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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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Image: Rubbish bin in Shlisselburg / Antonio Kless / Wikimedia Commons / CC BY-SA 4.0.
Rubbish bin in Shlisselburg. The buckled metal bin is overflowing, and many drinks cans, bottles and coffee cups are lying on the ground around it.
December 11, 2025 at 6:40 PM
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Source: Alan Watts, quoted in Iain McGilchrist, The Matter With Things: Our Brains, Our Delusions and the Unmaking of the World.

Image: The Tree Spirit / Werner koehler / Wikimedia Commons / CC BY-SA 3.0.
A close-up photograph of a grey tree trunk showing a very large hollow knot in it. In the not there is the face of a woman with grey-green skin, black eyebrows and pink lips. Behind the tree trump is greenery and there's another tree trunk on the far right. The photo is titled "The Tree Spirit".
December 11, 2025 at 1:49 PM
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“Beyond a Shadow of a Doubt”, a story of resistance:

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

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

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December 11, 2025 at 1:49 PM
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Source: 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.

Image: Christmas Lights (130991343) / Bret Schwalb / Wikimedia Commons (orig 500px) / CC BY 3.0.
An image with many differently coloured circular lights against a dark background.
December 11, 2025 at 12:53 PM
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Source: Colin Wilson, The Mind Parasites.

Image: Back garden - Coleridge Cottage - Nether Stowey - Somerset, England - DSC01109 / Daderot / Wikimedia Commons / CC0 1.0 Public Domain Dedication.
A photo of the back garden of a house, with two folding wooden deck chairs on the right, facing a neatly manicured lawn (you might say a green desert). Behind the chairs is a wide flower bed. In the centre of the lawn is an arrangement of pegs and some small hoops, as used in the game quoits or hoopla. Further back is the back of a house and high garden wall, and beside the house, held in by a low drystone wall are shrubs and a tall bush or tree.
December 10, 2025 at 6:30 PM
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Source: Gary Lachman, A Secret History of Consciousness.

Image: Evolution of man / possan / Wikimedia Commons (orig. Flickr) / CC BY 2.0.
Humoristic take on the evolution of humankind. It shows twelve bright orange figures walking along the bank of a lake in front of tall, green trees, with their reflections showing in the waters of the lake. The figures gradually evolve from apes, acquire tools or weapons, and walk progressively more upright. From our own times, however, we see the progress reverse, as we devolve back into primitive creatures.
December 10, 2025 at 9:45 AM
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Image: Destiny / John William Waterhouse (1849–1917) / Wikimedia Commons / Public domain.
December 10, 2025 at 9:23 AM