Speaker 0 (0s): Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the true life podcast. Hope your day is going beautiful. Hope the sun is shining. The birds have singing that sweet, sweet song that puts a smile on your face was thinking today about all the patterns that we see in our life about the patterns of the language we use to describe ourselves and others and the relationships in which we find ourselves in the patterns of behavior that manifests themselves from the language that we use, the pattern of relationships from you, to your family, be it your wife or your husband, or your daughter, or your son, or your mom or your dad, and how those relationships tend to be the foundation for which we find ourselves in relation to the rest of the world.

At times, the world can seem like a labyrinth, an ordeal, a place where you can get lost a place where you could find your way. Maybe even some treasure. For me, it's like a sacred journey. And for me, the sacred is always the revelation of the real and encounter with that, which saves us by giving meaning to our existence.

I'm going to say that again for me, the sacred is always the revelation of the real and encounter with that, which saves us by giving meaning to our existence. It has this encounter with the sacred. It is this realization of the pattern of life that shows itself to you. Let me try to put it a different way.

I used to believe. I used to feel that we, me, you, the individual was living in some sort of grand novel, a painting, a poetic speech, a beautiful work of art. About a decade ago, I changed my mind. I began telling myself a different story. I began living a different life.

I began recognizing the pattern in the labyrinth and what I began to see is while this life is a grand novel, it is a poetic speech. It is the most beautiful opera that you could ever be blessed to be in. It's still more than that though. I look at it like a ritualistic ceremony.

I believe it to be a Rite of passage. That one it's, it's hard to explain, I guess, but I see it as this ritualistic ceremony. There's Rite of passage that not only points to where we're going as a species, but it is something that if you are willing knowingly, faithfully, lovingly, willing to participate in, then it allows you to see what is said by Thomas and the gospel of Thomas that my father's kingdom is all around us yet.

No one sees it that didn't come out. As clear as I had it in my mind, I should try to probably redo that. But it's Thursday and Thursday is the raw form of the podcast. So we're just going to roll with that on the topic of the pattern. I want to talk to you about the first time that I saw the pattern or realized there was in fact a pattern. I think I was a young boy, probably nine or 10, and the United States was under attack by this Japanese monster.

No, no, no, no. It wasn't Godzilla. Although Godzilla was awesome. It was this little, one dimensional, flat pie, yellow pie creature with no eyes, no one is Pac-Man. And I can't tell you how many quarters I spent playing Pac-Man for how many people my age spent playing Pac-Man was this monster that just took over the United States.

And Pac-Man for those of you who live in a land, or for those of you who were born, I don't know yesterday may not know what it is. It's just this game in which this little pie shaped creature, almost clear the labyrinth of all these dots. There's four power pellets that if you eat them, it allows you to turn around and chase the ghosts that are following you. You blink, you inky, Clyde, forgot the other one.

However, it's important to note that Pac-Man, as he goes around the board is followed by four different ghosts. Each of these ghosts have their own particular style of trying to eat or kill the pack. For those of us who's played Pac-Man long enough or watched other people play. You begin to notice that those who are really good have found a pattern to move through the board. I think the, the most common pattern was called the cherry pattern or the pear pattern, which is basically you follow the little fruit that floats through the board.

And for those of you that don't know, there would be like a little piece of fruit that would float to the board that if you ate, you got extra points and hopefully you would get an extra man if you got enough points. And so it's interesting to look back on that game because that is where the pattern first emerged for me. You know, if you followed the pattern in Pac-Man, you could clear the board, eat all the ghosts and move on to the next level.

And I think that that is what we are doing in our lives is we're trying to clear the board. We're trying to find the pattern and the same way we discovered the pattern in Pac-Man as a kid is the same way we can see or find the pattern as an adult. It's by looking to those who came before us, the pattern is found in the hero's journey. The pattern is found in Nietzsche's camel to the child. The pattern is in our DNA.

It's in ourselves, it's in our collective unconscious and our collective memory in the game. Pac-Man there are times where, as you're following the pattern, it seems as though there's certain death, but if you remain vigilant and stick to the pattern those times in which you think you're going to die are in fact, the times that challenge you the most much like the pattern of life. If you have the faith and the confidence in yourself to come around the turn and eat the power pellet, even though there appears to be a ghost waiting for you, you'll find that you eat not only the power pellet, but the ghost at the exact same time.

And it's the courage to go forward. When it looks like there is certain death, it's the courage to move forward. When you know, you can't turn around, it's the courage to continue to move forward. When it looks like you are sandwiched in it is this recognition of the pattern that is the pattern of life. And if you can see it in Pac-Man and you can see it in your life, then you can begin to see it everywhere.

It doesn't have to be Pac-Man. You could find the pattern in any sort of game in any sort of action in any sort of relationship. And your pattern may be different than my pattern, but the pattern exists. It's important to know that you can change the pattern. You can disrupt the pattern, even create a new pattern if you're willing to put in the work to do so. This pattern it's deep, it's wide and there's patterns within the pattern.

Allow me to give you an example, using the previous example of Pac-Man you see the pattern I did there, this pattern within a pattern can be found in Pac-Man think of the game. Pac-Man it is this round blind object, constantly consuming everything around it. Blindly consuming, consuming, consuming, consuming, walk I'll, walk and walk and walk and walk and walk and walk are consuming, consuming, consuming, consuming, blindly consuming, consuming, consuming, consuming, blindly consuming, consuming, consuming, blindly.

It's almost it's it's almost as if Pac-Man is being chased by the ghosts of his past. There are these entities that are trying to catch up to him to remind him, to eat him, to remind him that if he doesn't continually consume that he will face death. These ghosts are like irrational fears brought about by media government, laws, behaviors, cycles of behaviors, which are in fact different patterns of behavior.

The idea of Pac-Man as a pattern for life is an ear really similar way in which a lot of people live their life. I don't think it was designed to be an object of blind consumption. However, it is this idea, this game of blind consumption that has penetrated our psyche and left you. And I like Pac-Man people around the world.

Like Pac-Man blindly consuming, being chased by ghosts, afraid to stop and fears that the ghosts will catch them chasing the illusion of fruit. It's an interesting thought to think about the pattern, the patterns within patterns and your ability to create new patterns. I'd like to invite all of you to think about the patterns in your life, to think about the games you used to play in the games you still play today.

How have these patterns of your past manifested themselves in your behaviors today? Are you Pac-Man? Are you blindly consuming? If so, all you need to do is come up with a different pattern and win the game. In fact, I would argue, being able to design your own pattern allows you to win the game.

The pattern of Pac-Man is blind consumption, and it is a pattern that is instilled by society, by culture, by leaders, educators, and the rest of the blind leading the blind. But you listening to this no longer need to be blind. Awakened my friend, awakened my friend. I hope you have a beautiful day. I hope you begin to see the patterns in your life that make you your relationships and everything around you.

Beautiful. You are the master of your pattern, awaken to the ideas that you can create the life that it is you want to live. That's all I got for today. Let's get up and get out of all.