Thrive (SolariLA.com) is a Los Angeles based discussion group focused on reThinking life. We are currently borrowing heavily from a framework called Solari circles created by Catherine Austin Fitts (www.solari.com) but are not affiliated in any direct way.

Overview of Solari Circles

A Solari Circle is a club of trusted friends with a particular focus on investing their time and money in building wealth in transformative ways. Wealth is viewed as a blend of financial and living equity, including the health and well being of our families, our communities and our planet. Financial investment emphasizes financial intimacy and “back to basics” investments — green, self-sufficiency, venture, precious metals, offshore and local investment — rather than promoting traditional corporate investment.

By collectively shifting our focus of spending, banking and investing toward sustainable, decentralized businesses and farming, we can transform our finances and the world. Our immediate goal is to create living and equity wealth that is sustainable for our families and fellow members in a way that contributes to healthy, sustainable communities worldwide.

For example, why let credit card companies finance our neighbors’ debt at 18% when we are only earning 2% on our bank CDs? Why not get together and pool our capital and keep those interest profits in our community, while helping our neighbors work down their debt?

Other local investment opportunities include neighborhood business and venture investments, consumer and business aggregation, government resource reengineering and other similar activities. Network opportunities include what people we know and trust are doing or are investing in, including within their communities.

Solari Circles are self-organizing. They can be local or work by phone and the internet in multiple places. Clubs can organize informally to begin “Coming Clean” together, and gaining mastery of how the money works around us. Investment pools started by a Solari Investor Circle are organized as legal entities, probably a general partnership, with a bank account, tax ID number, books of account, articles of incorporation, and certain legal reporting requirements.

Catherine often says “Don’t ask if there is a conspiracy. If you are not in one, you need to start one.” Solari Circles are an important step to creating the conspiracies we need to build the world we would leave to our children.

Faith Response

As many of the realities of current world affairs become uncovered with the current economic crisis, it is becoming clear that many of the institutions and systems that we participate in everyday are operating in ways counter to the Kingdom of God.  We find ourselves feeding Babylon without realizing what we are doing.  This must change.

Catherine Austin Fitts has done a fantastic job of putting together a guide for “coming clean.”  This means taking a hard look at how we invest, spend and much more and changing how we do things to realign our lives with God’s Kingdom while creating a better world at the same time.

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