TrueLife - Your Life Is a Sandcastle: Adam & Eve, Impermanence, and the Architecture of Human Meaning (Part 2)

Starting point is 00:00:01 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.

Starting point is 00:00:49 The poem is Angels with Rifles. The track, I Am Sorrow, I Am Lust by Kodex Seraphini. Check out the entire song at the end of the cast. Welcome back, everybody. So nice to get to see you and hear your voice, even though I can't really see you. I'm happy to be talking to you. I hope you've all had a great week so far. great week so far hope the sun is shining birds are singing I wanted to get into a little bit more of

Starting point is 00:01:22 this alternative history we left off with Adam and Eve in this great shifting or this great displacement of earth's crust that caused the oceans to zip across the face of the continents destroying everything in their way as the Pacific and Atlantic oceans just pile up miles high, sweep across the continents, erasing everything we know today. It reminds me I once saw, I once saw a documentary on these Tibetan monks. and they were just talking about their lifestyle and the things they did throughout the day and how they thought about life

Starting point is 00:02:19 and the things that were important and the senior monks they played this game where over a period of three months they created the most elaborate puzzle not a puzzle in that it's something you put together, but it was almost like a piece of artwork where they took different

Starting point is 00:02:49 colored sand or dye or better to think of it as sand. And they made these just incredibly intricate designs on a platform the size of a quilt, let's say. Think of like a beach towel or maybe a beach quilt. And they made these elaborate. designs all over the entirety of the quilt. And it was just beautiful and pristine with perfect color combinations and some parts were higher and some parts were lower. And they would bring the children up once a day to see it and help. And once they finished, once they finished the actual product, everyone stood back in amazement and just, and the, the cameraman showed it. It was beautiful. Just this beautiful tapestry of colors and shapes and beauty and hard work and sacrifice for six months.

Starting point is 00:03:57 And then they all collectively got down and blew it off. Just blew all the sand off like it was nothing. And I always thought to myself, like, wow, what a great way to symbolize the power of of the earth. What a great way to symbolize the idea of how we imprison ourselves. You ever think about that? You ever think about all these things that we make, be it mankind or yourself? They're all like sandcastles, right? Like you can build a really cool sandcastle. However, it's just a matter of time if the tide comes up, takes it down. Sometimes you can fool yourself like, yeah, I'm in the sandcastle competition.

Starting point is 00:04:54 I'm going to bring my hair spray. I'm bringing these special little combs. I'm going to make a turtle. You know, or I'm going to make this huge sandcastle that looks like the Trump Tower. Or I'm going to make a sandcastle like the White House. Or I'm going to make a sandcastle looks like a mermaid. You ever see those competitions? That's kind of like our life.

Starting point is 00:05:16 We spend all our time making these sandcastles that we think, are so important, but in the grand scheme of things, it's just a matter of time before the tide comes and walks them down. I'm not saying that you shouldn't spend time building your sandcastle of life. What I am saying is that you should be mindful that what you're building is not going to last. And I think that will help you to put some things in perspective. Nothing lasts. Not the love you have for your parents, not the trees that you've planted in the ground, not the experiences that you had when you were five, not the place where you work, not that company you started, not the car you drive,

Starting point is 00:06:17 not even the love for your family. Nothing lasts. Some people may think, wow, George, that's kind of dark. You mean nothing lasts? So I should just run out and be crazy and rob banks and do, no. It's not what I'm saying at all. I'm saying nothing lasts. So you should enjoy your life.

Starting point is 00:06:42 And when I think of enjoying my life, I think of trying to be present and trying to stay in the moment so that I can make everyone around me better. Do you understand? Like, we spend so much time in our heads. We spend so much time trying to fantasize about what things will be like

Starting point is 00:07:08 if we could just have this other thing. But the truth is, if you can focus on being in the moment, and you can focus on, wow, what is it that I can do right now to make this other person feel better? Wow, why is this other person like this?

Starting point is 00:07:30 What can I do right now to make the world a better place? And I think the answer to making the world a better place, is understanding that regardless of what your position in life is, regardless if you're the Jeff Bezos or Jeff the janitor, regardless, you're a force to be reckoned with. There's no reason why you can't be inspirational to everyone around you. I think about that sometimes.

Starting point is 00:08:09 I think to myself, you know, on some, days, I think to myself, man, I'm just, I'm just this truck driver. I just drive around and drive this truck and look at all these other people that have so much more. Very few days I do that, but look, sometimes you got down days, right? And on other days, I think to myself how lucky I am, that I have the ability to go out and inspire like 150 people a day. That's about how many stops I do. do about 150 stops. So I try and not only communicate, but I try to, I try and bridge the gap between myself and the person of whom I'm seeing, especially when I see them on a daily basis. I would say that I know about, about 80% of the people I deliver to, I try and notice things

Starting point is 00:09:17 about them that other people don't. And because I see them every day, it's easier to do. And once you do that, once you start really beginning to notice the people around you, you can provide them with a sincere compliment. You can provide them with maybe some insight into their own lives. And you can only do that by taking the time to understand that you, listening to this, are inspirational. You have a choice. You can go out

Starting point is 00:09:58 and be that person that sees things differently and everyone else and help them see it or you can be the person that falls into the trap and just wishes they had more wishes that

Starting point is 00:10:12 are just wishes, right? The truth is you are as much of the divine spark as anyone else. And that, regardless of how big somebody else's sandcastle is, it's just a sandcastle.

Starting point is 00:10:41 If you could begin thinking this way, it's really easy to start seeing the world differently. Sometimes people build such a cool sandcastle that other people want to come and help them build it. And then, all of a sudden, the guy building the sandcastle doesn't want to build it anymore, he starts managing other people to build it. At that point in time, I think you've lost contact

Starting point is 00:11:02 with the sand castle. The more possessions you have, the more possessions that you have, the more possessed, I think you are. It's such a trap. It's such an easy way to fall victim to the forces that don't matter.

Starting point is 00:11:32 The more you contemplate the long term, the more you contemplate, you contemplate the long-term ramifications of what could happen in your life, the less you live today? Don't get me wrong. It's good to have goals, and you should have goals. However, it's important to remember that some goals are better than other goals, which brings me to another point. The topic of goals, like, if you do want to be successful, you should set goals for yourself and your family, you know, whatever it is, maybe it's traveling, or maybe it's just

Starting point is 00:12:23 hugging your kid more, or maybe it's learning something together, whatever your goals are. That's how you move forward. That's how you get a sandcastle built. Let me ask you this. What are the goals of our country? I live in Hawaii. I live in the U.S. and I'm 45

Starting point is 00:12:51 I've been to a lot of different schools I read a lot of books but I'm not sure what the goal of my country is do you know what the goal of your country is maybe that's why we're so messed up we have no common goals it seems like our goal

Starting point is 00:13:12 is to make money what's the goal make money well that's a pretty shitty goal especially when most people can't even agree on what money is. Why do you want to have money? So I can be free. You're already free. What if our goal,

Starting point is 00:13:38 what if our collective goal of a country was to eradicate corruption? Would that be a good starting point? What if the goal of our country was to eliminate poverty? Right? We don't have that goal. goal as a country. Instead, we have decided that we should not have a common goal of ending poverty,

Starting point is 00:14:14 that we should allow entrepreneurs to start a company that will help people get out of poverty. See, that's different. The incentive structure is different. The incentive structure for our country is making money and profit over anything. I'm not saying profit's a bad thing. Profits a good thing. However, our country has no clearly defined goals. Maybe each state should have a mission statement. Maybe each country should have a mission statement. And maybe that is what our senators and congressmen should be doing is, hey, this is our goal for this year. We want this.

Starting point is 00:14:57 Let's just focus on one thing for this year. Obviously, problems come up. We've got to have votes. However, what if here's our five-year plan? In five years, we want to have no one living under bridges or we want to have a lot less people living under bridges in this country. That should be easily doable. We printed $1.9 trillion.

Starting point is 00:15:26 How about maybe our goal should be to potentially find the fraudulent activity in the banking sector? Maybe that should be the goal of our country. Well, how did we get there? I went from Adam and Eve, cataclysms, Buddhists to the banking sector. Let me jump back on track here. Hope you enjoyed that. But let me get to the reading about these cataclysms that I started off doing. Here we go.

Starting point is 00:15:58 Adam and Eve. The History of Cataclysms. Reading number two, two, two. Noah, Adam and Eve, Vishnu, Osama. Cyrus, what do they have in common? They represent eras, ages apart, and yet, somehow they all join hands in the next cataclysm and walk with us. There are others who walk with us, too.

Starting point is 00:16:27 Men of science long forgotten. Those who first saw that these tumbles, these cataclysmic catastrophes, or revolutions of the earth's Shell have happened before. Countless times. Jay Andre DeLuke in 1779 and Georges Cuvier in 1812 were the foremost. Dolomieu, the famous mineralogist, joined the consensus, as did Escher and Forrell, the Swiss geologists. Also, J. Andre DeLuke Jr. and von Bouch, they all agreed that the Cataclysms were caused by sudden revolutions in the wrong direction by the surface of the earth. Cuvier, in his Theory of the Earth, first published in 1812, based his conclusion on his unparalleled, correlative research in stratigraphicrap, comparative anatomy, and paleontology.

Starting point is 00:17:38 As a matter of fact, Cuvier was a matter of fact. Cuvier was the founder of the science of comparative anatomy, based on his pioneering, self-taught work in that field. At that time, he wrote, every part of the earth, every hemisphere, every continent, exhibits the same phenomenon. There has, therefore, been a succession of variations in the economy of organic nature. The various catastrophes which have disturbed the strata have given rise

Starting point is 00:18:09 to numerous shiftings of the continental basin. It is of much importance to mark that these repeated eruptions and retreats of the sea have neither been slow nor gradual. On the contrary, most of the catastrophes which occasioned them have been sudden, and this is especially easy to be proved with regard to the last of these catastrophes. I agree, therefore with Mr. M. M. DeLuke and Dolomu in thinking that if anything in geology be established, it is that the surface of our globe has undergone a great and sudden revolution, the date of which cannot be much earlier than five or six thousand years ago. Also, one preceding revolution at least had put the continents underwater, perhaps two or three eruptions of the sea.

Starting point is 00:19:09 see. These alternations now appear to me to form the problem in geology that it is of most importance to solve. In order to solve it satisfactory, it would be necessary to discover the cause of these events. These ideas have haunted. I may almost say have tormented me during my researches among fossil bones. Researchers which embrace, but a very small part of those phenomena, of the age preceding the last general revolution of the globe, and which are yet intimately connected with all the others. Many attempts have been made to answer the charge made to the geological profession by Cuvier,

Starting point is 00:20:02 to explain these sudden revolutions in the wrong direction, Among others, Velikovsky tried it through his studies of myths and legends. Hapgood tried it, Hugh Brown attempted, and in the process amassed a tremendous library of geological data. Every time the cataclysmic concept has risen, the beast has been stoned, burned at the stake beaten to a pulp and buried with a vengeance. But the corpse won't stay dead. Each time it rises the lid off its coffin and says in sepultural tones, You will die before I. The latest of the challenges is Professor Frank C. Hibbon, who in his book The Lost Americans, said, quote,

Starting point is 00:20:52 This was no ordinary extinction of a vague geological period which fizzled to an uncertain end. This death was catastrophic, and all. inclusive, what caused the death of 40 million animals, the corpus delicti, and this mystery may be found almost anywhere. Their bones lie bleaching in the sands of Florida and in the gravels of New Jersey. They weather out of the dry terraces of Texas and protrude from the sticky ooze of the tarpits off Wilshire Boulevard in Los Angeles. The bodies of the victims are everywhere.

Starting point is 00:21:33 We find literally thousands together, young and old, full with dam, calf, with cow. The muck pits of Alaska are filled with evidence of universal death. A picture of quiet extinction. Any argument as to the cause must apply to North America, Siberia, and Europe as well. Mammoth and bison were torn and twisted as though by a cosmic hand in a godly rage. In many places, the Alaskan muck blanket, is packed with animal bones and debris and trainload lots. Mammoth, mastodon, bison, horses, wolves, bears, and lions.

Starting point is 00:22:14 A faunal population in the middle of some cataclysmic catastrophe was suddenly frozen in a grim charade. Supernatural winds, volcanic burning, inundation and burial and muck. Preservation by deep freeze of both torn up animals and muck. Any good solution to a consuming mystery must answer all of the facts. Challenges Hibben. The challenge wouldn't leave me alone. Like a hunger, it gnawed at my subconscious.

Starting point is 00:22:48 I could hear the deep tones of Cuvier's challenge. Find the cause of these events, still reverberating through the sacred halls of science. Ghostly, unanswered. I felt Hibbon's challenge prodding me. answer all of the facts. I decided that the cataclysmic concept, this catastrophic end, which visits our planet time after time,

Starting point is 00:23:19 needed verification, or refutation, once and for all. The first step was to gather all of the known accepted data from as many sciences pertaining to our planet as possible. Stratigraphy, stratigraphy, archaeology,

Starting point is 00:23:37 and radiology, anthropology, paleontology, and oceanography, plus cosmology and astronomy, and seismology in oceanography. The paleo-languages, such as prehistoric Mayan, even evolution could not be ignored. Further cross-correlation of the data between the sciences had to be honored. All of the foregoing gave the answer. Although there is enough data in most sciences to indicate that these cataclysms happen, There was not enough in each science to derive the process or prove the concept, but between science cross-correlation showed indeed that the concept was true.

Starting point is 00:24:20 Not only did it verify that the events happened, but disclosed when the last five cataclysms were, and what positions the shell of the earth has been in for the last 35,000 or more years. This was a first-time effort for certain. So after years of research, beginning in 1949, Kuwier's challenge had an answer. Yes, indeed cataclysms do happen. But I had not yet found the answer to his challenge. Find the cause of these events.

Starting point is 00:24:53 It would take me 20 more years to find the cause and trigger of cataclysms. What makes them start? And further, exactly what is it that happens after it starts? What is the process of a cataclysm? Finally, what is the timetable of cataclysm? It was obvious already from the data that it was nonlinear. Was it a mathematical function that we could derive from the data? Or is it random and frustrating in its unpredictability?

Starting point is 00:25:24 The more learned, the more to be discovered and learned. Meanwhile, what a chase. And what a dramatic story of the history of earth. earth we uncovered. Civilizations of more than 20,000 years ago, more advanced than our wildest imagination. Prehistoric legends from Greece, Egypt, India, and South America, which became history instead of legend. Lost continents in the Atlantic and Pacific, which became dated realities with logical reasons for their sudden disappearance. Yes, Vishnu came alive, a man who lived through a cataclysm many thousands of years ago.

Starting point is 00:26:06 10 cataclysms ago. Now he is known as the Hindu god of 10 resurrections from the waters. Osiris was rediscovered. He was the Jesus of his time, a man of Egypt some 15,000 years ago. Noah smiled at us from the pages of the Epic of Gilgamesh. He actually was a Sumerian named Utt Napshitam, who lived just around 7,000 years ago.

Starting point is 00:26:34 The ark he built is more than one. legend. The process of a cataclysm is known now.

TrueLife - Your Life Is a Sandcastle: Adam & Eve, Impermanence, and the Architecture of Human Meaning (Part 2)

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