With “Helicopter Ben” Bernanke slated to take charge of the Fed next year, I raised the question here yesterday of who’s interests he will serve. Those of big business? Of the U.S. Government? The Federal Resereve’s member banks?  The following response from a subscriber, Brian Ripley, is both thoughtful and provocative. Drawing on the literary ruminations of Carlos Castaneda, Brian’s letter amplifies a thought expressed here before – that we are being fattened up for the kill by the financial system’s predators. He writes as follows:

“I'm reading Seagrave's Gold Warriors, the history (1895-1945) of Japan's methodical rape, plunder and pillage of South East Asia and the consequent movement of huge quantities of gold, jewelery, art, and historical artifact into the hands of the ‘allies’. A very small percentage of that booty (or the Nazi theft) was ever returned to the previous owners.  When I read your essay below and got to the last paragraph ‘Whom Does Fed Serve? ...Or is it the globalists -- i.e., the Fed member banks’ primary clients, the large supranationals?’ ...Bingo... the supra ‘above’ nationals.

‘Kleptocrats’

“I like to call them the Kleptocrats. Is this not what we are living ‘under’... rule by villains and thieves? I think you have precisely identified who Bernanke serves. And probably he and people like George W. Bush are not even that aware of who their actions are influenced by. Like any good mafia soldier, they are following the chain of command from ‘above’. Eventually Bush and Bernanke will be retired and replaced. For an interesting idea about the futility of the system that we live under, [Click here].

“In Active Side of Infinity, Don Juan tells Castaneda of the Earth being invaded in the mists of time by creatures of condensed darkness, the so-called Flyers which use man as food. The key idea is that these cosmic predators gave man their own mind. This is reasonable in light of much other material. At the human level, a system based on exploitation and consuming and control is seen to shape people in its own image: The slave tends to dream of becoming a master rather than of abolishing slavery.

The Food Chain

“Any organization based on dominance naturally takes the form of a pyramid with few at the top and most at the bottom. For man to be the bottom or in some cases intermediate level of such a system, man must have the attributes of the dominators, only at a reduced scale. At the metaphysical level, many channeled sources point out that while STS (Service to Self) beings eat what they can, energies emanating from STO (Service to Others) oriented beings are not edible.

“Castaneda's writings in large part deal with ways of claiming one's own in terms of energy and free will from such a system. The battle is in large part internal. One must unmask and stand up to one's internal predator first. Otherwise one's external actions, even if well motivated, take place in the paradigm and mode of the predator.

‘Docile’ Humans

“The internal predator can be extremely subtle. Still, it has some general recognizable characteristics: Castaneda puts it as follows [excerpted]:  ‘They [the sorcerers of ancient Mexico] discovered that we have a companion for life. We have a predator that came from the depths of the cosmos and took over the rule of our lives. Human beings are its prisoners. The predator is our lord and master. It has rendered us docile, helpless. If we want to protest, it suppresses our protest. If we want to act independently, it demands that we don't do so. […]

‘You have arrived, by your effort alone, to what the shamans of ancient Mexico called the topic of topics,. I have been beating around the bush all this time, insinuating to you that something is holding us prisoner. Indeed we are held prisoner! This was an energetic fact for the sorcerers of ancient Mexico. […]

‘They took over because we are food for them, and they squeeze us mercilessly because we are their sustenance. Just as we rear chickens in chicken coops, gallineros, the predators rear us in human coops -- humaneros. Therefore, their food is always available to them. […]

Predators’ Puppets

‘I want to appeal to your analytical mind…Think for a moment, and tell me how you would explain the contradiction between the intelligence of man the engineer and the stupidity of his systems of beliefs, or the stupidity of his contradictory behavior. Sorcerers believe that the predators have given us our systems of beliefs, our ideas of good and evil, our social mores. They are the ones who set up our hopes and expectations and dreams of success or failure. They have given us covetousness, greed, and cowardice. It is the predators who make us complacent, routinary, and egomaniacal. […] In order to keep us obedient and meek and weak, the predators engage themselves in a stupendous maneuver-stupendous, of course, from the point of view of a fighting strategist. A horrendous maneuver from the point of view of those who suffer it. They gave us their mind! Do you hear me? The predators give us their mind, which becomes our mind.

‘The predators' mind is baroque, contradictory, morose, filled with the fear of being discovered any minute now: I know that even though you have never suffered hunger, you have food anxiety, which is none other than the anxiety of the predator who fears that any moment now its maneuver is going to be uncovered and food is going to be denied. Through the mind, which, after all, is their mind, the predators inject into the lives of human beings whatever is convenient for them. And they ensure, in this manner, a degree of security to act as a buffer against their fear[end quote].’

“The above becomes very obvious when watching [Comedy Central’s] Jon Stewart . If Bernanke does speak ‘his mind’...Are [the predators], with Bernanke in charge, about to [in your words]  ‘co-opt monetary policy as well?  I don't know the answer but believe we will get an indication from Bernanke sooner than most think,’ then you are probably right... and it may even get amplified on Comedy Central. Cheers, Brian Ripley.”