H.M. Forester

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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“The man who comes back through the Door in the Wall will never be quite the same as the man who went out. He will be wiser but less sure, happier but less self-satisfied, humbler in acknowledging his ignorance yet better equipped to understand ...” ~ Aldous Huxley.

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Source: Aldous Huxley, The Doors of Perception. Image: Garden wall entrance door in Boreham, Essex, England / Acabashi / Wikimedia Commons / CC BY-SA 4.0.

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“We perceive beauty, are open to its presence, through a change in the quality of our consciousness. Only like can know like. We must have beauty within ourselves to see it in the world ...” ~ Gary Lachman, Lost Knowledge of the Imagination.

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I DID not deem it half so sweet To feel thy gentle hand, As in a dream thy soul to greet Across wide leagues of land ... George William Russell, “Dream Love”.

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Hoodlum 🇺🇸
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Poland’s Foreign Minister Sikorski: basically calling Trump a liar. “The US no longer finances this war since January of last year. In other words, for more than a year and a half. The US has not contributed a single cent to the defense of Ukraine. We are doing it. Europe.”

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Holding the Inner Flame ~~~~~~~ “It's easy to be a naive idealist. It's easy to be a cynical realist. It's quite another thing to have no illusions and still hold the inner flame.” ~ Marie-Louise von Franz. Image: 7dbpc190560-candle / Wjlonien / Wikimedia Commons / CC BY-SA 3.0.

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“How sad it is that when a man gives up the right path instead of following it and allows his heart to be lost without knowing how to seek it. When his chickens and dogs are lost, he knows that he has to seek for them, but not when his heart is lost ...” ~ Mencius.

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Source: Mencius, quoted in Sachiko Murata, Chinese Gleams of Sufi Light. Image: Bleeding heart flower / victorgrigas / Wikimedia Commons / CC0 1.0 Public Domain Dedication.

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Meta Resistance
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No campus polling site? NC A&T students marched nearly an hour in the heat on the first day of early voting to cast their ballots anyway. This is what civic determination looks like. 🗳️ #NCVotes #YouthVote #EarlyVoting #VoteBlue

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“Active imagination requires a state of reverie, half-way between sleep and waking.”* ~ Anthony Stevens, On Jung. Image: Dickens' Dream [Unfinished work] / Robert William Buss (1804–1875) / Wikimedia Commons / Public domain. *Hypnagogia and hypnopompia.

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Irish News 🇮🇪
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Army chief says politicians to start 'frank conversation' with public to prepare for war The head of the army says the UK's political leaders are about to start a "frank conversation" with the public about the need to prepare for war.

news.sky.comArmy chief says politicians to start 'frank conversation' with public to prepare for warGeneral Sir Roly Walker said every citizen will be asked to make sacrifices and to play their part in the defence of the nation.
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“When we approach the world with a sense of wonder, it becomes numinous and we are enriched by our participation in it. When we try to reduce it to something we can fully understand, we ourselves are reduced in the process.” ~ Robin Robertson, Jung and Frodo.

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Source: Robin Robertson, Jung and Frodo: 7 Paths of Individuation in Lord of the Rings. Image: Love and the Maiden / John Roddam Spencer Stanhope (1829–1908) / Wikimedia Commons / Public domain.

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Wonder and Receptive Imagination ~~~~~~~ C.S. Lewis on How to Structure the Days of a Creative Life and Train the Receptive Imagination | Maria Popova ... www.themarginalian.org/2026/09/29/c... #CSLewis #Imagination #ReceptiveImagination #Wonder #SenseOfWonder #Creativity #Creativemagination #Muse

themarginalian.orgC.S. Lewis on How to Structure the Days of a Creative Life and Train the Receptive ImaginationThere are, in my experience, two fundaments of the creative life: putting yourself regularly in the path of wonder and getting out of your own way in order to receive what you encounter there. Wond…
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Wonder and Receptive Imagination ~~~~~~~ C.S. Lewis on How to Structure the Days of a Creative Life and Train the Receptive Imagination | Maria Popva ... www.themarginalian.org/2026/09/29/c... #CSLewis #Imagination #ReceptiveImagination #Wonder #SenseOfWonder #Creativity #Creativemagination #Muse

themarginalian.orgC.S. Lewis on How to Structure the Days of a Creative Life and Train the Receptive ImaginationThere are, in my experience, two fundaments of the creative life: putting yourself regularly in the path of wonder and getting out of your own way in order to receive what you encounter there. Wond…
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“The West almost invariably has distrusted, belittled, and often denigrated the imaginative quality of human life, at best relegating it to the province of art and poetry, at worst placing it within the range of abnormal phenomena ...” ~ Roberts Avens, Imagination Is Reality.

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Source: Roberts Avens, Imagination Is Reality: Western Nirvana in Jung, Hillman, Barfield, and Cassirer. Image: Imagination 195304 / Greenleaf Publishing, W. E. Terry / Wikimedia Commons / Public domain.

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“There is ... a class of fancies of exquisite delicacy, which are not thoughts, and to which, as yet, I have found it absolutely impossible to adapt language. ... They arise in the soul only at its epochs of most intense tranquility ...” ~ Edgar Allan Poe, Marginalia. #Hypnagogia

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“A young man set off on the quest for Shambhala. After crossing many mountains, he came to the cave of an old hermit ...“ Image: Song of Shambhala / Nicholas Roerich (1874–1947) / Wikimedia Commons / Public domain.

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“Knowledge is not gained, it is there all the time. It is the ‘veils’ which have to be dissolved in the mind.” ~ Idries Shah, Neglected Aspects of Sufi Study. Image: Salome (Melody Moore) Dance of the Seven Veils / Florida Grand Opera / Wikimedia Commons / CC BY 2.0).

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Christian nationalism in Britain driven by people who seldom go to church, says report: "Research challenges the notion that the growing visibility of crosses and other symbols reflects a revival of Christianity ..." www.theguardian.com/world/2026/o...

theguardian.comChristian nationalism in Britain driven by people who seldom go to church, says reportResearch challenges the notion that the growing visibility of crosses and other symbols reflects a revival of Christianity
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So, a tanker is ALREADY approaching the US east coast. And that means that Trump agreed to this when sanctions were imposed on Russia. AI: "The Minerva Zen departed St. Petersburg on September 22, 2026. This was 17 days before the public announcement."

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Mia Farrow
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“Let me dedicate this award to all of the survivors of international crimes as well as to practitioners and defenders of international justice whose passion and courage continue to ensure that impunity will not be allowed to reign.” Navi Pillay, 2026 Nobel Peace Prize