The Sun of God with Chance Garton on False Reality Check #104
Had a blast discussing the origins of the savior mythos with my great friends Leggs and Buffalo from False Reality Check. One of the best flow states I've ever had with this subject!
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In this episode
Core themes
Language as the first metaverse
Chance described language as a first metaverse, a layer of narratives and allegories that he said filters how people experience reality. He argued that people had come to default to words over lived feeling, and offered the map and terrain image, asking whether the phone map or one's actual location was the real one. He then contrasted two Greek words for time, measured Kronos and subjective Kairos, and said consciousness should come first with language following to describe it. He connected this to his tuning work, where he said sessions can feel very different in length.
The Trinity and shared savior figures
Chance said the Trinity could be understood through sacred geometry, beginning with a single circle that mirrors itself and produces a third shape between the two. He suggested that figures such as Jesus, Mercury, Hermes, Buddha, and Odin pointed to one recurring pattern, and he listed mothers with similar names as support. One host asked where his sources came from. Chance said plainly that these were his own opinions, and he allowed that listeners might find some of the links a stretch.
Wordplay and sound swaps as method
Chance explained that he leans on sound shifts such as V and B, H and E, and interchangeable vowels to link names across languages. He gave examples including the four-letter name of God read as Eve, the IHS monogram traced to Bacchus, and Peter and potter as a pun. One of the hosts described asking priests what IHS meant and being given a Greek title as the answer, and said the connections were a surprise. Chance acknowledged some of it could look like stretching, and said the pattern had held for him.
Star writing and the sky clock
Chance described scripture as constellation writing, using the Sumerian word Lumashi, and said priest astronomers built stories from star names and their positions. He gave the Pegasus square as an example, saying it was connected to the Garden of Eden and the squared ark in the Gilgamesh account. Chance credited Godfrey Higgins, John McHugh, and Dylan Saccoccio as key sources, and said Dylan's own sources were early church writers, inscriptions, and coins. He added that being convinced might take dozens of hours of reading.
The savior within and the inner marriage
Chance described the external savior as a teaching story that helps a person balance yin and yang, using an alchemy image about leaving the solvent out of a final tincture. He said that after the inner marriage, a person no longer needs an outside mediator, and he described crucifixion as removing the external figure. The hosts shared that outsourced morality had bothered them, and one host described reading Jesus as a moral lesson. Chance said he did not want listeners to lose faith, only to drop combative literalism.
Quotes
“I think the metaverse is just like metaverse 2.0. And the first one was language, because what is the metaverse that we know of online made out of? Language.”
“I mean, just ask anybody, do you know how to get home without the map app on your phone? What is the reality? Is it the Google map or is it where you actually are in the time space continuum of right now?”
“The Greeks had two words for time. They had Kronos, which is the measured time, which is the number on the clock. It's the cycles of the heavens. Then they had Kairos, which is subjective time.”
“We just need to get the order of operations of what we're doing in order. Language is there to describe what we're conscious of rather than to be the reality for us, right?”
“We are powerful creators. We are the demiurgos, we are the craftsmen, we are the mediator, we are the builders of this world. We are our own saviors, and the pattern or the potter or the logos, the father, is within us.”
“We're looking at the physical remnants of the past that haven't been able to be changed, and also the roots in language, which no matter what you can't really get rid of. So we're not really relying on opinions very much to do this syncretism.”
“The whole point of this work, why I'm invested in it, is not to destroy people's spirituality or make them atheistic. Honestly, the more you learn about the sky clock, the more you learn about the patterns in nature that are repeating throughout the fractal.”
“Once you have done the alchemical marriage in yourself, you don't need the external savior or solvent or mercury. You don't need an outside force from yourself that you believe in and worship as God. You have found the savior within you.”
