H.M. Forester's Blog, page 2

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!

An Unholy Vision, from Beyond a Shadow of a Doubt

“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.

Beyond a Shadow of a Doubt, by H. M. Forester

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!

Useful links: Where you can find us online

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ishraqi institute Facebook page:
https://www.facebook.com/ishraqi111

ishraqi institute Facebook group:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/ishraqi

The Caravanserai Facebook sister group:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/TheCa...

Sher Point Publications UK Facebook page:
https://www.facebook.com/sherpoint.uk

H.M. Forester Facebook page:
https://www.facebook.com/hmforester

Etienne de L'Amour Facebook page:
https://www.facebook.com/e.delamour

Our blog, Mystical Faction (Mystical adventure by Etienne de L'Amour and soft sci-fi by H.M. Forester):
https://mystical-faction.blogspot.com/

H.M. Forester at Goodreads:
https://www.goodreads.com/author/show...

Etienne de L'Amour at Goodreads:
https://www.goodreads.com/author/show...

Goodreads removed most of my books a few weeks back in a general purge, but thank Jove, they've since restored them.

Our books in the Internet Archive's library (free view or download):
https://archive.org/details/@esowteri...

Our books on our own server (free to download):
https://sherpoint.uk/

Sherpoint at Twitter/X:
https://x.com/SherPoint

My personal account at Twitter/X (feel free to join with me):
https://x.com/Esowteric

Our presence at the Bluesky social medium:
https://bsky.app/profile/esowteric.bs...

Our presence at the Threads social medium:
https://www.threads.net/@erictwose

Our presence at the Tribel social medium:
https://www.tribel.com/esowteric/wall

My personal account at Instagram (feel free to join with me):
https://www.instagram.com/erictwose/

Thanks, I look forward to seeing you there (and there, and there, and there again)!

Suhrawardi’s Illuminationist Rescue Plan

In Plato's allegory of the cave, a number of prisoners have been imprisoned since childhood in a cave, chained so they cannot move, nor turn their heads, so that all they can see before them are shadows on a wall, and all they can hear are echoes around the cave's walls, that they take to be coming from the shadows. These shadows and echoes they take to be real, for they have known only these ...

See my blog post: Suhrawardi’s Illuminationist Rescue Plan.

Nevideblaj mondoj (“Invisible worlds”), an article by Miland Joshi

Many thanks to a dear correspondent, Miland Joshi, for this lovely and well-written article in Esperanto. Google translate does a good job of translating this piece into English.

https://www.monato.be/2008/009520.php

Our Books at the Internet Archive

You can now view, borrow, and download a selection of our works from the Internet Archive. See:
https://archive.org/details/@esowteri...

H.M. Forester:
• Game of Aeons
• Secret Friends: The Ramblings of a Madman in Search of a Soul
• The Imaginal Veil.

Etienne de L'Amour:
• Escape from The Shadowlands
• In Search of Destiny
• The Gift
• Philip K. Dick's Lateral Worlds: A Glimpse of Track C.

To view borrowed and downloaded texts you may need to install software such as Adobe Digital Editions (double click/tap on the URL file that downloads and the document will be opened in ADE):
https://www.adobe.com/uk/solutions/eb...

All titles also available on our web site for free download:
https://sherpoint.uk/sherpoint/review...

Enjoy, and if you're a member at Goodreads, please mark the book as read and leave a rating or review. Many thanks!

Freedom; Agents of Change

“I think hard times are coming when we will be wanting the voices of writers who can see alternatives to how we live now and can see through our fear-stricken society and its obsessive technologies to other ways of being, and even imagine some real grounds for hope. We will need writers who can remember freedom. Poets, visionaries—the realists of a larger reality ...”

“... Resistance and change often begin in art, and very often in our art, the art of words.”

~ Ursula K. Le Guin, Speech at the 2014 National Book Awards.

https://parkerhiggins.net/2014/11/wil...

Wikipedia: The Matter with Things (Iain McGilchrist)

Just made a first attempt at a brief overview of Iain McGilchrist's The Matter With Things: Our Brains, Our Delusions, and the Unmaking of the World ...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mat...