Join Me On Jekyll Island, Where The Fed was Founded...
I am giving a talk at the Jekyll Island Club where The Fed was founded. Then we will join my friends from The Farm for 3 days of immersive activities. Don't miss this one!
In 1913, The Fed was founded in secret meeting on Jekyll Island, a small island off the eastern coast of Georgia. Around 2005, I read the masterpiece by G. Edward Griffin titled The Creature from Jekyll Island which explores the nature of money, the history of central banking, and the successful 3rd attempt at implementing a central bank in the US, namely The Fed. Finally, this November 15-18th 2024 (in what feels like a ‘coming full circle’ of sorts for me) I will be giving a talk on the nature and history of money at the Jekyll Island Club in the exact same room where the now infamous secret meeting was held to found The Fed way back in 1913.
There will be 12 couples joining us on this retreat, and 6 couples have already signed up, so we have room for 6 more couples. Now, these don’t have to be actual couples, some men may choose to bring their mother or the sister or friend for instance, but we do want to balance the number of men and women. With balanced numbers, we can have equal participation in the men’s and women’s programming, respectively.
For those of you that don’t know about The Farm, it is a 1000-acre food, energy, and water independent community 45 minutes northwest of Jacksonville, FL. Words can hardly do justice to the beauty and majesty of The Farm, you’ll just have to come see it for yourself.
The Fed was founded as a top-down, financial scam imposed on all users of the US dollar. Today, with The Farm and Bitcoin, a bottom-up, grassroots countermovement is unfolding that will, once and for all, slay The Creature from Jekyll Island.
Linked here included below is an interest letter we have prepared detailing the activities and settings of this event. This letter also includes some great photos to help you get a feel for The Farm.
Go to okefarm.com today to apply to attend this once-in-a-lifetime event!!!
Thank you for your interest in Robert Breedlove’s The Art of Alpha event on November 15-18, 2024, at The Farm at Okefenokee in Folkston, Georgia. Due to an overwhelming response, we may not yet have contacted you individually. Please rest assured that you will soon receive personal communications from us.
This all-inclusive weekend will only allow 12 couples, to ensure we provide the best experiences, with skills and memories to last a lifetime. We only ask that you pay the costs of the event itself, which total $6,000 per couple and cover lodging, meals, transportation, equipment, and to bring in experts to teach these rare skills. Please submit 50% to secure your spot, so we can reserve your rooms, and submit the balance by October 30th. We accept credit cards and PayPal, and we will send prompt confirmation that we have received your payments so you can rest assured that your spot is secure.
On November 15th, check into The Jekyll Island Club. We will handle the rest, until you check out on Monday!
As you can see from the following agenda, there is plenty of excitement, including larger group activities and classes among smaller groups. Plus, we have surprises and special guests planned!
An Unparalleled Retreat in an Incomparable Location
Photo credit: Marissa Ames
Three days of activities and master classes will include:
• Craft arrows with master flintknapper Patrick Antuzzi.
• Make butter, mozzarella cheese, and sourdough bread with farm manager Marissa Ames.
• Canoe on the Okefenokee Wildlife Refuge.
• Meet the animals at The Farm at Okefenokee while gathering ingredients.
• Stay at the historic Jekyll Island Club.
• Forage and craft herbal remedies with naturalist and farmer Amyrose Foll.
• Hunt feral hogs with experienced local hunters.
• Bring your challenging gardening questions to the team at The Farm at Okefenokee.
• Butcher a heritage hog and craft delicious sausage.
• Prepare and enjoy a true farm-to-table dinner using newly acquired skills.
Robert Breedlove’s The Art of Alpha retreats offer more than a getaway. These events combine stunning settings, skills taught by masters, and the overall element of health for an unforgettable experience. You won’t find this experience and hands-on instruction anywhere else!
What is Flintknapping?
Photo credit: Patrick Antuzzi
The ancient art of shaping sharp stone tools is still alive thanks to masters like Patrick Antuzzi. After choosing conchoidal fracturing stone like flint or obsidian, master craftsmen strike it with tools made of wood, antler, or stone. The angles and pressure influence thickness and length.
Pat Antuzzi says, “Archaeology led me into the past. There, I stood enamored. Tools and projectile points created from hard, cold stone were wildly provocative.” He describes the focus, reason, and resulting skill as what compelled him to pursue “...not a novel art, but one pursued by masters of the ancient world.”
Meet Pat Antuzzi and craft arrows during this one-of-a-kind escape on the Okefenokee.
Ancient Skills in Modern Kitchens
LEFT: Photo by Shelley DeDauw; RIGHT: Photo by Marissa Ames
If people made it before industrialization, you could make it in your kitchen. A little fermentation, agitation, and coagulation go a long way! Plus, these traditional foods introduce probiotics to support overall health while avoiding preservatives, dyes, and unknown additives.
Baker, cheesemaker, author, and farmer Marissa Ames teaches how to make sourdough bread, cheese, and fresh butter as part of a one-of-a-kind retreat. Forage for fresh fruits and vegetables on The Farm at Okefenokee, then combine these truly from-scratch foods for a farm-to-table dinner featuring fresh pork sausage. Bring these skills home so you can continue crafting healthy, traditional foods, whether you obtain your milk and grains from a farm or from an urban grocery store.
Timeless Traditions and Stunning Swamps
Photo credit: The Farm at Okefenokee
Out here in Southeast Georgia, it’s not just a way to unwind and reconnect. It’s a way of life. Slowly paddle across glassy “blackwater” stained by natural tannins that nourish the ecosystem, drifting between water lilies as great blue herons soar overhead. The pristine Okefenokee Wildlife Refuge welcomes all who agree to tread (or paddle) lightly among its resident reptiles, amphibians, insects, and birds.
Guided by seasoned locals with extensive knowledge, escape the November cold with some Deep South hospitality. After canoeing on the Okefenokee with Robert Breedlove, join a rousing hunt for feral hogs then process the meat into sausage and a delicious traditionally cooked dinner.
Though temperatures in most of the United States have hit freezing by November, this location in Georgia averages a high of 70 degrees Fahrenheit and a low of 50 degrees Fahrenheit. That’s tee shirt and flip-flop weather, though we advise wearing hiking and farm shoes during these rousing excursions.
Farm Living is the Life for Me!
Photo credit: Marissa Ames
Farm life benefits physical, mental, and spiritual health. Step away from the cold November weather for an invigorating experience at The Farm at Okefenokee in Southeastern Georgia. Visit the animals, learn about regenerative farming, forage for organic foods, and gather eggs. Bring your questions to The Farm’s expert gardening team. Reacquaint yourself with the true definition of “made from scratch.” Learn how to bring foods full circle, from farm to table, by crafting cheese, bread, butter, herbal concoctions, and wild-hunted meats.
Learn why The Farm at Okefenokee is “The Healthiest Place on Earth” by setting aside your worries; immerse in nature and feed your mind, body, and soul with the goodness that country living has to offer. You may find that three days isn’t enough!
Jekyll Island: over 500 years of Stunning History
LEFT: U.S. Naval Historical Center image via the public domain Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships., Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons; RIGHT: Bubba73 (Jud McCranie), CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons
Photo credit: Judson McCranie, CC BY-SA 3.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0>, via Wikimedia Commons
Initially occupied by the Indigenous Guale and Mocama people, Jekyll Island lies off the coast of what is now Georgia within the United States. Spanish explorers landed on the island in 1510. The landmass experienced brief conflicts between the Spanish and French as the Spanish sought to establish missions, and the French claimed the island for France. The Westlo native people destroyed many missions but spared the life of Father Xander Davilla on Jekyll. In 1663-1665, the English allied with the Cherokee, Creek, and Yuchi people to drive the Spanish from the area. General James Oglethorpe then renamed the island in honor of his friend Joseph Jekyll.
Many of the buildings erected after 1730 still stand, including William Horton’s plantation house. A monument sits on the island’s southern tip, remembering enslaved Africans who survived an illegal shipment 50 years after the United States outlawed slavery — the next-to-the-last slave shipment to reach the Americas. John Eugene Du Bignon inherited a third of the island from his father, then purchased the rest, constructing a clubhouse and marketing it as a winter retreat for the wealthy.
The Jekyll Island Club, still in operation, showcases this golden age of architecture and old-fashioned escapes from urban chaos. Founded in 1886, it operated until complications from World War II forced its closure in 1942.
The State of Georgia purchased the island in 1942 and designated the club complex as a historic landmark in 1978. In 1965, the club reopened as a member of Historic Hotels of America.
The Jekyll Island Club will serve as the nighttime accommodations for Robert Breedlove’s The Art of Alpha retreat. Enjoy days at The Farm at Okefenokee and on the adjacent Wildlife Refuge, learning hunting, wildcrafting, and farm-to-table skills before retiring for restful nights at the club.
A Note from Robert Breedlove:
In 1913, a monster was born on Jekyll Island that would cast a grim shadow on human civilization. This Creature is the central bank of the United States—popularly known as The Federal Reserve, although it is neither federal nor does it have any reserves. Through deception, coercion, and theft The Fed has grown to permeate virtually all spheres of human existence. As Griffin wrote about The Creature (aka The Fed) in his masterful book titled “The Creature from Jekyll Island”:
“The Creature has grown large and powerful since its conception of Jekyll Island. It now roams across every continent and compels the masses to serve it, feed it, obey it, worship it. If it is not slain, it will become our eternal lord and master.”
Can an institution as mundane as a bank actually be such tyrannical force? To find the answer to this question, one must study the nature and history of money to understand how legally authorized currency counterfeiting is so destructive to the fabric of civilization.
When I wrote that The Fed is not federal above, I meant that it operates without any accountability to political process whatsoever. Indeed, as a legally authorized monopoly on the counterfeiting of currency, The Fed operates outside the scope of the law entirely. In other words, there are laws to which you and I must abide which do not apply to the shareholders or governors of central banks. A fair game requires unbreakable rules that are evenly applied to all players. Clearly, a legal monopoly on currency counterfeiting makes the game unfair, as those forced to use the currency are bound by a different set of rules than those who are authorized to counterfeit the currency. Central banking is antithetical to the foundational principle of Western Civilization that all men are equal in the eyes of the law. From the perspective of The Fed, there are “rules for thee, but not for me.” The Fed is a private organization with undisclosed shareholders that uses legally authorized force to prevent other competitors entering its monopolized market space. It’s little surprise that all attempts to “play the game” in this way have ultimately ended in the failure of currency.
When I wrote that The Fed has no reserves, I meant that the currency unit it counterfeits at scale is not backed by any commodity or “real” money whatsoever. That’s right, the US dollar which you’ve probably worked most of your life pursuing can be produced at the touch of a button by The Fed. Although the US dollar was originally a promissory note to physical gold, that promise was forever broken in 1971 by President Nixon. Although the “Nixon Shock” was blamed on other causes, the reality is that The Fed had printed almost 500% more US dollars than its gold reserves at the time could justify. As more and more countries became aware of The Fed’s insolvency, they started to demand redemption of their US dollar holdings for gold. Seeing this “run on the bank” occurring and acting faithfully subservient to his central bank puppet-masters, the political puppet President Nixon shocked the world in 1971 by “temporarily” closing the gold redemption window. Almost 53 years later, the US dollar continues to operate as an uncollateralized debt certificate undergoing slow motion default while the cost of that default is dumped on taxpayers through price inflation. Although The Fed supposedly still holds vast quantities of gold (Fort Knox hasn’t been audited in over 50 years, so we can’t be sure), US dollar holders have no option to redeem their dollars for gold, so in effect The Fed has no reserves that pertain to its currency counterfeiting operations. Indeed,
the US dollar is a fiat currency, meaning it is decreed into existence without any relationship to the realities of work,
physics, or scarcity. It’s little surprise that currencies that aren’t based on real money inevitably fail.
Its name tells us so much: The Federal Reserve is neither federal nor does it have any reserves. In other words, The Fed is a fraudulent organization: its existence is “justified” by the institutionalized academic falsehood called Keynesian economics, it has stolen more purchasing power than any other organization in existence, and it has been used to fund the largest scale and most destructive mechanized murder campaigns in human history. The Creature is the epitome of evil and it must be slain…
Early the 21st century, a new technology has emerged, one opposite to The Fed in almost every respect; one that cannot be weaponized by The Creature yet can be weaponized against it. Bitcoin is a money in which lies
cannot be told, one that cannot be manipulated to steal purchasing power from its users, and one that cannot be printed to fund mass murder campaigns. Bitcoin is the lance of truth humanity must wield to slay The Creature. As Griffin concluded his book, which was published prior to the emergence of Bitcoin:
“Can it be slain? Yes, it can.
How will it be slain? By piercing it with a million lances of truth.
Who will slay it? A million crusaders with determination and courage. The crusade has already begun.”
Every human holding who holds their own Bitcoin is equivalent to piercing The Creature with this lance of truth. Gradually then suddenly, The Creature will be slain by Bitcoin, and its grim shadow over us will vanish. This November 15-18th, we will be hosting a trip to The Farm and staying at the hotel on Jekyll Island, where I will be giving a speech about the nature of money, central banking, and the bright orange future made possible by Bitcoin.
Join us as we continue to crusade for the future of human civilization…