John Michael Greer is the award-winning author of more than fifty books, including 'The New Encyclopedia of the Occult', 'The Druidry Handbook', 'The Celtic Golden Dawn', and 'Circles of Power: An Introduction to Hermetic Magic'. An initiate in Freemasonry, the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, and the Order of Bards, Ovates and Druids, Greer served as the Grand Archdruid of the Ancient Order of Druids in America (AODA) for twelve years. He lives in Rhode Island with his wife Sara. Greer is also the author of seventeen fantasy and science fiction novels and ten nonfiction books on peak oil and the future of industrial society, and also blogs weekly on politics, magic, and the future at [...]

INTRODUCTION

UNIT ONE: Preparations

Lesson 1: What are earth mysteries?

Lesson 2: The seen and the unseen

Lesson 3: The disenchantment of the world

Lesson 4: The reenchantment of the world

Lesson 5: The inner senses

Lesson 6: Developing the inner senses

Lesson 7: Dowsing

Lesson 8: Psychometry

Lesson 9: Attuning to nature

Lesson 10: Seasonal cycles

Lesson 11: Natural philosophy

Lesson 12: In search of mysteries

UNIT TWO: Sites

Lesson 13: Overview of sites

Lesson 14: The earth currents

Lesson 15: The land as palimpsest

Lesson 16: Mounds and earthworks

Lesson 17: Megaliths

Lesson 18: Shrines, temples, and churches

Lesson 19: Alignments 1-Leys

Lesson 20: Alignments 2-Spirit roads

Lesson 21: Alignments 3-The earth and the heavens

Lesson 22: Relics out of place

Lesson 23: Landscape patterns

Lesson 24: The language of the land

UNIT THREE: Stories

Lesson 25: Overview of stories

Lesson 26: The historical landscape

Lesson 27: The mythic landscape

Lesson 28: Myths and archetypes

Lesson 29: The legendary landscape 1-Legends of the past

Lesson 30: The legendary landscape 2-Legends of the present

Lesson 31: Stories of beginnings

Lesson 32: Stories of mysterious places

Lesson 33: Stories of mysterious events

Lesson 34: Stories of the future

Lesson 35: Stories of the conventional wisdom

Lesson 36: The narrative landscape

UNIT FOUR: Phenomena

Lesson 37: Overview of phenomena

Lesson 38: The phantasmagoria factor

Lesson 39: Ghosts and hauntings

Lesson 40: Mysterious animals

Lesson 41: Mysterious hominids

Lesson 42: Impossible creatures

Lesson 43: Appearances and disappearances

Lesson 44: UFOs 1-Unraveling the confusion

Lesson 45: UFOs 2-Earth lights

Lesson 46: UFOs 3-The shamanic dimension

Lesson 47: Flaps and windows

Lesson 48: Between two worlds

FOUR SAMPLE EXPLORATIONS

Sample Exploration 1: The legend of William Blackstone

Sample Exploration 2: The Glocester dragon

Sample Exploration 3: The Newport Tower enigma

Sample Exploration 4: The lost city of Norumbega

APPENDIX: Instructions for practice

Seed thoughts

Questions for reflection

Discursive meditation

Scrying

BIBLIOGRAPHY

INDEX