Book Review: The King in Orange by John Michael Greer — Richard Abbot

I am not often moved to tell people about a book I read, but I am making an exception with The King in Orange: The Magical and Occult Roots of Political Power by John Michael Greer, because it covers virtually everything I have been thinking about for the past decade. Nice and short (barely 200

Book Review: The King in Orange by John Michael Greer I am not often moved to tell people about a book I read, but I am making an exception with The King in Orange: The Magical and Occult Roots of Political Power by John Michael Greer, because it covers virtually everything I have been thinking about for the past decade. Nice and short (barely 200 pages) this is the place to turn if you what to understand the strange world that we now live in. Politics, power and the world at large cannot be grasped by standard means. The BBC, CNN, NPR, PBS, Vice, Buzzfeed, even so-called independent media won

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