Like many others, I’m sitting with the sense that something fundamental is shifting beneath our feet—not just politically or economically, but at the level of perception itself. President Trump’s recent visit to the Federal Reserve only sharpens the feeling. The symbols of authority—central banks, courts, governments—are being questioned, challenged, or exposed, depending on where you stand.
It reminds me of a book written years ago: The Creature from Jekyll Island by G. Edward Griffin (PDF available here). Dismissed by some as fringe, prophetic to others, it outlines the creation of the Federal Reserve as a kind of illusion—a carefully crafted structure designed not to serve the public, but to protect private banking power under the banner of stability.
“The Federal Reserve is not federal; it has no reserves; and it is not a system in the sense of being a cohesive unit.” —G. Edward Griffin
What strikes me now is not just whether the book was “right,” but how profoundly we’ve accepted certain fictions as real. That money must be debt. That inflation is mysterious. That central control is necessary. That there is no alternative.
But when the veil starts to lift—whether through economic stress, technological change, or political theater—we’re left with deeper questions: Who benefits from the current system? What is value? What is freedom? And can we imagine something else?
I don’t have the answers. But I feel the edges of the illusion fraying. And perhaps, just perhaps, what looks like chaos is actually the beginning of clarity.
The Creature from Jekyll Island is real. But it’s not the only story. Beneath it lies something older and wiser—something that can’t be controlled by interest rates or digital tokens or elite institutions.
And maybe that’s the task now—not to save the old system, not even to fight it—but to remember that we are evolving. Consciousness is unfolding itself. And we are not separate from that unfolding.
Healing, both personal and planetary, is already underway.
Even now.
Even here.
(My thoughts expressed with the help of ChatGPT, again!)