A practical and investigative workbook to explore the timeless enigmas of the land on which we walk
The Earth Mysteries Workbook invites readers to embark on a journey to understand and restore the ancient enchantments of the land, as well as continuing to train the minds and spirits of those engaged in magical study.
The book follows forty-eight lessons which span the course of one year. It is not intended to be read cover to cover; instead readers should take a lesson a week, each of which provides material for thought, study and meditation. Each week is divided into seven numbered paragraphs to be used as themes for the weeks daily meditation. The lessons include an introduction to the earth mysteries and natural philosophy, exploration of different sites across the earth, myths and legends, phenomena and much more.
This fourth instalment of John Michael Greer's instructional workbook for members of the Golden Section Fellowship, presents the scholarship of earth mysteries as a fundamental discipline of occult studies and as a spiritual discipline. Greer situates the mysteries of the land as intrinsically linked to occult studies, as they challenge the modern paradigm which ignores and belittles the sacred knowledges of ancient times, sharing a belief in the importance of the past in understanding the subtle and spiritual dimensions of the earth.
This book can be read as an accompaniment to Greers previous titles, The Way of the Golden Section, The Occult Philosophy Workbook and The Way of the Four Elements.
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 1Leys
Lesson 20: Alignments 2Spirit roads
Lesson 21: Alignments 3The 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 1Legends of the past
Lesson 30: The legendary landscape 2Legends 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 1Unraveling the confusion
Lesson 45: UFOs 2Earth lights
Lesson 46: UFOs 3The 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
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 www.ecosophia.net.
