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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

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H.M. Forester @hmforester.bsky.social · 3d
“Beyond a Shadow of a Doubt”, a story of resistance:

mystical-faction.blogspot.com/2024/11/an-u...

“The Dissidents (Extended 2025): A novel”:

mystical-faction.blogspot.com/2025/11/the-...

Are freely available at the Internet Archive's library and in full as PDFs at the FB group Mystical Faction.
Front covers of The Dissidents and Beyond a Shadow of a Doubt, by H.M. Forester.
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“Man is a continent, but his conscious mind is no larger than a back-garden. This means that man consists almost entirely of unrealized potentials. The so-called ‘great men’ are the men who have had the courage to realize some of these potentialities ...”

~ Colin Wilson.
Image containing a text quotation, with the heavily-stylised image of a blue tree with curly branches in the lower right-hand corner. The text, from Colin Wilson, The Mind Parasites, reads: Unrealized Potentials: “Man is a continent, but his conscious mind is no larger than a back-garden. This means that man consists almost entirely of unrealized potentials. The so-called ‘great men’ are the men who have had the courage to realize some of these potentialities. The ‘average man’ is too timid and cowardly to make the attempt. He prefers the security of the back-garden.
December 10, 2025 at 6:30 PM
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As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light of meaning in the darkness of mere being.

~ C. G. Jung

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December 8, 2025 at 3:16 AM
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Measles Vaccination: “I sent you the study”:
Debunk the Funk with Dr. Wilson ...

Video (2 min 13 sec).

www.youtube.com/watch?v=O3eT...
I sent you the study
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December 10, 2025 at 3:58 PM
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Sometimes headlines are too funny, you just have to make an infographic. 🇺🇸 A font coup is underway: Times New Roman is back, ousting Calibri for being "too woke." 🤯 Font choices are officially a matter of national security.

Will this font war spill into Canada? 🇨🇦 #FontWars #DEI #StateDepartment
“Infographic titled ‘USA Font Coup: Times New Roman Overthrows Calibri.’ The design presents a satirical look at the 2025 U.S. State Department decision to replace Calibri with Times New Roman. The layout is a clean two-column split on a light gray background, with both sides using the same color scheme for neutrality. The left column is labeled ‘Times New Roman’ and displays a paragraph written in Times New Roman explaining its origins as a classic serif typeface created for the Times of London in 1932, commonly associated with books, reports, and traditional professional documents. The right column is labeled ‘Calibri’ and shows a paragraph written in Calibri, describing it as a modern sans-serif typeface optimized for digital screens and originally adopted by the State Department for accessibility. A thin vertical line separates the two columns. Both paragraphs use the same text color to highlight the visual differences between the fonts themselves rather than color. At the bottom is a humorous footer that reads: ‘Based on real 2025 U.S. headlines about the State Department replacing Calibri with Times New Roman — yes, this actually became news. Also, this footer is proudly written in the dangerously modern sans-serif font Avenir Next LT Pro in #333333, which would definitely not be approved by Washington right now.’ The overall tone is playful and gently mocks the exaggerated political drama surrounding a simple font change.”
December 10, 2025 at 5:52 AM
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“Bergson voiced a question that has been repeated by scores of other thinkers similarly dissatisfied with the strict materialist-mechanistic interpretation of evolution. If the ‘aim’ of life is to successfully ‘adapt’ to its environment, why did it ever go beyond the amoeba ...”

~ Gary Lachman.
Image containing a text quotation from Gary Lachman, A Secret History of Consciousness that reads: “[Philosopher Henri] Bergson voiced a question that has been repeated by scores of other thinkers similarly dissatisfied with the strict materialist-mechanistic interpretation of evolution. If the ‘aim’ of life is to successfully ‘adapt’ to its environment, why did it ever go beyond the amoeba, which is practically immortal and has proved the successful adapter par excellence? Why has life gone on not only to adapt, which implies an essentially passive, reactive character, but to complicate itself more and more dangerously?”
December 10, 2025 at 9:45 AM
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December 10, 2025 at 9:21 AM
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What Life Wants of Us
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“It is not what we want but what life, apparently, wants of us. To believe this, one then has to believe also in mystery of some kind, that is, that we are more than merely material bodies that dance awhile and then just rot away.”

~ James Hollis, Source unknown.
Destiny / John William Waterhouse (1849–1917) / Wikimedia Commons / Public domain. A woman in red holds a drinking bowl close to her lips. In a round mirror, we see sailing ships.
December 10, 2025 at 9:23 AM
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THIS is what Big Brother actually looks like!
rbreich.bsky.social Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 1d
David Ellison reportedly told Trump he’d make “sweeping changes” to CNN if Paramount’s takeover of Warner Bros. gets approved.

Meanwhile, Jared Kushner and three Middle East countries are backing the bid — while Kushner advises Trump on foreign policy.

Corruption on display.
December 9, 2025 at 6:30 PM
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“Let me try and describe briefly what it’s like to feel inspired in the way that I think people mean when they talk about inspiration ... [T]his is what it feels like to me. It feels like discovery, not invention ...”

~ Philip Pullman, Daemon Voices: Essays on Storytelling.
Image containing a text quotation, with a muse or daemon in the lower left-hand corner, standing in a pot of ink, holding a very large pen in her outstretched arms, and with a large, curly pool of black ink beneath her. The text, from Philip Pullman, Daemon Voices: Essays on Storytelling, reads: “Let me try and describe briefly what it’s like to feel inspired in the way that I think people mean when they talk about inspiration. I actually talk about it very rarely, and I don’t think I’ve ever had a conversation with another writer on the subject. But this is what it feels like to me. It feels like discovery, not invention. It feels as if the story I’m writing already exists, in some Platonic way, and that I’m privileged from time to time to gain access to it. The curtain twitches aside for a while; the moon comes out from behind a cloud, and illuminates a landscape that was previously invisible; something like that. “Something happens, and there’s a moment or so of clarity in which I see all kinds of possibilities and connections and patterns and correspondences that I never suspected were there in the great clumsy bundle of darkness and confusion that is the story I’m trying to write.”
December 9, 2025 at 6:16 PM
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“Beyond a Shadow of a Doubt” and “The Dissidents (Extended 2025): A novel” are freely available at the Internet Archive's library & in full at the FB group Mystical Faction.

Links in comments.

#PostTrust #PostTruth #Materialism #Disenchantment #Resistance #Underground #Survival #Dystopia #DarkAges
Front covers of The Dissidents and Beyond a Shadow of a Doubt, by H.M. Forester.
December 9, 2025 at 6:16 PM
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“What I seem to be saying here, rather against my will, is that stories come from somewhere else. It’s hard to rationalise this, because I don’t believe in a somewhere else; there ain’t no elsewhere, is what I believe. Here is all there is ...”

~ Philip Pullman, Daemon Voices.
Image containing a text quotation, with a muse or daemon in the lower left-hand corner, standing in a pot of ink, holding a very large pen in her outstretched arms, and with a large, curly pool of black ink beneath her. The text, from Philip Pullman, Daemon Voices: Essays on Storytelling, reads: Stories Coming From Somewhere Else: “What I seem to be saying here, rather against my will, is that stories come from somewhere else. It’s hard to rationalise this, because I don’t believe in a somewhere else; there ain’t no elsewhere, is what I believe. Here is all there is. It certainly feels as if the story comes to me, but perhaps it comes from me, from my unconscious mind – I just don’t know; and it wouldn’t make any difference to the responsibility either way. I still have to look after it. I still have to protect it from interference while it becomes sure of itself and settles on the form it wants.”
December 9, 2025 at 6:08 PM
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EUROPE IS UNDER SERIOUS THREAT FROM PUTIN AND TRUMP’S AMERICA!

We need to strengthen Europe by being a part of it not sitting on the sidelines. Brexit is killing us economically and is putting our peace and security at risk.

WE DEMAND BREXIT IS UNDONE!
December 9, 2025 at 5:33 PM
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If Paramount is allowed to take over Warner Bros. Discovery, the conservative billionaire Ellison family will control:

Paramount Studios
CBS
CNN
MTV
HBO
Comedy Central
Nickelodeon
Cartoon Network
Warner Bros.
DC Studios
Fandango
New Line Cinema
TNT Sports
TBS
Oracle

And more.
December 8, 2025 at 5:11 PM
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“In his essay on Chinese alchemy, Jung writes: ‘The psyche is a world in which the ego is contained. Perhaps there are fishes who believe that they contain the sea. It is our responsibility to do away with this pervasive illusion.’ ...”

~ David Tacey, The Darkening Spirit.
Image containing a text quotation, with the grey silhouetted profile of a man like Jung lighting his pipe, in the lower left-hand corner. The text from David Tacey, The Darkening Spirit reads: “In his essay on Chinese alchemy, Jung writes: ‘The psyche is a world in which the ego is contained. Perhaps there are fishes who believe that they contain the sea. It is our responsibility to do away with this pervasive illusion.’ It is for Jung an illusion to think that the psyche is confined to our interior realm. For Jung, the soul is not inside us, but we are in the soul.”
December 9, 2025 at 3:18 PM
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“[Jung] became convinced that psyche extends beyond the human and encompasses the physical world. When we come into contact with the unconscious we witness the tip of a reality that exceeds our knowledge and imagination ...”

~ David Tacey, The Darkening Spirit: Jung, spirituality, religion.
Image containing a text quotation, with the grey silhouetted profile of a man like Jung lighting his pipe, in the lower left-hand corner. The quote from David Tacey, The Darkening Spirit: Jung, spirituality, religion, reads: “[Jung] became convinced that psyche extends beyond the human and encompasses the physical world. When we come into contact with the unconscious we witness the tip of a reality that exceeds our knowledge and imagination. The soul is a cosmos in itself, as vast and wide as the physical universe. It seems to intersect with the physical universe, to run as it were alongside it, and to form the basis of all that exists.”
December 9, 2025 at 2:01 PM
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Time to fix the Brexit train wreck ...

#Brexit #RejoinEU #Petition #UKPetition
December 9, 2025 at 1:31 PM
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“Truth can be intuited even when it cannot be articulated in language. Such intuition is rooted in our broader obfuscated mind, which can apprehend—in symbolic ways—aspects of reality beyond the grasp of our self-reflective thoughts and perceptions.”

~ Bernardo Kastrup, More Than Allegory.
Image: Rosa 'Red Intuition' kz02 / Krzysztof Ziarnek, Kenraiz / Wikimedia Commons /CC BY-SA 4.0. A red rose, Rosa 'Red Intuition'. The surrounding green foliage is out of focus.
December 9, 2025 at 9:44 AM
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“Beyond a Shadow of a Doubt” and “The Dissidents (Extended 2025): A novel” are freely available at the Internet Archive's library & in full at the FB group Mystical Faction.

Links in comments.

#PostTrust #PostTruth #Materialism #Disenchantment #Resistance #Underground #Survival #Dystopia #DarkAges
Front covers of The Dissidents and Beyond a Shadow of a Doubt, by H.M. Forester.
December 9, 2025 at 9:44 AM
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“It is important to underline that individuation leads not only to a widening of personality, but also to a broadening of collective relationships. Contrary to the belief of some, individuation is not tantamount to isolation & abdication of social & ethical responsibilities ...”

~ Radmila Moacanin.
Image containing a text quotation, with the grey silhouetted profile of a man like Jung lighting his pipe, in the lower left-hand corner. The text, from Radmila Moacanin, The Essence of Jung's Psychology and Tibetan Buddhism, reads: Individuation and Collective Relationships: “It is important to underline that individuation leads not only to a widening of personality, but also to a broadening of collective relationships. Contrary to the belief of some, individuation is not tantamount to isolation and abdication of social and ethical responsibilities; rather, personal consciousness and collective awareness are enhanced concurrently in a natural, spontaneous progression.”
December 9, 2025 at 9:31 AM
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Here’s the birth of Christ being defiled by masked federal thugs who think terrorizing marginalized people is funny.
Homeland Security would have zip-tied the baby Jesus if its agents had been deployed in Bethlehem.
December 8, 2025 at 6:43 PM
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Inspiration
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“Just as anyone who listens to the muse will hear, you can write out of your own intention or out of inspiration ... And those who have heard deeply the rhythms and hymns of the gods, can recite those hymns in such a way that the gods will be attracted.”

~ Joseph Campbell.
Image containing a text quotation, with the small figure of a woman sensing an aroma in the air, in the bottom left-hand corner. The text, from Joseph Campbell, The Hero's Journey: Joseph Campbell on His Life and Work, reads: Inspiration: “Just as anyone who listens to the muse will hear, you can write out of your own intention or out of inspiration. There is such a thing. It comes up and talks. And those who have heard deeply the rhythms and hymns of the gods, can recite those hymns in such a way that the gods will be attracted.”
December 8, 2025 at 3:16 PM
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Why Facebook and Google are incentivised to make their products worse | Cory Doctorow. Video (41 min) ...

www.youtube.com/watch?v=tZQa...
Cory Doctorow: why Facebook and Google are incentivised to make their products worse
YouTube video by Channel 4 News
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December 8, 2025 at 2:24 PM
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Here’s what he’s missing:

We have a president calling immigrants “garbage” and affordability a hoax, a DOD secretary cosplaying war games with no accountability, a VP saying it’s “reasonable” to not want neighbors who speak another language, and a Speaker who believes women are inferior.

The GOP.
December 8, 2025 at 4:01 AM
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It is becoming increasingly obvious that the oligarchs, backed by the scum in the Kremlin and the White House, want to carve up Europe between the USA and Russia.
December 8, 2025 at 9:53 AM
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“Neoplatonism proposed the existence of deep interconnections among all things, including what is normally viewed as the distinction between mental & physical phenomena. From the everyday, ego-based state of awareness, mind & matter appear to be fundamentally different...”

~ Dean Radin, Real Magic.
Image containing a text quotation. The text, from Dean Radin, Real Magic, reads: Personal and Universal Consciousness: “Neoplatonism proposed the existence of deep interconnections among all things, including what is normally viewed as the distinction between mental and physical phenomena. From the everyday, ego-based state of awareness [the personal form of consciousness], mind and matter appear to be fundamentally different. But from the rarefied state of gnosis, which provides direct access to higher states of existence [Universal Consciousness] the apparent distinctions between mind and matter, or space and time, are revealed as illusions.”
December 8, 2025 at 11:07 AM