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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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H.M. Forester @hmforester.bsky.social · Dec 7
“Beyond a Shadow of a Doubt”, a story of resistance:

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“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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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
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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
An outdoor scene showing the head and shoulders of Sir Terry Pratchett wearing a wide-brimmed brown hat and steel-framed spectacles and sporting a white beard and moustache, looking toward the right of the picture. Behind him is a man in a blue chequered, short-sleeved shirt, and further back are groups of young people, trees or tall bushes, a statue of a child on a rocking horse and further back, a brown stone building.
January 20, 2026 at 9:56 AM
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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.

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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...
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January 20, 2026 at 9:56 AM
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“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.
Dolwilym Archway. This colour photo shows an archway with two sturdy square towers at each side, with mock battlements. A road winds its way through the gateway, with a grassy bank to the right, what grass and what looks like a hedgerow to the left, and a grassy strip down the centre of the road, over which there has been less traffic. Through the archway is a yellow sunset or sunrise which highlights the left-hand arc and tower of the archway.
January 19, 2026 at 9:17 PM
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“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.
Elves leave Middle-earth / Araniart / Wikimedia Commons / CC BY 3.0. Painting of a procession of elves in long, flowing, hooded robes, and carrying lanterns, passing through woodland as they leave Middle Earth.
January 19, 2026 at 11:38 AM
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[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.
Image containing a text quotation. The text, from James Hollis, Creating a Life: Finding Your Individual Path, reads: Taking Responsibility: “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 ... Growing up is ever more difficult because it requires letting go of old expectations of rescue and redemption. We are it; this is it; this is as good as it gets, and we better deal with it.”
January 19, 2026 at 9:01 AM
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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.
Background image: Concrete driveway severely cracked/Famartin. Superimposed image: Orange gerbera flower/George E. Koronaios. Both Wikimedia Commons/CC BY-SA 4.0. An orange gerbera plant flowering in a crack in a concrete drive.
January 18, 2026 at 6:10 PM
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Titanic's Last Scene: Band playing "Nearer My God To Thee"

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Titanic's Last Scene: Band playing "Nearer My God To Thee"
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January 18, 2026 at 5:26 PM
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“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.
Image containing a text quotation, with a brightly coloured clown with legs and arms outstretched, and a greasepaint smile on his face, in the lower left-hand corner. The text, by Bill Hicks, reads: A Young Man on Acid “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.” ... “Here's Tom with the weather.”
January 18, 2026 at 2:26 PM
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Buffalo Springfield ~ For What It's Worth (1967) ...

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Buffalo Springfield - For What It's Worth 1967
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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.
Members of the US 11th Airborne. 11th Airborne soldier with parachutes in the background.
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
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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.
Image: A Boy lighting a Candle from one held by an Old Woman / After Sir Peter Paul Rubens (1577 - 1640) / Wikimedia Commons / Public domain. In the dark room, their faces are lit-up in the light of the woman's candle.
January 18, 2026 at 10:22 AM
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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.
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January 18, 2026 at 10:06 AM
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“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.
An image containing a text quotation. The text, from William James, Varieties of Religious Experience, a Study in Human Nature. Quoted in Robert Ornstein and Sally Ornstein, God 4.0: On the Nature of Higher Consciousness and the Experience Called “God”, reads: Beyond the Veil: “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. We may go through life without suspecting their existence; but apply the requisite stimulus, and at a touch they are there in all their completeness, definite types of mentality which probably somewhere have their field of application and adaptation.”
January 17, 2026 at 6:29 PM
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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 ...

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

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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
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January 17, 2026 at 6:10 PM
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“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.
Image containing a text quotation, with a multi-coloured swirling pattern in the lower left-hand corner. The text, from Paul Levy, Wetiko: Healing the Mind-Virus That Plagues Our World, reads: Collective Psychosis “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. This mind-virus—which Native Americans have called “wetiko”—covertly operates through the unconscious blind spots in the human psyche, rendering people oblivious to their own madness and compelling them to act against their own best interests. Wetiko is a psychosis in the true sense of the word, “a sickness of the spirit.”
January 17, 2026 at 3:12 PM
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The Rise of Sauron in the 21st Century ...

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#Musk #AltRight #DarkForces #LordOfTheRings #LoTR #Resistance #Survival #GlobalCrisis #GlobalCrises #SocietalDysfunction #SocietalCollapse #MassPsychosis #PsychicEpidemic #BattleForTheSoulOfTheWorld
The Rise of Sauron in the 21st Century
Not content with hijacking “red-pilled” and claiming to be a key player in the Resistance, Musk (and his alt-right ilk) are now perversely using The Lord of the Rings to describe the “invasion” by…
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January 17, 2026 at 2:53 PM
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“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.
Image: Helping hand (8623757640) / Denali National Park and Preserve / Wikimedia Commons (orig. Flickr) / CC BY 2.0. A snowy scene showing a smiling man reaching out his gloved hand to help another person up.
January 17, 2026 at 2:09 PM
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“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.
Image containing a text quotation, with the word "LOVE" in light blue and the "O" made into a ban-the-bomb peace sign, in the lower left-hand corner. The text, from Eugene McCarraher, The Enchantments of Mammon: How Capitalism Became the Religion of Modernity, reads: “Demanding release from the Apollonian prison of instrumental rationality, the counterculture [of the 1960s] beckoned to Orpheus and Dionysus unbound, a gemeinschaft of festivity, pleasure, and mysticism embodied in communes, rock concerts, “be-ins,” handicrafts, and organic farming. Sponsoring a profusion of experiments in consciousness, it practiced “expressive individualism,” in Robert Bellah’s words, another Romantic celebration of unrestrained feeling and sensuality.”
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
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A disturbing tweet by Dale Partridge which lists several Christian Nationalist desires ...
A tweet from Hemant Mehta showing a disturbing tweet by Dale Partridge which lists several Christian Nationalist desires. It reads: "Restoring America requires us to: 1. Submit to Christ. 2. Attend Church Weekly. 3. Close Commerce on Sundays. 4. Mass Deportations of Pagans. 5. Outlaw Islam, Hinduism, and Judaism. 6. Outlaw Abortion and Homosexuality. 7. Repeal the 19th. We can do this in 10–16 years." Note that the 19th Amendment gave women the vote nationwide.
January 17, 2026 at 9:18 AM
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“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.
An image containing a text quotation, with a white lotus blossom and green leaves at the bottom, in the centre. The text, from James Hilton, Lost Horizon (1933), reads: The Reason For Being: “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. This vision was so vivid and so moving that I determined to gather together all things of beauty and culture that I could and preserve them here against the doom toward which the world is rushing. Look at the world today. Is there anything more pitiful? What madness there is! What blindness! A scurrying mass of bewildered humanity crashing headlong against each other. The time must come, my friend, when brutality and the lust for power must perish by its own sword. For when that day comes, the world must begin to look for a new life. And it is our hope that they may find it here.”
January 16, 2026 at 5:37 PM
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The Suicide Pact: What Happens the Moment [the US] Touches Greenland | Brent Molnar on Substack ...

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🌍🔥 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.
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January 16, 2026 at 5:22 PM