
EP 59 - Paul Chek: Ancient Wisdom & Re-imagining Your Health and Performance
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11/19/19 • 189 min
Too often, modern life gets in the way of how human consciousness supports our ability to live healthy, holistic lives.
Paul discusses the various states of human consciousness and how each one of them comes with unique ways of relating to nature and even ties into the different functions of the human body, in the first of this very special two-part Living 4D podcast series.
During the podcast, stay tuned for more details about the CHEK Institute’s 2019 Black Friday event along with a grand opening of a brand-new shopping experience!
Show Notes
- Jean Gebser’s first stage of conscious development: The archaic stage. (5:46)
- What angels really mean. (13:52)
- The word chi really means steam. (17:41)
- “This interaction between emptiness and fullness produces perpetual energy and information flow that both energizes and informs all we call life or the universe.” (24:24)
- The expressions of metaphysical truths through metaphor in our daily lives. (27:22)
- The astral realm where we experience dreams also provide energetic experiences we attribute to our dreams and emotions. (37:25)
- Why holistic living and spiritual practices are so important. (52:00)
- Water molecules are very sensitive to vibration and have an incredibly wide frequency range. (1:00:06)
- The connection between intuition and the Earth. (1:09:01)
- Cancer takes about a decade to develop in the body. (1:17:40)
- Infant development and serpentine movements. (1:25:41)
- How magic consciousness relates to living holistically. (1:36:11)
- In today’s modern world, are we really safe and secure? (1:48:49)
- What is mythic consciousness? (1:58:20)
- The four essential functions of myth. (2:10:38)
- Our ability to access the magic, the archaic and mythic in ourselves helps us access what we really need to live holistically. (2:25:43)
- Defining integral consciousness. (2:47:44)
- Each level of consciousness has a very unique and important function. (2:56:58)
Resources
- Seeing Through The World: Jean Gebser and Integral Consciousness by Jeremy Johnson
- Carl Jung’s four functions of consciousness
- Reconnecting to the Source by Ervin Laszlo and Deepak Chopra
- The work of Ervin Laszlo
- Mystery Teachings with Teresa Bullard on Gaia
- The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Alchemy by Dennis William Hauck
- Infinite Mind: Science of Human Vibrations of Consciousness by Valerie Hunt
- Science and the Akashic Field: An Integral Theory of Everything by Ervin Laszlo
- Universal Sufism by H.J. Witteveen and Scott Sattler
- Dancing With Water, The New Science of Water by M.J. Pangman and Melanie Evans
Thanks to our awesome sponsors:
Paleovalley
BiOptimizers US and BiOptimizers UK PAUL10
Organifi CHEK20
Wild Pastures
CHEK Institute HLC 1 Live
Creating and Living Your Myth online workshop
We may earn commissions from qualifying purchases using affiliate links.
Too often, modern life gets in the way of how human consciousness supports our ability to live healthy, holistic lives.
Paul discusses the various states of human consciousness and how each one of them comes with unique ways of relating to nature and even ties into the different functions of the human body, in the first of this very special two-part Living 4D podcast series.
During the podcast, stay tuned for more details about the CHEK Institute’s 2019 Black Friday event along with a grand opening of a brand-new shopping experience!
Show Notes
- Jean Gebser’s first stage of conscious development: The archaic stage. (5:46)
- What angels really mean. (13:52)
- The word chi really means steam. (17:41)
- “This interaction between emptiness and fullness produces perpetual energy and information flow that both energizes and informs all we call life or the universe.” (24:24)
- The expressions of metaphysical truths through metaphor in our daily lives. (27:22)
- The astral realm where we experience dreams also provide energetic experiences we attribute to our dreams and emotions. (37:25)
- Why holistic living and spiritual practices are so important. (52:00)
- Water molecules are very sensitive to vibration and have an incredibly wide frequency range. (1:00:06)
- The connection between intuition and the Earth. (1:09:01)
- Cancer takes about a decade to develop in the body. (1:17:40)
- Infant development and serpentine movements. (1:25:41)
- How magic consciousness relates to living holistically. (1:36:11)
- In today’s modern world, are we really safe and secure? (1:48:49)
- What is mythic consciousness? (1:58:20)
- The four essential functions of myth. (2:10:38)
- Our ability to access the magic, the archaic and mythic in ourselves helps us access what we really need to live holistically. (2:25:43)
- Defining integral consciousness. (2:47:44)
- Each level of consciousness has a very unique and important function. (2:56:58)
Resources
- Seeing Through The World: Jean Gebser and Integral Consciousness by Jeremy Johnson
- Carl Jung’s four functions of consciousness
- Reconnecting to the Source by Ervin Laszlo and Deepak Chopra
- The work of Ervin Laszlo
- Mystery Teachings with Teresa Bullard on Gaia
- The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Alchemy by Dennis William Hauck
- Infinite Mind: Science of Human Vibrations of Consciousness by Valerie Hunt
- Science and the Akashic Field: An Integral Theory of Everything by Ervin Laszlo
- Universal Sufism by H.J. Witteveen and Scott Sattler
- Dancing With Water, The New Science of Water by M.J. Pangman and Melanie Evans
Thanks to our awesome sponsors:
Paleovalley
BiOptimizers US and BiOptimizers UK PAUL10
Organifi CHEK20
Wild Pastures
CHEK Institute HLC 1 Live
Creating and Living Your Myth online workshop
We may earn commissions from qualifying purchases using affiliate links.
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EP 58 - Nir Eyal: Digital Technology: Bondage or Freedom?
Are you struggling to find the time to be productive and be present with the people in your life who really matter?
No time is wasted time so long as you have a plan, one of the many nuggets of wisdom you’ll discover in Paul’s latest Living 4D conversation with Nir Eyal, author of the new book Indistractable: How to Control Your Attention and Choose Your Life.
And, if you want to see for yourself why Paul recommends Indistractable, Nir is offering a FREE 80-page workbook that will help you better manage your life and time
Learn more about Nir’s work at Nirandfar.com and find him on Twitter at @nireyal.
Show Notes
- Nir believes the world is getting better and technology is facilitating this, so long as it’s not getting the best of us. (7:32)
- The regret test measures the differences between coercion and persuasion. (10:21)
- Our default bias: What’s new is always scary. (16:04)
- When kids don’t feel a sense of autonomy, relatedness or competency, they look for it online. (24:30)
- The lives of kids are so regimented, they have no time for play. (29:05)
- The mainstream media’s negativity bias. (32:52)
- Motivated reasoning that mislabels distractions as addictions. (35:37)
- “Your iPad is not an iNanny.” (43:48)
- Why Nir wrote Indistractable. (49:00)
- Why do you keep checking your email, even at the dinner table with your family? (58:10)
- Social antibodies protect you. (1:05:58)
- What we can learn from the myth of Tantalus. (1:09:12)
- When you don’t define with intent what you want to do with your time, everything becomes a distraction. (1:15:17)
- Your three life domains. (1:24:19)
Resources
- Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products and Indistractable: How to Control Your Attention and Choose Your Life by Nir Eyal
- Mind to Matter by Dawson Church
- Factfulness: Ten Reasons We’re Wrong About the World and Why Things Are Better Than You Think by Hans Rosling
- Edward Deci and Richard Ryan’s self-determination theory (SDT)
- Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us by Daniel Pink
- Dr. Peter Grey’s TED Talk on The Decline of Play and Rise of Mental Disorders
- The study of Forensic Anthropology
- Arnold Patent’s Universal Principles
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Wild Pastures
CHEK Institute HLC 1 Live
Creating and Living Your Myth online workshop
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EP 60 - Paul Chek: Tips to Achieve Integral Consciousness (and Why You Want to Achieve it)
What does true freedom really mean to you?
Is it merely getting what you want out of life, or being the best person you can be, who inspires others and gives back to the world?
Discover the elements and power of integral consciousness and what you can do to be the real change in the world.
Show Notes
- The definition of true freedom. (7:29)
- Why do people get sick even when they do their best to stay healthy? (12:44)
- Tips for engaging archaic consciousness. (23:05)
- Clay can be used for medicinal detoxification and creating a grounding effect for your body. (29:12)
- Put enough psychic energy into a stone and it can “wake up” and become conscious. (37:11)
- The importance of water and hydration. (45:11)
- How the sun is linked to archaic consciousness. (51:34)
- Developing a relationship with a plant is a safe way to learn how to love. (1:00:09)
- Engaging magic consciousness. (1:11:50)
- The link between magic consciousness and the reptilian brain system. (1:21:48)
- Problems with the story gap. (1:29:27)
- Living your myth. (1:32:57)
- “The mental level of consciousness can either free and connect you or bind and debilitate you.” (1:37:05)
- God: The most dangerous idea. (1:47:07)
- Listen to your heart before your head or ego. (1:53:27)
- Integral consciousness: The pinnacle of human consciousness. (2:01:18)
- Wake up, grow up, clean up and show up. (2:15:08)
- Be aware of your ECHO. (2:21:52)
Resources
- Tami Simon’s interview with Sandra Ingerman for the Insights at the Edge podcast
- Thus Spoke The Plant by Monica Gagliano and Suzanne Simard
- The Coming Waves by Dustin DiPerna
- Brainstorm: The Power and Purpose of the Teenage Brain by Dr. Daniel Siegel
- Increasing Your Capacity for Feeling Using Stone Shapes from Paul’s YouTube channel
- How to Eat, Move And Be Healthy!
- Esoteric Physiology: Consciousness and Disease by Dennis Klocek
- Paul’s Living 4D podcast conversations with Dr. Nick Berry, Matt Wallden, Nir Eyal, Kyle Kingsbury and Aubrey Marcus and James Hollis
- The work of Misty Tripoli, Dr. Clare Graves and Eckhart Tolle
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Thanks to our awesome sponsors:
Paleovalley
BiOptimizers US and BiOptimizers UK PAUL10
Organifi CHEK20
Wild Pastures
CHEK Institute HLC 1 Live
Creating and Living Your Myth online workshop
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