How the Catholic-Protestant War Became Red vs. Blue “The map is not the territory.” — Alfred Korzybski A hallucination is a perception generated without a corresponding external reality. The experience feels genuine, but the mind has mistaken the map for the territory. We see Red and Blue screaming at each…
“When the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was a delight to the eyes, and that the tree was desirable to make one wise, she took from its fruit and ate; and she gave also to her husband with her, and he ate.” —…
How Financial Extraction Was Invented—and Why We Mistook It for Reality “If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around them will deprive the people of all property until…
The Rise of Sophia | Part 1 “Does not wisdom call out?” — Proverbs 8:1 Before the first star burned, before the first human drew breath, before history began, Wisdom was there. She was beside the Creator as mountains rose, seas found their shores, and life unfolded from possibility into…
How the State Is Buying the Economy and Reshaping the Global Monetary System “Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide.”— John Adams A few weeks ago, I woke with thoughts about Trump that I…
Wars. Waste. Wall Street. Welfare. “The economy doesn’t work for you — it works to extract from you.” —Michael Hudson Financialization is a word you have probably heard in economic news, but its true meaning is rarely explained. The popular media treats it as the natural growth of finance in…
How the Law of Reversal Is Remaking the Middle East “The Middle East is no more. Welcome to West Asia.” —Mohammed Soliman The post-Cold War regional order has entered a period of systemic collapse. That’s the verdict from Mohammed Soliman, a senior fellow at the Middle East Institute and one…
Recovering the Feminine in the Godhead “One becomes two, two becomes three, and out of the third comes the one as the fourth.” — Maria Prophetissa I grew up praying to the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. Three persons, one God. All named with masculine pronouns. I didn’t question it…
“The way up and the way down are one and the same.” — Heraclitus Most religions acknowledge humanity’s shortcomings and expect something in the future: a reset, a restoration, a judge, a new age, or an event or place that makes this life worthwhile. But only one central figure in…
“The difficulty lies not in the new ideas, but in escaping the old ones.” — John Maynard Keynes If you have a 401(k), buy gas, or wonder why your grocery and utility bills keep rising, look no further than the invisible machine running our global economy. For most of the…
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