather than a sudden apocalypse. Examining energy dependence and the stories shaping expectations, he proposes practical changes individuals and communities can make to adapt to a less resource-intensive future.

Greer introduces geomancy as a method of divination using simple patterns generated through chance. He explains how to cast and interpret charts, then develops the practice through exercises in meditation, scrying and ritual drawn from Western esoteric traditions.

Greer considers how societies might develop after cheap petroleum becomes unavailable, combining human ecology with historical analysis. He argues for diverse experiments and practical adaptation rather than a single imposed solution, envisioning technologies supported by a sustainable resource base.

After killing machines destroy her community on a distant colony world, Jerre Amadan survives with a clue hidden in her mind. A journey alongside the warrior mystics of Halka may uncover the forces behind the slaughter.

Greer explores a Western tradition linking swordsmanship with spiritual development, preserved in fraternal lodges. Practical sword exercises accompany Qabalistic teachings, offering a path that brings physical discipline and esoteric study into a shared practice of personal transformation.

Greer examines UFO reports through history, mythology, popular culture, and secret aerospace research. Moving beyond a choice between alien visitors and outright dismissal, he investigates how unusual experiences and disinformation become part of modern belief.

This manual explains geomantic divination through traditional sources and practical instruction. Greer outlines methods of generating and interpreting figures, connecting the system with astrological techniques while offering practitioners a concise introduction to its use in answering questions.

Greer surveys centuries of predictions that history will end in catastrophe or transformation. From ancient star myths to Nostradamus, the Rapture and claims about 2012, he examines how recurring hopes and fears sustain apocalyptic beliefs despite repeated failures.

Greer challenges economic models that confuse money with wealth, arguing that human prosperity depends on ecological resources. Drawing on E. F. Schumacher, he examines natural capital, resource depletion and pollution, proposing changes to public policy and individual choices.

Twelve speculative stories imagine societies adapting to dwindling oil and reduced energy supplies. Selected by John Michael Greer, these independent visions explore the end of industrial assumptions and the varied ways people might organize everyday life after petroleum's abundance.

Predictions of the world's end have repeatedly gripped religious believers and secular thinkers alike. Greer traces these expectations across cultures and centuries, examining the recurring hopes, fears, and historical circumstances behind humanity's many imagined final days.

Greer interprets the teachings of Western mystery traditions through patterns found in nature. Seven principles, including balance, limits and change, provide the framework for reflections, affirmations and meditations connecting spiritual study with the workings of the living world.

Connecting ecological decline with occult philosophy, Greer examines how industrial culture’s assumptions shape its response to resource limits. He discusses the possibilities and boundaries of magic, including mental training, political manipulation and the search for alternatives to technological optimism.

Greer gathers practical skills for households and communities preparing for a future with less cheap energy. Drawing on appropriate technology and organic gardening, he covers food production, conservation, preservation and simple energy systems as tools for greater self-reliance.

Greer reconstructs a Druidic system of ceremonial magic inspired by Celtic offshoots of the Golden Dawn. A structured course combines ritual, meditation, divination and herbal alchemy, guiding independent students through practices associated with the Ovate, Bard and Druid degrees.

This manual sets out the teachings, ceremonies and ordination framework of the Gnostic Celtic Church as developed in its earlier form. Greer connects nature spirituality with Gnostic, Universalist and Celtic traditions, presenting a model of contemplative and sacramental practice.

Twelve stories follow ordinary people living through the decline of oil-dependent civilization. As familiar institutions falter and resources grow scarce, their struggles reveal the gradual disappearance of an old world and the beginnings of another.

Greer examines the development and possible decline of American global power, questioning whether its imperial role can endure. He considers the consequences of contraction and argues that rebuilding democratic institutions offers a constructive response to changing political and economic conditions.

Centuries after industrial civilisation collapses, a young metal scavenger discovers a clue hidden in a ruined city. He joins an unlikely group searching for a legendary place where humanity may once have communicated with worlds beyond Earth.

As American oil supplies dwindle, a new discovery off Tanzania draws the United States into plans for regime change. Chinese intervention turns the struggle into an international crisis, exposing the fragility of American power and raising the prospect of nuclear war.

Twelve stories imagine life centuries after fossil fuels have faded into memory. Across unfamiliar post-industrial cultures, people confront the legacy of the past while finding new possibilities for renewal in societies shaped by very different limits.

Greer treats modern faith in technological progress as a belief system tested by resource depletion and climate change. He examines how expectations of endless growth shape collective choices and considers other sources of meaning as industrial expansion meets limits.

These essays from The Archdruid Report examine energy dependence, resource limits and the possible decline of industrial society. Greer combines historical comparisons with practical arguments for adapting early, questioning cultural assumptions that encourage people to postpone difficult changes.

Twelve stories imagine life at least a thousand years after the petroleum age. Edited by John Michael Greer, this anthology explores distant societies for whom today’s energy crises have become history, legend, or forgotten events.

Greer uses ecology, economics and historical patterns to imagine America’s future after industrial expansion falters. He argues that climate disruption and depleted resources could produce centuries of decline, while considering what present communities might preserve for those who follow.

Graduate student Owen Merrill discovers a letter suggesting that Lovecraft's imagined horrors are real. His search for answers takes him to Innsmouth, where he becomes embroiled in a secret war and must reconsider who his enemies actually are.

In 2065, diplomat Peter Carr visits the Lakeland Republic, a prosperous successor to the fractured United States. Its deliberate embrace of older technologies challenges his assumptions about progress and may hold answers to his own country's troubles.

Greer investigates traditions linking sacred buildings, earth energies and the rituals of Freemasonry. Comparing architecture and religious practice across cultures, he explores whether temple traditions preserved a shared body of practical knowledge now obscured by later interpretations.

Essays from 2010 revisit the sustainability efforts abandoned during the Reagan and Thatcher years. Greer examines the appropriate technology movement of the 1970s for practical ways to build a future within ecological limits.

Greer explains the Welsh Coelbren alphabet as a framework for divination and magical practice. Letter meanings, pronunciation and symbolism accompany instructions for readings, meditation and scrying, with guidance for readers who want to make and use their own set.

Collected essays from 2006 and 2007 examine peak oil as a way to understand industrial society’s predicament. Greer considers the decline of conventional petroleum production and the preparations he believes a prolonged era of contraction requires.

Greer argues that some problems of modern life may be better addressed by reviving older technologies than pursuing continual innovation. He examines deliberate technological simplification as a practical response to resource constraints and an alternative to assumptions of inevitable progress.

These collected essays from 2014 consider the long future of industrial society through ecology and history. Greer examines rising seas, climate change, and patterns of civilizational decline while asking how the next five centuries might unfold.

Collecting essays from 2012, Greer examines the possible end of American global dominance. He considers geopolitics, the limits of imperial power, and the consequences of pursuing worldwide control while industrial society faces increasing pressures.

Jenny Parrish visits her great-aunt in Kingsport and discovers that her family guards an ancient Hyperborean talisman. With the relic missing and dangerous rivals searching for it, she must uncover the heritage her mother tried to leave behind.

Essays from 2016 and 2017 examine the American political divisions exposed by Donald Trump’s election. Greer connects class conflict and failed conventional wisdom with industrial decline and the weakening of American power abroad.

Greer questions assumptions about human nature and the future in this collection of essays on industrial society’s decline. The volume considers how consciousness and imagination influence civilizations as confidence in continued progress begins to weaken.

This anthology revisits the imagined solar system of early planetary adventures: inhabited Mars, jungle-covered Venus, and strange worlds beyond. Its stories send explorers across a universe shaped by the possibilities that once animated science fiction.

Collected talks explore the history and practice of Western occultism, from methods of training to the politics of magic. Greer considers ritual, modern Paganism and changing spiritual cultures, offering questions and perspectives drawn from his experience as a practitioner.

As Cthulhu's awakening approaches, Owen Merrill learns that the Radiance possesses a weapon capable of destroying all life. He and his allies, including his daughter Asenath, must stop its deployment before their long struggle ends in annihilation.

Justin Martense inherits a family curse that summons one person from each generation toward Elk Hill. A message directs him to Owen Merrill, beginning a search through colonial secrets to prevent an ancient power from awakening.

Professor Miriam Akeley investigates the disappearance of two students and finds a passage into the Dreamlands. There she and Randolph Carter must stop an enemy carrying a sorcerous weapon capable of extinguishing the realm and everyone within it.

Owen Merrill searches for rituals that could awaken Cthulhu and end a hidden war. His investigation leads to the legacy of Charles Dexter Ward, rival occult factions, and a descendant who intends to resurrect the dead alchemist.

Illness has disrupted Justin Martense's quiet farming life when an urgent message sends him to Brooklyn. Helping Owen Merrill draws him into a race for an ancient device, buried secrets, and a journey into New York's past.

These early essays trace Greer’s developing interests in magic and occult philosophy during the first years of his writing career. The collection reflects the experiences that reshaped his spiritual outlook while exploring a range of themes in esoteric study.

Music student Brecken Kendall is trying to escape a painful childhood when an injured young shoggoth appears in her home. Protecting the creature draws her into the eldritch realities she had assumed belonged only to Lovecraft’s fiction.

Linguist Toby Gilman joins an expedition to Greenland to investigate the language of ancient Hyperborea while concealing his own unusual ancestry. Disaster leaves him facing Arctic dangers, undead pirates, and a threat extending far beyond the expedition.

These essays follow Greer’s movement beyond Hermetic philosophy into Druidry, psychology and public affairs. Drawing on his years leading a Druid order, he explores history, political narratives and the possibilities facing a society he sees entering decline.

Drawing on fragments of an early Druid correspondence course, Greer reconstructs four grades of spiritual instruction. Meditation, ritual, healing, and enchantment form a practical curriculum grounded in Welsh mythology and the philosophy of the Druid revival.

Merlin's legends provide the framework for a system of Druid ceremonial magic. Greer combines rituals, meditations, and exercises with accounts of ancient initiation, guiding readers through a practice that connects Celtic spirituality with ceremonial traditions.

Brecken Kendall balances music, work, and six shoggoth broodlings in Arkham. Her new opera, based on The King in Yellow, draws her into a struggle between secret organizations and eldritch powers whose intentions remain dangerously obscure.

Teenage witch Asenath Merrill encounters a mysterious girl near an ancient stone circle while learning her family's magical traditions. Their meeting draws her into a dangerous legacy connecting a Dunwich tragedy with events in distant Greenland.

Greer investigates UFO reports beyond the familiar choice between extraterrestrial spacecraft and outright dismissal. Examining apparitions, secret aerospace projects and popular culture, he considers how assumptions about progress and reality influence the interpretation of unusual experiences.

Ten stories imagine a solar system filled with life, ancient civilizations and dangerous frontiers. Drawing on early planetary adventure fiction, these tales send explorers into worlds where unfamiliar landscapes and peoples promise discovery and peril.

New stories return to the adventurous solar system imagined by early science fiction. Alien landscapes and interplanetary journeys revive a tradition of planetary romance, exploring worlds whose mysteries remain untouched by the discoveries of modern astronomy.

On the colony world Eridan, an Outrunner girl carrying an artificial symbiont becomes entangled with a mysterious signal from space. She and an heir to the former rulers must reach the original colony ship to confront their world's crisis.

Greer interprets the 2016 American election through occult traditions, political symbolism and competing attempts at magical influence. He connects internet culture, positive thinking and elite persuasion with the social divisions surrounding Donald Trump’s rise to power.

This course introduces independent students to the Golden Section Fellowship’s approach to occult training. Daily exercises, bodily practices, meditation and ritual guide readers through its symbols and disciplines, culminating in instructions for self-initiation and the opening of a lodge.

This companion gathers the characters, locations, objects, and cosmic history of the Haliverse into a reference guide. It helps readers navigate Greer's interconnected stories and the unfamiliar perspective they bring to the world of Lovecraft's creations.

Everyday cooking meets the Haliverse in recipes presented from Brecken Kendall's Arkham kitchen. Greer's tested dishes combine practical, affordable meals with fictional commentary, bringing the domestic side of an eldritch world to the dinner table.

This roleplaying game recasts the Great Old Ones as defenders of nature against the secretive Radiance. Players take the roles of humans and other beings confronting that organization, using a complete system adapted from Mythras.

Greer investigates possible connections between Grail legends, ancient mysteries and the early rituals of Freemasonry. Drawing on historical texts and earlier scholars, he reconstructs a ritual tradition and considers how its symbols and practices might be understood today.

Greer presents a litany for practitioners studying the Cabalistic Tree of Life within Druidic Golden Dawn traditions. Combining spoken ritual with meditative attention, the text offers a daily or occasional practice focused on the system’s symbols and concepts.

A year-long sequence of fifty-two lessons introduces the ideas and disciplines of Western occultism. Greer combines meditation, awareness exercises and reflection with studies of spiritual evolution, levels of existence and cycles of life and death.

Greer explores his theory that the discovery and demotion of planets correspond with changing astrological influences. Focusing on Pluto and comparing earlier examples such as Ceres, he connects shifts in classification with broad developments in culture and history.

Greer works through Dion Fortune’s The Cosmic Doctrine, explaining its compressed images and unfamiliar approach to thought. His commentary reframes difficult passages and concepts, helping readers follow Fortune’s account of cosmic origins, spiritual evolution and the training of the mind.

Greer explains the Welsh bardic alphabet as a tool for divination and magical practice. Letter meanings, sample readings, meditation, and instructions for making a set accompany expanded material on symbolism and the use of gematria.

Greer reconstructs the advanced stages of an early twentieth-century Druid correspondence course. The three grades of the Greater Mysteries explore practical magic, spiritual healing, and the responsibilities of teaching and initiating others within the tradition.

Greer explains the symbols used in Odd Fellowship, drawing attention to meanings increasingly displaced by written instruction. Illustrated by Ainslie Heilich, this concise study reconnects the fraternal organisation’s visual emblems with the ideas and traditions they were intended to convey.

Greer investigates the origins and wider system behind the exercises commonly called the Five Tibetans. Tracing their ideas through esoteric traditions, he places the rites in context and includes the original text of The Eye of Revelation.

Spending the summer with her grandfather, Ariel Moravec discovers that he investigates occult disturbances. Joining a case in a small farming town, she must untangle local rivalries and apparent witchcraft before the danger reaches her.

Apprentice magician Ariel Moravec helps her grandfather investigate a missing grimoire linked to their town’s hidden history. Rumors of pirate treasure and a masked prowler draw her into a search whose other participants may wield dangerous forces.

Forty-eight lessons guide readers through a year of studying earth mysteries, sacred places and natural philosophy. Greer combines historical material, myths and exercises for meditation, connecting questions about the landscape with the disciplines of Western occult practice.

Fixer Jerry Shimizu lives on an offshore refuge for Japanese survivors of climate catastrophe. Investigating a shoreside robbery ring brings him into contact with a mysterious woman, rival agents, and a dangerous project involving an abandoned supercomputer.

Greer examines polarity magic as a practice that redirects the energies associated with emotional and erotic attraction. Historical discussion accompanies explanations of preparation, symbolism and ritual, outlining basic and advanced approaches within Western ceremonial traditions.

This year-long course organises occult study around the four elements and their traditional seasonal associations. Greer combines symbolism and theory with meditations, exercises and further reading, allowing students to begin with the season they are about to enter.

Greer introduces mundane astrology, the practice of interpreting planetary patterns in relation to nations and public events. Lessons in charts, houses and aspects lead into historical case studies and instructions for applying the system to political and economic questions.

Ariel Moravec and her grandfather investigate an ancient museum artifact while a shadowy dog appears across town. Strange encounters and an old magical tutor’s novel suggest a conspiracy that they must understand before the relic disappears.

Building on earlier Golden Section courses, Greer presents seven stages of independent occult training. The lessons combine temple symbolism, ritual duties and elemental practices, guiding readers toward the fellowship’s third degree through a year of study and meditation.