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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 · Jul 11

“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.”

Members of the underground resistance movement in a dimly-lit bunker. Three are seated at a workbench using laptops, their faces illuminated by the glow of their screens; at the back, to their left is a member pinpointing something of interest on a large map of Europe mounted on the wall; and to the left, another man sits working on a computer close to a rack full of hi-tech computer equipment. Up above, a single shaded lamp casts a little light in the room.

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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 2h

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)

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H.M. Forester @hmforester.bsky.social · 6h

Image: Hold my hand / Elizabeth Ann Colette / Wikimedia Commons (orig. Flickr) / CC BY-SA 2.0.

H.M. Forester @hmforester.bsky.social · 6h

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: Hold my hand / Elizabeth Ann Colette / Wikimedia Commons (orig. Flickr) / CC BY-SA 2.0.

A close-up of two hands holding one-another.

H.M. Forester @hmforester.bsky.social · 6h

Going Underground: Building a Caring Alternative Parallel Society – while we are still at liberty to do so ...

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Image: Underground Resistance Movement.

#Resist #Resistance #Underground #CounterCulture #Survival #DarkAges

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, perha...

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H.M. Forester @hmforester.bsky.social · 6h

Image: The Unholy Worship / Gwabryel, Illustrator of Weird Fiction / Wikimedia Commons / CC BY-SA 3.0.

H.M. Forester @hmforester.bsky.social · 6h

The Root Causes of Why We're FUBAR
or “Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea” ...

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#PostTrust #PostTruth #Materialism #Disenchantment #Resist #Resistance #Underground #Survival #DarkAges

Image: The Unholy Worship / Gwabryel, Illustrator of Weird Fiction / Wikimedia Commons / CC BY-SA 3.0.

A painting by Gwabryel, based on H. P. Lovecraft's story The Call of Cthulhu. It shows a man with arms outstretched worshipping a very tall, black figure. To his left and right, victims are suspended upside down from gallows, and in front of the dark figure are several other, perhaps tormented figures.

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The Human Journey Project @humanjourney.bsky.social · 10h

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

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H.M. Forester @hmforester.bsky.social · 12h

Looks like Goodreads and Substack are experiencing difficulties / outages / down.

Probably due to issues at Amazon Web Services.

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 2d

So no terrorism then?

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H.M. Forester @hmforester.bsky.social · 1d

How They Broke us All | Chase Hughes. Video (11 min 23 sec) ...

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How They Broke us All - ⚠️ WARNING: GRAPHIC

YouTube video by Chase Hughes

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Trump posts AI video showing him literally dumping shit on America

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H.M. Forester @hmforester.bsky.social · 1d

Image: The Expulsion of Adam and Eve from Paradise / Benjamin West (1738–1820) / Wikimedia Commons / Public domain.

H.M. Forester @hmforester.bsky.social · 1d

“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: The Expulsion of Adam and Eve from Paradise / Benjamin West (1738–1820) / Wikimedia Commons / Public domain.

H.M. Forester @hmforester.bsky.social · 1d

Image: Heaven within Reach / ELGINDEGUZMAN / Wikimedia Commons / CC BY-SA 4.0.

A young woman stands on a grassy slope, looking out over a sea of clouds, at Mt. Kiltepan, Sagada Province, Philippines.

H.M. Forester @hmforester.bsky.social · 1d

“‘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.

An image containing a text quotation, with a pink rose and green leaves in the lower left-hand corner. The text, from Kathleen Raine, quoted in Patrick Harpur, A Complete Guide to the Soul / The Secret Tradition of the Soul, reads:

A State of Being:

“‘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 ... And ultimately the many are sustained by those images of a lost perfection held before them by the rememberers’ – a reference, this, to the poet’s power of anamnesis. ‘Such ... is the whole and sole purpose of the arts and the justification of those who refuse to accept as our norm those unrealities the world calls real’.”

H.M. Forester @hmforester.bsky.social · 1d

“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 rectangular maze with walls drawn in black on a white background.

H.M. Forester @hmforester.bsky.social · 1d

A Sense of Wonder
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Art: The Garden Gate at Vetheuil / Claude Monet / WikiArt / Public domain.

#Monet #ClaudeMonet #SenseOfWonder #SenseOfWonder_ii

The Garden Gate at Vetheuil, a painting by Claude Monet. Leading toward the wooden picket gate, on either side, in front of a low picket fence, are flower beds containing a profusion of leafy plants with red blossoms. Above the tall gate, to each side, are trees, bowing toward the partly open gate, and also above the gate is a shallow wooden arch.

H.M. Forester @hmforester.bsky.social · 2d

Image: Khunsathan heaven on earth 05 / Nopparat thanatawan / Wikimedia Commons / CC BY-SA 4.0.

H.M. Forester @hmforester.bsky.social · 2d

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.

Image: Khunsathan heaven on earth 05 / Nopparat thanatawan / Wikimedia Commons / CC BY-SA 4.0.

A view from a hillside field in Khunsathan, with the golden sun shining over the horizon, behind distant hills, under a bright blue sky with wispy clouds. Described by the photographer as "heaven on earth".

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Mia Farrow @miafarrow.bsky.social · 2d

Ill be there!!
Please join

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Kevin ANTIFA Ressler 💙🐈‍⬛ @kevinressler.bsky.social · 2d

Not my circus... Definitely not my monkeys.

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H.M. Forester @hmforester.bsky.social · 2d

Image: The Passion of Creation [Slightly sharpened] / Leonid Pasternak (1862–1945) / Wikimedia Commons / Public domain.

The Passion of Creation, a painting by Leonid Pasternak (1862–1945), showing a bearded man, sitting at a desk strewn with books and manuscripts, a pen in his right hand and his left hand touching his brow, with his eyes closed and apparently deep in thought.

H.M. Forester @hmforester.bsky.social · 2d

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.

An image containing a text quotation, with a white lotus blossom and green leaves in the lower left-hand corner. The text, from Barbara Hannah, Encounters With the Soul: Active Imagination As Developed by C.G. Jung, reads:

Active Imagination:

“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. When this is accomplished, and often it is far from easy, the image must be prevented from sinking back again into the unconscious, by drawing, painting or writing down whatever has been seen or heard. Sometimes it is possible to express it best by movement or dancing. Some people cannot get into touch with the unconscious directly. An indirect approach that often reveals the unconscious particularly well, is to write stories, apparently about other people. Such stories invariably reveal the parts of the storyteller’s own psyche of which he or she is completely unconscious. ...”

“In every case, the goal is to get into touch with the unconscious, and that entails giving it an opportunity to express itself in some way or other.”

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Space Monkey 3000 @spacemonkey3000.bsky.social · 2d

Okay this is awesome! 💪

The Last Mile with USAID @thelastmileusaid.bsky.social · 3d

Illustration of a green frog styled as Rosie the Riveter. The frog wears a red polka-dot bandana and holds a large wrench in one hand. Above it are the words “We Can Do It!” in bold white letters on a blue background, surrounded by a red rope border. Below, a banner reads “Rosie the Ribiter.”

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H.M. Forester @hmforester.bsky.social · 3d

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.

A kirlian photograph of a person sitting in a lotus position. Around their head, body, arms and legs is a bright white outline, with tendrils of energetic light and a general glow extending perhaps two feet all around them.