“While the crowd cheers the circus, the house of cards collapses unnoticed.” — Adapted from Juvenal In a country obsessed with celebrity stories and political drama, a far more serious crisis is taking hold. America’s housing market is falling apart, and the debt-heavy economy is starting to wobble. Last weekend,…
“People don’t have ideas. Ideas have people.” — Carl Jung Most people believe they own their ideas—but Jung, one of the most profound psychological engineers of all time, saw it the other way around: ideas own us. Few slogans demonstrate this better than the seductive call to “Save Democracy.” It…
“In the silence of the heart, God speaks. In the labor of the hands, the soul is restored.” — adapted from Mother Teresa and Catholic tradition This past week, I spent days on my knees, cutting through dense grass and loosening soil to build a new vegetable garden. The work…
“Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.”—Carl Jung Introduction: Jung’s Lens in a Fractured World Over the last few weeks, I’ve been deep in the work of Carl Jung—a Swiss psychologist whose insights into the psyche, archetypes, and the collective…
“The president reigns for four years, and journalism governs forever and ever.” — Oscar Wilde Dang, I’m so ready to smell the fresh air of spring, get outside in my gardens, work up a sweat running by Lake Michigan, and lounge on the beach this summer. As I write this,…
“The truth is rarely pure and never simple.” —Oscar Wilde Last week, I made a call that one of Trump’s Executive Orders was the turning point. A mandate for the production of minerals, uranium, copper, potash, gold, and any other elements, compounds and materials determined by the Chair of the…
“When confidence goes, the end is very near. It always comes faster than anyone expects and it always seems to be unexpected.” —Bernard of Chartres, 12th-century philosopher and thinker Working in Ecuador from 1996 to 1998, I figured out that currency and money weren’t the same things. It was taking…
“We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies, and competitive values. For a nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.” —John F. Kennedy…
“All warfare is based on deception” —Sun Tzu, The Art of War Last week, a strange video came out with symbolism and a chant that made President Trump look like the Antichrist to those who know the Bible. When I first saw the news, it sounded as if it were…
“The future is ours, and our golden age has just begun.” —Donald Trump, Inaugural Address, January 20, 2025 The term “Golden Age” comes from Greek mythology, particularly Works and Days, a didactic poem written by Hesiod around 700 BC. It’s part of Hesiod’s “Five Ages of Man,” which describes the…
“Outstanding, sophisticated, and mesmerizing…a spiritual intrigue similar to Dan Brown’s The Da Vinci Code.” —ForeWord Reviews
