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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 · 4d
“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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"Join ICE" - Jesse Welles (LIVE on The Late Show) ...

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"Join ICE" - Jesse Welles (LIVE on The Late Show)
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December 11, 2025 at 8:16 PM
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“We are accustomed to think of ourselves as an emancipated people; we say that we are democratic, liberty-loving, free of prejudices and hatred. This is the melting-pot, the seat of a great human experiment. Beautiful words ...”

~ Henry Miller, The Air-Conditioned Nightmare.
Image containing a text quotation, with the drawing of a factory producing pollution in the bottom left-hand corner. The text, from Henry Miller, The Air-Conditioned Nightmare, reads: Superabundant Loot and Reckless Plunder “We are accustomed to think of ourselves as an emancipated people; we say that we are democratic, liberty-loving, free of prejudices and hatred. This is the melting-pot, the seat of a great human experiment. Beautiful words, full of noble, idealistic sentiment. Actually we are a vulgar, pushing mob whose passions are easily mobilized by demagogues, newspaper men, religious quacks, agitators and such like. To call this a society of free peoples is blasphemous. What have we to offer the world beside the superabundant loot which we recklessly plunder from the earth under the maniacal delusion that this insane activity represents progress and enlightenment?”
December 11, 2025 at 6:40 PM
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NATO chief warns war with Russia 'is at our door' and tells Europe to be ready for action 'now' www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...
NATO chief warns war with Russia 'is at our door'
In a speech in Berlin, Rutte said too many allies of the military alliance did not feel the urgency of Russia's threat in Europe.
www.dailymail.co.uk
December 11, 2025 at 2:19 PM
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'Leaked document shows US wants to pull four countries 'away from the EU' as part of Make Europe Great Again strategy'

www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...
'Leaked document shows US wants to pull four countries away from EU'
The secret file, reported by Defense One, supposedly claims Washington intends to pull Austria, Italy, Hungary and Poland away from the EU.
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December 11, 2025 at 4:32 PM
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Wake up: America has switched sides:

The president has this week shown such disregard & contempt for ‘weak’ European allies that it is now beyond doubt what his ambition for the continent really amounts to – a desire to inflict Trumpism upon the wider West ...

www.independent.co.uk/voices/ameri...
It is time to wake up to a chilling truth – America has switched sides
The president has this week shown such disregard and contempt for ‘weak’ European allies that it is now beyond doubt what his ambition for the continent really amounts to – a desire to inflict Trumpis...
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December 11, 2025 at 4:40 PM
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“This feeling of being lonely and very temporary visitors in the universe is in flat contradiction to everything known about man (and all other living organisms) in the sciences. We do not ‘come into’ this world; we come out of it, as leaves from a tree ...”

~ Alan Watts.
An image containing a text quotation, with a white lotus blossom and green leaves in the lower left-hand corner. The text, by Alan Watts, quoted in Iain McGilchrist, The Matter With Things: Our Brains, Our Delusions and the Unmaking of the World, reads: As the ocean ‘waves’, the universe ‘peoples’: “This feeling of being lonely and very temporary visitors in the universe is in flat contradiction to everything known about man (and all other living organisms) in the sciences. We do not ‘come into’ this world; we come out of it, as leaves from a tree. As the ocean ‘waves’, the universe ‘peoples’. Every individual is an expression of the whole realm of nature, a unique action of the total universe.”
December 11, 2025 at 1:49 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 11, 2025 at 1:49 PM
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MINNEAPOLIS: “All I did was step outside as a Somali American citizen, and I got chased by a masked person, assaulted, kidnapped. It was inhumane. If this is what’s happening to a 🇺🇸 citizen on camera, imagine what could happen to your loved ones.”
December 11, 2025 at 4:00 AM
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Billions of pageviews, millions of unique devices, and hundreds of languages tell the same story. In an age of rising misinformation and fleeting headlines, Wikipedia remains a cornerstone for reliable information online. 🧵⬇️ (1/4)
Text reads: Year in Review, Wikipedia's reach in 2025.
December 11, 2025 at 1:04 PM
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“As the hand held before the eye conceals the greatest mountain, so the little earthly life hides from the glance the enormous lights and mysteries ... And he who can draw it away from before his eyes as one draws away a hand, beholds the great shining of the inner worlds.”

~ Rabbi Nachman.
An image containing a text quotation, with a stylised orange sun, sun rays and heart in the lower left-hand corner. The text, by Rabbi Nachman of Bratslav, from Edward Hoffman, The Way of Splendor: Jewish Mysticism and Modern Psychology, and quoted in Anne Baring, The Dream of the Cosmos: A Quest for the Soul, reads: Lights of the Hidden World: “As the hand held before the eye conceals the greatest mountain, so the little earthly life hides from the glance the enormous lights and mysteries of which the world is full. And he who can draw it away from before his eyes as one draws away a hand, beholds the great shining of the inner worlds.”
December 11, 2025 at 12:53 PM
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“Knowledge is not gained, it is there all the time. It is the ‘veils’ which have to be dissolved in the mind.”

~ Idries Shah, Neglected Aspects of Sufi Study.

Image: Salome (Melody Moore) Dance of the Seven Veils / Florida Grand Opera / Wikimedia Commons / CC BY 2.0).
A wide shot of a scene at Florida Grand Opera in which Salome (played by Melody Moore) is performing the Dance of the Seven Veils, while other members of the cast look on.
December 11, 2025 at 11:29 AM
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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 · 2d
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