John Perkins - Touching the Jaguar: Transforming Fear Into Action to Change Your Life and the World

TOUCHING
THE JAGUAR

OTHER BOOKS BY JOHN PERKINS

The New Confessions of an Economic Hit Man

The Secret History of the American Empire

Hoodwinked

Confessions of an Economic Hit Man

Shapeshifting

The World Is As You Dream It

Spirit of the Shuar

Psychonavigation

The Stress-Free Habit

Touching the Jaguar

Copyright 2020 by John Perkins
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2020-1

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To the Indigenous people who are blazing
the trail to a future our children will want to
inherit, to Kiman Lucas, who has held my hand
as I walk that trail, and to my grandson, Grant
Miller, who inspires me to keep walking.

Touching the jaguar means that you can identify your fears and barriers, confront them, alter your perceptions about them, accept their energy, and take actions to change yourself and the world.

Empires had been colonizing tribes and nations for centuries, appropriating their economies, their lands, their peoples, their governments, and their minds.... This time it had been done under the subterfuge of spreading democracy...

I had no idea that he was suggesting that I might be upgraded from spy to economic hit man.

It was a system that was bound to fail, to kill itselfwhat economists would later define as a Death Economy.

The world is as you dream it. Your people dreamed of huge factories, tall buildings, as many cars as there are raindrops in this river. Now you begin to see that your dream is a nightmare.

The prophecy says that five hundred years laternowthe opportunity arises for the Eagle and the Condor to fly together, to mate, and to produce a new offspring, higher consciousness.

They said they had dreamed on this, that their shamans had gone deep into the meaning of their visions, and they had concluded that they have to touch ustheir people have to touch our peopleinitiate contact with the very thing they most fear.

You must ask yourself about the Evias in your life. What scares you?... What must you do to change this?... You must do this alone. No one can help you. Only by doing that will you avoid going to war with yourself.

This Life Economy cleans up pollution, regenerates devastated environments, recycles, and develops new technologies that benefit people and nature. Businesses that pay returns to investors who invest in an economy that is itself a renewable resource become the success stories.

We are the Elder Siblings... Our job is to show you, the Younger Siblings, about taking care of our sacred mother, the earth.

In these tracks, feel the jaguar that blocks your people. And feel the jaguar that is your ally for change.

Touching the jaguar means that you can identify your fears and barriers, confront them, alter your perceptions about them, accept their energy, and take actions to change yourself and the world.

I STARTED TO WRITE THIS BOOK as a bridge that would connect my previous books on Indigenous cultures, including Shapeshifting, to those on global economics, including Confessions of an Economic Hit Man. I had no idea that it would turn out to be that and also become much more.

My journey began in 1968 when, as a US Peace Corps volunteer, I was sent into the Amazon jungles of Ecuador to form credit and savings cooperativessomething I soon learned was impossible. Once there, I met Indigenous people who were coming into contact with my world, the industrialized world, for the first time. They lived in harmony with nature and yet were constantly fighting their neighbors to protect their territories. Animosities dated back centuries. Then something unexpected happened.