Spirit Gym with Paul Chek
Get ready for a no-holds-barred exploration of life and why we’re all here. Each week, world-renowned Holistic Health Practitioner Paul Chek and his guests will tackle topics like spirituality and metaphysics, human performance, diet, science, plant medicine, relationships, sexuality, lifestyle, and personal development with a depth and honesty that you won’t find anywhere else. Previously called Living 4D with Paul Chek, the podcast changed name to Spirit Gym with Paul Chek on Episode 300.
Spirit Gym with Paul Chek
396 — Does Your Personal Cosmology Need Improvement Before a Plant Medicine Ceremony With Mark Gober
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If someone asked you about your personal cosmology — who are you, why are you here and what is your role on our planet — what would you tell them? Or, more to the point, could you really answer the question?
For best-selling author Mark Gober, it took years for him to understand the huge gap between following a personal cosmology that was nihilistic, random, superficial and meaningless and living an intentional one that embraces Spirit and the divine in all of us.
A decade passed before Mark was ready for his first plant medicine ceremony, and the healing work he did on developing his personal cosmology made all of the difference in creating a positive, intimate experience that keeps on delivering insights.
Join Mark and Paul on a journey of discovery and lasting growth with help from plant medicines and learn why a personal cosmology matters this week on Spirit Gym.
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Timestamps
3:46 Does our intellect or something in our biology block us being receptive to our natural state, especially as we age?
12:23 How plant medicines reconnect us to the various aspects of ourselves.
15:20 Amnesia is built into the human experience (with a large dose of ignorance thrown in).
22:27 Ibogaine: A medicine that loves through truth, even when it is painful.
31:12 Mark meets ibogaine.
44:00 It took a decade for Mark to be ready for his first plant medicine ceremony.
46:55 Mark’s four intentions going into his first plant medicine ceremony.
1:05:31 Self-betrayal: A form of self-loathing that our society trains us to do.
1:09:35 Ancestral trauma, underlying terror and catastrophic thinking.
1:17:27 “Whenever we heal for ourselves, we’re really healing for our family.”
1:26:54 The purpose of existence and authenticity is the only game in town.
1:32:07 A sign Mark was tapping into his divine guidance before his plant medicine ceremony: Writing a book about it.
Resources
An End to the Upside Down Cosmos by Mark Gober
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Music Credit: Meet Your Heroes (444Hz), Composed, mixed, mastered and produced by Michael RB Schwartz of Brave Bear Music
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