Thoth-hermes Podcast

Today's guest on the show is no other than widely read author, blogger, occultist, and former Grand Archdruid of the Ancient Order of Druids in America, John Michael Greer. We start engaging in a highly entertaining conversation with what it was like growing up in an American suburb in the 1960s/1970s when John Michael developed a sense for everything that appeared to be weird and labelled ‘rejected knowledge’. From his early childhood on the question that drove him through his entire life might be summed up with ‘What’s behind it?’. Indeed, what lies behind society and media that manipulated people then and still do in many different ways now? John Michael’s love for rejected or forbidden knowledge, the things people didn’t like to talk about led him to the world of occultism in his teen years and again his motivating question was what was going on within these circles. Engaging with groups happened at a later stage as John Michael preferred to work as a solitary practitioner from early on. After meeting his