TrueLife

Support the show:
https://www.paypal.me/Truelifepodcast?locale.x=en_US

Buy Grow kit:
https://modernmushroomcultivation.com/

This Band willl Blow your Mind!
Codex Serafini:
https://codexserafini.bandcamp.com/album/the-imprecation-of-anima

In this episode I breakdown the relationship between social media & culture on human behaviour. It is my belief, that we have been and are being alienated from the natural environment. Like the frog in the pot It’s a slow boil. Fetishising, accumulating, material goods has moved us from a state of being into a state of having, and from a state of having into the appearance of having.
https://linktr.ee/TrueLifepodcast

Support the show:
https://www.paypal.me/Truelifepodcast?locale.x=en_US

Check out our YouTube:
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLPzfOaFtA1hF8UhnuvOQnTgKcIYPI9Ni9&si=Jgg9ATGwzhzdmjkg

Grow your own:
https://modernmushroomcultivation.com/

This Band Will Blow Your Mind:
Codex Serafini
https://codexserafini.bandcamp.com/album/the-imprecation-of-anima

Support the show:
https://www.paypal.me/Truelifepodcast?locale.x=en_US

Buy Grow kit:
https://modernmushroomcultivation.com/

This Band willl Blow your Mind!
Codex Serafini:
https://codexserafini.bandcamp.com/album/the-imprecation-of-anima

Speaker 0 (0s): Welcome everybody to the TrueLife podcast. Happy new year to everybody. Hope you don't have a great day. I am flying solo today, my cohost. And can it be here? So you just get, you just get George today. Hope everybody's having a great new year. I wanted to talk about a few topics that I find relatively interesting, and I think you'll find them interesting as well. First and foremost is what do you guys know about grasshoppers? You know, a lot about grasshoppers.

I didn't know a lot about him either, but I've been reading up on him a little bit and I want to talk about how a grasshopper becomes a locust. I think you'll find this fascinating. I'm gonna have to look at my notes. So locus, like the ones that cause plagues and ravage the planet, they're actually a type of grasshopper and it's a type of grasshopper that undergoes a morphological change when it gets into large groups. So this transformation from a group of individual grasshoppers to a swarm of locusts, it results in plagues, famine, death, and just devastation.

I want you to focus on a little bit, think about it like a regular grasshopper. Like how does it, it physically changes its form and to a group of locusts. And the reason that's important is because I think it dovetails nicely with what we as humans do. So I want to read to you a little bit about how the grasshopper becomes a locust and becomes a swarm. And it's going to get into how individuals think about like a Think about a big giant group of people like a mob, right at the mob mentality is a lot like the locust mentality.

Let's figure out how a grasshopper becomes a locust, and then we can figure out how an individual person may succumb to kind of group think. So in specific climatic conditions, usually after heavy rains, causing a sudden flush of vegetation, followed in specific climatic conditions, when there's a heavy rain, all of a sudden there's plenty of vegetation out there and the grasshoppers are feeding, feeding, feeding, there's tons of vegetation and that particular condition, it leads to plentiful food.

Plentiful food leads to rapid breeding, rapid breeding leads to and involved in a evolution and an increase in still more reproduction. And that is the catalyst that leads to the transformation from the grasshopper to the locus. So let's talk about the transformation for a minute. The transformation happens when the boom turns to bust when there's tons of vegetation and then all of a sudden there's no vegetation. So the grass opera starts scrambling. There's a ton of them and now there's no more food, right?

And when those conditions caused the vegetation to die back, the food is, and then it restricts the feeding grounds. When this happens, the density of locusts increased further as they are forced into smaller and smaller areas of land. Once a critical mass is reached the grasshoppers begin to undergo a morphological change into that of the locus. It has been found that these changes are triggered by the individual grasshoppers. Having their back legs touched a certain number of times by other members of their species.

This is generally caused because each locust is nipping at its neighbor in an effort to get enough food. The physical changes begin with a release of serotonin and other neurotransmitters. So, okay. Think about that particular example. And now think about us as humans. What happens to us when we run out of food? What happens to us when we're Cajun with tons of people, we kind of start nipping at each other's heels and we begin to change as a society. We begin to think different.

We begin to see things different. You know, I had a friend that used to say, everything's, everything's fine until people stop making money. Right? Think about it in your neighborhood or where you grew up wet or what time you grew up. If you grew up in the eighties, like me in the nineties, when there's tons of money going around, you know, there's a lot more people that are willing to deal with problems, but when times get tough, people get pissed. And I think that that is kind of where we're at now. And the reason I bring that up is I really think that all the problems that we have in our life can be solved by looking at nature.

And that's why I bring up the idea of the grasshopper turning into the locus, because I think that we right now are in this transition, we are in the transition of moving from like individual people into like ...

Support the show:
https://www.paypal.me/Truelifepodcast?locale.x=en_US

Buy Grow kit:
https://modernmushroomcultivation.com/

This Band willl Blow your Mind!
Codex Serafini:
https://codexserafini.bandcamp.com/album/the-imprecation-of-anima

Transcript:
https://app.podscribe.ai/episode/47259791
https://open.spotify.com/user/31umib2vbp3dny7n36qdqw5ujxny?si=zljmd-spT1WZzTbL_-uuLQ

https://feeds.transistor.fm/truelife

https://apple.co/2Qn9SEL

https://www.facebook.com/TrueLifefactz/

https://www.facebook.com/george.monty.397

[email protected]

Speaker 0 (0s): What's up. How's everybody feeling out there, guys. Enjoy your weekend. Did you have a, do anything special? Hanging out with the family, have a couple drinks, maybe have too many drinks on Friday, too many drinks on Saturday. You get up and go to church on Sunday. What'd you guys do anything fun? Oh, I'm just checking in on you guys. You know what I love you.

You know, I haven't seen you for a couple of days and wanting to start this week off the right way. Give you guys something, hopefully to laugh about something, to think about so much tragedy going on right now. So much chaos. It kind of got me thinking it got me thinking about how in times of chaos in times of absolute uncertainty, you can find, I think you can find some pretty good humor.

You can find that little golden nugget of comedy. And I want to give you an example of something that happened to me back when I was a young buck, I was probably, I don't know, let's say 17, 17 year old George Monte working at a pizza place. And it was up it's called ProQuest pizza, man. Some of you guys know upper crust pizza.

They make a phenomenal pizza. This Italian guy, Frank DeStefano runs it. It was like a happening spot man. And like Frank would hire a bunch of kids. And when I say kids, I mean, you know, everywhere between 15 to like 26 and it was, it was, it was popping there, man. And it was all the, it kind of reminded me of you guys from that show happy days. And they, they would all go to like Al's diner, wasn't Al's diner, you know, were Fonzie would hit the jukebox and you'd be like, Hey, the music would come on.

But all the kids would go there is what I'm trying to say. It was like, it was the happening hangout. And especially Fridays and Saturdays, like Fridays and Saturdays, it would just be packed in there, like standing room only. And just so, because everybody's listening to this, I'm going to try to give you some dimensions. So you would walk, you, you would drive up and then you would walk in the glass doors and you would tell the glass, you would go in the double glass doors on your right hand side would be a takeout window with a cash register. And then straight ahead of you would be the dine-in register about 10 feet from the door.

And then you would follow all the way down the corridor. And there would be a bar where you would get your drinks, you know, be it soda or beer or wine or, or whatever. And then it opened up and like a really big dining room that probably had an occupancy of maybe 230 people. So it was a relatively large place, had a big screen TV and just think of your local pizza joint, man. Everybody's got a pizza joint in their, in their town or at least they did when I was growing up and this pizza place, it wasn't in a really bad area, but it wasn't in like a, a great area.

It was kind of an older part of town. And it just so happened that that place got robbed a couple of times. And it just so happened that I was there two times it got robbed. And I don't know if anybody has ever been held at gunpoint before, but it can be kind of traumatic. It can also be kind of humorous. I know what you're thinking. It doesn't sound very funny. And it wasn't funny at the time, but looking back at it, there was some funny things that happened.

So the first time, the first time was like on a Wednesday night and there was a three man closing crew. It was me, my friend ward and the manager, Frank de Stefano, and anybody who's ever worked in like a restaurant business knows that like right before, you're about to close. We were closing at 10 o'clock and like we were wiping down the counters and we're putting stuff away and doing the dishes.

And, you know, there was only three people there. And so it turned...

Support the show:
https://www.paypal.me/Truelifepodcast?locale.x=en_US

Buy Grow kit:
https://modernmushroomcultivation.com/

This Band willl Blow your Mind!
Codex Serafini:
https://codexserafini.bandcamp.com/album/the-imprecation-of-anima

https://www.revdrjessicarochester.com/

Rev. Dr. Jessica Rochester is the Madrinha and President of Céu do Montréal, a Santo Daime (Ayahuasca) Church she founded in 1997 in Montréal, Canada.
She is a transpersonal counselor, she trained in the work of Dr. Roberto Assagioli and trained with Dr. Stanislav Grof.
She worked with Health Canada from 2000 until 2017 to achieve an Section 56 Exemption to import and serve the Santo Daime
Sacrament (Ayahuasca).
She is an ordained Interfaith Minister with a Doctorate in Divinity.
From 1986 to 2018 she has been a workshop leader, teacher, and in private practice.
She is the author of Ayahuasca Awakening A Guide to Self-Discovery, Self-Mastery and Self-Care, Volume One and Two.
She continues to lecture on consciousness, non-ordinary states of consciousness, self-discovery, spiritual development, health and well-being and personal transformation

Support the show:
https://www.paypal.me/Truelifepodcast?locale.x=en_US

Check out our YouTube:
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLPzfOaFtA1hF8UhnuvOQnTgKcIYPI9Ni9&si=Jgg9ATGwzhzdmjkg

Grow your own:
https://modernmushroomcultivation.com/

This Band Will Blow Your Mind:
Codex Serafini
https://codexserafini.bandcamp.com/album/the-imprecation-of-anima

Support the show:
https://www.paypal.me/Truelifepodcast?locale.x=en_US

Buy Grow kit:
https://modernmushroomcultivation.com/

This Band willl Blow your Mind!
Codex Serafini:
https://codexserafini.bandcamp.com/album/the-imprecation-of-anima

Brandon Singletary

Welcome to the show, where ideas don’t just exist—they evolve, collide, and explode into new realities.

Today, I’m joined by an artist, a philosopher, and a world-builder in the truest sense—Brandon Singletary. He doesn’t just create art; he architects entire realities, forging bridges between the cosmos and human cognition. From mesmerizing short films to intricate philosophical art books, from vast series of illustrations to a living, breathing map of worldviews, aesthetics, and ways of creation, Brandon is constructing a new visual and conceptual language.

His work isn’t just seen—it’s experienced. It’s a doorway into the infinite, an invitation to reimagine what’s possible when imagination meets structure, when art meets philosophy, when vision meets execution.

Strap in—this is going to be a journey.

Brandon, welcome to the show.

Branden Singletary - Artist · Converting ideas into worlds that electrify the soul. in Birmingham, AL, USA :: Behance

Branden Singletary (@branden_singletary) - Instagram

http://linkedin.com/in/branden-singletary

Support the show:
https://www.paypal.me/Truelifepodcast?locale.x=en_US

Check out our YouTube:
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLPzfOaFtA1hF8UhnuvOQnTgKcIYPI9Ni9&si=Jgg9ATGwzhzdmjkg

Grow your own:
https://modernmushroomcultivation.com/

This Band Will Blow Your Mind:
Codex Serafini
https://codexserafini.bandcamp.com/album/the-imprecation-of-anima