H.M. Forester's Blog

You can find an extended review of Idries Shah Remembered by Tahir Shah (Ed) at my blog here.

A fascinating collection of material by Rumi is being produced by the Scheherazade Foundation. Unlike the popular "Rumi Lite" interpretations and re-imaginings to which we've become accustomed, this has been translated from the original Persian. You can find out more about The Rumi Readings Series here.

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 legally to compel the ruling power to change the ways it governs us, and if for various reasons those who reject this power cannot or do not wish to overthrow it by force, then the creation of an independent or alternative or parallel [society] is the only dignified solution ...”

Read the full blog post here.

In these increasingly dire times we have plenty of warners, but what we desperately need right now are more arks.

As Michael Ventura wrote: “[A]ll of this passing things on, in all its forms, may not cure the world now—curing the world now may not be a human possibility—but it keeps the great things alive. And we have to do this because, as Laing said, who are we to decide that it is hopeless? And I said to my son, if you wanted to volunteer for fascinating, dangerous, necessary work, this would be a great job to volunteer for—trying to be a wide-awake human during a Dark Age and keeping alive what you think is beautiful and important.” ...

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I've written a blog post that looks beyond the symptoms of recent and current crises, toward root causes:

The Root Causes of Why We're FUBAR.

You can follow the bedevilled journey of a certain benighted software developer at the Facebook group Mystical Faction.

Due to massive lawsuits by book publishers and record companies, sadly the future of the Internet Archive's library is no longer guaranteed.

With that in mind, you can find all our books and the odd document freely available at Farcebook as PDFs in the Mystical Faction group Files section:

They are also still available at the Internet Archive library, hopefully:

And at our web site, sherpoint.uk.

Thanks for your support, and enjoy!

If you're joining in the X-odus and Facebook/Meta-Exodus, you can find me at Bluesky as hmforester.bsky.social (with a handmaid in red as my avatar).

https://bsky.app/profile/hmforester.b...

Look forward to seeing you there!

“Some want to turn the clock back, harkening back to some golden age of nostalgia, when women, children, the lower class, parishioners, and people of other races and creeds knew their place; not back to the 1950s, but further back: to Dickensian times and to (corporate) feudal fiefdom. They want to wind the clock back to a time before the hard-won battles for civil rights, social reforms, and worker representation. A time long, long before the ‘woke virus’, ‘illegal immigrants’, and gender identity, when life was more conservative and white lives mattered; though with a new, fundamentalist, Christian nationalist (or Islamist, or ultra-Zionist, or even atheist) and isolationist twist. And some will go to any lengths – and I do mean any desperate, violent, draconian lengths – to bring this vile and unholy vision about.”

~ H.M. Forester, Preface to Beyond a Shadow of a Doubt: A crash course in Psi-fi, Romantic idealism, depth psychology, the daemonic, and Resistance .

Story of resistance only, WITHOUT additional study materials.

For availability, see this blog post that contains all the links you need, including a link to the Internet Archive's library and other download locations.

The second corrected draft of Beyond a Shadow of a Doubt: A crash course in psi-fi, Romantic idealism, depth psychology, the daemonic, and Resistance, by H.M. Forester is now available for free download.

Note that this edition contains a fictional psi-fi story only, without additional study materials.

You can preview or download it at The Internet Archive:
https://archive.org/details/@esowteri...

or download it at the Sher Point Publications, UK web site (just scroll down the page):
https://sherpoint.uk/sherpoint/review...

There’s also an entry at Goodreads:
Beyond a Shadow of a Doubt
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2...

Also now available at Amazon:
Amazon UK:
https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0DDHYZ2MT
Amazon US:
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DDHYZ2MT

First draft edition, 17 August 2024, 315 pages.

Enjoy!