The Story Behind the International Bestseller It Starts With Gold

I have wanted to write this for awhile now. In March 2020, the COVID-19 global pandemic lockdowns swept across the world and silenced nearly everything… except the voice inside my head.

Most individuals fear the silence. I know this because I did too. For most of my life, being left alone with my thoughts felt unbearable. The silence was not peaceful. It was deafening. It echoed truths I was not ready to hear, memories I had buried, and fears I had dressed in logic.

Then something happened. 

Life stopped. The outside world went quiet, but inside, something stirred. I was left with the only constant I had ever known. Myself. And there, in that stillness, I met him again.

The Observer.

The man who had watched me run for years. The child I had silenced with distractions. The soul I had buried beneath ambition, noise, and fear. He had always been there. Waiting. Watching. Whispering when I refused to listen.

Now, with nowhere left to go, I could no longer ignore him.

It was terrifying. Then it became liberating.

I began to read. Not the headlines. Not the polished narratives. I began to read what are called white papers. These are formal reports or position documents issued by governments and global organizations. They are written to explain what is coming and why it must be accepted. Most individuals have never read one. I had not. Until the silence.

I dove into publications from the United Nations, the World Economic Forum, the World Health Organization, and other global bodies I had never questioned. What I found was disturbing. These institutions had commissioned plans for humanity that were not written by visionaries or humanitarians. They were written by what I can only describe as psychopaths.

What is a psychopath?

A psychopath is an individual who is disconnected from their soul. They walk in darkness and have no tether to the infinite. They lack empathy, they feel no remorse, and they have no reverence for life. They do not hear the whisper of conscience. They do not see the face of God in others. For them, everything and everyone is a resource to be extracted or eliminated. They do not grieve. They do not love. They do not pray. They do not hope.

They are not empty… they are severed.

And these are the minds that have drafted the vision of our future.

At first, I was overwhelmed. I was trying to make sense of too much at once. Some days I fell into despair. Some days I felt strong. I later learned there are names for these states of awakening. The blue pill is the state of comfortable ignorance. The red pill is the awakening to difficult truths. The black pill is hopelessness, a belief that nothing can be done. The white pill is the restoration of faith, not because the world is safe, but because you have chosen to live with purpose anyway.

In the middle of this internal storm, a professional conversation shifted everything.

The voice on the other end of the line belonged to Adrian C. Spitters, also known as The Son of a Dutch Farmer. Like me, Adrian had spent more than three decades in the Financial Industrial Complex. That was our point of connection. We had both seen too much. We had both stopped pretending the system was working. And we both felt the rising obligation to say something before it was too late.

What began as a business discussion evolved into a working alliance shaped by shared purpose, mutual respect, and something deeper… truth. Without effort, we had created a space where the sacred could enter. Where ideas were sharpened by honesty, and purpose was forged in the presence of something greater than ourselves.

Adrian brought order, structure, and clarity. He saw patterns most would miss. He understood systems, consequences, and long arcs. I brought emotion, language, and an instinct for what lay beneath the surface. We both carried burdens. We both had been broken. We both had looked into the abyss… and refused to become it.

That refusal became a book.

It is called It Starts With Gold.

It is more than a book. It is a flare gun. It is the flare itself. A signal to those still trapped in silence. A reminder that you are not alone, and more importantly, that you were made for more. It is both a warning and a doorway.

The psychopaths who authored their vision for humanity were not hiding. They published it in white papers, with clinical precision and spiritual emptiness. We read what they wrote. We understood what it meant. And we said no.

We chose to write something different. Something human. Something divine.

We created a place where others… those awake, those awakening… can come together not only to resist, but to build. We believe when good individuals come together, grounded in truth and connected to God, they become an unstoppable force.

If this speaks to something deep inside you, then you already belong here.

We ask only that you read It Starts With Gold. Not for entertainment. For truth. For guidance. For strength.

May your weekend be filled with stillness. May the silence speak to you.

And may you answer.

Peter J. Merrick, TEP

Adrian C. Spitters and I wrote the international bestseller It Starts With Gold to explain why this collapse is happening and how individuals can prepare for what is coming. We hoped to give Canadians and others the tools to survive and rebuild. Please take these warnings seriously. Time is almost up.

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