In this webinar, Anna wonderfully walks us through both the spiritual and practical journey that has brought us from the beginnings of this story to where we find ourselves today. She connects the deeper cycles of history with the development of trusts, debt, institutional control and the Great Fraud, before bringing the discussion back to the hopeful message at its heart: that we are moving out of an age of deception and enslavement and into a period of truth, peace and abundance.
Executive Summary as if written by Anna herself.
The central message of this discussion is that we have reached a major turning point. I believe the probabilities confronting humanity have shifted away from destruction and toward life, renewal and abundance. Although the forces invested in the old system are reacting strongly, the direction of travel has changed. The task before us now is not destruction or revenge, but truth, correction, mercy and restoration.
At the heart of the problem is what I have long called the Great Fraud: generations of misunderstanding and misrepresentation concerning money, credit, debt, corporations, trusts and the relationship between living people and the institutions created to serve them.
There are two interconnected systems that have been confused with one another: the monetary system, involving actual assets such as gold and silver, and the financial system of credit and debit arising from economic activity. When these accounts are properly examined, I contend that the living people emerge as the actual creditors, while governments, corporations, churches and other institutional structures are operating as debtors and trustees.
The enormous imbalances we see today arose through defective bookkeeping, false claims, misrepresentation, fraud and the failure of trustees to properly account for the assets entrusted to them. Much of this was perpetuated by people who did not understand what they were participating in. For that reason, although accountability remains necessary, the situation also calls for mercy.
The goal is peace, but peace cannot exist without truth. A system founded upon false assumptions will inevitably become unbalanced, and we have now reached the point where that imbalance has to be corrected.
To understand how the present system developed, we must first understand the natural common law trust.
A trust originally arose from an ordinary relationship between people. A man leaving on a dangerous journey might entrust his home, wealth and child to a trusted friend. The owner remained the donor, the friend became the trustee, and the child might be the beneficiary. In another example, a man could simply ask a friend to hold money for him until his return, making the donor and beneficiary the same living man.
These relationships existed naturally before lawyers or governments formalised them. Eventually they were written down as trust indentures, with the trustee undertaking a duty of service according to specified conditions.
The difficulty began when institutional trustees gradually replaced the trusted people originally involved.
During periods of plague, war and instability, churches began acting as fallback trustees when family members and friends died or disappeared. This initially had a practical purpose: communities needed some enduring institution capable of caring for children and administering estates.
Government later entered this arena as well. Following events such as the Great Fire of London, authorities faced enormous numbers of missing people, abandoned estates and uncertain heirs. Governments increasingly assumed responsibility for administering property whose owners could not readily be identified.
Over centuries this temporary trusteeship developed into something very different.
The First and Second World Wars created further mass death, displacement and uncertainty concerning ownership and inheritance. I contend that registration systems were subsequently used throughout much of the industrialised world to attach artificial legal identities or “persons” to living people. Through these structures, governments and churches acquired claimed beneficial interests in private estates and began charging administrative fees and otherwise benefiting from those assets.
What began as a natural relationship of trust between living people therefore evolved into an institutional system capable of controlling the property of the very people it was supposed to serve.
A crucial part of this process has been the modification and redefinition of language.
Living people have increasingly been treated as legal “persons”, while ordinary things have been assigned terminology carrying very different legal implications. I used the distinction between a “house and land” and a “home and property” as an example. Although these expressions appear interchangeable in ordinary speech, I argue that within institutional systems they can describe very different relationships and interests.
The pattern is consistent: redefine something, measure it, regulate it, control it and ultimately derive profit or authority from that control.
When people do not understand the distinction between themselves and the artificial capacities being attributed to them, they become unable to effectively challenge assumptions being made about their assets or obligations.
The supposed debt system must also be reconsidered
The same problem exists with debt.
We have been conditioned to fear debt and to assume that everyone is fundamentally a debtor. I contend that when the accounting is properly reconstructed, the opposite becomes apparent: the living people are the source of the assets, labour, productivity and credit upon which the institutional system depends.
From that perspective, the fundamental relationship has been reversed.
The people who should be directing and paying their service providers have instead found those service providers controlling the purse strings, determining expenditure, creating regulations and paying themselves from assets ultimately derived from the people.
This has created a closed institutional circle in which government supports major business interests, business supports government, military power supports both, and the living people who provide the underlying assets and credit are increasingly excluded from meaningful control.
This system did not appear overnight. It developed gradually through centuries of emergencies, wars, institutional decisions, registration processes and misunderstandings.
That is important because many of those participating in it have never understood the larger structure.
We therefore face both an accounting problem and a human problem.
The accounts must be corrected. The actual creditors must be recognised. Trustees must be made accountable. False assumptions must be removed. But this does not require indiscriminate punishment or vengeance.
The way forward is through truth.
Once people understand who they are, what they own, the difference between themselves and institutional “persons”, the nature of trusts, and the true relationship between creditor and debtor, much of the fear and coercive power sustaining the existing system disappears.
Despite the turbulence presently surrounding us, my message is ultimately one of reassurance.
We have reached the end of a very long cycle. The opportunity now exists to restore balance, recover the assets of the living people, repair the environment and replace a system founded upon debt, fear and deception with one grounded in truth, life, peace and abundance.
We are going forward from here.
The Earth will live.
And we will get through this together.
