“New age approach to economic and political reform in the United States.

… The
resulting call to action is unusual. Individuals are encouraged to accept their role
as the nation’s destined saviors: “You can be a Messiah.” Add a heavy sprinkle
of pop references from Mr. T to Pink Floyd to the mix and Ficalora’s book is a
curious and uninhibited take on modern politics. … An unpredictable tonic for
what ails America.” – Kirkus Discoveries

“Choosing Honor is a provocatively framed, well-organized argument supporting

the greater good to the greatest number.” – ForeWord Clarion Review

Choosing Honor

Author Mary T. Ficalora was raised in a devout Roman Catholic family that
spent most nights at the dinner table arguing religion and politics. It was during
the 1960s and 1970s, amidst anti-war, pro-civil rights, and women’s liberation
movements, that she found her voice. She has followed up her childhood debate-
training with independent studies in a wide range of esoteric, historical and
political areas of thought. The product of her journey has produced a
controversial new book, Choosing Honor: An American Woman’s Search for
God, Family, and Country in an Age of Corruption.

Mary embraces a pro-active, defiant tone, imploring Americans to wake up and

take back the country. She rails against the Federal Reserve and what she calls
The Money Power. She argues against all wars, especially the Iraq War. She
also believes that all too often religion has been a destructive force in society.

“What in past decades was the mode of operation of our covert government is
now our government’s covert mode of operation,” she writes. “Our nation is
pursuing a military policy that enforces corporate expansion around the world.
Military dominance is not in line with We the People’s beliefs.”

Mary provides uninhibited perspectives, filtered through a prism of pop

references and facts that reflect the power of philosophy at work in our social,
economic, and political worlds. Her wide-ranging topics include God, money,
family, revolution, and self-oppression.

Choosing Honor lays out 10 key principles for how we each should live, what
Mary calls “Absolutes,” which are modeled after the Kabbalah’s Tree of Life. A
sampling of these Absolutes includes:
 We all have a purpose.
 Uniting magnifies our power.
  Change is constant.
 Love all
 All the we ask for is given to us.
 We all have equal power.

Choosing Honor is the platform on which church and state meet. Mary calls
upon every American to attain messianic consciousness and to play a role in
bringing a certain level of honor back to the nation that she feels went completely
dormant when George W. bush became president in 2001. She says he lied about
the Iraq War, that the war on terror is not what it seems, and that money and
greed are forces behind all the wars of the world.

Mary shows how conspiring bankers, politicians, and billionaires – labeled

collectively as “Money Power” – represent “might makes right” when we should
really be about “right makes might.” Money Power, she asserts, controls nations,
brainwashing the masses to act contrary to their own interests. Their
manipulation of financial markets comes from a black magic mindset. “Money
Power purposefully creates wars and manipulates the economy to bullish booms
or recessions,” Mary says. “Even the Great Depression was caused and sustained
by willful effort.”

Choosing Honor highlights these principles:

• We each can – and need to be – Messiahs, and not look to any one specific
savior to lead us.
• We the People have the power to change the country and we must adhere to
the Constitution and Declaration of Independence and not stray from the core
fundamentals of our Founding Fathers.
• How we treat and use money, as a society and as a nation, determines the
kind of world we will live in.
• The spiritual mandate of adherence to God’s will is to pay attention.
• We can create the reality we desire. Always listen and question things.
• Belief is a powerful tool; the motive behind the belief dictates the honor or
dishonor in what we create.

“My faith in government and honesty in any level of our society is shattered,”
says Mary. “My early adult years of tuning out things like Iran-Contra are over.
I do not trust that my children will have a free and honest playing field, no matter
how hard they work for what they want. I suspect the corruption is too deep.
Choosing Honor is a call to action, a revelation of things to pay attention to.”

Above all, Mary seeks to open our eyes and rally us to each gather the courage to
do what’s best for the future. She says: “Honor is standing for the good of all in
the face of forces that are beyond our control. Honor requires us to stand up in
spite of our fear.” Which one will you chose?

Publication Data: Choosing Honor: An American Woman’s Search for God,

Family, and Country in an Age of Corruption by Mary T. Ficalora; Greenleaf
Book Group; Cloth; 192 pages; $22.95; ISBN: 978-0-9799359-0-9.
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