The root meaning of the verb sacrifice is ‘to make sacred or holy’, necessary to live sanely and healthily in union with the Divine, from which we are never separate.
However, we live in a sick society that teaches us that the Divine and human can never be unified, except in the figure of Jesus of Nazareth. Yet, all humans innately possess the exquisite power of Christ or Buddha Consciousness, even though the prevailing culture is not willing to admit this essential quality of being human.
So, to return Home to Wholeness, it is necessary to sacrifice everything, including relationships with family and friends and a money-earning work ethic. For the finite money supply is the most divisive force on the planet, inhibiting us from realizing our transfinite potential as superintelligent humans.
Most significantly, Panosophy is a cosmology that views the Totality of Existence as a meaningful information system, as interpretations of the data patterns resident in the Cosmic Psyche. So the only viable system of governance is one that is based on the semantic modelling methods of information systems architects, rather than the quantitative financial modelling methods of economists, bankers, and accountants.
As noun, about 1275, sacrefise, sacrifice, ‘the offering of something to a deity’, from Old French sacrifise ‘sacrifice, offering’, from Latin sacrificium ‘sacrifice’, from sacrificus ‘sacrificing, performing priestly functions’, related to sacra ‘religious rites’, from PIE base *sak-, and facere ‘to make, do’, from PIE base *dhē- ‘to set, put’.