The conflicts and contradictions of the European Union are explained, in particular the manner in which its monetary policy breaks the treaties of the Union. Populists and nationalist reactions in the "north" are explained in this context. The episode ends with a poem by W.B.Yeats The Second Coming:
Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.
Part B will follow in the next episode which examines the centripetal and centrifugal forces acting on the EU government and the member states. It will examine the idea that contrary to the centralising tendency of the EU government it might be that the abandoning of the Euro (and therefore the currency union) is the only way of saving the European Union.
References:
1.The Bitcoin Standard (2018) by Saifdean Ammous. especially chapters 4-7;
2. The blog of Tuomas Malinen on the www.gnseconomics.com website; also youtube videos;
3. Fredrick Hayek’s classic 1944 book: The Road to Serfdom.
S2 Ep 14. Initiation and Gnosis - a personal experience
S2 Ep 13. Jung and Gnosticism Part B
S2 Ep 12 Jung and Gnosticism Part A
S2 Ep 11. Jung and Alchemy Part B
S2 Ep 10. Jung and Alchemy Part A.
S2 Ep 9. Jung's Contributions to the Psychotherapy of our Time
S2.Ep 8. Jung: Visions, Journey of the Soul
S2.Ep 7. Jung: Introverted Mystic
S2.Ep 6. Jung: The Wounded Visionary
S2. Ep 5. Richard Dawkins:The God Delusion
S2.Ep 4. James Locklock: Ecological visionary of our time. Part 2
S2.Ep 3. James Lovelock: Visionary of the Ecological Crisis. Part 1
S2.Ep 2. The Quest: Mysticism and Evolution
S2.Ep 1. The Quest Series: The Search for Vision in the Evolving Crises of our Times
S1.Ep 23. The Secret of the Golden Flower 2
S1.Ep 22. The Secret of the Golden Flower 1
S1.Ep 21. Questions and Responses on healing - 2
S1.Ep 20. Questions and Responses on Healing - 1
S1.Ep 19. Integration of the Spirit in Psychotherapy
S1.Ep 18. Empathic resonance in the field of therapist and client
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