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#128 - John Michael Greer – Revisioning the Tree of Life - John Gilbert's Cabala
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- Dec 27, 2025
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John Michael Greer is an award-winning author of over fifty books and an initiate of Freemasonry, the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, the Martinist Order, and several Druid traditions. He also served for twelve years as Grand Archdruid of the Ancient Order of Druids in America. I'm delighted to be with him to explore some of the themes from, what at this exact moment is his newest book, "Revisioning the Tree of Life; A New Cabala for Magic, Meditation and Pathworking" – it is hard to keep track when you are such an active gemini mind that John is. Join us as we talk about: -How John Michael Greer came to take on the work of John Gilbert -Why Western occultism can be understood as Middle Platonism dressed in wizard's robes -Use the Tree of Life as a tool (not a truth) -Here is a quote that I reflect back to John: "As I write these words, the Western world is stumbling through a cascade of difficult cultural transformations set in motion by the failure of the cult of progress mentioned earlier, to make good on its promises. The rationalist materialism that provided that cult with its impetus has begun to crumble as it became clear to too many people that the artificial world coupled together by human reason in the service of collective ego has turned out to be unfit for human habitation. The most common response to that realization is to fight back to the dogmatic religious ideologies of an earlier day. Too few people have noticed that it was precisely those belief systems with their inevitable abuses in the hands of entrenched and often despotic hierarchies that made rationalist materialism inevitable and built the foundations for its temporary triumph." -that leads to us talking about progress.... John says we trust progress like a superstition ! -If archetypes are…