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1. Catherine…Wasn’t sure where the best place to post this on the Solari site, but thought it might be useful in “coming clean”.
   Of course, supporting local is IMO, the best place to shop, but the link below could come in handy as an alternative…

   Introducing the Gab Parallel Economy Shopping Catalog. Support brands and businesses who share your values in the Parallel Economy. This catalog will be growing…

   https://news.gab.com/2022/10/gab-parallel-economy-shopping-catalog/

2. This compilation of wisdom and helpful resources is excellent. Thank you to the Solari team. This obviously took a lot of work.
   In 2007, I heard a shaman of the Huichol tradition (origin northern Mexico) channel the guiding spirit of that tradition (Grandfather Fire). The message was about the challenges that would intensify in the coming years. Basically the gist of it was: “If you think you are going to get through it without community, you are deluded! Build community!”
   I recognized the truth in that message, although finding people with whom I resonate has been a great difficulty for me–but one I pray about.
   I am grateful to find Solari. Perhaps there exists a Solari circle in my locale.

   1. I feel the exact same way! I have been trying to build a community for 2 to 3 years now. People are so wrapped up in being “busy” and simply do not want to face the realities around us.

      1. I find it is a matter of finding the right people. Lots of people are facing realities and want to work together to act. Find the people who are taking action and you will really enjoy what you get done.

   2. That is beautiful! Thanks for sharing your experiences.
      I will re-share something I just shared on the Solari Circles platform that I feel is relevant here and speaks to the truth you just relayed from the Mexican Shaman.

      “What survives collapse? What survives crisis? Community. What ever you give and contribute into your community and you generate that goodwill, and you generate those structures of taking care of each other and reciprocal (gift) relationships… that is an investment. That is a savings account that fires cannot burn and thieves cannot steal.
      
      The best investment you can make is generosity, for only thing that cannot be taken from you is that which you give.”
      – Charles Eisenstein
      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dy_8ZGq-FSE

3. Thank you so much for putting this together! All that you brought together above is like a salve for the heart and soul.

   I will share a little something that expresses why I am so optimistic (despite the reality of the forces we are up against below).

   An increasing amount of people are now being forced to take a long honest look at what the most financially influential human beings and transnational institutions/NGOs are really up to behind the scenes. They are being forced to do so in the wake of devastation left by a class war that is being waged by the oligarchs on small businesses, a time when dangerous untested products have been forced on the general population via coercion (for profit), violent totalitarian police abuse/oppression of peaceful protestors is becoming normalized and intentional hyper-inflationary and food system crippling policies which are being consciously engaged in by governments all over the world. This increasing awareness of systemic corruption seems to be attached to another trend where I am hearing more and more people point out things that they are describing as “evil” all around them in dominant institutions and in today’s modern culture in general.

   I can understand why after living on Earth for a few decades and closely observing the modus operendi of those that are self interested and obscenely rich one might begin to see the various manifestations (and ripple effects) of such behavior everywhere (especially after the last 3 plus years of especially intense, overt and vicious economic/psychological warfare) as “evil”.

   When one utilizes and develops their pattern recognition capabilities to see what the self interested (and sometimes nefarious/parasitic) choices of the few are doing to the many, the patterns one can begin to see all around them are myriad (and the detrimental impacts of said behavior patterns are ubiquitous). Given all of this, I can totally understand how people can internalize states of ‘learned helplessness’, defeatism and/or seeing “evil” lurking around every corner (in the context of today’s hyper-centralized, materialistic, reductionist dominant culture guided by a transnational corporatocracy).

   On the other hand, I believe there is also truth in the saying ‘if you gaze into the abyss long enough the abyss gazes also into you.’ and the saying “what you fear you empower, and what you love you empower, and what you empower, you attract”.

   Thus, I feel that while it is wise to take an honest look at the ugliness of humanity, analyzing how it’s most deranged members are actively seeking to murder, poison and/or enslave their fellow humans (so that one can avoid such pitfalls, withdraw our support from their systems of oppression and help others do the same) I also feel it is even more important to apply one’s pattern recognition capabilities to seeing (and acting upon) that which is beautiful, creative, hopeful and empowering on this world. That includes the behaviors of human beings that serve to uplift, nurture, heal, inspire, unify and illuminate and it includes perceiving the beauty, geometry and wisdom present in the more than human world as well.

   For just as if we gaze into the abyss long enough, the abyss will gaze back, so too if we gaze long enough into the radiant light emanating from the spiritual spark that exists within all beings and so too if we gaze into the workings and mind of the living planet Earth the source of that light and conscious spirit gazes back at us as well.

   Therefore we are now called to realize that in, is the only way out, for it is within that we may re-kindle the spark that we were born with to become a flame and illuminate a safe path forward, not by shedding light onto a path that others have walked before us, but to trail blaze a new path forward. Do not allow the fleeting shadows in our midst distract you from the sacred tasks you came here to accomplish.

   You are the story tellers and the dreamers of the dreams, weaving threads together to become the fabric of reality. Where you focus your attention, thoughts, emotions and actions are paint brush strokes across the fabric of the canvas that becomes our shared experience… so let us choose our thoughts, emotions and actions with the knowing we shape the pathways we now find before our feet.

   We are the ones we have been waiting for.

   1. Gavin, I absolutely love what you have to say. You are incredibly thought provoking and soothing the read.

   2. Yes. We should first and foremost nurture life and love.

4. Thank you for this excellent compilation of life giving information. I have downloaded it, and plan to see what I can implement in my life. You are a treasure, Catherine.

   1. Christine:

      I am so glad you liked it. I always find something to do when I review it.

      Catherine

5. Wauw, I only had a quick glance but I very much like the resources links. So much info to be found thru one place is grand. I think the young builders course is one of the most important things you started up and what a cast of knowledge pool to draw from! I hope you can share and enjoy youthfull enthusiasm until at least 99 in excellent health!

6. Dear Catherine and the Solari Team,

   Thank you for the revised edition of Coming Clean.
   From my own perspective and experience, I feel moved to share a reflection on some of the themes you bring forward. I share this reflection in the spirit of contributing to the deeper conversation your work invites about the structures that uphold human freedom and worth in a rapidly changing world.

   1. Equality of worth as the foundation of a free civilisation
   One recurring confusion in our time is the idea that freedom requires equality.
   Yet human beings are not equal—neither in rhythm, temperament, perception, biology, consciousness, nor life purpose. What is universal is equality of worth: the same intrinsic value expressed through entirely different forms.

   From this perspective, a society becomes less humane when a person’s right to exist depends on performance, behaviour, conformity, social approval or economic usefulness. This is why the distinction between a basic income and a ground of existence is essential. They are not variations of the same idea; they arise from entirely different civilisational logics.

   A basic income often grows out of utilitarian thinking: stabilising populations, managing behaviour, smoothing markets and maintaining systemic equilibrium. Even when well-intentioned, such structures remain oriented toward management, not liberation.

   A ground of existence, by contrast, rests on a different axiom: that dignity is the starting point rather than the reward; that survival is not conditional behaviour; that participation is never coerced; that human difference is not a liability; and that no person must first prove usefulness in order to deserve life.

   Such a foundation allows people to grow, dissent, heal, innovate, create and follow their own rhythm without fear of exclusion or deprivation. Coming Clean describes how individuals reclaim agency; a ground of existence ensures they do not lose themselves again in the process.

   2. The utilitarian roots and emerging risks of basic income
   Many modern basic income proposals, including influential formulations such as Guy Standing’s are rooted in 19th and 20th-century utilitarian governance. This worldview prioritises efficiency, predictability, behavioural conditioning, economic optimisation and risk management for institutions.

   From this lineage, basic income easily attaches itself to digital identity frameworks, behavioural scoring systems, programmable currency, automated sanctions and smart-city infrastructures. Not because it must, but because the underlying logic permits and often invites these integrations.

   Scarcity-driven coercion is simply replaced by conformity-driven coercion. The whip disappears, but the leash remains. Dependence is still dependence, even when wrapped in kindness.
   This is why a certain type of basic income, unless grounded in a deeper human philosophy, can evolve into a soft form of totalitarianism, not through force, but through benevolent dependency.

   3. Robotics, AI, and the end of productivity as justification for existence
   AI and robotics dissolve the centuries-old equation of labour leading to income and income securing survival. As more of what we have traditionally called productive work is carried out by machines, the moral justification for tying human worth to economic usefulness begins to collapse.

   If we do not explicitly separate human dignity from productivity now, the vacuum will be filled by the same utilitarian logic that once shaped industrial labour systems and that now re-emerges in algorithmic scoring, behavioural governance and automated social categorisation.

   This is the civilisational fork before us.
   Either the right to exist becomes conditional on behaviour, identity and algorithmic acceptability mediated by digital systems that can register only a narrow range of human patterns.
   Or the right to exist becomes unconditional a structural ground from which human uniqueness, creativity and difference can flourish without fear of being classified as “non-contributory”.

   A ground of existence therefore becomes not only a moral imperative but a technological safeguard, one that ensures human variation remains possible in a world increasingly optimised for sameness.

   4. Groups as ecosystems—and as potential distortions
   Your vision for Solari Circles is beautiful: places where trust, reciprocity and human relationship form the core. At the same time, anthropology and psychology reveal a consistent pattern: a group is only as free as its weakest safeguard against power.

   Even well-intentioned groups generate predictable dynamics such as informal hierarchies, charismatic influence, loyalty expectations, moral uniformity, subtle exclusion and dependency loops. These patterns do not appear because people are flawed, but because groups behave as systems.

   This brings forward the essential question: how can the integrity of the individual be preserved inside any collective form, so that the group becomes an ecosystem rather than a vortex? A ground of existence is one such safeguard, because it ensures that belonging is chosen, not required for survival.

   5. Self-knowledge as systemic infrastructure
   Coming Clean speaks of learning and cognitive liberty, yet in a world shaped by neurowarfare, behavioural design and algorithmic modulation, self-knowledge becomes essential infrastructure.

   Without a deep understanding of one’s own perceptual filters, emotional currents, rhythms of attention, internal meaning-making and ways of processing information, people remain vulnerable to narrative manipulation, emotional steering, group pressure, digital nudging and identity capture.

   True education therefore must include learning how one thinks, how emotion and energy move through the system, how inner authority is formed, how responsibility is carried without self-loss, and how awareness opens rather than contracts. Without this inner architecture, freedom becomes unstable, and even the best communities risk becoming fragile.

   6. Toward the next layer of freedom
   Coming Clean is a powerful compass. Here an invitation to imagine the next step: a civilisational architecture in which equality of worth forms the human ground; the individual remains intact and protected within the group; self-knowledge becomes a central pillar of education; AI serves human development rather than human standardisation; and a ground of existence replaces conditional access to life.

   If these elements align with the spirit of Coming Clean, then we are not only stepping out of parasitic systems; we are participating in the emergence of what may become the immune system of the next human civilisation.

   1. You might enjoy this unusual book by a late anthropologist:

      https://www.alibris.com/Cant-Pay-Wont-Pay-The-Case-for-Economic-Disobedience-and-Debt-Abolition-Debt-Collective/book/49911907?matches=28

      Graeber suddenly died of pancreatic cancer during Covid. (He probably got the shots.)

7. This document is worth the price of an annual subscription by itself. Found it interesting that the pages on Cognitive Liberty ( 16-17 ) are being skipped by my printer, as I believe this to be the most important topic of all. The PDF prints flawlessly otherwise. Many thanks to Ulrike for her exceptional contributions.

   1. Craig:

      I am so glad you liked it. Our editor and graphic artist worked really hard to make sure it was available in time to work on New Year resolutions It is a great way to access all the Solari content. Funny about the printer. With the advances in the software the sabotage can be pretty fine tuned. Ulrike’s latest with Beltan is excellent if you have not heard yet.

      1. Would be great to have a follow up with Beltran after the UK tests attempting a controlled activation. Regardless of the outcome, knowing the methodology and finer details of the tests could be very revealing on how these structures operate without a change in code as Jesse suggests.

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