Magic, and why it produces more straightforward miracles in some eras than in others. PLEASE keep your hand off the delete button for long enough to take a look! As usual with John Michael, this says something fundamentally insightful.
Note too, btw, the decorum of the btl discussion, and how productive it is for that reason.
And PS: I personally KNOW that miracles - or flamboyant, spectacular PK incidents, if you prefer - are real, because I’ve witnessed a few, directly. Deeply perturbing, but permanently transformative:
https://www.ecosophia.net/the-mask-of-disenchantment/
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PPS: As always with JM’s blogs, the btl people are high quality: no goons, no trolls, virtually fool-free (due to John’s ruthless pre-moderation), they are invariably civil, and their contributions are well worth the trouble, when you have an hour or so to spare… 
Fascinating stuff.
He’s wrong about Dune, though. (I loved that film, but wasn’t too keen on the book, as I remember.)
More seriously: he’s wrong about progress. I’ve tried to argue that point before (in TLN), and I might try again. For now, I just want to say, almost paradoxically, that he is right about this:
The prescriptive insistence on the disenchantment of the world is an important aspect of the dogma of progress-worship in our time, which is why it remains bolted in place in the mainstream of contemporary thought […].
I want to discuss that at length some time, but I’m not up to it now. (Chorus: “Whew!”)
I’ve been hoping you’d post more about this kind of thing, but I wasn’t sure how much you had already done so in MLMB (or even TLN, which I didn’t always follow closely). Also, I’m afraid of indulging my obsessions, and distracting from the political focus of what is still quite a small forum.
(I’d better get on with reading the article. I’ve only just started, but wanted to give these reactions quickly, because it’s bedtime and I’m tired and I might forget.)
Have all the archives of The Archdruid Report just disappeared into the aether? That’s a bit of a shock. (I hadn’t visited since 2015.) The blog posts themselves are available, in both printed and e-book form, but what about all those careful comments?
You reckon PROGRESSFOREVER! is a real possibility, Twirl? I reckon that people like JMG, Jim Kunstler and other weighty commentators are dead right, that it hasn’t a hope in hell, and that our real future track - already begun - is what Greer calls ‘the Long Descent’ and JHK calls ‘the Long Emergency’: our already baked-in future. Interested to hear what you think…
John’s premier essay on the subject here:
https://www.ecoshock.org/transcripts/greer_on_collapse.pdf