Atman Is Brahman: The Profound Connection Explained

“The Atman is Brahman.”

Exploring the Profound Link Between Self and Universe in Hindu PhilosophyEthan Indigo Smith – This little quote and longstanding idea are as powerful and profound as they are simple. For millennia, it has inspired and pondered the individuals of Asia, the proverbial Atman, the world over.

The phrase is a derivative of The Four Great Sayings, the Mahavakyas, from The Upanishads. Four ways exist to express and interpret the idea that the spark is the fire, the wave is the ocean, and Atman is Brahman.

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The Impact of Credit and Trade on Monetary Systems

Sound Money Vs. Fiat Currency: Trade and Credit Are the Wild CardsCharles Hugh Smith – Our convictions about money are quasi-religious: heretics are burned at the stake. I’m not sure which stake I’ll be tied to, because all the conventional choices–fiat currency, sound money (gold, Bitcoin) or debt-free currency (a.k.a. MMT)–are all fatally flawed.

To understand why, consider the wild cards in any monetary system: global trade and credit. Let’s start with credit, which as David Graeber explained in his book Debt: The First 5,000 Years, has been an integral component of monetary arrangements since the dawn of civilization. Continue reading

BlackRock’s Dominance: From Food to Military Contracts

Sean Adl-Tabatabai – Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has warned that BlackRock, the world’s biggest asset management corporation, secretly controls both political parties in America.

“BlackRock owns the processed food companies that are poisoning us, and they own the pharmaceutical companies that are making $4.3 trillion a year…treating the chronic disease that’s being caused by BlackRock’s other group of companies,” Kennedy declared on the “Rubin Report” Sunday. Continue reading

The Cage Door Is Wide Open

The Cage Door Is Wide OpenLorna Bevan – Circle April 18th – 26th 2024 in your diary. On those dates the rare and auspicious Jupiter / Uranus conjunction at 21°/22° Taurus will be exact, starting a new 13 years financial cycle. As it is activated first by Mars at 21 Pisces, the April 25rd Scorpio Full Moon then May’s Taurus New Moon, expect shocks, reversals and the seeds of social reforms.

This is the first Jupiter/Uranus conjunction in financial sign Taurus since the 1940s, which led to Lend Lease to help rebuild Europe and the tide turning against the Nazis. Continue reading