Reality, Truth, and Evil : Facts, Questions, and Perspectives on September 11 2001

by Meyer, T. H.; Morales, Jose Garcia

• ISBN13: 9781902636665
• ISBN10: 190263666X
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2005-12-30
• Publisher: Rudolf Steiner Pr

Summary

Using the events of 9/11 and Pearl Harbor as his backdrop, T.H. Meyer studies questions of reality, truth and evil, offering important new perspectives. He shows that Anglo-American political practice (influenced by secret societies such as Skull and Bones) is based on an ideology of polarity and conflict. Meyer offers instances of this tendency, encouraging what Huntington famously referred to as a 'clash of civilizations'. For example, a week before George Bush senior spoke in Congress about the need for a 'new world order', a 'humorous' cartoon map in the Economist divided the world's continents into religious and philosophical blocks, creating a new region called 'Islamistan'. In 1997, Brzezinski wrote openly of US geostrategic plans, staring that it would be hard to achieve such goals 'except in the circumstances of a truly massive and widely perceived direct external threat'. This, apparently, was granted with the events of 9/11, and the subsequent launch of a 'war on terror'. The immediate comparisons, led by George W. Bush, with Pearl Harbor demand a ressessment of the events of 1941. Meyer points to conclusive evidence which suggests that Roosevelt deliberately provoked the attacks and failed to pass on intelligence to US Navy chiefs. Could it be possible that certain members of the US elite likewise deliberately remained passive before 9/11? Why, only two weeks after the attacks, were celebrations held at CIA headquarters in which Bush profusely thanked the secret services '... on behalf of the American people'? In contrast to the divisive thinking and 'conflict-management' of leading representatives of the Anglo-American elite (inspired by a contorted reading of some basic insights of the philosopher Hegel), the author shows how the holistic approach of Rudolf Steiner and Mabel Collins offers a radical, alternative way to deal with polarities, leading to the overcoming of conflict.

Table of Contents

Preface	v
Introduction	1	(18)
`Islamistan' and the West	19	(8)
The consensus on the new world order---before and after September 11, 2001
The President who stayed in primary class	27	(8)
The attacks on the World Trade Center---a multi-layered catastrophe	35	(28)
September 11, 2001 and Pearl Harbor	63	(8)
Conclusions from a widely broadcast comparison
`Dishonesty as a fundamental characteristic of our time'	71	(10)
Notes on the current world situation
Michael C. Ruppert---an American seeker of truth	81	(10)
G.W.F. Hegel's dual path in the West	91	(14)
Hegel's view of evolution as basis for western politics and esoteric development
What can replace the `survival of the unfittest' in positions of power?	105	(4)
Timeline for 9.11.2001	109	(24)
Jose Garcia Morales
Notes	133	(14)
Index	147