“For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?”—Mark 8:36 What happens when a system of total control encounters something it cannot control? This is the question that Pax Silica raises. Pax Silica is a U.S.-led initiative launched in December…
“Forgive us our debts, as we also forgive our debtors.” — Matthew 6:12 When we look into antiquity, we tend to see primitive people. But ancient Babylon (c. 2000–539 BCE) and our world today are not that far apart. Consider the temple. It was a colossus: a divinely sanctioned corporation…
“War is a racket. It always has been. It is possibly the oldest, easily the most profitable, surely the most vicious. It is the only one in which the profits are reckoned in dollars and the losses in lives.” — Major General Smedley Butler, USMC (1935) Major General Smedley Butler…
The Rise of Sophia | Part 5 | Final “The Spirit and the Bride say, ‘Come.’” — Revelation 22:17 I know what it feels like to be alone. Not physically alone—but not fitting. Not being of this world. It’s loneliness that lives in family gatherings, in group chats, in crowds….
The Rise of Sophia | Part 4 “I love those who love me, and those who seek me diligently find me.” —Proverbs 8:17, the Words of Wisdom herself I spent years hiding behind trees—fig leaves of achievement, carefully constructed personas. But there was one place where I did not hide….
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 2 “The Lord brought me forth at the beginning of His way, before His works of old. From eternity I was established, from the beginning, from the earliest times of the earth.” — Proverbs 8:22-23 I remember wholeness before I knew it had a…
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…