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“Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.” ~ Marcus Aurelius
By Catherine Austin Fitts
The story of Gideon is my favorite Bible story. I often tell the story of Gideon whenever someone asks me, “What can I do?”
Last year, I shared the Gideon story with publisher Thomas Meyer. To my delight, he immediately went to Judges 6-9 in the Old Testament and read it. His insights inspired me to invite Thomas to join me on The Solari Report for an in-depth discussion of Gideon and why this story offers intelligence so relevant to these times.
We will record our discussion this coming Monday after a workshop and salon in Basel, Switzerland, for The Present Age and Europa, both of which Thomas publishes. I want to compare the concerns that I am hearing this week in Europe with those coming from North America and Asia.
For Let’s Go to the Movies, check out a long-standing favorite of mine, Friday Night Lights, for its relevance to the story of Gideon.
This week is the last week of the month, so there is no Money & Markets. Post your questions for Ask Catherine at the commentary for the first week in April here.
Talk to you Thursday!
Related Reading:
Thomas Meyer’s Website
Destiny and the Process of Dying
Solari Reports with Thomas Meyer:
A Conversation with Thomas Meyer
An Afternoon in Sofia with Thomas Meyer
The Future of Europe with Thomas H. Meyer
Rudolf Steiner on What We Do Now with T. H. Meyer
Catherine,
Every time I hear you touting the story of Gideon in the Bible, I wonder to myself: “Has she not read the ending of that story?”:
“33 And it came to pass, as soon as Gideon was dead, that the children of Israel turned again, and went a whoring after Baalim, and made Baalberith their god.”
It would be great to have a Gideon today, but if we had 8,000,000 Gideons, that would only be about 1% of the world’s population. I’m not seeing that many of them.
It seems to me that we as a species have chosen to experience this technocratic tyranny. I believe every experience, no matter how evil, is still a step on the journey towards our spiritual maturity, because experience is how we learn. I will continue to oppose the technocracy till the day I die, not because I think we will win, but because that is my spiritual path. I believe I have already been on the other side of this in my past lives, so that is how I learned that I must now oppose it. Now there will be a lot more people learning that same lesson.
Eli
“Now there will be a lot more people learning that same lesson.”
Eli
Amen to that. I once had a massage therapist who was a practicing Buddhist. She told me that in her practice if we lived upright we could clear all of our families bad karma seven generations back and seven generations forward. I found it very inspiring to think that one person’s good deeds could have so much leverage. Talk about building family wealth.
As the movie say, “What we do, echos in eternity!”
Yes, read the story many times. Have read the whole Bible, though I confess that I skimmed through all the “BEGATS.” 🙂
Also, Eli, remember the story that the Bible tells is not over. We are writing it now. Freedom ebbs and flows, ebbs and flows.
Thank you for the recommendation. It was compact and full of good knowledge which did affect my thinking of approach to this situation.
I do have some lingering feelings for the 9700 that weren’t afraid to fight but had some social mannerisms that affected them. I know it was for the Israelites to know it was God that claimed victory for them and I try not to question the grand design too much at this point, but I always do wonder if I have the required pieces that can facilitate the fight.
I know everyone will have their proportional fights and that having good value and being a good person can be a form of fight sometimes. My question is for a lot of those who will not make the 300, what kind of fights can we look to do in these times?
I feel like there are a lot of energies building across all demographics and people just don’t know how they can really contribute.
This one i wondered if I should write or not, but I either need to study history more or I have wrongly understood because I couldn’t really connect people like Giuseppe Garibaldi and Giuseppe Mazzini to Gideon.
You start by committing to the notion that you can contribute. Then you go figure out how. The way is always there. First you have to commit.
I hadn’t heard the story of Gideon before and the two of you did a great job in breaking it down and exploring each nuance. I especially liked Mr Meyer’s comments on the fleece, that has given me much food for thought.
Overall though it is the message that each of us can make a difference and that the relationship between the outer social self and the deeper eternal self is key to a life of integrity, true worth and meaning.
Although I’m not a new subscriber it’s the first occasion that I’ve spent much time with the resources here. I’ve listened to a lot of Solari interviews over the past few days and I feel so much better for them. I had been giving in to that global op called powerlessness. There are good excuses for feeling like that – I have a long-term, debilitating, painful illness that has kept me housebound for several years.
But now I am taking a turn for the better mentally and it feels exactly like throwing off a virus. Maybe there will be physical side-effects too when I do the work. It’s early days yet but with Solari and Jon R’s Matrix Revealed to help me along, I think I’ll recover from powerlessness completely. And I’m ready to go to work on my health again – quite a turnaround in just a few days.
Sorry for the long and personal post. I just wanted you to know how much difference your work is doing for me. I appreciate your work highly, thank you.
Jane
Jane:
Oh good. If you have not read Turtle Forth or listened to Jon Rappoport on the Power of It, you may enjoy those as well. Lots of detox and wellness too. Let me know if I can help with suggestions from the library.
Thanks Catherine, I’ll ask if I need to. It’ll take a while as I have so many great resources to check out.
It seems to me that Solari is an oasis in a desert of dross, full of refreshment for spirit, body and all points in between. It’s good to be here.
Greetings, doing catch up with your interviews.
After reading the pdf and the mention of an altar of baal I thought to share this with you.
I wondered by would very rich, high powerful people would journey to a little island called “Jekyll”. Guess who use to live on Jekyll Island? A tribe of Indians named the Timucuas and from their skeletal remains they were over 8 feet tall. Plus they had a stone altar just like the Canaanites where they also practiced child sacrifice. Gets better. Most the houses were built on top of where the Indian village was located. Gets better. And guess who built his house directly over the Indian’s stone altar? John D. Rockefeller. So when all these very rich and powerful people put together the plans for the Federal Reserve they were sitting in a room right over that child sacrificing altar.
On a more recent event one has to wonder if the Arch to Temple of Baal in NYC had anything to do with passing the State of NY abortion law.
Can inanimate objects carry an energy charge? I think so.
Here is another Marcus Aurelius quote for you. What is the best vitamin to take to be a good Christian? Answer: Be One.
Bye.
I LOVED the Gideon interview, which may be one of my favorite Solari interviews ever! Somehow, it reached exactly something in me that I was needing. And, as someone who did not grow up reading the Bible (though trying to make up for it now), I especially appreciated the remedial education and the excellent parsing of the text’s meaning and lessons.
I’M SO INSPIRED
🙂
It was an enjoyable conversation to hear. If I may, I think we are fooled because we are optimists, and we get that from the spark of divinity that we possess. God knows how the story comes out, but He gives each soul the chance to choose a path. He is no fool in giving this choice.
We don’t know how the story comes out, principally because we are on the plane where we cannot see very far, but our optimism suggests that the truth will out. All deception takes advantage of a tendency in the good to think the best of others. So, if we are fooled, it is not so much a loss of this or that material thing, but a gain in our discernment. We still strive to find and join with the good, the fair and the honest, despite our missteps. This habit, especially when shared by many, keeps the current flowing towards goodness, light and truth.
You should read Axelrod’s Evolution of Cooperation. The Tit for Tat player wins because the high quality players over time shun the dirty players. Tit for Tat player has to be willing to whack back.
I’ll have to look at it. I am persuaded through experience that a grudge is a shabby motivation and that the old advice of “living well is the best revenge” still obtains.