Readers, please enjoy this guest blog post by John Michael Greer, author of several titles, including the new Ceremony of the Grail. What is the Holy Grail? In some versions of the legend, that was the question that had to be asked by the questing knight to awaken the powers of the Grail and free the Waste Land from its curse. It remains an important question today among students of Grail lore. The standard claim in popular culture—the belief that the Grail was the cup Jesus of Nazareth used at the Last Supper—isn't the oldest version, or even the most likely. More than a century ago, British folklorist Dr. Jessie Weston found what may be crucial clues to the origins and meaning