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Interested in Illuminationism; the Sufi Way; Western tradition; Renaissance; Romanticism; Idealism; Panpsychism; Imagination; contemporary depth psychology; resistance; etc.

Author of mystical adventure and soft scifi. Blog: mystical-faction.blogspot.com
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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.

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#PostTrust #PostTruth #Materialism #Disenchantment #Resistance #Underground #Survival #Dystopia #DarkAges
“... Ouspensky came to understand that this world was a gigantic hieroglyph, a symbol for a higher, more intensely meaningful world that lay beyond it but radiated its significance through the most mundane items.”

~ Gary Lachman, A Secret History of Consciousness.
February 12, 2026 at 1:56 PM
Fabricating Truth
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“Before mass leaders seize the power to fit reality to their lies, their propaganda is marked by its extreme contempt for facts as such, for in their opinion fact depends entirely on the power of man who can fabricate it.”

~ Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism.
February 12, 2026 at 9:19 AM
“We are experiencing a rise in so-called dissociative disorders, such as borderline personality disorder, conditions in which the sense of one’s own identity is weakened or lost altogether ...”

~ Iain McGilchrist, The Matter with Things.
February 11, 2026 at 7:28 PM
What is this life if, full of care,
We have no time to stand and stare ...

~ William Henry Davies, “Leisure”.
February 11, 2026 at 4:51 PM
The Muse
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“For many artists, the Muse is projected onto a real woman who serves as an anima figure, as Jung put it, opening the gate to inspiration. But the Muse does not have to be embodied in human form... The Muse may be nature. Wordsworth’s poetry was inspired by nature.”

~ Liz Greene.
February 11, 2026 at 9:13 AM
“The world indeed is sacred; but paradoxically, one cannot see the sacredness of the world until one discovers that it is a divine play.”

~ Mircea Eliade.

Image: Dante's Divine Comedy / Giovanni di Paolo / Wikimedia Commons / Public domain.

#Dante #DivinePlay #Sacred #Eliade #MirceaEliade
February 10, 2026 at 4:59 PM
Going Underground: Building a Caring Alternative Parallel Society – while we are still at liberty to do so ...

Link in comments.

Image: Underground Resistance Movement.
February 10, 2026 at 4:59 PM
“Between [the] extremes, of identifying with the inner figures and alienating them, lies the desired response, which is that of creative dialogue. Through dream analysis, active imagination, journal work and reflection, the ego enters into dialogue with the interior figures ...”

~ David Tacey.
February 10, 2026 at 9:51 AM
“When the summit of life is reached, when the bud unfolds and from the lesser the greater emerges ... and the greater figure, which one always was but which remained invisible, appears to the lesser personality with the force of a revelation.”

~ Carl Jung, Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious.
February 10, 2026 at 9:37 AM
“To become a person does not necessarily mean to be well adjusted, well adapted, approved of by others. It means to become who you are. We are meant to become more eccentric, more peculiar, more odd. We are not meant just to fit in. We are here to be different ...”

~ James Hollis.
February 9, 2026 at 6:30 PM
“Some want to turn the clock back, harkening back to some golden age of nostalgia, when women, children, the lower class, parishioners, and people of other races and creeds knew their place; not the 1950s, but further ...”

~ H.M. Forester, Preface to Beyond a Shadow of a Doubt.
February 9, 2026 at 6:24 PM
“The supreme danger which threatens individuals as well as whole nations is a psychic danger. Reason has proved itself completely powerless, precisely because its arguments have an effect only on the conscious mind and not on the unconscious ...”

~ Carl Jung, The Symbolic Life.
February 9, 2026 at 3:07 PM
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January 30, 2026 at 12:32 PM
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Bad Bunny’s closing messages during his Super Bowl performance:

“The only thing more powerful than hate is love”
“Together, we are America”
February 9, 2026 at 1:51 AM
“You started your question with the matter of the visibility of study institutions. But the world itself, as well as special attitudes, properly understood, constitute the Sufi school ...'”

~ Idries Shah, Learning How to Learn: Psychology and Spirituality in the Sufi Way.
February 9, 2026 at 10:57 AM
Opening Doors
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“Follow your bliss and the universe will open doors for you where there were only walls.”

~ Joseph Campbell.

Image: Through the open door / ManelSallem / Wikimedia Commons / CC BY-SA 3.0.
February 8, 2026 at 7:17 PM
“In my practice, I've seen how people have allowed their humanity to drain away. Only it happened slowly instead of all at once. They didn't seem to mind... All of us – a little bit – we harden our hearts, grow callous ...”

~ Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956 film).
February 8, 2026 at 10:39 AM
“Some want to turn the clock back, harkening back to some golden age of nostalgia, when women, children, the lower class, parishioners, and people of other races and creeds knew their place; not the 1950s, but further ...”

~ H.M. Forester, Preface to Beyond a Shadow of a Doubt.
February 7, 2026 at 10:07 AM
“The purpose of learning to work with the unconscious is not just to resolve our conflicts or deal with our neuroses. We find there a deep source of renewal, growth, strength, and wisdom. We connect with the source of our evolving character ...”

~ Robert A. Johnson.
February 7, 2026 at 9:45 AM
“Reflecting ‘On a Certain Blindness in Human Beings’, [William] James implied that the malady was an inability to appreciate some invisible but magnanimous order, some dimension of being that eludes without invalidating scientific or rational investigation.”

~ Eugene McCarraher.
February 6, 2026 at 6:06 PM
“When the time comes for the ego to set forth on its journey towards wholeness, strange and paradoxical things happen; fate chooses strange emissaries. But when we grow wiser we learn that the disasters of life are often the genius of the unconscious ...”

~ Robert A. Johnson, We.
February 6, 2026 at 9:13 AM
The 7 Levels of the Ego: A Sufi Map of Death and Awakening

Video (25 min 32 sec).

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#SufiWay #SufiPath #Sufism #Sufis #Nafs #CommandingSelf #Ego #Self #Individuation #Awakening #DepthPsychology
The 7 Levels of the Ego — A Sufi Map of Death and Awakening
YouTube video by The Alchemist’s Heart
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February 5, 2026 at 12:00 PM
“[N]othing short of super-extraordinary measures must be taken to ensure that we make it through this interregnum and ensure our survival and that of the natural world we inhabit.”

~ Preface to H.M. Forester, Beyond a Shadow of a Doubt. #Free #eBook

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A Little Something for Your Ark, Beyond a Shadow of a Doubt
In these increasingly dire times we have plenty of warners, but what we desperately need right now are more arks. As Michael Ventura wrote: “[A]ll of this passing things on, in all its forms…
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February 5, 2026 at 9:34 AM
“Here is the ancient floor,
Footworn and hollowed and thin,
Here was the former door
Where the dead feet walked in ...”

~ Thomas Hardy, “The Self-Unseeing”.
February 5, 2026 at 9:25 AM
“Einstein said that we cannot solve a problem from the level of consciousness that created it. We have to create the new context in which the solution to a problem can appear ... the idea that consciousness ... is the ground of reality ...” ~ Anne Baring, The Dream of the Cosmos.
February 4, 2026 at 8:30 PM