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“The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane.” ~ Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
By Catherine Austin Fitts
I used to live in a first-world country. If I picked up the phone and made a call, it went through. If someone said they would come by to pick up a package by noon, I could count on it. If a stranger came to my house, they had a social or civil purpose—something other than picking up extra cash by turning me in for a regulatory violation or reporting on my personal habits to someone who slipped them money on the digital smartphone. If I bought a package of meat or fish in the supermarket, I did not worry about whether it was real and whether or not it was safe to eat. If I went outside to ride my bike or go for a jog, I did not have to give up and come back indoors because the spraying of heavy metals was so heavy that I couldn’t exercise without coughing. Nor was I required to pretend such things were not happening to maintain my social standing.
For reasons that we cover regularly on The Solari Report, most of us are swimming in a sea of environmental, legal, regulatory, and cultural pollution. These problems, along with the explosion of new technology and technocracy around us, make it easy to become frustrated and let our standards go-acculturating to a debasement of standards.
Seeking integrity demands that we maintain a high learning metabolism; this can be time-consuming and also requires greater reliance on others to help us understand and deal with fast-unfolding developments. However, integrity is also its own reward. If we do our best to maintain integrity in our individual dealings and try to limit our dealings to people and institutions that do their best to maintain integrity, it increases our ability to access divine intelligence. In short, integrity is a pathway with which we can access a much greater power—one that the hypermaterialists and transhumanists (or subhumanists as Thomas Meyer calls them) around us cannot access. It is a power that we need – and that is ever more delightful to access in these trying circumstances.
Thomas and I discussed these issues earlier this year in our interview on the Story of Gideon. This included a discussion of the “Midianite” phenomenon—something we are watching with the Epstein affair, the suiciding of New York policemen, and mob wars breaking out across the planet.
I was just in Basel for another week with Thomas—what a privilege this was! Thomas took time out from his busy schedule publishing The Present Age, leading his fascinating circles and salons and lecturing around the world (just back from Finland, next headed to China) to speak with me about integrity. How do we nurture our integrity and that of those around us? The rewards of maintaining integrity—which I define as both competency and ethics—are significant.
I always leave my discussions with Thomas refreshed and restored.
Our Blast from the Past this week is The Future of Europe—my discussion with Thomas Meyer in early 2018.
Our movie this week is Loving Vincent—a remarkable animation of the life of Vincent Van Gogh. It is the first painted animated feature film ever made. You can read more about Van Gogh in Nina Heyn’s Food for the Soul columns covering our visit to the Van Gogh museum in Amsterdam this past spring and on the Paris digital exhibit we will see in September.
Subscribers can e-mail or post questions and story suggestions for Money & Markets for this week here.
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Another fascinating book: The Fellowship, The lives of the Inklings, J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Owen Barfield, Charles Williams
by Philip & Carol Zaleski
The Inklings discussed literature, religion, and ideas; read aloud from works in progress; took philosophical rambles in woods and fields; , enjoyed companionship and criticism; and in the process, rewrote the cultural history of modern times.
Sounds wonderful
From a Subscriber:
Catherine
Your most recent Thomas Meyer interview was exceptionally informative. We are fortunate for having his wisdom. I want to comment on the audible frustration I could hear in your voice when you were discussing how you feel unable to communicate certain concepts to the Solari community. When I wrote to you about the Productivity Backlash, and meritocracy vs technocracy, I wasn’t expecting to hear an accurate psychological analysis of my mindset. Yes, you are correct. Having no understanding of the power that a person has is not a good thing. You pointing that out, is very mind-opening in furthering my learning in things I did not learn from a non useful childhood. Sometimes a very blunt statement is best!
This email is being written to inform that, in my opinion, you have not failed in any way to communicate your complex and insightful ideas. If anything, you are taking on a difficult task and performing it admirably well. I believe that you have ideas that are very foreign to some people, which requires them to rethink existing values and opinions. While still working on improving myself, and my understanding of what it is to be human – your opinions have been a great asset ( example : building a human society seemed like a novel concept when I first heard it long ago, I have fully embraced this as something to be necessary and beautiful )
Solari has proven to be MUCH more informative than I initially thought it would be upon subscribing – personally being focused on the physical world, while unaware and naïve to the deeper spiritual. You are helping out in more ways than you may be aware of!
Keep on doing what your doing!
PS Feel free to post or edit this as you see fit. If it helps others, including yourself, it has served its purpose. Your repeated mention of JS Bach, and links to beautiful music has reignited my love of Classical music. It has been dormant for a long time. I bought a piano last year and have been learning the Goldberg variations. Very soul rejuvenating. I wondered why I have heard Bach as an intro to Solari Reports. Must be to get the audience into a ‘ higher mindset ‘ I do hope that you are aware of the positive force that you are. You are a rare person.
From a Subscriber:
Catherine
Your most recent Thomas Meyer interview was exceptionally informative. We are fortunate for having his wisdom. I want to comment on the audible frustration I could hear in your voice when you were discussing how you feel unable to communicate certain concepts to the Solari community. When I wrote to you about the Productivity Backlash, and meritocracy vs technocracy, I wasn’t expecting to hear an accurate psychological analysis of my mindset. Yes, you are correct. Having no understanding of the power that a person has is not a good thing. You pointing that out, is very mind-opening in furthering my learning in things I did not learn from a non useful childhood. Sometimes a very blunt statement is best!
This email is being written to inform that, in my opinion, you have not failed in any way to communicate your complex and insightful ideas. If anything, you are taking on a difficult task and performing it admirably well. I believe that you have ideas that are very foreign to some people, which requires them to rethink existing values and opinions. While still working on improving myself, and my understanding of what it is to be human – your opinions have been a great asset ( example : building a human society seemed like a novel concept when I first heard it long ago, I have fully embraced this as something to be necessary and beautiful )
Solari has proven to be MUCH more informative than I initially thought it would be upon subscribing – personally being focused on the physical world, while unaware and naïve to the deeper spiritual. You are helping out in more ways than you may be aware of!
Keep on doing what your doing!
PS Feel free to post or edit this as you see fit. If it helps others, including yourself, it has served its purpose. Your repeated mention of JS Bach, and links to beautiful music has reignited my love of Classical music. It has been dormant for a long time. I bought a piano last year and have been learning the Goldberg variations. Very soul rejuvenating. I wondered why I have heard Bach as an intro to Solari Reports. Must be to get the audience into a ‘ higher mindset ‘ I do hope that you are aware of the positive force that you are. You are a rare person.
When I went to see the Mona Lisa (pre glass case) at the Louvre with other landscape architectural students, 1976, I stood there and thought, “Ok. There it is. I really don’t feel anything but it is interesting”. I walked into the Tulieries alone, made my way up the stairs and came immediately face to face with a self-portrait of Vincent and burst into tears. I could feel his sadness, his self doubt, his pain. I will never forget it. As a painter and designer, Vincent is the artist that said the most to me in France.
When I went to see the Mona Lisa (pre glass case) at the Louvre with other landscape architectural students, 1976, I stood there and thought, “Ok. There it is. I really don’t feel anything but it is interesting”. I walked into the Tulieries alone, made my way up the stairs and came immediately face to face with a self-portrait of Vincent and burst into tears. I could feel his sadness, his self doubt, his pain. I will never forget it. As a painter and designer, Vincent is the artist that said the most to me in France.
Wonderful, breezy conversation with Thomas Meyer. Thanks for that.
Because of the topics covered, I kept expecting to hear Emmanuel Swedenborg come up. Maybe worth asking Thomas to cover in future discussions(?)
Also, given Thomas’ interest in Western “philosophers” (i.e., Emerson, etc.), the elephant in that room is Joseph Smith and Mormonism, the enduring impact of which has dwarfed all other 18th-19th century Age of Enlightenment movements. In that regard, I can’t help but wonder what Thomas might offer on that topic.
Btw, if I’m not the only one and your subscribers actually listen to this type of subject matter, please keep it coming.
OK, will do.
Wonderful, breezy conversation with Thomas Meyer. Thanks for that.
Because of the topics covered, I kept expecting to hear Emmanuel Swedenborg come up. Maybe worth asking Thomas to cover in future discussions(?)
Also, given Thomas’ interest in Western “philosophers” (i.e., Emerson, etc.), the elephant in that room is Joseph Smith and Mormonism, the enduring impact of which has dwarfed all other 18th-19th century Age of Enlightenment movements. In that regard, I can’t help but wonder what Thomas might offer on that topic.
Btw, if I’m not the only one and your subscribers actually listen to this type of subject matter, please keep it coming.
OK, will do.