It portrays mostly quite false values (of the companies that it quotes), but the structure of the financial markets themselves today are quite unlike what they were early last century.
Gekko's penthouse in Wall Street II...
Fundamentally, equities' markets are firmly tied to sales taxes and pension funds. And this means there is a constant underlying inflow of cash - natural organic liquidity, in other words - unlike just the pure nominal guarantee of a Federal Reserve Banking system.
The problem with a simplistic central banking 'guarantee' is that there is no compulsion to insert the cash funds at every point. Resulting from that whimsical power (of the Fed, say), political corruption is always rife. Theoretically - and that is how it is taught in academia - the Fed uses economic arguments to making its decisions; but that is meaningless in the ultimate analysis.
As the history of the falls of Athens and Rome and ancient Persia all revealed, 'economics' is just the after-effect of real world kinetic circumstances and their forces absent of any purely economic criteria. The Goths sacked Rome because they could, not because it had anything to do with trade and manufacturing efficiency and industry.
So when we examine today's relative situation to do with the Crash-like falls in the Dow Jones Industrial Average, we must factor in that there remains a continuous inflow of funds from more-or-less entirely global (meaning the whole rest of the world) pensions contributions and regular superannuation installments -, and now also tariffs. And these funds are seeking some place to go and it is not intended to be 'dollar heaven.' (As in to 'die and go to dollar heaven').
Analysts will be working overtime now to uncover 'hidden' bargains.
You'll have to cancel your trip to the Florence ladies boutiques...
That task is well beyond my mind, because I cannot see at all, actual sales and rational earnings flows even anywhere near close to justifying meaningfully-priced capital values.
The idea, for instance, that electric vehicles represent a realistic sales market, is utter nonsense.
What I can see is temporary 'parking' functions via Precious Metals and that is of course, only obvious.
But what we cannot imagine, is an actual systemic financial environment Crash - a actual total breakdown as such. There will be delays in transaction processing, and there will be realized losses and there will be the noise of much complaining going on.
And there will be some rises in unemployment.
But what there will also be is a clear separation of true value from the fabrication of values that were previously the consequences of universal false accounting by governments and banks and especially, of the inflation statistics, and immense domestic circulation liquidity made from thin air.
And stay away from the Campari bars. We'll do the Campari bars next article. lol
It's possible that oil prices come down.
Secular disinflation? Unlikely.
I suppose you would have to think that those who can maintain their sense of inward stability while all around them is in great upheaval, will be okay going forward.
For right now the thing to do is let the fires burn and wait till the embers start to glow...
In your lives, you will no doubt observe the resistance of the world against things you might like to have, to achieve, to even gain for other people not just oneself.
This week, a really huge city council contacted me and said that they had 'put a funding manager' onto the proposal I had given them, in order to support it (that's the one to do with the Autism kids).
My challenge of course is to not blow it.
One thing we will be using, is professional photographers.
And then I have to disguise the best objectives in order not to make people scared. In other words, part of the process is to simply 'tone-down' the approach so that no one will ever be exposed to criticism; despite that the value to the kids and to their parents and carers will be enormous.
So natural resistance exists in the world, but when we push forward, occasionally, cracks appear through which light can enter.
Whatever your own personal current projects are, things will not ever go easily, if there are risks involved and if you are trying for something bigger than the ordinary.
'The ordinary' today, itself means just barely surviving within a messed-up society.
I am going to now switch back across to the metaphysical stuff, although the practical progress is intimately linked with that.
Christianity has a story about 'Wise Men (or 'kings') from the East' and no one has decisively shown where this 'East' in the account is really meant to be, or who actually, these kings are.
Never mind. It kind of doesn't matter.
There is another passage where Jesus says 'I am going to prepared some mansions...'
Had He have said 'pavilions' we would certainly start to have indications at least of which cultural written traditions these stories were emanating from.
In the Wu-Shu and Taoist lineages, rather than the modern versions as told frankly, by the Chinese Communist Party on the one hand, and next by Singaporean middle class know-it-all's with book access to ancient mystical and occult accounts... ...mostly they will talk about the four Compass Points in regard to 'pavilions' or 'mansions' when it comes to mystical practices.
And this is fair enough, except that this only deals with the human material secular life.
'Black Warrior' North, Vermilion Bird South, Green Dragon East, and White Tiger West (plus the central node, as it were; so five all up), all pertain to the Earth plane, the human world which in the Chinese system (as well as in Freemasonry, you will note) includes the ghosts and spirits of deceased persons.
'Human' is not what goes up above and beyond the world.
The Celestial Court - which is the term used in traditional written Chinese occult texts which are nevertheless quite rare - is where those beings not human, but maybe some are partly-human, are permitted entry, and then even above that is a Divine Court where the Supreme God and the attendant family of Gods naturally reside.
Whereas the Confucianism mentality has turned actual ancient Chinese occultism into a 'Byzantine' world of officialdom and bureaucracy and 'hard work' and striving according to the rules (typical Singaporean BS), and in more recent times Maoism and Marxism has done everything to continue this error - this has nothing whatsoever to do with Taoism or the Wu-Shu ideals; yet if you asked virtually any Chinese person at all they would come up with the same basic falsity and say that this was the true thing.
Modern German anthropologists worked out of course, that the hermit culture persisted through Maoism and exists still today, with the 'work-around' being that most actual Taoist masters seemed to have a Communistic small co-operative farming community up on the sides of quite remote mountains, and so they were mostly left alone, with the odd well-known exception here or there where a particular Taoist was jailed following some 'mysterious incident' (the words of the Communists by the way). But that then was released after decades to go back into the mountains.
German anthropologist Monika Hoefler took this pic. The guy reads a lot of books! He doesn't just make tea.
Here is the matter in a nutshell:
These actual people, not any superficial Taoists but actual real occult adepts, are known as 'Xian.' And they have already become immortal but will live a quite long time here as hermits.
Why as hermits?
Now I will reveal a secret that you will not read in books - all of these 'Xian' have dozens if not hundreds of other beings literally from the Celestial places (and I will expand more about that in a second) who are designated to permanently protect the Xian, while the Xian person is here doing something or other.
In order to give the guardians as easy a time as possible, the Xian choose to separate themselves from the rest of the normal human race and so as not to harm humans who get in the way.
Around the Celestial Court, are four 'islands' which accommodate four different styles of living. And you can decide yourself which one you like and that is also in line with your natural personality.
In the Celestial Court, you will access a flow of light into your being, which clarifies your being relieving it of all the Earth-source burdens whatever they are, whether spiritual or material. And by this I mean you can do this while you are still here as a human.
Although in this 'Celestial System' there are references made to 'stars,' these are not like in the Western system say, of astrology, where it's about actual stars and their locations in the night sky. These are virtual stars and you access them through your mind by locating yourself in the central node or axis, also called the Golden Point - Huangdi Tien; where the 'Yellow Emperor' reigns or is - and looking upwards directly to the limitless vertical height, around which there are those 'four islands' rotating.
Kyler England tells us the story in the track below.
Now there's a whole lot more to this and there are ways and means (that we have spoken about and that you know already but not in terms that they are Chinese magical practices) entailed that more or less anyone can employ to gain access to the Celestial Heaven.
The Universe is divide into three - the Ancient Past, the material Present, and the Limitless Future.
And the 'Celestial Court' is where the thrones of all the Gods and Goddesses are, in terms of where they meet and rule from.
Somehow, just about every culture on the planet has the same story about all of this; some have more detailed accounts, some more narrative, some more poetic. But they're essentially all the same.
It's when you work out aspects that have utterly reliable material function, that you can tell which parts of which stories are the most accurate.
