Terror before the sacred

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Speaker 0 (0s): Ladies and gentlemen, welcome back to the TrueLife podcast. So happy you're here today. I've missed everybody. I've been down and out with COVID for those of you who've had it. I'm sure you're aware. It's definitely no picnic for me roughly about two weeks. It's still hurting a little bit, but trying to get out there and bring some entertainment to anybody had a couple of interesting days while out on COVID you guys ever noticed that when you get sick, sometimes you have some pretty brilliant insights. 

It seems to me that whenever you're faced with a health issue, you really begin to understand what it is that's important in life. You really get to make sense of the little things that you thought were important were really not that important when you're laying in bed and you feel like garbage. All of a sudden the person that was pissing you off kind of minor. I want to talk to you guys today. 

I'm really excited. I got my first new book, the debut it's coming out and I'm working on an idea for titles. Originally. I had the Terror before the sacred, and then it kind of morphed into the structure of experience. Those were the two going titles that I had had set up for him recently sent off the hard copy to my editors. I've heard back from one editor with really inspiring and really good notes. 

The guy was great. His name is Hugh Barker. If anyone gets a chance and you need an editor, I would highly recommend Hugh Barker. I went to Z, which is a site for authors that you can go and kind of piece out your, your work, whether you want it formatted or edited or pretty much the whole gambit you can find on that site. It's pretty good. I highly recommend it. Most of you are probably thinking, wow, George. So what's the book about buddy? Well, it's a great question. 

And thank you for asking it is a topic that is true and dear to my heart, especially in chaotic times, I think we're moving towards a new way in which the world sees itself. I think we're moving on to a new type of myth. I think back about some of the ancient Greek heroes, the Homeric verses Ulysses and the Lotus eaters, Achilles all these great mythological adventures that in ancient times, for ways for people to relate to the world, and then you can move into like king Arthur and the quest for the holy grail. 

You could even get into JRR Tolkien and just so many different myths that people throughout the world have sat around a campfire or sat around and told stories about the way in which life is in for so long. We have been operating under these myths that it seems as if we're just repeating or better yet. We're rhyming. The history that came before us, I think once in a thousand years, I'll say humanity comes upon a new way of living. 

Humanity finds a new myth to be born. And while it's not incredibly brand new, it has elements of the new brought together with some of the classic motifs that got the human spirit to evolve as far as it has. And let me try to paint you a picture of the foundational myth that I see emerging and let me know what you guys think. I see an evolution of religion. 

I see a unified understanding that we are one organism similar to the guy, a concept in that the earth is a mother and those in which grace, the earth are his children, but not exactly more of like, we're all part of this one giant organism. The earth grows people like an apple tree grows apples. You didn't come into this world. 

You came out of it. And when you look across the street, when you look at your neighbor, when you look at the car next to you, when you watch TV, but more importantly, when you see people in person, what you're seeing, wait, let me change that. What you recognize, that's a much better word. What you recognize in other people is that, which you recognize in yourself. Let me give you an example of what I mean do used to be this guy at my work. 

And I never got along with him. I didn't really understand why, but he just rubbed me the wrong way. You guys know anybody like that, maybe you got somebody at your work or somebody in your family or somebody at your kid's school, or maybe it's somebody at your school, but there's just something about this person. And they really bother you. And I couldn't put my finger on it. And for months, you know, I'm like, I just don't like this guy. I don't get it. He was a nice guy, but there was just something about him. I didn't like. And one day, one weekend I sat back and ate like seven grams of mushrooms and just trying to figure it, which is a pretty good dose to think about actually maybe a little high. 

But, and so I had written down everything that I wanted to think about. And as I was coming down from my trip, like, it just kind of hit me like a ton of bricks. You know what? I don't like that guy because he's weak. He's a coward, never stands up for himself. I hate that about that guy. And then, you know, it was like that same ton of bricks just hit me again. And it says, I'm a coward. 

I'm weak. I don't stand up for myself. And it made me think, you know, I don't know if, I don't know. I think somehow eating mushrooms is a way for you to communicate with the planet. And so I'll talk more about that in a minute, but it showed me that what you see in other people is what you see in yourself in what, if you see other people and you don't like something in them. If you can identify what it is you don't like about these other people, then chances are, you can identify what it is about yourself that you don't like. 

You see, it's real hard to look at yourself and say, I don't like this about me. I don't like that about me. It's really difficult to look in a mirror and say, you know what, George? I think you're a big baby sometimes. Or you know what, George, you don't ever stand up for yourself. It's hard to do that because it's difficult to see what's inside of you. And that's why we have relationships. And that's why when you see other people, they're showing you, they are a mirror to you. They are showing you what's inside. 

You does that make sense? Because you can't recognize something. You don't understand, but you can recognize what you do. You ever, you ever like seen somebody playing a game or maybe you play a sport. And they know you're watching someone play a sport and you see them say, say, they're a wrestler. I was arrested. So I'm watching this guy wrestle. And I see him set up with like a, like a left tap, left tap. And then you shoot like an ankle pick. I'm like, oh, I do that same set up. 

Sometimes I can recognize that move because I do that move. And then sometimes you watch people's stuff and you don't know what the hell they did because you don't recognize that move. It's the same thing with style as it is with attitude as it is with personality. And if you can learn that when something about somebody else bothers you, that's because something about them is showing you what you need to work on. And that it's true in the opposite sense. 

It's true in the sense that if you see something good or that you admire about people, that's something that you have inside you. And that that's the world telling you to work on that as well. Like, yeah, you can be that too. Do you admire that? That's inside you I've seen it. And so it's such a gift to be around people. It's such a gift to be upset, to be happy, but to be in relationship with people is where the true gift is. 

And not only just to be in relationship w...