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H.M. Forester

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Author of sci-fi, psi-fi, and mystical adventure novels • Avid reader • Wikipedia editor • Webmaster • Lover of nature • Peacefully resisting. Blog: mystical-faction.blogspot.com Original photo by Gabriela Palai, cropped. Creative Commons Zero licence.

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H.M. Forester @hmforester.bsky.social · Jul 11

“I don't have to tell you things are bad. Everybody knows things are bad. The lunatics have taken over the asylum. Masked goons are dragging people from the street and throwing them into concentration camps. And there's no end to the cruelty.

“Things are worse than bad. They're crazy.”

Members of the underground resistance movement in a dimly-lit bunker. Three are seated at a workbench using laptops, their faces illuminated by the glow of their screens; at the back, to their left is a member pinpointing something of interest on a large map of Europe mounted on the wall; and to the left, another man sits working on a computer close to a rack full of hi-tech computer equipment. Up above, a single shaded lamp casts a little light in the room.

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H.M. Forester @hmforester.bsky.social · 17h

Image: Khunsathan heaven on earth 05 / Nopparat thanatawan / Wikimedia Commons / CC BY-SA 4.0.

H.M. Forester @hmforester.bsky.social · 17h

Another Dimension
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The hidden world has its clouds and rain, but of a different kind.
Its sky and sunshine are of a different kind.
This is made apparent only to the refined ones – those not
deceived by the seeming completeness of the ordinary world.

~ Rumi, in Idries Shah, The Way of the Sufi.

Image: Khunsathan heaven on earth 05 / Nopparat thanatawan / Wikimedia Commons / CC BY-SA 4.0.

A view from a hillside field in Khunsathan, with the golden sun shining over the horizon, behind distant hills, under a bright blue sky with wispy clouds. Described by the photographer as "heaven on earth".

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Mia Farrow @miafarrow.bsky.social · 19h

Ill be there!!
Please join

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Kevin ANTIFA Ressler 💙🐈‍⬛ @kevinressler.bsky.social · 21h

Not my circus... Definitely not my monkeys.

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H.M. Forester @hmforester.bsky.social · 23h

Image: The Passion of Creation [Slightly sharpened] / Leonid Pasternak (1862–1945) / Wikimedia Commons / Public domain.

The Passion of Creation, a painting by Leonid Pasternak (1862–1945), showing a bearded man, sitting at a desk strewn with books and manuscripts, a pen in his right hand and his left hand touching his brow, with his eyes closed and apparently deep in thought.

H.M. Forester @hmforester.bsky.social · 23h

Active Imagination
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“The first thing is to be alone, and as free as possible from being disturbed. Then one must sit down and concentrate on seeing and hearing whatever comes up from the unconscious ...”

~ Barbara Hannah, Encounters With the Soul: Active Imagination As Developed by C.G. Jung.

An image containing a text quotation, with a white lotus blossom and green leaves in the lower left-hand corner. The text, from Barbara Hannah, Encounters With the Soul: Active Imagination As Developed by C.G. Jung, reads:

Active Imagination:

“The first thing is to be alone, and as free as possible from being disturbed. Then one must sit down and concentrate on seeing and hearing whatever comes up from the unconscious. When this is accomplished, and often it is far from easy, the image must be prevented from sinking back again into the unconscious, by drawing, painting or writing down whatever has been seen or heard. Sometimes it is possible to express it best by movement or dancing. Some people cannot get into touch with the unconscious directly. An indirect approach that often reveals the unconscious particularly well, is to write stories, apparently about other people. Such stories invariably reveal the parts of the storyteller’s own psyche of which he or she is completely unconscious. ...”

“In every case, the goal is to get into touch with the unconscious, and that entails giving it an opportunity to express itself in some way or other.”

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Space Monkey 3000 @spacemonkey3000.bsky.social · 1d

Okay this is awesome! 💪

The Last Mile with USAID @thelastmileusaid.bsky.social · 2d

Illustration of a green frog styled as Rosie the Riveter. The frog wears a red polka-dot bandana and holds a large wrench in one hand. Above it are the words “We Can Do It!” in bold white letters on a blue background, surrounded by a red rope border. Below, a banner reads “Rosie the Ribiter.”

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H.M. Forester @hmforester.bsky.social · 1d

Source: Connie Zweig, Jeremiah Abrams (Eds), Meeting the Shadow: The Hidden Power of the Dark Side of Human Nature.

Image: Lotus Kirlian / Emmanuel Heredia / Wikimedia Commons / CC BY-SA 3.0.

A kirlian photograph of a person sitting in a lotus position. Around their head, body, arms and legs is a bright white outline, with tendrils of energetic light and a general glow extending perhaps two feet all around them.

H.M. Forester @hmforester.bsky.social · 1d

Sanford: “Jung said the truth of the matter is that the shadow is ninety percent pure gold. Whatever has been repressed holds a tremendous amount of energy, with a great positive potential. So the shadow ... is not intrinsically evil. ...”

~ Connie Zweig, Jeremiah Abrams (Eds), Meeting the Shadow.

Image containing a text quotation, with a small pot of gold coins in the lower left-hand corner. The text, from Connie Zweig, Jeremiah Abrams (Eds), Meeting the Shadow, reads:

The Golden Shadow:

Sanford: “Jung said the truth of the matter is that the shadow is ninety percent pure gold. Whatever has been repressed holds a tremendous amount of energy, with a great positive potential. So the shadow, no matter how troublesome it may be, is not intrinsically evil. The ego, in its refusal of insight and its refusal to accept the entire personality, contributes much more to evil than the shadow.”

H.M. Forester @hmforester.bsky.social · 2d

Remember Yourself
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“Oh, yeah. They taught you good. Made you believe their world was all you deserved. But some part of you knew that was a lie. Some part of you remembered what was real.”

~ Morpheus to Neo in The Matrix Resurrections.

Image: Screenshot from the film, The Matrix Resurrections.

Screenshot from the film, The Matrix Resurrections, in which Thomas Anderson (Neo) is tentatively pushing his fingers against a mirror, in which his image is reflected, to check if the surface is solid or elastic.

H.M. Forester @hmforester.bsky.social · 2d

Source: Carl Jung, Introduction to Frances G. Wickes, Analysis der Kinderseele (The Inner World of Childhood).

Image: Illustration from The Nursery Alice (1890) - c03757 07 / John Tenniel (1820–1914) / Wikimedia Commons / Public domain.

An illustration from The Nursery Alice (1890), showing Alice, the Mad Hatter, March Hare and the Dormouse sitting at a table drinking tea and chatting.

H.M. Forester @hmforester.bsky.social · 2d

“Observance of customs and laws can very easily be a cloak for a lie so subtle that our fellow human beings are unable to detect it. It may help us to escape all criticism, we may even be able to deceive ourselves in the belief of our obvious righteousness. But deep down ...”

~ Carl Jung.

H.M. Forester @hmforester.bsky.social · 3d

Holding the Inner Flame
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“It's easy to be a naïve idealist. It's easy to be a cynical realist. It's quite another thing to have no illusions and still hold the inner flame.”

~ Marie-Louise von Franz, Unknown source.

Image: 7dbpc190560-candle / Wjlonien / Wikimedia Commons / CC BY-SA 3.0.

Close-up photo of the flaming wick of a red candle, showing only the top and not the sides of the candle.

H.M. Forester @hmforester.bsky.social · 3d

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Politico @politico.com · 4d

EXCLUSIVE: Thousands of leaked messages show leaders of Young Republican groups joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape in a private Telegram chat.

Inside rising GOP leaders’ racist chats — obtained by POLITICO and spanning more than 7 months👇

‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat

Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.

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Politico @politico.com · 4d

‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat

Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.

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H.M. Forester @hmforester.bsky.social · 4d

Source: James Hollis, Living Between Worlds: Finding Personal Resilience in Changing Times.

Image: Meditation / William-Adolphe Bouguereau (1825–1905) / Wikimedia Commons / Public domain.

Meditation, a painting by William-Adolphe Bouguereau (1825–1905). A young lady in a loose white robe stands with blue-tinted mountains and occasional trees in the background. Facing the viewer, her right arm rests on her stomach and in her left hand she holds the ends of her long brown hair, perhaps a ponytail.

H.M. Forester @hmforester.bsky.social · 4d

“Our daimon is our tutelary and constant companion. It has been there from childhood to the present, but it is usually drowned out by the noise of our environment, the fears that haunt us, the “stories” that separate us, and the sundry distractions popular culture offers ...”

~ James Hollis.

An image containing a text quotation, with the grey silhouette of a person carrying a long staff in the lower left-hand corner. The text, from James Hollis, Living Between Worlds: Finding Personal Resilience in Changing Times, reads:

Our Daimon:

“Our daimon is our tutelary and constant companion. It has been there from childhood to the present, but it is usually drowned out by the noise of our environment, the fears that haunt us, the “stories” that separate us, and the sundry distractions popular culture offers to help us avoid our own souls. Put simply, our daimon is our personal link to wisdom, to that which transcends ordinary ego consciousness. It embodies what is right for us, no matter how trying that summons will prove to the comfort motives of the ego.”

H.M. Forester @hmforester.bsky.social · 4d

They shut the road through the woods
Seventy years ago.
Weather and rain have undone it again,
And now you would never know
There was once a road through the woods.

~ Rudyard Kipling, “The Way through the Woods”.

Image: Forest before the storm / Ivan Shishkin / WikiArt / Public domain.

Forest before the storm by Ivan Shishkin, showing a narrow path, or perhaps the bed of a narrow stream, passing through woods with a grassy undergrowth.

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|Between The Lines| @frankjones25.bsky.social · 5d

Song of the Day 🎵
Enjoy 💙

Creedence Clearwater Revival - Have You Ever Seen The Rain ☔️💃 dance mix

YouTube video by Chyprak Remix

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H.M. Forester @hmforester.bsky.social · 6d

Source: Robin Robertson, Jung and Frodo: 7 Paths of Individuation in Lord of the Rings.

Image: Love and the Maiden / John Roddam Spencer Stanhope (1829–1908) / Wikimedia Commons / Public domain.

H.M. Forester @hmforester.bsky.social · 6d

“When we approach the world with a sense of wonder, it becomes numinous and we are enriched by our participation in it. When we try to reduce it to something we can fully understand, we ourselves are reduced in the process.”

~ Robin Robertson, Jung and Frodo.

Image: Love and the Maiden / John Roddam Spencer Stanhope (1829–1908) / Wikimedia Commons / Public domain.

Love and the Maiden, a painting by second-generation Pre-Raphaelite artist, John Roddam Spencer Stanhope. It is a representation of the story of Cupid and Psyche, and the painting depicts Cupid waking Psyche from a spell released from a box from the underworld that she was forced to recover for his Mother, Venus. Psyche is pictured reclining on the grass beneath a blossoming tree in a violet and reddish leggings; Cupid is depicted approaching Psyche in a short, patterned orange toga, with orange wings and bow.

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maga-crime-watch.bsky.social @maga-crime-watch.bsky.social · 6d

Well done Liam for speaking up for Palestine.

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H.M. Forester @hmforester.bsky.social · 6d

I wonder if RFK Jr is related to Davros, creator of the Daleks?

A screenshot from an episode of Doctor Who showing Davros, with two of his Dalek creations in the background.

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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 6d

Pope Leo quotes Hannah Arendt:

“The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction and the distinction between true and false no longer exist."

www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news...

Pope Leo calls for news agencies to stand as bulwark against "post-truths," lies and manipulation

Pope Leo XIV has encouraged international news agencies to stand firm as a bulwark against the "ancient art of lying" and manipulation.

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 7d

This Is Fascism

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