"To see a World in a Grain of Sand 
And a Heaven in a Wild Flower 
Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand 
And Eternity in an hour"
~ William Blake, “Auguries of Innocence“

By Catherine Austin Fitts

In our next interview, I explore with Jon Rappoport what the romantic poet and painter William Blake can teach us today about the power of imagination, vision, and faith – critical ingredients to living a free and inspired life and to making a difference in deeply troubled times.

Jon Rappoport’s teachings on imagination have had a profound influence on me and on many Solari Report subscribers. So when he published a new article on Blake and his relevance to our current situation, I immediately asked Jon to join me on the Solari Report.

For Let’s Go to the Movies, I recommend The Romantics, a three-part documentary telling how the romantic movement that started in the arts was successful in establishing freedom, nature, and eternity as dominant values to counter central control.

In Money & Markets, John Titus and I will review the latest financial and geopolitical news, and what it means for the months ahead. E-mail your questions for Ask Catherine or post at the Money & Markets commentary here.

Talk to you on Thursday!

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28 Comments

  1. Dear Catherine

    I have been feeling quite down and very apprehensive about the future. Although I see some brilliant people in the internet in my real life I am surrounded by zombies so your uplifting interview with John Rappoport was a well-timed and well-needed dose of inspiration.

    The poem you recited ‘Tell Me a Story’ was beautiful and moving. Thank you for sharing it,

    Dr Joseph P Farrell is very knowledgeable in matters of religion, spirituality and culture. In ‘Microcosm Medium The Cosmic Implications Of Mind Control Technology’ Dr Farrell said, “So you see a tremendous shift right at the end of the 18th century as you’re entering the Romantic era in the air where music and literature and painting become a personal expression rather than an expression of this more universal tradition. As a result of that art begins to quickly degenerate. You just consider the fact that at the beginning of the 19th century you have Beethoven. At the end of the 19th century what do you have in music? You will have Debussy, you have Arnold Schoenberg. You have all of these wild experiments and the so called high music becomes unlistenable because it’s so personal. It’s so individualized and oftentimes very ugly that you lose the object itself. You lose the tradition. So there’s a tremendous shift that happens in that 100 years during the 19th century and we’re kind of living with the after-effects today.”

    Judging from this quote I get the impression that Dr Farrell is not much of a fan of Romanticism, so I am sure it would be enlightening to have Dr Farrell and John Rappoport discussing William Blake and Romanticism.

  3. Thank you Catherine,
    for everything and allowing us to participate in all this!

  4. “invent another thought” !! excellent daily advice.

    here is a favorite poem:

    The Thought Fox by Ted Hughes

    I imagine this midnight moment’s forest:
    Something else is alive
    Beside the clock’s loneliness
    And this blank page where my fingers move.

    Through the window I see no star:
    Something more near
    Though deeper within darkness
    Is entering the loneliness:

    Cold, delicately as the dark snow
    A fox’s nose touches twig, leaf;
    Two eyes serve a movement, that now
    And again now, and now, and now

    Sets neat prints into the snow
    Between trees, and warily a lame
    Shadow lags by stump and in hollow
    Of a body that is bold to come

    Across clearings, an eye,
    A widening deepening greenness,
    Brilliantly, concentratedly,
    Coming about its own business

    Till, with a sudden sharp hot stink of fox
    It enters the dark hole of the head.
    The window is starless still; the clock ticks,
    The page is printed.

  5. Hi Catherine,

    I really enjoy all your talks with Jon, but this one was something special. Have you seen the “Boxed-Horse Principle” by John Taylor Gatto? Explains how schooling and lockdowns work pretty simply. It’s part of a larger talk he did from 16 years ago. He also brings up (in the longer talk) countless examples of successful people who were school dropouts or had minimal schooling, but still gave themselves a superb education.

    https://youtu.be/8Pwfq-6d1F4

    So many of the angry parents at school board meetings need reassurance that dropping out of school to pursue a calling/business is a great alternative to complying to the impending vaccine mandates (!) Could be more important than Cash Friday, soon.

  7. That was weird, in a good way.
    My life’s work was and is, turning mathematical ideas into reality.

      1. I have a Masters degree in Control Engineering.
        I was always curious about how and why things work.
        For example, exactly how to get electricity to South Africa from Botswana and vice versa. The power lines are incidental, it’s more the why, if you get my meaning.
        I’ll defer on the “wonderful” – there are some very bad ideas out there.
        Electrical Engineering pays better, hence I spent most of my career in electrical power, until I retired. Now, I find finance is much cleaner.

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