H.M. Forester's Blog

A Partisan Attack on the "Cult of Progressivism” ... and "Wokeism"

Hannah Spier, Iain McGilchrist, and the Partisan Attack on the “Cult of Progressivism”, a blog post in response to a recent article, and a later video interview with Edward Dutton. Read it here.

Take the Red Pill, It's Not About Left vs Right

Some soul-searching feedback on the touching and compelling video, “Charlie Kirk’s Death Exposed the Biggest Scam in History”, by Chase Hughes: Take the Red Pill, It's Not About Left vs Right.

Includes a link to the video ...

Read the blog post here.

Seeing with the Right Eyes: Review of “Idries Shah Remembered”

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

The Real Rumi

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.

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, 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.

A Little Something for Your Ark, Beyond a Shadow of a Doubt

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.” ...

Read the full blog post.

The Root Causes of Why We're FUBAR

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.

Ongoing Development of AEON: The Ad-hoc Emergency Online Network

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

Our Books

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!

Exodus

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!