The Dolmen Arch by John Michael Greer - Esoteric Book Review

My review of The Dolmen Arch: A Study Course in the Druid Mysteries (volume 1 The Lesser Mysteries) by John Michael Greer, published by Azoth Press.
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[@georgigulliksen2047]

Would you recommend this book to beginners to druidcraft?

[@FoolishFishBooks]

Yes, in fact, 100%. One thing I forgot to mention is how reader-friendly it is. He really makes everything crystal clear in a warm, friendly, but never condescending way. A real master who doesn't need to hide behind fancy language.

[@chompachangas]

@@FoolishFishBooks I can't stress enough how approachable JMG's writing is. He is clear and concise, with a minimum of flowery language without being too dry or technical.

[@brandoncallaway8835]

The first volume is gone unless your paying for the $400 dollar special deluxe edition.

[@cloudyskies5497]

@@brandoncallaway8835 The paperback is now available and is not a limited edition as far as I know.

[@martiangentian]

This is a truly wonderful book. Thank you so much I got volume 1 and 2 for myself and my sister. For Christmas and birthday. They sent us the same edition numbers as we got for volume 1 such a wonderful thought. Would not have found these books or the bookstore without you thank you! 🤗

[@ThatBarefootPaganGirl]

I quite literally just had this book arrive yesterday for me. I'm excited to take a look at it.

[@FoolishFishBooks]

Oh, you're in for a treat! 😜

[@ignatiuscaesar3223]

This was an awesome book review! I really hope there is a part 2 when you finish it. I had pre-odered this book and got it a week after release, book #100 I've been practicing out of it ever since and it's been really rewarding. anyways great content, love your channel keep up the great work and wish you all the best.

[@FoolishFishBooks]

Thanks you, @Ignatius Caesar! Very best wishes to you too!

[@miskatonic6576]

Thanks so much for the awesome review and mentioning Miskatonic Books.

[@hiddentape2911]

I'm from Jersey in the Channel Islands in between England and France and there is lots of really amazing dolmen sites here! I love visiting them and trying to imagine the people that made these amazing structures! I am also fascinated by the mystery of the Druids so I think I might have to pick this one up! Thanks

[@FoolishFishBooks]

Oh nice! 😄 For sure, I can't think of a nicer introduction to the mindset than what Greer presents here. Strong recommendation!

[@hiddentape2911]

@@FoolishFishBooks Ok, so including shipping to Europe this is by no means a cheap book but it is surely worth it. Contents aside this has to be one of the most beautiful books I have seen in recent times... Thank you so much for informing us about this!

[@hiddentape2911]

Make sure to visit! Its a beautiful island that is steeped in history!

[@DavinTurner]

I absolutely agree with you about Miskatonic books. Ms. Debra is very punctual when letting me know the status of my order-every time! I also really want this one!

[@guyhogan4882]

Very much like William Atkinson to speak as a master to a pupil, it's almost a trademark in his works. Which is why I recommended a review of some of his other books in a past vid of yours, such as "Clairvoyance and Occult Powers" or one of his 1st works "The Human Aura" since your a well read man. To be honest as an archdruid of my own grove I fail to take seriously any practitioner who isn't aware of his literature, as they are almost a staple on the "how to" of the groundwork of mentalism and how to make magic actually work. I actually found him through "The Mentalist Handbook" written by a researcher of his. Keep up the great reviews my friend and may danu illuminate your path.

[@FoolishFishBooks]

Thank you for the tips :D Warmest wishes to you!

[@zachf5778]

I have this volume, and it is indeed a beautiful book. Great review as always... I very much enjoyed.

[@ghettocountry8678]

very beautiful covering of the book, love the color....Im a sucker for books...lol

[@FoolishFishBooks]

Yes that green is lush!

[@BoyDiviner]

The book looks gorgeous wow! The printing looks so so good. While I'm not interested in druidry, I'm super interested in well written simplified magical books and this seems to fit the bill.

[@FoolishFishBooks]

Right! An unpretentious writing style from well-known experts always makes me pay attention ;)

[@chopperbison8298]

Forgot to mention how awesome Larry and Debbie are 🦎

[@martiangentian]

I really appreciate your reviews you have introduced me to some amazing books, thank you, my pocket is smarting slightly but hopefully I can use their contents to help that out! 🤣🤣🤣

[@koltonpalmer8220]

Very happy that I snagged a copy of volume 1 & 2. With only 550 copies of each. Already can't find volume 1, volume 2 will soon be impossible to find as well. But a great pickup 👍🏻

[@Freddy-Zamora-MX]

Awesome video as usual. Don't know much about Druidic Magic, had never heard about the Mabinogion. Thanks for bringing us this knowledge.

[@FoolishFishBooks]

You're welcome! I'm finding it a fascinating read!

[@Carlo-V.]

thank you Denis! Always a pleasure!

[@shycakebreadbread8744]

It's really a beautiful book. Would they do a reprinting? Or have it available in another form?

[@menetharamsammy3700]

Very interesting

[@1550592535]

Hey! I was wondering if you knew if the course includes anything related to pore breathing? Thanks in advance!!

[@MADdabber710OIL]

I really want to get this... May order it if still there next month. Do you have any thoughts on the very best astrology book of the occult? Something that goes deeper into everything than the Picatrix? I just ordered the 3 books of occult philosophy and a few others. I have Golden Dawn, Picatrix, Kybalion and a few other grimoure type books. I need a book with the times of the days corresponding to the planets. I do not think any of the ones I have have those times in them... I really want to have the right and exact literature in case I end up with no internet ect. Trying to buy as many books as I can and start my studies. I know Astrology is KEY to ALL. I use Stellarium on my laptop which is GREAT but like I said in case technology becomes something I do not want to deal with or can;t for any reason I will keep my books. So I am stocking up on the most important ones I can find. Any reply would be appreciated Foolish Fish! Thank you! (Also any tools absolutely needed for rituals if you have time to tell me some essentials).

[@Tyler.i.81]

The last druid Ben McGrady is a lovely documentary if you haven't watched it.

[@iBlagg8]

Can recommend this, it's still on KZbin

[@wolfbeam9169]

I got #419 of volumes 1 and 2 today. I feel kind of happy I got them both in 2020, hehe. I thought there were supposed to be more than 2, but nope, its only 2.

[@simondyda]

Maybe it's because I'm a Welsh speaker from Anglesey, or maybe it's because Druidry is a modern invention posing as an ancient tradition, but I view it all as being rather silly. The Mabinogion is central to my own personal Dreaming, as is a lot of Welsh stuff (eg fairy lore, medieval genealogies), but it doesn't require me to pretend to be a druid or insist that everything relating to the Celts is by default druidic.

[@Test7017]

Celts an druids were giants. Not humans. View antiquities of the nations 1731 Or noe travels through Europe 1601

[@blokeinconnu8490]

In defence of Greer, I have to point to the fact that he frequently try to free modern Druidry from any claims to be ancient (and so does quite a few of adherents of RDNA and AODA). He repeatedly write in his books (and on his blog) that modern Druidry is a 300 year old particular spiritual movement, formed by Enlightenment and Romanticism influences, from William Stukeley onwards. Self-identified Druids in the 18th and 19th centuries (and some self-identified Druids in the 20h century) raised unfounded claims about ancient roots, but I see it as a sign of maturity that the druidical movement (or parts thereof) now is tending to measure the value of their own traditions based on their usefulness rather than their age. Lectures held by Professor Ronald Hutton have probably helped some members of OBOD to similarly form a historically accurate view of the past.

[@blokeinconnu8490]

Similarly, it was an improvement, when adherents of the Wiccan religion realised, that they were not practicing a surviving 30 000 year old stone age religion, but a religion that emerged in the 1940s, by stitching together Apuleius' description of Isis, Swinburne's poem Hertha, Margaret Murray's now refuted theories about the witch hunt, and Robert Graves' vivid imagination into something new and interesting. (Graves is for Wicca what Iolo Morganwg and Morien are for Druidry) The age of their religion doesn't matter, as long as the Wiccans find their practice spiritually rewarding, and it's good form when they abstain from claiming their religion to be "Celtic".

[@chopperbison8298]

Just ordered number lesser 2 greater🦉

[@josiahsophia8938]

I was just reading John Michael greers “The blood of the earth” before taking a break for... more Greer!

[@FoolishFishBooks]

The man is a prolific genius! If have been surprised if a few of my viewers weren't reading _something_ by him 😜 I'm not sure I've heard of Blood of the Earth though...

[@josiahsophia8938]

Foolish Fish it’s about magic and peak oil. From scarlet imprint 2012. He’s a fun writer.

[@jsinmcc92]

I just found out My ancestors were welsh had no idea until recently been looking into stuff like Druid magic too thanks

[@FoolishFishBooks]

Well, this, of course, is modern druidry. But the elements that compose it are steeped in the ancient system (of which there don't remain

[@jamesskinnercouk]

I’m intrigued by the 3 lines on the cover pointing upward within the stone pillars, I saw that exact symbol on the side of the “Ilkley moor White House”, I wonder if it has Druidic meaning, there’s stones around ilkley moor that have the swirl symbol carved on them.

[@FoolishFishBooks]

Yes, they do have a druidic meaning. They are the first three emanations from the One that in turn become the Seven.

[@jamesskinnercouk]

Foolish Fish thanks I’ll look more into that, and I’ll probably keep an eye for local neo druids hanging around ilkley moor, lol.

[@jsinmcc92]

What do you think of the Zolar encyclopedia of ancient and forbidden knowledge as a beginners guide?

[@FoolishFishBooks]

I'm afraid I don't know it.

[@brandoncallaway8835]

Hey FF, have miskatonic books ever rereleased copies of their books? The reason I am asking is cause now I finally have a little bit of money and went to get this book and the second volume and they are out of stock now and there are no other places that have it. I feel deep in my bones that I need these two books, but now it seems there is no way to get one... Nobody is selling it anywhere.

[@brandoncallaway8835]

Nevermind, I got the last one they had in the store... Prayed to my guides, pictured it and said if I am meant to get the book, make a way! ... Then I looked everywhere and then contacted him and said, he did you guys sell to any other bookstores? He said I think I have one around here that wasn't for sale, I'll sell it to you :-)

[@FoolishFishBooks]

Ah, good old Larry Roberts 😍 Honestly the best in the business 😄🙏

[@brandoncallaway8835]

I felt than I needed it in my soul and then was crushed when I found out that it had been out of stock for a very long time.... Fitting that I used magick to get it... Honestly, I don't think it would have been available at all if I wasn't meant to have it.

[@brandoncallaway8835]

Hey, btw, FF.... Please don't ever stop making videos 😆... I love your channel.

[@johnjamesmckeogh2388]

With volume 1 being so hard to find, is it worth getting volume 2 without completing volume 1 first?

[@FoolishFishBooks]

Hard to say. It follows a pretty straightforward Golden Dawn pattern...

[@jsinmcc92]

So I’m starting the book today are the Seven Cantrefs with the 3 rays basically like the Tree of life?

[@FoolishFishBooks]

Yes, there are definitely parallels there

[@jsinmcc92]

@@FoolishFishBooks okay thank you tbh ive just been buying the books you show and reading them but fk it was hard to start to understand everything by urself and youve helped me tremendously like why arent you writing books fool?

[@chetthebee1322]

So is this a practitioners book or a book that explains Druidism?

[@FoolishFishBooks]

It explains traditional Druidism by giving the reader exercises to do from the modern Druidism current.

[@Qu0thTheRaven]

I own a copy of this and i was a little disappointed with it tbh

[@shorelineshrine9666]

I love you