Algernon Blackwood — Downloaded Texts Index
TL;DR: Algernon Blackwood — Downloaded Texts Index Downloaded from Project Gutenberg. Public domain. Blackwood (1869–1951) was quoted by Lovecraft as the greatest living weird fiction author.
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| File | Title | Year | Words (approx) | Source |
the-willows.txt | The Willows | 1907 | ~21,000 | Gutenberg #11438 |
john-silence.txt | John Silence, Physician Extraordinary | 1908 | ~105,000 | Gutenberg #49222 |
three-john-silence-stories.txt | Three John Silence Stories | 1908 | ~65,000 | Gutenberg #10624 |
Relevance to Remote Viewing / Predictive Programming
The Willows (1907) — HIGH RELEVANCE
Two men on a canoe trip down the Danube become stranded on a willow island. Extra-dimensional entities press through a thin barrier between worlds. Thought itself is the channel — the entities detect the men through their thoughts. Survival requires mental silence.
Key mechanism: Dimensional barrier that entities can perceive through. Thoughts create “spirals in their world.” The barrier is geographic — some places have thinner veils. This is the ley line / thin place concept in fiction form.
“It was a spot held by the dwellers in some outer space, a sort of peep-hole whence they could spy upon the earth, themselves unseen, a point where the veil between had worn a little thin.”
“We must keep our minds quiet—it’s our minds they feel. We must control our thoughts, or it’s all up with us.”
“Our thoughts make spirals in their world. We must keep them out of our minds at all costs if possible.”
“It’s their sound. It’s the sound of their world, the humming in their region. The division here is so thin that it leaks through somehow.”
Predictive programming angle: The idea that thought itself is detectable by non-human entities, and that certain geographic locations have thinner barriers. Compare to: remote viewing programs (Stargate), electromagnetic sensitivity claims, and the concept of “places of power.”
John Silence, Physician Extraordinary (1908) — MEDIUM RELEVANCE
Dr. John Silence is a psychic investigator — a physician who treats supernatural afflictions. Six linked novellas. Key stories:
- “A Psychical Invasion” — Writer’s creative faculty taken over by a malevolent entity inhabiting his house. Silence cleanses using occult knowledge. Remote influence through location.
- “Ancient Sorceries” — French town where the entire population transforms into cats at night — ancient shapeshifting cult surviving. Collective transformation / hidden reality.
- “The Nemesis of Fire” — Elemental fire entity disturbs a household. Silence must confront it on its own plane. Dimensional contact through ritual.
- “Secret Worship” — Man revisits a German school and discovers the monks practice black magic. Hidden organization.
- “The Camp of the Dog” — Werewolf-like transformation linked to psychic projection. Consciousness leaving body.
Predictive programming angle: Silence is effectively an occult intelligence operative — he has the knowledge to detect and counter non-human influence. The stories encode the idea that such knowledge exists, is learnable, and is necessary.
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