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“I arise today, through the strength of Heaven; light of Sun, brilliance of Moon, splendor of Fire, speed of Lightning, swiftness of Wind, depth of Sea, stability of Earth, firmness of Rock.”
~ The Deer’s Cry
[Originally published July 4, 2004; revised and updated November 2025]
By Catherine Austin Fitts and the Solari Team
At Solari, we are often asked why we are optimistic about the future. We are far from oblivious to the risks and pain in our environment, yet we believe that a peaceful world is possible and that the path to our collective well-being begins with each of us transforming from the inside out—coming clean. With our prayers, actions, and transactions, we have the power to shift energy away from those who misuse power and move it to ourselves and to those who are worthy stewards of our planet’s wealth and our children’s future.
The current financial system is centralizing political and economic power in a manner that is draining or destroying living equity—people, plants, animals, and our natural resources—as well as the financial equity of many people worldwide. We liken these forces to a tapeworm, a parasite that grows stronger as we feed it. Like a tapeworm, these forces inject addictive substances into our system that we have allowed to incentivize us to participate in what makes the tapeworm strong. As we do, we are drained until we perish.
How do we stop building a parasitic economy? We have come to understand that many instances of fighting or confronting centralized authority—or trying to reason with it—only add to its power and deplete our enthusiasm and resources. There is a better way—one that shifts the flow of energy back to us.
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INSPIRING!
I’ve printed it out, laminated it and hung the pages over my desk.
🙂 Amazing the opportunities all around us.
thank you these are great reminders…
I just printed this out so that I can study it.
I came clean with my money years ago. I even wrote up a draft blog post about it. I did not publish it as I was unsure of how to reference you as my blog was largely based on your work, I was just putting it in my words.
I am used to doing APA references and this article was behind a pay wall at the time. If you have any tips let me know. I did not want to steal your work.
I do think that now is the time for “all hands on deck”. If I wrote this article there is a large chance that 100 of my friends would read it and think deeply about it and take some action. Meanwhile, I am “turtling on” 🙂
Steve and I were reading your new intro this morning. We are fans of “Coming Clean”. He asked me, “how can Catherine have the time to do so much great writing? It is powerful!”
So two very happy subscribers here. God Bless you dear Catherine for Elevating the Good!
Hi folks, re coming clean and supporting positive action, I’ve come across this exploration of regenerative agricultural investment funds who are committed to rebuild soil at scale with accountability (while a fair financial return comes back to the investor). A little out of date perhaps, but useful.
https://medium.com/@koen_73445/why-these-funds-could-transform-agriculture-acfe03353198
Greetings Zoe
Thank you for sharing that information regarding regenerative agriculture.
For the last 5 years I have been experimenting, researching, growing, seed saving, composting, soil building and engaging with food forest designers and soil scientists in an effort to put together a manual for everyday people to empower them to be able to cultivate food at home regeneratively so that we can decentralized the hope and healing potential of these techniques all over the world.
I recently published a book which is the culmination of those years of hard work, trial and error and learning.
Recipes For Reciprocity : The Regenerative Way From Seed To Table is an excellent is in essence a fractal seed that aligns with the inherent regenerative capacity of the Earth. When planted within a fertile mind, that seed can unlock a great many gifts which are accessible throughout one’s entire lifetime.
If you would like to learn more about my book you can find my website here:
recipesforreciprocity.com/
Here is a link to where you can read some reviews from people who now have a copy of my book
https://gavinmounsey.substack.com/p/reviews-for-recipes-for-reciprocity?
Thank you again for caring enough about our Mother Earth to share a post regarding regenerative food cultivation methods.
Thanks for the link to this article, Catherine. A lot to unpack here as far as references. Fortunately, my prior careers saw me working directly with several of the people you referenced. My work to expose and prevent the drugging of our school children and then in banning GMOs on public lands in my community have exposed me to many supply chain mechanisms, good and bad. However, you would be surprised to learn how many of those folks seemingly in the tribe cannot see at all the game of banking and politics being played out. I am here to learn all I can about the next layers in my education. I am so delighted to have found you. Cheers!
Hi Catherine, this article is a great and thorough road-map to financial hygiene and very inspiring. Thank you.
One thing that stood out to me was that you mentioned in Section 17 to eliminate mortgage debt. Now this is obviously quite a big challenge for most people and something many are aiming at anyway. For me, without a house of my own, that means to just be renting. Either way I am financially beholden to someone else to pay for the roof over my head, however renting goes into the pocket of the landlord (who probably has a mortgage anyway) whereas if I pay off my own mortgage I am essentially increasing my own net worth.
Furthermore, I know in this environment of abundant fiat money & historically low interest rates, many investors are wanting to take on large amounts of debt to buy real assets such as real estate, where inflation is essentially offsetting the debt value and any interest payments anyway. So, in this context, could you please elaborate on why you advise getting out of mortgage debt to be a part of coming clean?
Much appreciated and warmest wishes,
Chris