Have you ever played Chinese Whispers? One person whispers a message on to the next, who whispers on to the next, and within ten to twelve rounds the message is unrecognisable from the first. We’ve all seen the news this week on IMF chief, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, and the media has jumped on the sensational part of the story, but why exactly is he so important, and what exactly is the IMF?
I am a student of flow. Following flow is a philosophy that began in the East and flowed to the West. The Chinese had two types of flow: Nei-Tan (which they called Inner Alchemy) and Wei-Tan (which is Outer Alchemy). Nei-Tan was championed in the 1920s by Carl Jung, who created archetypes out of the I Ching from China (which he was the first to translate) and Wei-Tan was championed by John Maynard Keynes (who was contracted by the victors of the 2nd World War to create our global monetary system, and the IMF).
John Maynard Keynes, like me, studied at Cambridge University. He was an economist who became obsessed by the work of Isaac Newton. Keynes was fascinated by flow, and saw in Newton a kindrid spirit in what created external flow. You’ve heard of the Chinese ‘Wei-Tan’ in the term “turning lead into gold.” This was both a metaphysical and a physical expression. Newton spent the first half of his life seeking the scientific proof for this (All alchemy is based on the five elements of flow from Chinese philosophy).
Newton’s life’s work flowed in two threads. On the one hand he reported to the monarchy “The Chronology of the Ancients” which was the most thorough research on ancient history including a full blueprint of Solomon’s Temple. He collected secret documents on the philosopher’s stone and the mediums by which all nature flowed. On the other hand, he created an entirely new way of calculating flow, which he first called ‘fluxion’ – as it measured flux – and all secondary maths students now know as ‘calculus’. From his calculations, he wrote Opticks and Principia, which detailed the laws of motion, and Unlike his alchemical works, he published these scientific works, and they became the laws by which modern science was based.
In the second half of his life, Newton moved to London and became Master of the Mint, where he literally had the license to print money. He controlled the entire currency system of the Western World. In this role, Newton outlawed impure metals in currency and moved the pound to the gold standard. Throughout his life he had a philosophy of flow by which all flow had both an identifiable cause and a measurable effect. This principle of ‘causality’ is what struck John Maynard Keynes in his work in economics.
300 years later, it was John Maynard Keynes who collected all Newton’s documents in Cambridge. Keynes saw Newton’s model of flow in finances and used this as the model for a global financial system. While in Cambridge, Keynes made it his mission to collect all Newton’s work, and stated in the presentation of Newton’s Occult work:
“Newton was not the first of the age of reason: He was the last of the magicians.”
– John Maynard Keynes
In 1944, the allies who had won the 2nd World War appointed Keynes as the economist to seek a solution to a new world order. Keynes took the principles of flow – that all true flow needs a regulated inlet and a responsible outlet – to create the new entities to bring stability. He created the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to regulate all exchange rates and the means by which currencies were exchanged, and the World Bank to regulate the contribution from this flow to the countries that needed support most to end poverty. He saw global wealth as possible through a partnership of regulated inflow (the IMF) and responsible outflow (the World Bank).
Keynes had a vision that these two bodies, regulating inflow and outflow, could find a solution to poverty. This was Isaac Newton’s vision on a global scale. Like Newton, he returned to the gold standard. He wrote the ‘Treatise on Money’ which insisted that the money saved by individuals and nations should exceed the money spent.
What irony that in the same week that the 2011 Head of the IMF is charged pants-down of indiscretions for illegal liberties that the United States Government announces they have hit their new debt ceiling of $14.3 trillion? The IMF and leading capital institutions have moved so far into excess and self-indulgence that they are unrecognizable from the original intentions of the most famous alchemists:
“To go beyond is as wrong as to fall short.”
– Confucius
“We may outrun by violent swiftness, and lose by over-running”
- Shakespeare
“ I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies, but not the madness of people”
– Isaac Newton
The tragedy of this side show is that flow continues to return into a devastating feedback loop – to an inevitable self-annihilation. Instead of flow having an inlet and outlet, the outlet has been largely forgotten whilst the inlet continues to feed itself like Monty Python's Mr Creosote. This is a tragic chinese whispers on a global scale, where institutions and nations are behaving in the entirely opposite way than they were originally mandated. What if, as intended, it flowed down instead to those who could benefit most from it, not to old greed and gluttony but to new contribution and creativity, ending poverty in the way that both Newton and Keynes wished for.
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Very interesting. And all this just before the end of the world : ) you might enjoy 'Of the 1%, by the 1%, for the1% by Joseph Stiglitz (Vanit Fair) showing how the mechanism of gluttony works in US.
Well said and Well written. I will pass it on. Ditto and thanks tangible: Will check out 'Of the 1%, by the 1%, for the1% by Joseph Stiglitz (Vanit Fair) showing how the mechanism of gluttony works in US. ~ The Prosperity Doctor
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Hi Roger, I'm impressed by the Wealth Dynamics model and eager to share these precious information to Chinese speaking world. Could you let me know who I could contact regarding how to get the right to translate and provide the WD profile test to Chinese speaking market?
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