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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome to the I Heart Radio and Coast to Coast
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of Strange Things with Joshua P. Warren. Welcome to our podcast.
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You're ready. I don't w weird, this is strange Thing.
I am Joshua Fie Warren and East. Week on this show,
I'll be bringing you brand new mind blowing content, news, exercises,
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and weird experiments you can do at home, and a
lot more on this edition of the show, The Strange
and Twisted History of Money. Do you realize that money
is really a magical construct? The story of money is
really strange, and it demonstrates a lot about the mind,
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body environment relationship, this big psychological system we have created.
And I want to give you an insightful summary of
the history of money, how it relates to the mind
and to magic and what we can learn from that.
It's just a great story that exemplifies so much about
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manifestation and how we envisioned things in our heads that
may actually appear differently than physical, tangible reality. Speaking of money,
before I get to that, you know, if you heard
the last show that I had a one hundred thousand
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dollar bet on the line with Tom Vrillock, I challenged
Tom Vrillock to a wizard off and the last show. Now,
Tom Vrilock is a really good friend and uh so,
and he's he's a magician, okay, he he practices psionics.
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He invented the miraculous prayerboard, and Tom real Lock he
is into all kinds of manifestation work. And so I
thought it would be fun, since I'm here in Las Vegas,
for us to have a friendly, you know, gentleman's bet
where I say, okay, let me go to a casino
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here in Vegas and I'll go up to a roulette
will and we'll spin the wheel one time. Okay. He's
in California. He was was not with me, but Lauren
and I you know, we went and I said I'll
spend the will one time and on a roulette whell
here in America. It's a little bit different in other countries,
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but an American roulette will traditionally usually has thirty eight spaces.
There are eighteen red spaces, and there are eighteen black spaces,
and there are two green spaces. And so if you
bet on red or black, then you have almost a
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fifty fifty chance that you are going to hit one
of those and then you double your money. But I
told Tom, hey, I am going to use my magic
and I am going to make that ball land on red.
And Tom, I want you to use your magic and
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you make that ball land on black, and whoever wins
receives one hundred thousand dollars from the other person. And
so Tom said, let's do this. Said okay, all right,
it's all So Lauren and I went to the casino.
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I called Tom and I told him, all right, I'm
at the casino. I said, I'm gonna be at the
roulette will at a certain time, you know. So we
were all coordinated here. So at that exact time, I
walked up to the will. Now there were several other
people playing there, and I have played the roulette will.
I don't know, thousands of times in my life. So
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I walked up. I put down my bet, because you
have to bet something. I don't want to say how
much I bet just to do the thing, but I
just I put a bet down and I put it
on red because I knew I was gonna make a
hit red, right. And I'm telling you, the strangest thing happened.
I've never seen this happen before. I'm not even sure
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what happened to this day. So the I believe they're
called the croupier. That the person there who spends the wheel,
she spun the wheel, she tossed the ball onto it.
The ball goes bouncing around. I was not and I
was intentionally not looking at the wheel. I was looking
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off into the distance and I was in the zone,
like I wasn't even thinking directly about the will and
the ball like starts bouncing around, bouncing around, and then
I hear it settle somewhere, and I'm waiting to hear
that sound you get from the crowd, like, and the
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woman who spun the wheel, she goes, oh, sorry about that,
And I was like what, And I turned around and
she had plucked the ball and spun the wheel again,
like the ball had gotten jammed or something weird like that.
I've never ever ever seen that happen before. I'm not
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even sure if it's legal to do that without having
everybody reset their bets. I've just never seen that. So
right off the battle was like what is going on here?
So anyway, she spends the wheel again. I hear the
ball bouncing around, bouncing around, bouncing, and then finally it
lands and I look over, what do you think it was?
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Why do you think it was? It landed on green?
I swear to you hand on a stack of Bibles again,
there are eighteen red spaces, eighteen black spaces, and two
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green spaces. I wanted it to be read. Tom wanted
it to be black, and it landed on green. Do
you know what the chances of that are? On that
one spin? I mean I I walked away from that
and I said to Lauren, like, could you believe that?
Like I just I was speechless for a while. I mean,
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it's like I can't even wrap my head. Tom and
I were were definitely um focusing our our energy, you know,
our forces together on that will at that time, and
it became a draw you know, neither one of us won,
so I I let Tom know what had happened, and
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he was laughing and we were like, okay, that's fine.
We both actually were kind of happy about it because
I don't think either one of us really wanted to
have to give up a hundred grand, you know, just
in case, you know, So we were both kind of
relieved and we're like, that was a great experiment. That
was a great experiment, and um, so there you have it.
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Thank you, my friend, Mr Tom Brilock for participating in
that gentleman's bet. And I know some of you listening
are probably saying like, oh, come on, Josh, you're just
making this up so that you know, you and Tom
can get along. And I'm telling you know, I swear
to you that's how it happened. One spin and it
hit green, So that was something magical was happening. And uh,
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I do intend to maybe do some more experiments along
those lines with Mr Brailock, but perhaps we'll keep them private.
I don't know, maybe I'll let you in on it.
So anyway, that's what happen with the wizard off. It
was a draw that night at the Roulette Whell Our
Powers were matched, but I think some kind of telekinetic
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burst was let loose and uh and definitely did something
to that ball. Speaking of money altogether, though, Okay, I
want to share with you what I think is the
fascinating story of the history of money. I bought this book.
It's called The Chaos Protocols. The Chaos Protocols and listen
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to the subtitle of this book, Magical Techniques for Navigating
the New Economic Reality by Gordon White. Gordon White, and
the back of the book says magic, power, money and
meaning in a world on the brink. The back of
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the book text says, the years since the financial crash
have seen the realization dawn that the great promise of
my e civilization will go unfulfilled. Study hard, work hard
by a house, retire happy. It's all a lie spun
for the benefit of a tiny elite. The richest eighty
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five people on Earth have as much wealth as the
poorest three point five billion. Each month, the numbers change,
but they never improve. Magical and spiritual discourse has failed
to keep up with this new reality. The Chaos Protocols
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aims to fix that. Join Gordon White as he shows
you how to use Chaos Magic not only to navigate
these trying times, but to triumph as well. Discover how
to become invincible through initiation and wage the mind war
that will keep you moving towards what you really want.
From sigil magic to working with spiritual allies. The Chaos
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Protocols helps you act on the unwavering belief that your
life should matter and you're not going to let something
as trifling as the apocalypse get in the way of it.
And my understanding here is that Gordon White is based
in the UK. His website is run Soup. Are you
in e s o U p rune soup dot com
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and uh I contacted him and said, I would like
to read some of your book to my audience. I
bought this as a printed book off of Amazon, and
I got it as an audio book. And he does
a marvelous job, in my opinion, of going back and
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telling the story of how money evolved and how it
relates to magic and psychology. And you may pick up
some tips from this. At very least you'll find this
to be an interesting exemplification of that connection between the mind,
the body and the environment. I'll get to that when
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back to Strange Things on the I Heart Radio and
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your host, the Wizard of Weird, Joshua P. Warren. And
you know, my late great friend Jim Mars wrote a
wonderful book called Rule by Secrecy, and in that book
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he told the story of how money developed. And I
was always fascinated by how he wrote it, and it
reminded me a lot of that when I started reading
this book, The Chaos Protocols by Gordon White. This book
was published in and it's kind of it makes you
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think of like what it would be like if a
finance year or a stockbroker was a chaos magician and
started like explaining money in in in magical terms. But
this book goes into all I mean, this is a
deep book. This book gets into all kinds of ritualistic magic.
And there's a whole section on sigils um. I mean, yeah,
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this is this is not a beginner's guide in my opinion,
and I contacted Gordon White and said, I would like
to read like seven or eight pages of your book
on my show. Pretty significant excerpt here, Um, is that
okay with you? And he was great, he wrote me back,
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he said, yeah, go for it. So that's what I
am about to do. Hopefully I'll have enough time to
do this. And again, his his website is rune soup
dot com. And I'll tell you a couple of things.
If you're listening to the show and you're kind of distracted,
then some of this may not quite make sense to you,
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Like you might zone out a little bit, because again
we're this some of this is kind of complex finance stuff.
And also because he is UK based, Um, you sometimes
the way he phrases things may sound a bit odd,
you know, because he might be using the language in
a slightly different way than you're used to hearing it.
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If you're like me, I'm an American, So just keep
those things in mind. But that said, let's jump right
into this excerpt from The Chaos Protocols about the story
of money. From the beginning of Western civilization right up
until the end of the seventeenth century, money and wealth
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were more or less the same thing. You could exchange
your gold and silver for other items of wealth cattle, property, cinnamon,
other humans, and so on. If you did not exchange
your gold or silver for these items, then you still
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retained your wealth, the gold and silver and your currency.
Even in a barter system, you are effectively swapping one
store of wealth for another, two goats for your camel,
for instance. Now, certainly there was lending and credit before
this date, but wealth for wealth was largely how money worked.
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The very idea that pieces of paper held value seemed alien.
In fact, legendary explorer Marco Polo could not quite believe
it when he encountered an early currency on his adventures.
He wrote in his diary about the peculiar monetary experiment
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of the Great Can And let me pause here for
a secon it now, just in case you need a refresher,
Who's Marco Polo? Will Marco Polo? He was born in
the year twelve fifty four and he died in the
year thirteen twenty four, so he was sixty nine years old.
And here's what Wikipedia says. He was a Venetian merchant, explorer,
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and writer who traveled through Asia along the Silk Road
between twelve seventy one and twelve. His travels are recorded
in a book called The Travels of Marco Polo. This
is a book that described to Europeans the then mysterious
culture and inner workings of the Eastern world, including the
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wealth and great size of the Mongol Empire and China
and the Wan dynasty, giving their first comprehensive look into China, Persia, India, Japan,
and other Asian cities and countries. Okay, so that's this
is how far we're going back here, just in case
you needed that. So here's what Arco Polo wrote way
back then. He's talking about what he's seeing in China
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regarding the emperor. They're the Great Khan, he wrote. He
makes them take the bark of a certain tree, in fact,
of the mulberry tree, the leaves of which are the
food of the silkworms, these trees being so numerous, the
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whole districts are full of them. What they take is
a certain fine white bark or skin, which lies between
the wood of the tree and the thick outer bark,
and this they make into something resembling sheets of paper,
but black. When these sheets have been prepared they are
cut up into pieces of different sizes. The smallest of
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these sizes is worth a half tornsul, the next a
little larger, one torn soul. One a little larger still
is worth half a silver groat of venice, another a
whole groat, others yet to groats, five groats, and ten groats.
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There is also a kind worth one bazant of gold,
and others of three bisons, and so up to tin.
All these pieces of paper are issued with as much
solemnity and authority as if they were pure gold or silver.
And on every piece a variety of officials whose duty
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it is have to write their names and to put
their seals. And when all is prepared duly, the chief
officer deputed by the Khan smears the seal entrusted to
him with vermilion and impresses it on the paper, so
that the form of the seal remains printed upon it
and read. The money is then authentic. Anyone forging it
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would be punished with death. And the con causes every
year to be made such a vast quantity of this money,
which costs him nothing, that it must equal in amount
all the treasure in the world. With these pieces of
paper made as I have described, he causes all payments
on his own account to be made, and he makes
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them to pass current universally over all his kingdoms and
provinces and territories, and whithersoever his power and sovereignty extends,
and nobody, however important he may think himself, dares to
refuse them on pain of death. How's that for an
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excerpt about what we now call fiat currency. Piece of paper?
What's it worth? Really? How about a digit on a
computer screen? What's up anyway? Let's get back to what
he wrote, described by Marco Polo fiat currency. Really, he
does sound a bit preposterous, like one of those meandering
thought experiments you and your buddies came up with one
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night while stoned in college. But a straight thiat currency
is not quite the system we have today. If anything,
ours is even stranger. Ours really begins towards the end
of the seventeenth century in the heart of London and
in Europe's Low countries, goldsmiths and jewelers would store deposits
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of their customer's wealth in their vaults and issued them
receipts for the stored value. These receipts began to be
swapped and traded as a more convenient method of paying,
then taking the receipt back to the vault, extracting your gold,
and paying with that. What quickly became apparent to these
vault owners was that only a small fraction of depositors
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ever came back to extract their gold, and so, for
better or worse, they began issuing more receipts than they
had gold in the vaults. The vault owners could either
spend these receipts or loan them out to individuals or businesses.
The profits from the interest on these loans was substantial.
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From this point, the final step was inevitable. These vault
owners could make much more money from lending against these
receipts than they could in charging vault fees, so they
began paying people and businesses to store their wealth, which
is how we ended up with interest interest bearing savings accounts,
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and so taken together, what we know of as fractional
reserve banking was born. You put one hundred gold coins
in a vault, and they hand out receipts for eight
hundred gold coins. The system compounds again if these receipts
are deposited in another bank who keeps only a small
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fraction of the receipts and lends the rest of them out,
while saying they still have the initial deposit. In fact,
this process of depositing and redepositing receipts, which are also
lent back out, accounts for more than of all the
money and the global economy today. When you take out
a loan, you literally debt money into existence. It would
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only be a matter of time before this highly successful,
legally dubious but essentially private practice was taken up by
kings and governments. In the sixty nineties, to pay for
their increasingly expensive continental wars, the newly created and technically
privately owned Bank of England began issuing bank notes as
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legal tender. These were effectively io use for a portion
of the physical wealth stored at the bank's home on
Walbrook and the City, which by the way, was built
on the remains of an old temple to Mithross, the
god of contract. In theory, you could front up to
the Bank of England with your bank notes and exchange
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them for the wealth stored within. Over the next two centuries,
this really was more theoried. In fact, notes continued to
be printed even when the gold was being spent on wars.
Laws were even enacted to prevent the bank from paying
out gold. Where once we used to pay for things
with little pieces of wealth, well we began to pay
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for things with little pieces of debt and the forms
of I O use, And there were a lot more
I O use than there was gold and the vault.
We're gonna take a break when we come back. I
think you see where this is going. What is this,
this magical, mysterious manifestation called money. I'm Joshua pe Warren.
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paranormal podcast network. I am your host, Joshua P. Warren,
and this is the show where the unusual becomes usual,
and I'm telling you about the strange story the Strange
History of Money. Reading excerpts from this book here The
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Chaos Protocols by Gordon White, and I was saying before
the break that there were a lot more I O
U s than there was gold in the vault. The
book goes on to say this increased the money supply
relative to the actual amount of wealth in the economy
and moved control of the money supply from the market
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to the government. Monetary policy became intertwined with the functioning
of the imperial state. Modern inflation was born to give
credit where credit is due. The central banking model was
hugely successful. Britain raised a national debt, crushed her enemies,
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and built the greatest empire the world ever knew. The
policy continues to this day in the form of America's
numerous oil wars. Catherine Austin Fitz, former Undersecretary of Housing
and Urban Development, refers to this as quote the central
banking and warfare model. In quote, you invade a country
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and force it to accept your printed currency in exchange
for its natural resources, leaving the victor with the harvested wealth,
as well as complete control over the value of the
I O U s, which are now stronger thanks to
the resources you have just extracted. Since Nixon left off office,
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the largest foreign buyers of US bonds tend to be
banks and countries that we have effectively occupied militarily. Nice
work if you can get it, just as the Royal
Navy did before it in India and the Caribbean. So
the US military and its NATO allies due today in Eurasia.
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A secondary hit on the status of money as well
happened in the twentieth century with the complete and abandonment
of the gold standard. The story of the secondary hit
begins in nineteen thirteen and ends in nineteen seventy one.
When the Federal Reserve was first created, it kept to
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the monetary best practice that had been so successful in
Central Europe, known as the classical gold standard. If you
look at dollars printed prior to the First World War,
you will see it clearly written on a twenty dollar
note that it can be exchanged for twenty dollars of
physical gold. This redemption facility was suspended during the war,
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as the quote civilized countries paid for killing people in
other civilized countries by printing more and more currency. Government's
also learned that they could mobilize the entire financial wealth
of countries toward political ends through huge spending projects that
were funded with dramatic increases in taxation. In between the wars,
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the classical gold standard was replaced with what is known
as the gold exchange standard in the US. That meant
that the Federal Reserve could print fifty dollars for every
twenty dollars of gold that it had and its vaults.
That's a reserve ratio. Even this was to last. After
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the end of World War Two, Europe was flooded with
US dollars and completely out of gold. In fact, the
US had two thirds of all declared gold in the
world at that point, in Europe had almost none. The
Breton Woods Agreement was quickly signed. Given that the world
was already awash with dollars, which were ultimately convertible into gold.
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It was agreed that almost every currency in the world
would be backed by US dollars, which themselves would be
backed by gold. However, no reserve percentage was included in
the agreement, as there had been between the Wars. The
Federal Reserve was free to print as many dollars as
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it pleased, figuring, just like those jewelers in London centuries
before that, not everyone in the world would wish to
call in all their dollars for gold at one time.
Over in France, Charles de Gaul soon realized there were
too many dollars or quote receipts for gold stored in
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the US compared to the amount of gold actually stored,
so he asked for France's gold back. Almost immediately, other
countries started asking for their gold back. The US lost
fifty percent of its gold from nineteen fifty nine to
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nineteen seventy one, but even then there were still twelve
times the amount of dollars out there. Then there was
gold to back it up. Enter Nixon. He abandoned the
gold standard and instituted the dollar standard, thus detaching every
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single currency in the world from any underlying relationship to
physical wealth. The value of the currency became an expression
of confidence and the government that issued it. Nixon's main
reason for abandoning the gold standard was due to his
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and his advisers misunderstanding of the so called balance of trade,
which is whether a country exports more than imports. Having
the dollar peg to gold meant that competing exporter countries
such as Germany and Japan could lower their currency value
in a way the US could not, giving them a
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perceived advantage. This is an unfortunate misunderstanding of American history.
The reality is that trade deficits or surpluses do not
really reflect much about underlying economic health. The United States
has run a trade deficit for three hundred and fifty
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of the last four hundred year years, during which time
it has risen to become the largest and most successful
economy in history. People in other countries want to sell Americans.
UH want to sell to Americans because the nation's economy
is large and successful. Transactions do not take place between countries,
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but between people. If I sell you a pencil, you
are in a trade deficit to me because I have
your money, but you now have a pencil, So go
and write a best seller. America's historic trade deficit is
a reflection of the same phenomenon on a much larger scale.
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Until nineteen seventy one, the value of the dollar was
pegged to a fixed amount of precious metal, just as
it was at the beginning a fractional reserve banking. When
the famous voodooist Marie Levau and her daughter were alive
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in the nineteenth century. A dollar was either made with
a guaranteed amount of silver or was convertible into a
specified amount. This fixed the value of a dollar into
something real. So if either Laveau senior or junior had
used the customary folk magical practice of putting a dollar
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under a candle, well, she would have been growing wealth
from a fixed amount. If you have tried this same
piece of folk magic anytime after nineteen seventy one, then
you're doing the opposite. In today's money, you need almost
five dollars and seventy eight cents to buy the equivalent
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of what a dollar could buy you in nineteen seventy one.
Such a magical act encodes an erosion of wealth rather
than an accumulation. The atom at the heart of your
financial universe is no longer a reliable unit of wealth,
and it does not exist for your benefit. Savings are
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certainly better than no savings, but until they are converted
back from io us into wealth, their face value is
just not what it appears. And this is before we
even consider the rise of a global digital currency looming
in the medium term. Even as the Western world flirts
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with the possibility of mild deflation. It is worth remembering
that since the creation of the Federal Reserve and nineteen thirteen,
the buying power of a single US dollar has declined
by ninety five percent. It is a dodgy, imperfect indicator
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of what we value, but it is what we have,
so we must understand it if we are to use it. Effectively. Alright,
that is the end of what I'm going to read
to you from this book, The Chaos Protocols Magical Techniques
for Navigating the New Economic Reality. Thank you Gordon White
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for allowing me to read that. And again, his website
is Rune soup dot com. Are you in E S
O U P. Rune soup dot com. Does that give
you an idea? I mean, some of you listen to
this show and you're like, oh, yeah, I think about
this all the time, I know how, But others don't
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really ever stop and say, well, what is this thing
called money that we we place value on to such
an extent You can go and get real things, a
real house, a real car, real food. But why are
we basing all this on? It's based upon an energy
(41:58):
which is based up all of thought form and it
is really proof that the world is glued together by
magic and magical thinking. Have you ever thought of it
that way? The world is glued together by magic and
magical thinking. We have to take a break here and
(42:20):
when we come back, I have something really interesting to
read to you about what people believe these days, and
also something very weird that happens in my life all
the time. That shows me just how connected that we
all are. Does this happen to you, We'll see. I'm
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pe Warren. And in this book The Chaos Protocol by
Gordon White, there's a really interesting quote. I think you
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might appreciate this if you think about it for a second.
It's a quote by somebody named Peter J. Carroll. And uh,
here's the quote. Magic works in practice, but not in theory.
Magic works in practice, but not in theory. Of course
(46:23):
I disagree with that. I think it works in theory also,
But but that is a is a very good point.
What I glean from that is you don't have to
understand how everything works. Uh. Sometimes things just work and
you say, Okay, that's all I that's all all I
needed to do, get it done. Whatever works. That's actually
(46:48):
the quote at the start of a chapter called wish
granting squiggles, which gets into sigils in this book. So
pretty cool book. Again, it's uh, it's it's out of deep.
It's kind of deep, but when you think about this
concept of money being this really intangible thing that literally
(47:11):
makes the world go around. Boy, is that an expression
of magic or what? You know? It would be one
thing if we all just martyred commodities, you know, physical
things that you needed for physical life, shelter and food
and water, it said, I mean, I mean that would
that would make sense. But now we we have all
(47:31):
these intangible things, and uh, it said, it's sort of
like how what is the song worth? What is a
what is this podcast worth? What is a painting worth?
You know what? But anyway, we are all connected to
the world in ways that are so mysterious because sometimes
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you think you just get little glimpses of it. And
I want to tell you about something thing weird that
happens to me and Lauren, my wife, all the time.
And I've never heard anybody talk about this before. I
doubt surely I can't be the first one. You never know.
But living here in Las Vegas, you know, you have
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these big, big parking lots. I mean we're out here
in the desert. There's lots of space once you get
away from the crunch of the strip. I mean, there's
a lot of space so you go to a grocery store,
there's a big parking lot. You go to a casino,
there's a big parking lot. And what we find on
almost a daily basis is that when we leave whatever
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establishments and we go back to our car, the people
part next to us are also going back to their car.
So you could have a parking lot that seems to
go on for acres and acres. Okay, but right when
we go to get in our car, the people in
the car next to us are doing the same thing,
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and so now we're like one of us has to
wait for the other, you know, to open the door
and to get in around it happens so much that
I mean I started taking note like are we are
we manifesting this because it's frustrating or is there something
else weird going on? I Am not sure what to
(49:25):
make of this kind of a synchronicity, but I think
step number one is asking all of you if you
experience something like this, you know, and do you have
this Truman Show kind of situation happening where it seems
like the world is happening around your perception something else
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that's kind of odd about our connection, you know? But
just the mind body environment connection is that. You know,
Lauren and I were recently at Laguna Beach in California
and they have big, epic, beautiful crashing waves there. And
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Lauren and I love to go to to whatever beach
and whenever we're the beach and they have these big,
giant crashing waves. Well, Lauren is a wonderful photographer, and
so she wants to get one of those dramatic, dynamic
shots of one of these waves. And as as soon
as she takes her camera out, whether it's a camera
(50:28):
or her phone or whatever, because she wants to get
a picture of one of these big waves, the ocean
calms down instantly, the ocean. It's so frustrating for her.
It somehow reminds me of that story when you know,
Jesus calmed the stormy seas, uh, and she wants it
(50:55):
to be a big, raging, frothy wave raw hang in
but no, as soon as she decides to photograph it
calms down, calms down. Is that something similar to cloud busting?
You know? Because what is a cloud? What a cloud
is just a big hovering bit of moistures in it.
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So it makes you wonder about um the relationship between
us and the world around us, doesn't it. And also
just how physical these interactions are. Perhaps you saw this story.
It came out recently. You know, all these uh, especially
(51:36):
rich people, they get out and they race pigeons, they
take homing pigeons, and these pigeons can fly so well
over a thousand miles, you know. So you you, you
let loose a bunch of pigeons and uh, they have
a tag, and then you win a bunch of money
if your pigeon is the first one to win the race.
(51:59):
And these pigeons are, you know, fantastic at finding the
location they're supposed to go to. They're so adept that
they have even been used in wars to pass messages
to troops and whatnot. And yet just recently, one day,
thousands of racing pigeons were released in the United Kingdom,
(52:24):
and like ten thousand of them just disappeared. I mean
thousands of these things. A huge chunk of these pigeons disappeared.
They say, okay, let's see here, I'm looking at the article.
Approximately two hundred and fifty thousand birds were released. Oh boy,
(52:48):
it's even more vantage they said, only a fraction, only
a fraction of two fifty thousand birds returned, and nobody
knows exactly what I I mean. Some people are saying,
like what what? For example, I mean, they have people
who obviously are they're they're betting on this, so they
know all the little tricks of the trade, and they're
(53:10):
always looking at the weather and stuff, and they say
that there's nothing in the weather that seems to give
us a clue. But other people are believing that maybe
it has something to do with a solar storm that
that disrupted things. But something sure did. We're not certain
how these humming pigeons home. Is that a warning sign?
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Is that an omen that something is changing here on
earth that is is not good or makes you wonder
if there's something else up in the sky that might
sometimes mess with these birds. For example, here's a pole
(53:54):
that came out recently conducted by Pew Research that is
a a non partisant tank in Washington, d c. And
they concluded that sixty five percent of Americans believe in
aliens sixtent. It's hard to find sixty of Americans that
(54:16):
agree on anything. Um So anyway, it goes on to
say in this particular article about sixty of respondents said
they think there is intelligent alien life on planets other
than Earth, and about eighty seven percent said UFOs are
(54:40):
not a security threat to the US at all or
only represent a minor one. According to the poll, twelve
percent of Americans American adults had heard or read a
lot about this new UFO report before it's release. That
seems like a small amount. Uh, And so they have
(55:02):
what they call here the bottom line. They say, in
all likelihood, evidence of alien life won't come in the
form of a grainy video taken high above an ocean,
but will instead be the discovery of tiny fossilized microbes
on Mars or some other little creature swimming through an
ocean engulfing a distant moon. Well, I certainly agree that
(55:22):
that is the first way we're gonna hear about it.
I don't think if they have aliens in a freezer,
they're gonna pop up and show those two us anytime soon.
But there will come a point when they introduce us
to the concept of aliens. Uh, microscopically, that's on the way. Well,
my friends, uh, we are growing short on time, and
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You're ready. I don't w weird, this is strange Thing.
I am Joshua Fie Warren and East. Week on this show,
I'll be bringing you brand new mind blowing content, news, exercises,
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and weird experiments you can do at home, and a
lot more on this edition of the show, The Strange
and Twisted History of Money. Do you realize that money
is really a magical construct? The story of money is
really strange, and it demonstrates a lot about the mind,
(01:45):
body environment relationship, this big psychological system we have created.
And I want to give you an insightful summary of
the history of money, how it relates to the mind
and to magic and what we can learn from that.
It's just a great story that exemplifies so much about
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manifestation and how we envisioned things in our heads that
may actually appear differently than physical, tangible reality. Speaking of money,
before I get to that, you know, if you heard
the last show that I had a one hundred thousand
(02:33):
dollar bet on the line with Tom Vrillock, I challenged
Tom Vrillock to a wizard off and the last show. Now,
Tom Vrilock is a really good friend and uh so,
and he's he's a magician, okay, he he practices psionics.
(02:56):
He invented the miraculous prayerboard, and Tom real Lock he
is into all kinds of manifestation work. And so I
thought it would be fun, since I'm here in Las Vegas,
for us to have a friendly, you know, gentleman's bet
where I say, okay, let me go to a casino
(03:16):
here in Vegas and I'll go up to a roulette
will and we'll spin the wheel one time. Okay. He's
in California. He was was not with me, but Lauren
and I you know, we went and I said I'll
spend the will one time and on a roulette whell
here in America. It's a little bit different in other countries,
(03:39):
but an American roulette will traditionally usually has thirty eight spaces.
There are eighteen red spaces, and there are eighteen black spaces,
and there are two green spaces. And so if you
bet on red or black, then you have almost a
(04:00):
fifty fifty chance that you are going to hit one
of those and then you double your money. But I
told Tom, hey, I am going to use my magic
and I am going to make that ball land on red.
And Tom, I want you to use your magic and
(04:22):
you make that ball land on black, and whoever wins
receives one hundred thousand dollars from the other person. And
so Tom said, let's do this. Said okay, all right,
it's all So Lauren and I went to the casino.
(04:43):
I called Tom and I told him, all right, I'm
at the casino. I said, I'm gonna be at the
roulette will at a certain time, you know. So we
were all coordinated here. So at that exact time, I
walked up to the will. Now there were several other
people playing there, and I have played the roulette will.
I don't know, thousands of times in my life. So
(05:06):
I walked up. I put down my bet, because you
have to bet something. I don't want to say how
much I bet just to do the thing, but I
just I put a bet down and I put it
on red because I knew I was gonna make a
hit red, right. And I'm telling you, the strangest thing happened.
I've never seen this happen before. I'm not even sure
(05:26):
what happened to this day. So the I believe they're
called the croupier. That the person there who spends the wheel,
she spun the wheel, she tossed the ball onto it.
The ball goes bouncing around. I was not and I
was intentionally not looking at the wheel. I was looking
(05:48):
off into the distance and I was in the zone,
like I wasn't even thinking directly about the will and
the ball like starts bouncing around, bouncing around, and then
I hear it settle somewhere, and I'm waiting to hear
that sound you get from the crowd, like, and the
(06:13):
woman who spun the wheel, she goes, oh, sorry about that,
And I was like what, And I turned around and
she had plucked the ball and spun the wheel again,
like the ball had gotten jammed or something weird like that.
I've never ever ever seen that happen before. I'm not
(06:35):
even sure if it's legal to do that without having
everybody reset their bets. I've just never seen that. So
right off the battle was like what is going on here?
So anyway, she spends the wheel again. I hear the
ball bouncing around, bouncing around, bouncing, and then finally it
lands and I look over, what do you think it was?
(06:59):
Why do you think it was? It landed on green?
I swear to you hand on a stack of Bibles again,
there are eighteen red spaces, eighteen black spaces, and two
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green spaces. I wanted it to be read. Tom wanted
it to be black, and it landed on green. Do
you know what the chances of that are? On that
one spin? I mean I I walked away from that
and I said to Lauren, like, could you believe that?
Like I just I was speechless for a while. I mean,
(07:42):
it's like I can't even wrap my head. Tom and
I were were definitely um focusing our our energy, you know,
our forces together on that will at that time, and
it became a draw you know, neither one of us won,
so I I let Tom know what had happened, and
(08:03):
he was laughing and we were like, okay, that's fine.
We both actually were kind of happy about it because
I don't think either one of us really wanted to
have to give up a hundred grand, you know, just
in case, you know, So we were both kind of
relieved and we're like, that was a great experiment. That
was a great experiment, and um, so there you have it.
(08:24):
Thank you, my friend, Mr Tom Brilock for participating in
that gentleman's bet. And I know some of you listening
are probably saying like, oh, come on, Josh, you're just
making this up so that you know, you and Tom
can get along. And I'm telling you know, I swear
to you that's how it happened. One spin and it
hit green, So that was something magical was happening. And uh,
(08:47):
I do intend to maybe do some more experiments along
those lines with Mr Brailock, but perhaps we'll keep them private.
I don't know, maybe I'll let you in on it.
So anyway, that's what happen with the wizard off. It
was a draw that night at the Roulette Whell Our
Powers were matched, but I think some kind of telekinetic
(09:08):
burst was let loose and uh and definitely did something
to that ball. Speaking of money altogether, though, Okay, I
want to share with you what I think is the
fascinating story of the history of money. I bought this book.
It's called The Chaos Protocols. The Chaos Protocols and listen
(09:28):
to the subtitle of this book, Magical Techniques for Navigating
the New Economic Reality by Gordon White. Gordon White, and
the back of the book says magic, power, money and
meaning in a world on the brink. The back of
(09:51):
the book text says, the years since the financial crash
have seen the realization dawn that the great promise of
my e civilization will go unfulfilled. Study hard, work hard
by a house, retire happy. It's all a lie spun
for the benefit of a tiny elite. The richest eighty
(10:13):
five people on Earth have as much wealth as the
poorest three point five billion. Each month, the numbers change,
but they never improve. Magical and spiritual discourse has failed
to keep up with this new reality. The Chaos Protocols
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aims to fix that. Join Gordon White as he shows
you how to use Chaos Magic not only to navigate
these trying times, but to triumph as well. Discover how
to become invincible through initiation and wage the mind war
that will keep you moving towards what you really want.
From sigil magic to working with spiritual allies. The Chaos
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Protocols helps you act on the unwavering belief that your
life should matter and you're not going to let something
as trifling as the apocalypse get in the way of it.
And my understanding here is that Gordon White is based
in the UK. His website is run Soup. Are you
in e s o U p rune soup dot com
(11:21):
and uh I contacted him and said, I would like
to read some of your book to my audience. I
bought this as a printed book off of Amazon, and
I got it as an audio book. And he does
a marvelous job, in my opinion, of going back and
(11:42):
telling the story of how money evolved and how it
relates to magic and psychology. And you may pick up
some tips from this. At very least you'll find this
to be an interesting exemplification of that connection between the mind,
the body and the environment. I'll get to that when
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back to Strange Things on the I Heart Radio and
Coast to Coast a m paranormal podcast network. I am
your host, the Wizard of Weird, Joshua P. Warren. And
you know, my late great friend Jim Mars wrote a
wonderful book called Rule by Secrecy, and in that book
(16:40):
he told the story of how money developed. And I
was always fascinated by how he wrote it, and it
reminded me a lot of that when I started reading
this book, The Chaos Protocols by Gordon White. This book
was published in and it's kind of it makes you
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think of like what it would be like if a
finance year or a stockbroker was a chaos magician and
started like explaining money in in in magical terms. But
this book goes into all I mean, this is a
deep book. This book gets into all kinds of ritualistic magic.
And there's a whole section on sigils um. I mean, yeah,
(17:23):
this is this is not a beginner's guide in my opinion,
and I contacted Gordon White and said, I would like
to read like seven or eight pages of your book
on my show. Pretty significant excerpt here, Um, is that
okay with you? And he was great, he wrote me back,
(17:45):
he said, yeah, go for it. So that's what I
am about to do. Hopefully I'll have enough time to
do this. And again, his his website is rune soup
dot com. And I'll tell you a couple of things.
If you're listening to the show and you're kind of distracted,
then some of this may not quite make sense to you,
(18:07):
Like you might zone out a little bit, because again
we're this some of this is kind of complex finance stuff.
And also because he is UK based, Um, you sometimes
the way he phrases things may sound a bit odd,
you know, because he might be using the language in
a slightly different way than you're used to hearing it.
(18:28):
If you're like me, I'm an American, So just keep
those things in mind. But that said, let's jump right
into this excerpt from The Chaos Protocols about the story
of money. From the beginning of Western civilization right up
until the end of the seventeenth century, money and wealth
(18:52):
were more or less the same thing. You could exchange
your gold and silver for other items of wealth cattle, property, cinnamon,
other humans, and so on. If you did not exchange
your gold or silver for these items, then you still
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retained your wealth, the gold and silver and your currency.
Even in a barter system, you are effectively swapping one
store of wealth for another, two goats for your camel,
for instance. Now, certainly there was lending and credit before
this date, but wealth for wealth was largely how money worked.
(19:36):
The very idea that pieces of paper held value seemed alien.
In fact, legendary explorer Marco Polo could not quite believe
it when he encountered an early currency on his adventures.
He wrote in his diary about the peculiar monetary experiment
(19:56):
of the Great Can And let me pause here for
a secon it now, just in case you need a refresher,
Who's Marco Polo? Will Marco Polo? He was born in
the year twelve fifty four and he died in the
year thirteen twenty four, so he was sixty nine years old.
And here's what Wikipedia says. He was a Venetian merchant, explorer,
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and writer who traveled through Asia along the Silk Road
between twelve seventy one and twelve. His travels are recorded
in a book called The Travels of Marco Polo. This
is a book that described to Europeans the then mysterious
culture and inner workings of the Eastern world, including the
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wealth and great size of the Mongol Empire and China
and the Wan dynasty, giving their first comprehensive look into China, Persia, India, Japan,
and other Asian cities and countries. Okay, so that's this
is how far we're going back here, just in case
you needed that. So here's what Arco Polo wrote way
back then. He's talking about what he's seeing in China
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regarding the emperor. They're the Great Khan, he wrote. He
makes them take the bark of a certain tree, in fact,
of the mulberry tree, the leaves of which are the
food of the silkworms, these trees being so numerous, the
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whole districts are full of them. What they take is
a certain fine white bark or skin, which lies between
the wood of the tree and the thick outer bark,
and this they make into something resembling sheets of paper,
but black. When these sheets have been prepared they are
cut up into pieces of different sizes. The smallest of
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these sizes is worth a half tornsul, the next a
little larger, one torn soul. One a little larger still
is worth half a silver groat of venice, another a
whole groat, others yet to groats, five groats, and ten groats.
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There is also a kind worth one bazant of gold,
and others of three bisons, and so up to tin.
All these pieces of paper are issued with as much
solemnity and authority as if they were pure gold or silver.
And on every piece a variety of officials whose duty
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it is have to write their names and to put
their seals. And when all is prepared duly, the chief
officer deputed by the Khan smears the seal entrusted to
him with vermilion and impresses it on the paper, so
that the form of the seal remains printed upon it
and read. The money is then authentic. Anyone forging it
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would be punished with death. And the con causes every
year to be made such a vast quantity of this money,
which costs him nothing, that it must equal in amount
all the treasure in the world. With these pieces of
paper made as I have described, he causes all payments
on his own account to be made, and he makes
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them to pass current universally over all his kingdoms and
provinces and territories, and whithersoever his power and sovereignty extends,
and nobody, however important he may think himself, dares to
refuse them on pain of death. How's that for an
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excerpt about what we now call fiat currency. Piece of paper?
What's it worth? Really? How about a digit on a
computer screen? What's up anyway? Let's get back to what
he wrote, described by Marco Polo fiat currency. Really, he
does sound a bit preposterous, like one of those meandering
thought experiments you and your buddies came up with one
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night while stoned in college. But a straight thiat currency
is not quite the system we have today. If anything,
ours is even stranger. Ours really begins towards the end
of the seventeenth century in the heart of London and
in Europe's Low countries, goldsmiths and jewelers would store deposits
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of their customer's wealth in their vaults and issued them
receipts for the stored value. These receipts began to be
swapped and traded as a more convenient method of paying,
then taking the receipt back to the vault, extracting your gold,
and paying with that. What quickly became apparent to these
vault owners was that only a small fraction of depositors
(24:51):
ever came back to extract their gold, and so, for
better or worse, they began issuing more receipts than they
had gold in the vaults. The vault owners could either
spend these receipts or loan them out to individuals or businesses.
The profits from the interest on these loans was substantial.
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From this point, the final step was inevitable. These vault
owners could make much more money from lending against these
receipts than they could in charging vault fees, so they
began paying people and businesses to store their wealth, which
is how we ended up with interest interest bearing savings accounts,
(25:37):
and so taken together, what we know of as fractional
reserve banking was born. You put one hundred gold coins
in a vault, and they hand out receipts for eight
hundred gold coins. The system compounds again if these receipts
are deposited in another bank who keeps only a small
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fraction of the receipts and lends the rest of them out,
while saying they still have the initial deposit. In fact,
this process of depositing and redepositing receipts, which are also
lent back out, accounts for more than of all the
money and the global economy today. When you take out
a loan, you literally debt money into existence. It would
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only be a matter of time before this highly successful,
legally dubious but essentially private practice was taken up by
kings and governments. In the sixty nineties, to pay for
their increasingly expensive continental wars, the newly created and technically
privately owned Bank of England began issuing bank notes as
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legal tender. These were effectively io use for a portion
of the physical wealth stored at the bank's home on
Walbrook and the City, which by the way, was built
on the remains of an old temple to Mithross, the
god of contract. In theory, you could front up to
the Bank of England with your bank notes and exchange
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them for the wealth stored within. Over the next two centuries,
this really was more theoried. In fact, notes continued to
be printed even when the gold was being spent on wars.
Laws were even enacted to prevent the bank from paying
out gold. Where once we used to pay for things
with little pieces of wealth, well we began to pay
(27:28):
for things with little pieces of debt and the forms
of I O use, And there were a lot more
I O use than there was gold and the vault.
We're gonna take a break when we come back. I
think you see where this is going. What is this,
this magical, mysterious manifestation called money. I'm Joshua pe Warren.
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paranormal podcast network. I am your host, Joshua P. Warren,
and this is the show where the unusual becomes usual,
and I'm telling you about the strange story the Strange
History of Money. Reading excerpts from this book here The
(31:29):
Chaos Protocols by Gordon White, and I was saying before
the break that there were a lot more I O
U s than there was gold in the vault. The
book goes on to say this increased the money supply
relative to the actual amount of wealth in the economy
and moved control of the money supply from the market
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to the government. Monetary policy became intertwined with the functioning
of the imperial state. Modern inflation was born to give
credit where credit is due. The central banking model was
hugely successful. Britain raised a national debt, crushed her enemies,
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and built the greatest empire the world ever knew. The
policy continues to this day in the form of America's
numerous oil wars. Catherine Austin Fitz, former Undersecretary of Housing
and Urban Development, refers to this as quote the central
banking and warfare model. In quote, you invade a country
(32:42):
and force it to accept your printed currency in exchange
for its natural resources, leaving the victor with the harvested wealth,
as well as complete control over the value of the
I O U s, which are now stronger thanks to
the resources you have just extracted. Since Nixon left off office,
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the largest foreign buyers of US bonds tend to be
banks and countries that we have effectively occupied militarily. Nice
work if you can get it, just as the Royal
Navy did before it in India and the Caribbean. So
the US military and its NATO allies due today in Eurasia.
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A secondary hit on the status of money as well
happened in the twentieth century with the complete and abandonment
of the gold standard. The story of the secondary hit
begins in nineteen thirteen and ends in nineteen seventy one.
When the Federal Reserve was first created, it kept to
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the monetary best practice that had been so successful in
Central Europe, known as the classical gold standard. If you
look at dollars printed prior to the First World War,
you will see it clearly written on a twenty dollar
note that it can be exchanged for twenty dollars of
physical gold. This redemption facility was suspended during the war,
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as the quote civilized countries paid for killing people in
other civilized countries by printing more and more currency. Government's
also learned that they could mobilize the entire financial wealth
of countries toward political ends through huge spending projects that
were funded with dramatic increases in taxation. In between the wars,
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the classical gold standard was replaced with what is known
as the gold exchange standard in the US. That meant
that the Federal Reserve could print fifty dollars for every
twenty dollars of gold that it had and its vaults.
That's a reserve ratio. Even this was to last. After
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the end of World War Two, Europe was flooded with
US dollars and completely out of gold. In fact, the
US had two thirds of all declared gold in the
world at that point, in Europe had almost none. The
Breton Woods Agreement was quickly signed. Given that the world
was already awash with dollars, which were ultimately convertible into gold.
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It was agreed that almost every currency in the world
would be backed by US dollars, which themselves would be
backed by gold. However, no reserve percentage was included in
the agreement, as there had been between the Wars. The
Federal Reserve was free to print as many dollars as
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it pleased, figuring, just like those jewelers in London centuries
before that, not everyone in the world would wish to
call in all their dollars for gold at one time.
Over in France, Charles de Gaul soon realized there were
too many dollars or quote receipts for gold stored in
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the US compared to the amount of gold actually stored,
so he asked for France's gold back. Almost immediately, other
countries started asking for their gold back. The US lost
fifty percent of its gold from nineteen fifty nine to
(36:31):
nineteen seventy one, but even then there were still twelve
times the amount of dollars out there. Then there was
gold to back it up. Enter Nixon. He abandoned the
gold standard and instituted the dollar standard, thus detaching every
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single currency in the world from any underlying relationship to
physical wealth. The value of the currency became an expression
of confidence and the government that issued it. Nixon's main
reason for abandoning the gold standard was due to his
(37:16):
and his advisers misunderstanding of the so called balance of trade,
which is whether a country exports more than imports. Having
the dollar peg to gold meant that competing exporter countries
such as Germany and Japan could lower their currency value
in a way the US could not, giving them a
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perceived advantage. This is an unfortunate misunderstanding of American history.
The reality is that trade deficits or surpluses do not
really reflect much about underlying economic health. The United States
has run a trade deficit for three hundred and fifty
(37:58):
of the last four hundred year years, during which time
it has risen to become the largest and most successful
economy in history. People in other countries want to sell Americans.
UH want to sell to Americans because the nation's economy
is large and successful. Transactions do not take place between countries,
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but between people. If I sell you a pencil, you
are in a trade deficit to me because I have
your money, but you now have a pencil, So go
and write a best seller. America's historic trade deficit is
a reflection of the same phenomenon on a much larger scale.
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Until nineteen seventy one, the value of the dollar was
pegged to a fixed amount of precious metal, just as
it was at the beginning a fractional reserve banking. When
the famous voodooist Marie Levau and her daughter were alive
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in the nineteenth century. A dollar was either made with
a guaranteed amount of silver or was convertible into a
specified amount. This fixed the value of a dollar into
something real. So if either Laveau senior or junior had
used the customary folk magical practice of putting a dollar
(39:31):
under a candle, well, she would have been growing wealth
from a fixed amount. If you have tried this same
piece of folk magic anytime after nineteen seventy one, then
you're doing the opposite. In today's money, you need almost
five dollars and seventy eight cents to buy the equivalent
(39:51):
of what a dollar could buy you in nineteen seventy one.
Such a magical act encodes an erosion of wealth rather
than an accumulation. The atom at the heart of your
financial universe is no longer a reliable unit of wealth,
and it does not exist for your benefit. Savings are
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certainly better than no savings, but until they are converted
back from io us into wealth, their face value is
just not what it appears. And this is before we
even consider the rise of a global digital currency looming
in the medium term. Even as the Western world flirts
(40:33):
with the possibility of mild deflation. It is worth remembering
that since the creation of the Federal Reserve and nineteen thirteen,
the buying power of a single US dollar has declined
by ninety five percent. It is a dodgy, imperfect indicator
(40:53):
of what we value, but it is what we have,
so we must understand it if we are to use it. Effectively. Alright,
that is the end of what I'm going to read
to you from this book, The Chaos Protocols Magical Techniques
for Navigating the New Economic Reality. Thank you Gordon White
(41:15):
for allowing me to read that. And again, his website
is Rune soup dot com. Are you in E S
O U P. Rune soup dot com. Does that give
you an idea? I mean, some of you listen to
this show and you're like, oh, yeah, I think about
this all the time, I know how, But others don't
(41:35):
really ever stop and say, well, what is this thing
called money that we we place value on to such
an extent You can go and get real things, a
real house, a real car, real food. But why are
we basing all this on? It's based upon an energy
(41:58):
which is based up all of thought form and it
is really proof that the world is glued together by
magic and magical thinking. Have you ever thought of it
that way? The world is glued together by magic and
magical thinking. We have to take a break here and
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when we come back, I have something really interesting to
read to you about what people believe these days, and
also something very weird that happens in my life all
the time. That shows me just how connected that we
all are. Does this happen to you, We'll see. I'm
Joshua P. Warren. You're listening to strange things on the
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back to the final segment of this edition of Strange
Things on the I Heart Radio and Coast to Coast,
a m paranormal podcast network. I am your host, Joshua
pe Warren. And in this book The Chaos Protocol by
Gordon White, there's a really interesting quote. I think you
(46:03):
might appreciate this if you think about it for a second.
It's a quote by somebody named Peter J. Carroll. And uh,
here's the quote. Magic works in practice, but not in theory.
Magic works in practice, but not in theory. Of course
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I disagree with that. I think it works in theory also,
But but that is a is a very good point.
What I glean from that is you don't have to
understand how everything works. Uh. Sometimes things just work and
you say, Okay, that's all I that's all all I
needed to do, get it done. Whatever works. That's actually
(46:48):
the quote at the start of a chapter called wish
granting squiggles, which gets into sigils in this book. So
pretty cool book. Again, it's uh, it's it's out of deep.
It's kind of deep, but when you think about this
concept of money being this really intangible thing that literally
(47:11):
makes the world go around. Boy, is that an expression
of magic or what? You know? It would be one
thing if we all just martyred commodities, you know, physical
things that you needed for physical life, shelter and food
and water, it said, I mean, I mean that would
that would make sense. But now we we have all
(47:31):
these intangible things, and uh, it said, it's sort of
like how what is the song worth? What is a
what is this podcast worth? What is a painting worth?
You know what? But anyway, we are all connected to
the world in ways that are so mysterious because sometimes
(47:57):
you think you just get little glimpses of it. And
I want to tell you about something thing weird that
happens to me and Lauren, my wife, all the time.
And I've never heard anybody talk about this before. I
doubt surely I can't be the first one. You never know.
But living here in Las Vegas, you know, you have
(48:17):
these big, big parking lots. I mean we're out here
in the desert. There's lots of space once you get
away from the crunch of the strip. I mean, there's
a lot of space so you go to a grocery store,
there's a big parking lot. You go to a casino,
there's a big parking lot. And what we find on
almost a daily basis is that when we leave whatever
(48:44):
establishments and we go back to our car, the people
part next to us are also going back to their car.
So you could have a parking lot that seems to
go on for acres and acres. Okay, but right when
we go to get in our car, the people in
the car next to us are doing the same thing,
(49:05):
and so now we're like one of us has to
wait for the other, you know, to open the door
and to get in around it happens so much that
I mean I started taking note like are we are
we manifesting this because it's frustrating or is there something
else weird going on? I Am not sure what to
(49:25):
make of this kind of a synchronicity, but I think
step number one is asking all of you if you
experience something like this, you know, and do you have
this Truman Show kind of situation happening where it seems
like the world is happening around your perception something else
(49:46):
that's kind of odd about our connection, you know? But
just the mind body environment connection is that. You know,
Lauren and I were recently at Laguna Beach in California
and they have big, epic, beautiful crashing waves there. And
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Lauren and I love to go to to whatever beach
and whenever we're the beach and they have these big,
giant crashing waves. Well, Lauren is a wonderful photographer, and
so she wants to get one of those dramatic, dynamic
shots of one of these waves. And as as soon
as she takes her camera out, whether it's a camera
(50:28):
or her phone or whatever, because she wants to get
a picture of one of these big waves, the ocean
calms down instantly, the ocean. It's so frustrating for her.
It somehow reminds me of that story when you know,
Jesus calmed the stormy seas, uh, and she wants it
(50:55):
to be a big, raging, frothy wave raw hang in
but no, as soon as she decides to photograph it
calms down, calms down. Is that something similar to cloud busting?
You know? Because what is a cloud? What a cloud
is just a big hovering bit of moistures in it.
(51:15):
So it makes you wonder about um the relationship between
us and the world around us, doesn't it. And also
just how physical these interactions are. Perhaps you saw this story.
It came out recently. You know, all these uh, especially
(51:36):
rich people, they get out and they race pigeons, they
take homing pigeons, and these pigeons can fly so well
over a thousand miles, you know. So you you, you
let loose a bunch of pigeons and uh, they have
a tag, and then you win a bunch of money
if your pigeon is the first one to win the race.
(51:59):
And these pigeons are, you know, fantastic at finding the
location they're supposed to go to. They're so adept that
they have even been used in wars to pass messages
to troops and whatnot. And yet just recently, one day,
thousands of racing pigeons were released in the United Kingdom,
(52:24):
and like ten thousand of them just disappeared. I mean
thousands of these things. A huge chunk of these pigeons disappeared.
They say, okay, let's see here, I'm looking at the article.
Approximately two hundred and fifty thousand birds were released. Oh boy,
(52:48):
it's even more vantage they said, only a fraction, only
a fraction of two fifty thousand birds returned, and nobody
knows exactly what I I mean. Some people are saying,
like what what? For example, I mean, they have people
who obviously are they're they're betting on this, so they
know all the little tricks of the trade, and they're
(53:10):
always looking at the weather and stuff, and they say
that there's nothing in the weather that seems to give
us a clue. But other people are believing that maybe
it has something to do with a solar storm that
that disrupted things. But something sure did. We're not certain
how these humming pigeons home. Is that a warning sign?
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Is that an omen that something is changing here on
earth that is is not good or makes you wonder
if there's something else up in the sky that might
sometimes mess with these birds. For example, here's a pole
(53:54):
that came out recently conducted by Pew Research that is
a a non partisant tank in Washington, d c. And
they concluded that sixty five percent of Americans believe in
aliens sixtent. It's hard to find sixty of Americans that
(54:16):
agree on anything. Um So anyway, it goes on to
say in this particular article about sixty of respondents said
they think there is intelligent alien life on planets other
than Earth, and about eighty seven percent said UFOs are
(54:40):
not a security threat to the US at all or
only represent a minor one. According to the poll, twelve
percent of Americans American adults had heard or read a
lot about this new UFO report before it's release. That
seems like a small amount. Uh, And so they have
(55:02):
what they call here the bottom line. They say, in
all likelihood, evidence of alien life won't come in the
form of a grainy video taken high above an ocean,
but will instead be the discovery of tiny fossilized microbes
on Mars or some other little creature swimming through an
ocean engulfing a distant moon. Well, I certainly agree that
(55:22):
that is the first way we're gonna hear about it.
I don't think if they have aliens in a freezer,
they're gonna pop up and show those two us anytime soon.
But there will come a point when they introduce us
to the concept of aliens. Uh, microscopically, that's on the way. Well,
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Does hearing about a true crime case always leave you scouring the internet for the truth behind the story? Dive into your next mystery with Crime Junkie. Every Monday, join your host Ashley Flowers as she unravels all the details of infamous and underreported true crime cases with her best friend Brit Prawat. From cold cases to missing persons and heroes in our community who seek justice, Crime Junkie is your destination for theories and stories you won’t hear anywhere else. Whether you're a seasoned true crime enthusiast or new to the genre, you'll find yourself on the edge of your seat awaiting a new episode every Monday. If you can never get enough true crime... Congratulations, you’ve found your people. Follow to join a community of Crime Junkies! Crime Junkie is presented by audiochuck Media Company.