Speaker 0 (0s): Welcome everybody to the TrueLife podcast. Thanks for hanging out with me today. I got a special guest I think gives are all going to love a young handsome gentlemen that goes by the name of George Monty. Nice. Well, thank you. Thank you for allowing me some time on your platform. I'm happy to be here. I'm a big fan of the podcast. The TrueLife podcast is awesome and you know, I'm a big fan of what you're doing, George and you're right. I am handsome.

Here's a book that he put out. It's called terror before the sacred, you get a good look at it. There, it should be on bookshelves to 22, 22. And the Kindle price he says is going for 7 77. Sounds a little esoteric to me. We're going to get into it with him. And he's going to describe everything about them. It's going to be a great show. I think you're really going to enjoy it. So before we get into the real ideas of the book, could you tell my audience a little bit about what inspired you to write this book and what that process looks like?

Well, I guess what inspired me was, you know, I think so many of us, whether it's some of us later in life, some of us earlier in life, you know, we find that maybe all these things that we thought were going to make us happy. They don't make us happy and maybe you've accomplished some goals. Maybe you had a family, maybe you haven't, you know, but you, you have come to a place in your life where you want to create change and you know, you're more.

And so you start searching for these outlets. And for me, I had always, for me, there was always like a, a spiritual connection that I felt towards other people towards the planet. And, you know, I haven't always been the greatest person, but I tried to be a caring and loving person and a nice person. And I I've always felt this connection to the earth. And, you know, that's probably why I smoke so much weed and someone in mushrooms, I think a large part of my audience is in that same camp.

I think they, I think a lot of us realize that we're in transformative times and they, they hear the siren song. They can feel that spiritual guy, or they can feel that certain something that the logos, they can feel this, the felt presence of the other, whispering to them, pulling them, telling them, trying to guide them to a different area. And that, that seems a lot like what you were talking about, what inspired you in this book? Exactly. You know, I was thinking about that.

I think that that energy, that we all feel that we're all beginning to be aware of, like this, this change that everybody knows is coming and when he can feel it, they may not be able to have a linguistic pathway to explain it, but everybody sees the world changing all around them. And I think that that is, that is the awareness that we are moving from individuals or we're moving from seeing ourselves as individuals and beginning to see ourselves as a pattern.

And that the reason that's so profound, at least to me, and what I try to get through in the book, the terrible for the sacred is that it's this new awareness that's happening and it's different, you know, for so long, we've lived under certain types of ideologies and isms. And to me, what's happening is the breakdown of the old world. Like the old world is dying right in front of us all around us, but there's this new world beginning to emerge.

And I think that that is what people are feeling. And I think it's going to bring us together. I think, I think that the future is going to be better and brighter and stronger and more connected and more spiritual than anything we've known before. And that's kind of what I get into in the book a little bit. I, I really think you guys are gonna enjoy it. I don't, we just go ahead and dive in here. Why don't you start off with the, maybe you can explain to people the cover art that you have here. Can people see that it is, it looks like some blotter paper with a blow up of Alice in Wonderland is at a hookah smoking caterpillar.

Now, why don't you just go ahead and tell people a little bit about the artwork and then just go ahead and take the conversation wherever you deem fit. I'm curious to learn a little bit more about it. Thanks. Yeah. So the cover, the cover took me awhile to figure out I was originally gonna go with a, with an agency to do the cover work for me. You know, if you read your, I don't know, again, I'm kind of new as my first book that's been published and you know, there's all this, there's all these bells and whistles that you can get.

It's like buying a new car. You want the base package, or do you want to get like the upgraded turbo with the vanity mirror and you know, all the leathered Shrim and all this stuff. And you know, in today's world, it's never been easier to publish. And I would like to encourage everybody. Who's been thinking about writing just to sit down and start doing it. That's what I, that's what I, that's how I started. And the same thing for the cover. There's if you just do some basic research, you can find out what you need in order to create your own cover. And if you have a little bit of skills in graphic design, you can follow the templates and, and, and do your own cover.

But for me, I, this cover here, I don't know if you guys can see this. It's kind of got like a little glare, but it's the, it's the scene or a recreation of the scene. It's not the copyright copyrighted saved them arrows. I'm wondering because I would never, ever do that. I would put something similar on there. It represents the scene. You can see in the background, it's an old school blotter paper of, you know, some LSD from like the seventies, the, the original eat me bladder sheet.

I think that's pretty awesome. And then what you see here is you see the actual theme or a representation thereof. And if you can see the hookah smoking caterpillar is actually sitting on the mushroom when he is talking to the young girl there. And I think it's important to note the title of the book is terror before the sacred. And for those of us who remember that conversation, you know, there was a movie called Alice in Wonderland. And in that movie, Alice, when she gets to the point in the movie where she meets the caterpillar, the caterpillar asks, who are you?

Who are you? And to me like that particular question, the particular iconography on the cover, the conversation they're having. I think that that is the turning point for everybody. You know, it symbolizes the indigenous sense. It symbolizes the, the judgment, the judgment of famous, right? It's like, it's everything it is.

Who are you? How do you answer that question? I mean, let me ask you, who are you, what would you say if I asked you that question? You know, and I think it's important to note, that's the question that every man or woman needs to ask themselves before they can graduate into becoming what they are. It's like a, since we're talking about a caterpillar, you know, it's, it's much like a much like a silk worm spins its web and gets caught in it.

So do we spin our webs of lies and truth and linguistics, and then we get caught in it. And I think that this represents the idea that that's what, that's where we are. We're like in this cocoon, we have spun our web and been caught in it. And now we're cracking out of this Chrysalis. We're beginning to put our legs and our hands through. And we're beginning to emerge out of the cocoon as a new form.

And that's, I mean, gosh, I should have wrote that in the book, but you know, that's exactly what I wanted the cover of the book to show people that we're in this transition, everything in your life is in transition. And I want this book to be a guide for you in this transition. This is like an instruction manual of how we can get through this time. And so, yeah, I thank you for noticing the cover and allowing me to share that my ideas about the coverage or there's, there's so much more in there.

I mean, if you just grab the book and look at it, it won't take you that long for your mind to start racing and understanding like, wow, this is going to be a pretty deep book. There's a lot of stuff on the cover. And to be honest, like I have put in so many Easter eggs and so much esoteric knowledge that, I mean, I hope I didn't layer it to the point where people won't get it. You know, I, I tend to do that. Sometimes I tend to go pretty deep. And then I think things are super funny and a lot of people are like, I don't get it, or I'm good at drawing.

And I'm like, no, you don't do that. What do you mean? You don't get that perfect right there. And if I got read it, you know, so there's a lot of stuff in there. And yeah, I would say reading this book is like being initiated. If you can understand what I'm telling you in this book, then you're one of us you initiated and you'll know it you'll feel it you'll see it. And then you become the one who does the initiating.

So does that kinda make sense? I mean, that's a lot to take in the cover, but yeah. Thank you for asking about the guys. Very nice. You know, I don't want to give away too much of the book, but there are some excerpts that I kind of wanted to read and just get your opinion on. And that way my audience can kind of understand a little bit about maybe what some of your goals are with this book. So this is a, from the beginning letter in your book, and you say, quote, let me be clear that my goal here is a simple one, one simple objective that I shall pursue relentlessly for the duration of this work for my son and my daughter for your sons and your daughters.

The objective is to help them achieve the ultimate goal of life, to live a life worth living of which there are three main pillars, one, a lifetime of learning to never value wealth or a job over quality of life. Number three, the understanding that your life is a one of a kind masterpiece, a work of art, so beautiful that all those who are fortunate enough to be part of it are filled with emotion.

Some will be brought to tears. Some will be driven to rage and still others will be forever able to draw inspiration from your story. That's beautiful, man. You know what I wish someone would have told me about these three main pillars of how to live a life worth living. Can you elaborate a little bit more on that? Like where did that come from? Yeah, let me, let me go ahead and try to talk about the process a little bit more.

So I'd never written a book before and, and I know a lot of people that have, and I think maybe for everybody, the process of writing is a little bit different for me. I would come home and like most people, you know, I got a nine to five job and it's kind of difficult in the beginning to find time. And I think most people are aware of that. Are you gonna write a book, whether you're going to have some hobbies or so you surf or you skate or, you know, you're, you're the, you're the coach for your kid's games or practice or whatever.

You know, we're constantly trying to find time to get things done in order to better ourselves. And so I had to find some time to do that. I usually would go to bed later and wake up earlier. But as far as the actual process of writing, what I found was to go somewhere inspiring when we go to the beach or just be outside and bring my notebook and, and maybe throw on some headphones and just listen either to listen to the silence or put on some sort of music and just kind of let the creative process, you know, embrace me and then good things just kind of start flowing out.

It's interesting because I originally, I didn't, it was started off as a letter. Like I was just going to write a letter to my kid's school about education and then, and I just kept writing and writing and writing and it was like, it sounds so cliche, but it's like somebody was writing through me. And that's how I knew when I was done. I got about, I got into about 20,000 words. I had originally contacted some publishers and they were curious as to how long the book was going to be. And I thought maybe, you know, 50,000 words or something, but when it got dropped right around 20,000, it's like I was writing, writing and writing at a drop the pain and I'm like, that's it.

So, yeah, it's, it's interesting. You know, I think a lot of artists will, will understand that force. Like, you know, you're just going and going and then you're done. And that's how, you know, when you're done, it's kind of, it's a, it's a, it's kind of a strange feeling, to be honest with you.