TrueLife - The Sacred and the Profane: Ritual, Morality, and the Hidden Architecture of Human Experience

Episode Date: August 18, 2021

One on One Video Call W/George https://tidycal.com/georgepmonty/60-minute-meetingSupport the show:https://www.paypal.me/Truelifepodcast?locale.x=en_US🚨🚨Curious about the future of psychedelics? Imagine if Alan Watts started a secret society with Ram Dass and Hunter S. Thompson… now open the door. Use Promocode TRUELIFE for Get 25% off monthly or 30% off the annual plan For the first yearhttps://www.district216.com/Human experience is defined by contrasts: the holy and the profane, reverence and transgression, order and chaos. In this episode, George Monty dives into the interplay of sacred and profane in myth, ritual, and daily life.From ancient civilizations to modern society, this conversation explores how humans navigate morality, symbolism, and the invisible structures that govern thought, behavior, and cultural evolution.In this episode:Understanding sacred versus profane in myth and cultureHow ritual bridges the human and the divinePsychological and social implications of moral dualityArchetypal stories illustrating sacred-profane dynamicsApplying these insights to modern life, ethics, and consciousnessThe giant lantern we hold up to illuminate the path forward.  One on One Video call W/George https://tidycal.com/georgepmonty/60-minute-meetingSupport the show:https://www.paypal.me/Truelifepodcast?locale.x=en_USCheck out our YouTube:https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLPzfOaFtA1hF8UhnuvOQnTgKcIYPI9Ni9&si=Jgg9ATGwzhzdmjkg

Darkness struck, a gut-punched theft, Sun ripped away, her health bereft. I roar at the void. This ain't just fate, a cosmic scam I spit my hate. The games rigged tight, shadows deal, blood on their hands, I'll never kneel. Yet in the rage, a crack ignites, occulted sparks cut through the nights. The scars my key, hermetic and stark. To see, to rise, I hunt in the dark, fumbling, fear. Hears through ruins maze, lights my war cry, born from the blaze.

The poem is Angels with Rifles. The track, I Am Sorrow, I Am Lust by Codex Seraphene. Check out the entire song at the end of the cast. Welcome back, ladies and gentlemen. I hope you're having a beautiful day. I hope the sun is shining and the birds are singing. I hope that you are thinking right now about how great you are. I hope you're thinking, man, what a good looking son of a gun I am.

I wanted to talk to you today, my friends, about the world in which we live. It's so beautiful and fascinating and intriguing. It's filled with pleasure and pain, confusion, love. And there's so much to be said about seeing the world the way in which you experience your life. I've been reading this book called The Sacred and the Profane, and it really illuminates the world in which we live.

It's like, I feel like the book is a big flashlight, and I'm holding it up, and even though it shines light on the darkness, it exposes that there's more darkness. Does that make sense? Have you ever been, like, camping or something? somewhere out in the dark and you hold up your light and you can see in front of you now. However, you can also see a little bit further.

And as you look further, it's just surrounded by more darkness. So in a weird sort of way, the bigger the light you use, the more darkness you expose. Kind of got me thinking, I wrote some stuff down and I kind of want to share it with you. Something that does not belong to this world has manifested itself and is doing so, and in doing so, has indicated an orientation or determined a cause of conduct. The state of the world today is caused by the erosion of a sacred faith. This world we live in is the world that Nietzsche feared when he claimed that God was dead. Good people have a hold in their hearts, in their soul, and in their mind.

The sacred connection to the earth, to the other, to themselves, has been severed. The sacred has been replaced by the profane. Salvation awaits all of us at the end of a needle, Pfizer, Moderna. They're like a new form of opium for the masses. Like the heroin addict uses to escape his daily reality, be it pain or guilt or sadness. The drug provides the attic with a fleeting feeling of safety from a world that is too painful to face, from a world that no longer cares. Denial that there is a bigger problem, failure to look within and see that a lifetime of poor choices are the reason for his woes. Blaming the other is much easier than blaming yourself.

One question to always ask is whose fault is it? You look in the mirror, you see yourself, look in the mirror, you, me, all of us are guilty. In a world that is sick, those who are most adjusted, those who are quick to blame are the sickest among us. COVID is but a symptom of the sickness that plagues us. We face a true pandemic. one that cannot be cured by a vaccine, one that has no prosthetic. Greed and selfishness have permeated our being, and they are attempting to amputate our soul.

How much is enough? Look at the oligart class throughout the world. Bezos, Gates, Zuckerberg, Musk. When will their griefs? greed finally be satiated. How many more of our kids should we sacrifice? How many more people do we need to lose to drug overdose, to violence, to poverty? How many times must we recreate the atrocities of the past in the name of building a new future? Should we send unvaccinated people from around the world

to the same fate that we sent the Jews, the Japanese should we teach our children the divisive qualities of identity politics what might be the true nature of this pandemic is it a class war

is it the money is it the idea of money does the idea of money enslave us Does the idea of money, has it become something we cannot live without, that we are worthless without it? Is it our economic structure combined with money that is the real pandemic? Whose symptoms manifest as fear, greed, ego, and righteousness. Hear this, my friends, it's going away.

What you see happening around the world is the death of finance as we know it. The idea of money is dying And just like a junkie who goes through the purification process known as withdrawals So will we as an individual As a nation and as a world organism Many people are going to die However, it's not the fault of any one group Of anyone people

We are all guilty everyone will get what they deserve everyone will suffer accordingly know this today we stand at a threshold the boundary the frontier that distinguishes and opposes two worlds the old and the new

a bow a prostration a pious touch of the hand a nod to the human's soul recognition of oneself in the other is a much more effective antidote than any man made inoculation. On the topic of vaccines, there is good news and bad news.

The good news is there is enough vaccines for everyone. The bad news is the vaccines don't work. I want you to notice the way in which people are turning to the pharmaceutical industry and have been for quite some time. The pharmaceutical industry, Pfizer, Moderna, AstraZeneca, these have become the new sacred rituals, much like those in the Christian faith would take the Eucharist, those in the pharmaceutical faith will take the injection. It's this belief, this desire to believe in something,

sacred, to believe in a Savior, to believe in the needle the way that people believed in God. There's a difference. The human soul is thirsting. The human soul is starving for something, for a connection to the sacred. And we seek to find it in things that are profane. To seek righteousness, to seek the sacred at the end of a needle is to de-reaching. is to defile all that is human. Executives, CEOs,

these people don't give one fuck about you or your health. The best remedy for any disease is to take care of your body. The best remedy for any disease is to watch what you eat, to live your life in a way that is meaningful. Look, if you're in an accident or if you, have something happen to you. You need to get surgery. Western medicine is amazing. But this idea of being able to cure what ails you with a magic serum that no one talks about and the inability for the companies to take responsibility for their product if there is in fact

some side effects or not even side effects, just effects. That is profane. Think, think if you can for a minute about regardless of what your opinions on God is, regardless of what your opinions or your faith or your religion is. It seems to me that in the West, the majority, a large portion, a significant number of people have turned away from any type of sacred belief. And even though they mock the idea of a God, they mock the idea of anything that isn't science, their habits show different. Think for a minute how similar it is for religious community to have a right of passage, to have a symbolic ritual of purification. think for a minute when you walk into a church all the symbols that adorn the walls and the stained glass windows

and the ceremonial dress in which perhaps the priest is administering his lecture. Think about the pews in which people sit and the etiquette that they use. All symbolic. It's ritualistic. Think about people lining up at a hospital, the new church, where the doctors are the new priests.

And they have this injection of life to give you. You see, we as a species, especially in the West, have decided that we no longer want to have something sacred in our lives. But we can't get away from it. You may think you don't believe in something sacred. But those who tend to be atheists are the first ones lining up to get their shot. Those who believe in nothing bigger than themselves are the first people that are calling out the unvaccinated. You see, it's so, it's so similar to me. You know, it's, it's religious.

It's like Dr. Fauci. and all of these people who are just rolling up their sleeves to get anointed with the Pfizer serum of life, it shows me that we as a people are walking contradictions. It shows me that unless we can agree on the sacred, then we will be forced to live a life that is profane. In the name of fear, in the name of fear, in the name of. of poverty. People will roll up their sleeves and their kids' sleeves.

They will commit atrocities in the absence of the sacred.