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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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“I don't have to tell you things are bad. Everybody knows things are bad. The lunatics have taken over the asylum. Masked goons are dragging people from the street and throwing them into concentration camps. And there's no end to the cruelty.

“Things are worse than bad. They're crazy.”
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JUST IN: The White House has begun DEMOLISHING portions of the East Wing of the White House to build Trump’s $250 million ballroom — despite earlier claiming it wouldn’t “interfere” with the existing White House structure. (Washington Post)
Image: Hold my hand / Elizabeth Ann Colette / Wikimedia Commons (orig. Flickr) / CC BY-SA 2.0.
Seek and You Will Be Found
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“An old alchemist gave the following consolation to one of his disciples:

‘No matter how isolated you are and how lonely you feel, if you do your work truly and conscientiously, unknown friends will come and seek you.’”

~ Carl Jung, Letters, Volume II.
Image: The Unholy Worship / Gwabryel, Illustrator of Weird Fiction / Wikimedia Commons / CC BY-SA 3.0.
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A meta-story is a special kind of narrative. It conveys overarching insights and a bigger picture beyond the explicit tale presented. The most impactful meta-stories accustom the reader's mind to an alternate consciousness: one that is illogical, incongruous, and timeless. bit.ly/3uEYCvg
Looks like Goodreads and Substack are experiencing difficulties / outages / down.

Probably due to issues at Amazon Web Services.
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Trump posts AI video showing him literally dumping shit on America
Image: The Expulsion of Adam and Eve from Paradise / Benjamin West (1738–1820) / Wikimedia Commons / Public domain.
“Both Blake and Swedenborg conceive “the Fall” as an externalization, a turning away from a state of being in which inner and outer (soul and body) exist in a dynamic and reciprocal relationship.”

~ Roberts Avens, The New Gnosis: Heidegger, Hillman, and Angels.
Image: Heaven within Reach / ELGINDEGUZMAN / Wikimedia Commons / CC BY-SA 4.0.
“‘Paradise is a state of being’, wrote the poet Kathleen Raine, ‘in which outer and inner reality are at one, the world in harmony with imagination. All poetry tells of that vision ...’”

~ Quoted in Patrick Harpur, A Complete Guide to the Soul / The Secret Tradition of the Soul.
“A rat in a maze is free to go anywhere, as long as it stays inside the maze.”

~ Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid's Tale.

Image: Scratch BG maze-03 10 [with increased border] / Nevit Dilmen / Wikimedia Commons / CC BY-SA 3.0.

#MargaretAtwood #HandmaidsTale #Prison #Freedom
A Sense of Wonder
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Art: The Garden Gate at Vetheuil / Claude Monet / WikiArt / Public domain.

#Monet #ClaudeMonet #SenseOfWonder #SenseOfWonder_ii
Image: Khunsathan heaven on earth 05 / Nopparat thanatawan / Wikimedia Commons / CC BY-SA 4.0.
Another Dimension
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The hidden world has its clouds and rain, but of a different kind.
Its sky and sunshine are of a different kind.
This is made apparent only to the refined ones – those not
deceived by the seeming completeness of the ordinary world.

~ Rumi, in Idries Shah, The Way of the Sufi.
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Image: The Passion of Creation [Slightly sharpened] / Leonid Pasternak (1862–1945) / Wikimedia Commons / Public domain.
Active Imagination
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“The first thing is to be alone, and as free as possible from being disturbed. Then one must sit down and concentrate on seeing and hearing whatever comes up from the unconscious ...”

~ Barbara Hannah, Encounters With the Soul: Active Imagination As Developed by C.G. Jung.
Source: Connie Zweig, Jeremiah Abrams (Eds), Meeting the Shadow: The Hidden Power of the Dark Side of Human Nature.

Image: Lotus Kirlian / Emmanuel Heredia / Wikimedia Commons / CC BY-SA 3.0.