Mystical adventure by Etienne de L'Amour and soft scifi by H.M. Forester
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I'm very happy to announce that an extended edition of The Dissidents by H.M. Forester has now been published. And after spending days locked in my apartment, having run out of coffee and other supplies, been driven on by my daemon, and half smoked myself to death, I too am much relieved to have finally been released. Enforcement Officer Kingsley is pretty sure of himself and the Greater Good that…
★★★★★ I enjoyed this book, as I have His Dark Materials and the first two volumes of the trilogy. I must say that Philip Pullman came up with many wonderful ideas, and I'm thrilled by his streaks of Romanticism; the dying art of imagination; inspiration; the daemonic and other forgotten, rejected, or forbidden knowledge; the Secret Commonwealth of the "Otherworld"; heresy ("free thinking"); and,…
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 migrants, equating the latter, and presumably liberals, with the Dark forces and aligning themselves (the Right) with the light, while the simple Shire folk have no idea what's going on in the wider…
If you're like me and you're getting worried about skim reading so many articles online that it is having an adverse cognitive effect on things like reading comprehension and retention, maybe consider learning a new language . I'm just taking baby steps in learning Esperanto (at the equivalent stage of “This is a Janet. Janet is cooking in the kitchen. And this is John. John is in the lounge…
With the election of Donald Trump for a second term in 2025, the War on Woke , now officially sanctioned, has greatly intensified. And other figures such as the neurologist and writer Dr. Iain McGilchrist, best known for his work on the hemispheric functioning of the brain, have taken up arms in the fight: not against the war but in support. And yes, I do appreciate that anything, including…
I just read an article titled “ The Psychological Mechanisms behind the Cult of Progressivism : Why Charlie Kirk's murder was the execution of a heretic and why it will happen again” by Dr. Hannah Spier, MD, who self-describes as “The Antifeminist Psychiatrist. Exposing bad therapy and the liberal narratives that contribute to our poor mental health” and who also has some pointed things to say…
Wherever you find yourself on the political or religious spectrum, please watch this video from a former intelligence agent with much knowledge of psychological operations (psyop) and brainwashing. It may radically change our perspectives, and help save us, those we love, and the world we love. Charlie Kirk’s Death Exposed the Biggest Scam in History, by Chase Hughes ... “Charlie Kirk’s…
★★★★★ Tahir Shah (Ed), Idries Shah Remembered . An Afterword to my own Reading Like the Sufi mystical tradition that Idries Shah represents, champions, and exemplifies, Shah himself is so multi-faceted that he cannot simply be categorised or pigeon-holed, and perhaps dismissed. There's a tale in the book, containing an idea that crops up again and again, and which applies here: that of the…
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…
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?…
