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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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“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.
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January 20, 2026 at 8:09 AM
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Where are the trees?
We have A LOT of this landscape and less than 4% native woodland. This should be a rich mosaic of habitats, moor, bog, woodland, montane scrub…We force it to remain in this artificial state. We don’t need to give every inch of our uplands over to sheep, grouse and deer stalking.
January 17, 2026 at 9:50 AM
Our Humanity
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“Imagination, not intelligence, made us human.” ~ Terry Pratchett.

Image: Sir Terry Pratchett / Silverlutra / Wikimedia Commons / CC BY-SA 3.0.

#Pratchett #TerryPratchett #Imagination #Intelligence #Humanity
January 20, 2026 at 9:56 AM
Going Underground: Building a Caring Alternative Parallel Society ...

Our first blog post in the Vivaldi Community, since Google is doing such a poor job of indexing pages at Blogger / Blogspot. And because I want to shift content and resources out of the US.

esowteric.vivaldi.net/2026/01/15/g...
Going Underground: Building a Caring Alternative Parallel Society
As the poet, dissident, and member of the Czech underground resistance movement during the communist regime, Ivan Martin Jirous wrote, perhaps in “Parallel Polis: An Inquiry”: “If it proves impossible...
esowteric.vivaldi.net
January 20, 2026 at 9:56 AM
“Since the beginning of recorded history, man has been haunted by the intimation that he lives in a world of mere appearances ...”

~ Jacob Needleman, Money and the Meaning of Life.

Image: Dolwilym Archway [Brightened] / Karen Sawyer / Wikimedia Commons / CC BY-SA 4.0.
January 19, 2026 at 9:17 PM
“For most modern critics a myth is merely another word for a lie or a falsehood, something which is intrinsically not true. For Tolkien, myth had virtually the opposite meaning. It was the only way that certain transcendent truths could be expressed in intelligible form.”

~ Bradley J. Birzer.
January 19, 2026 at 11:38 AM
[Ask yourself,] “Where am I asking others to take responsibility for my life? Let's face it – we would all love to be taken care of. We all are recovering children who project the dynamics of intrapsychic parent onto an institution, an ideology ...”

~ James Hollis, Creating a Life.
January 19, 2026 at 9:01 AM
Cracks in the Concrete
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“When a flower doesn’t bloom, you fix the environment in which it grows, not the flower.”

~ Alexander Den Heijer.
January 18, 2026 at 6:10 PM
Titanic's Last Scene: Band playing "Nearer My God To Thee"

Video (3 min 40 sec).

www.youtube.com/watch?v=JTZY...
Titanic's Last Scene: Band playing "Nearer My God To Thee"
YouTube video by JY KHIEW
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January 18, 2026 at 5:26 PM
“Today, a young man on acid realized that all matter is merely energy condensed to a slow vibration. That we are all one consciousness experiencing itself subjectively. There is no such thing as death, life is only a dream and we're the imagination of ourselves.” ...

~ Bill Hicks.
January 18, 2026 at 2:26 PM
Buffalo Springfield ~ For What It's Worth (1967) ...

www.youtube.com/watch?v=gp5J...
Buffalo Springfield - For What It's Worth 1967
YouTube video by PettyYou007
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January 18, 2026 at 1:55 PM
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Um.. you don't need the specialized Arctic warfare skills of the 11th Airborne to deploy to *checks notes* Minnesota. Not even Minnesota in the winter.

Minnesota is the last bad of several really bad options for where they might be thinking of sending these troops.
January 18, 2026 at 6:46 AM
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So, the Pentagon is readying 1,500 troops 'possibly' for deployment to Minnesota.

Troops from 11th Airborne Division, nicknamed the "Arctic Angels": a US Army multirole infantry division made up of specialised light infantry and airborne infantry based in Alaska.

#ArcticWarfare #Greenland?
January 18, 2026 at 6:06 AM
Rekindling the Inner Flame
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“At times our own light goes out and is rekindled by a spark from another person. Each of us has cause to think with deep gratitude of those who have lighted the flame within us.”

~ Albert Schweitzer.
January 18, 2026 at 10:22 AM
1,500 active-duty Army paratroopers from the 11th Airborne Division have been placed on alert for a potential deployment to Minnesota, according to multiple defense officials cited in reports from ABC News, WP, and others.

But wait a minute: They have *Arctic warfare* skills.
a snowman is blowing flames out of his mouth
Alt: A snowman is blowing flames out of his mouth.
media.tenor.com
January 18, 2026 at 10:06 AM
“Our normal waking consciousness, rational consciousness as we call it, is but one special type of consciousness, whilst all about it, parted from it by the filmiest of screens, there lie potential forms of consciousness entirely different ...”

~ William James.
January 17, 2026 at 6:29 PM
Trump-Greenland latest: US to hit UK and other European countries with 10% tariffs: Trump said it was ‘time to give Greenland back’ to the US ...

www.independent.co.uk/news/world/e...

The Suicide Pact: What Happens the Moment We Touch Greenland ...

brentmolnar.substack.com/p/the-suicid...
Trump to impose tariffs on UK and other European countries amid Greenland row: Latest
Trump said it was ‘time to give Greenland back’ to the US
www.independent.co.uk
January 17, 2026 at 6:10 PM
“A contagious psycho-spiritual disease of the soul, a parasite of the mind, is currently being acted out en masse on the world stage via an insidious collective psychosis of titanic proportions ...”

~ Paul Levy, Wetiko: Healing the Mind-Virus That Plagues Our World.
January 17, 2026 at 3:12 PM
“It's not enough to withdraw from society and seek your own salvation, your own individuation. The individuator must return to society (collectivity) to contribute his or her new insights, his or her new values, which must be at least equal to if not greater than the norm.”

~ Gary Lachman.
January 17, 2026 at 2:09 PM
“Demanding release from the Apollonian prison of instrumental rationality, the counterculture beckoned to Orpheus and Dionysus unbound, a gemeinschaft of festivity, pleasure, and mysticism embodied in communes, rock concerts ...”

~ Eugene McCarraher, The Enchantments of Mammon.
January 17, 2026 at 9:35 AM
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I just don’t think I’m going to get past this today! 😂
January 17, 2026 at 2:05 AM
A disturbing tweet by Dale Partridge which lists several Christian Nationalist desires ...
January 17, 2026 at 9:18 AM
“We have reason. It is the entire meaning and purpose of Shangri-La. It came to me in a vision long, long ago. I foresaw a time when man exalting in the technique of murder, would rage so hotly over the world, that every book, every treasure would be doomed to destruction ...”

~ James Hilton.
January 16, 2026 at 5:37 PM
The Suicide Pact: What Happens the Moment [the US] Touches Greenland | Brent Molnar on Substack ...

brentmolnar.substack.com/p/the-suicid...
🌍🔥 The Suicide Pact: What Happens the Moment We Touch Greenland
If the United States follows through on the threat to invade Greenland, we need to be crystal clear about what happens the next morning.
brentmolnar.substack.com
January 16, 2026 at 5:22 PM