John Michael Greer Archdruid

photo credit: Sara Greer

Author Biography

Born in the gritty Navy town of Bremerton, Washington and raised in the south Seattle suburbs, I began writing about as soon as I could hold a pencil.
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Favorite Books

An eclectic mess of fiction and nonfiction: Giorgio de Santillana and Hertha von Dechend's "Hamlet's Mill," M. John Harrison's "The Pastel City," John Michell's "The View Over Atlantis" (a grand visionary prose poem too often read as fact), Edgar Pangborn's "Davy," Theodore Roszak's "Where the Wasteland Ends," J.R.R. Tolkien's "The Lord of the Rings," and Arnold Toynbee's "A Study of History," among too many others.

What I'm Reading

Lewis Spence's "The Magic Arts in Celtic Britain," David Hiley's "Western Plainchant: A Handbook," and a collection of old instructional papers from one of the old Druid orders that folded into the Ancient Order of Druids in America.

Web Links

The Long Descent

Date of Review:

07/30/2008

Published Work:

The Long Descent

Reviewer:

Michael Gorsuch

Source:

Styled Bits

Review Excerpt:

When one looks for a Third Way, he finds John Michael Greer well along the path. I discovered his weblog a couple of years ago and was amazed at how reasonable his writing was. He champions the idea of a long descent - a long road of ups and downs as we adjust to a world without cheap energy. It won’t be nice or comfortable, but it doesn’t have to be the end of everything we know.