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Benjamin C. George - Running on Mushrooms
Episode 226
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Speaker 0 (0s): Yeah, our life, ladies and gentlemen, welcome back to the TrueLife podcast. We are here with the author of No Absolutes, a fascinating individual, and a friend of mine. I'm not afraid to call him a friend of mine. He's a great person. And we're going to get into some more ideas about No Absolutes in history and anything else that comes our way. Benjamin. Is there any, you want to introduce yourself and if you want to start off with,
Speaker 1 (28s): Yeah, actually it looks like my livestream popped up and I'm getting a me in the background. So one second.
Speaker 0 (50s): Sorry
Speaker 1 (51s): About that.
Speaker 0 (52s): No apologies, man. No Absolutes. No apologies. It
Speaker 1 (55s): Happens right. There we go.
Speaker 0 (58s): So we again, go ahead. I'm sorry.
Speaker 1 (1m 1s): No, please go ahead.
Speaker 0 (1m 3s): So we began our momentary conversation before the podcast talking about symbols, talking about it's almost like another language, these obtuse, but familiar ideas that seem to be implanted in us by being bombarded on us. And I know a little bit about them, but I think it's a, and you may think it's a nice segue into history. Can you tell me a little bit about what you know about symbols or what do you think about some of those ideas?
Speaker 1 (1m 33s): Sure. Well, I mean, you know, symbology is all around us. It's, you know, our writing is simple, right? Which kind of goes back to, you know, words are important, how we think are important, you know, because that symbology is, it's very powerful. We're, we're attached to symbology inextricably, you know, you touched on it in a video that she made yesterday, I believe, but, you know, we have ancient symbols that have traversed the world, and yet we don't, we don't really have a good meaning of what they are.
And w you know, one of those symbols is that swastika, the swastika symbol, which it happens in the one you showed was the, the east Indian one, but it occurs in indigenous tribes across the world. And from my understanding, a lot of those indigenous tribes use that as kind of like a signifier for the season and the changing of the seasons, the, for the hemispheres, you know, the segments of it.
And then the dots would represent the equinoxes. And that was also a tool for how they constructed structures to orient them into the right directions to, and, you know, that's just one of how many hundreds, if not thousands of symbols that, that are all around us, another one you pointed to as the Starbucks one and recall, I'm not, it was a few years ago, but I think somebody did a dive on that. And it goes back to the restroom, I think, and it was the God and MENA goddess MENA the scene or something like that.
So, you know, it's really interesting that we see a symbol like that pop-up today, and we see them all around, you know, CERN just turned on and they have a symbol of Shiva in front of CERN, you know, and then we have less familiar ones, of course, but our history is replete with symbols. And so I wanted to segue that into, you know, kind of the history of things in my book. I've just did a brief history of things. And since then, I've done a lot more research and, you know, it really seems to me that there's a cyclical kind of nature to what we call society, what we call our ancient societies are actually from the evidence that I've been exposed to.
And I've researched, they're kind of a repop of civilization after the late, the last cataclysm, which I, how familiar are you with? Like the younger, Dryas curious,
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