Spirit Gym with Paul Chek

Cannabis is a plant medicine that can do so much for one’s health when it’s grown properly and used very wisely.
Expert and educator Ryan Sprague explores the chemistry behind what makes cannabis work and explains why judging its quality solely on how much THC it contains is a very bad idea this week on Spirit Gym.
Learn more about Ryan and his work on his Highly Optimized website and on social media via Instagram here and here and YouTube. Listen to Ryan’s Highly Optimized podcast on Apple Podcasts or wherever you listen to them.
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Timestamps 
4:44 How a highly optimized human uses cannabis wisely and as one of many tools.
10:00 Do Drugs Have Religious Import? by Huston Smith from The Journal of Philosophy.
21:28 Practice the Daoist not too much, not too little philosophy.
32:34 Psychedelics are meant to be challenging by design.
51:09 Why Ryan believes cannabis and hemp are the people’s plants.
1:05:26 “Cannabis is a medicine that works on one regulatory system that happens to deal with 80-plus different conditions and purposes.”
1:13:22 Could cannabis treat epilepsy?
1:27:42 How much THC do you realiy need in your cannabis?
1:34:18 Foods that help with endocannabinoid production besides cannabis.
Resources
Soma: Divine Mushroom of Immortality by R. Gordon Wasson (FREE PDF link)
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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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As you know, the Hero’s Journey is one of Paul’s favorite tools to help his clients take on their challenges and begin to evolve into the people they are meant to be.
Former Olympic Coach and Leadership Guru Chip Richards joins Paul on a deep dive into the Hero’s Journey and how it can transform lives this week on Spirit Gym.
Learn more about Chip on his website and on social media via YouTube, Instagram and Facebook. 
For Spirit Gym listeners: Chip is offering listeners a special discount to join him on a Heart of Leadership retreat, such as the upcoming trip to Tonga to swim with humpback whales, or to be part of the Heart of Leadership 12-month mentorship program. For more details and dates, reach out to Chip on his website and mention you heard him on Spirit Gym.
Timestamps
3:18 The Shero’s Journey.
6:09 Chip’s long ago meetup with Paul in Australia that changed the story arc of his Australian Olympic Ski team.
10:19 Parallel influences across oceans.
26:16 Being mythed.
32:01 The twisting, winding path of personal chaos is there to help us discover the divine essence within.
41:06 Chip’s first call to adventure as an elite athlete.
51:51 Paul has experienced the Hero’s Journey many times.
1:07:06 “Who we really are is not the programming.”
1:18:16 Tests and allies.
1:27:39 A true commitment.
1:34:10 What happens during the Hero’s Journey when everything falls apart?
1:39:03 Nature bathing surrounded by whales that allows people to let go and just be.
1:56:39 “One of the things that makes [Paul’s] work so special: You are living the myth we’re talking about right now.”
2:05:55 The elixir: The deeper answer that reveals why you went on this journey and become the embodied expression of that knowledge.
2:15:48 The Hero’s Journey: A journey from concept to experience.
2:26:13 Tests that Chip and Paul are facing.
2:34:15 Protecting the hives with very simple devotion.
2:48:14 How to use the Hero’s Journey as a self-reflection/self-realization tool. 
Resources
The Seed of Dreams by Chip Richards
Writing the Story Within by Chip Richards
The Varroa mite
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Do you pay close attention to your dreams or write them off as “mind movies” that have little meaning in your daily life? 
Author, researcher and curator Sarah Janes explains why dreaming helps us make sense of who we are and how dreams can change your life forever this week on Spirit Gym.
Learn more about Sarah and her work at her website and on social media via Facebook, Instagram, Substack and YouTube.
For Spirit Gym listeners: Save £70/80 euros/$97 on Sarah’s 9-week Dream Hieroglyphs course at this link. Also, save £150/173 euros/$204 on Sarah’s Dreams of Elefis dream retreat in Greece Sept. 16-25. Just include Paul’s name when contacting Sarah via email.
Timestamps
3:59 Sarah’s 1-year dream drought sparked her deep interest in researching it.
9:18 Sarah’s lecture series featuring her super niche interests that interested her and her friends.
15:15 Dreaming: A process we go through at night to make sense of ourselves in space and time.
29:12 “I came from pure whiteness, and that’s where I will go when I die.”
43:21 Aphantasia.
50:16 Returning to your original divine blueprint.
56:29 Has your life changed completely after having a dream?
1:03:11 After going to Istanbul, Sarah realizes she’s been there before… in her dreams.
1:13:31 It isn’t unusual for people to be surrogates who dream for others.
1:27:37 The process of remembering dreams when writing them.
1:38:09 “Hieroglyphics will start appearing in your dreams as soon as you start drawing and painting them.”
1:44:06 Sarah and Paul identify hidden symbols in a painting Paul’s brother drew a year before he died.
1:55:12 Gardening: The most useful and divine thing anyone can do.
2:10:44 “Dreaming is the beginning of the idea of the afterlife and the eternal soul.”
2:13:32 Incubation: A magical practice with a goal of cultivating an interaction with the deceased or a divine entity.
Resources
Initiation Into Dream Mysteries by Sarah Janes
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll and John Tenniel
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You can say, eat and do all the right things to become a healthier human being and can still get sick if you don’t go deeper into your soul and truly live good health from the inside outward.
In this week's tag-team conversation on Spirit Gym between Paul and Dr. Nick Dawe, Nathan Siles and Ryan Barraclough, you’ll discover that some of the best things you can do to achieve greater health are completely free and why finding the middle path really matters.
Check out Biotra: An Approach to Healthy Living in a Modern World, the book written by Nick, Ryan and Nathan, on Amazon, the Biotra website and Instagram.
Find out more about Nathan at Biospectral Systems and Instagram. Learn more about Nick’s approaches to healthier living on Substack. Check our Ryan’s work at his website and the Embodied Man Institute.
For Spirit Gym listeners: Save 15 percent on Biospectral Blue Light Blocking Glasses at Nathan’s Biospectral Systems website by using the code SPIRITGYM when you checkout. 
Timestamps
5:56 “You can be as healthy as you want, but if you hate yourself, you’re [not healthy].”
10:57 Natural intelligence versus artificial intelligence.
22:20 Nick’s passion — exploring and understanding the deepest codes of how human movement originates — mirrors what led Paul to the development of CHEK Totem Pole and his Primal Pattern™ movement system.
34:23 Nathan’s mission with Biotra: Illuminating the invisible and explaining to the modern world why chronic diseases and many athletic injuries are happening that surprise people.
41:18 Why do healthy people become sick?
53:32 Helping people find the middle path.
1:05:31 The core principle of Biotra: The gentle weaving of biophysics, biomechanics and psycho-spirituality.
1:11:37 Biophysics: How life moves energy and information.
Resources
Nick’s first Spirit Gym conversation with Paul
Nathan’s Biophysical Foundations Course
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Dr. Catherine Clinton shares her journey into the growing field of quantum biology that led to her book, Optimize, that explains how light, water, sound and human energy influence the human body at the cellular level, this week on Spirit Gym.
Learn more about Catherine’s work on her website. Find her on social media via Facebook, Instagram and YouTube.
Order Catherine’s book, Optimize, and receive more than $400 in free bonuses, including her Quantum Biology Masterclass and her Unlocking Your Quantum Biology course at this link.
Timestamps
6:51 Catherine’s introduction to natural medicine.
10:48 Psychoneuroimmunology.
19:25 Quantum biology: Waves that hold energy and information.
27:21 The electrical capacity of the human body and how pain emerges.
34:19 pH balance and a positive charge in the body.
48:04 What is the source of electrical currents in nature and humans?
57:08 The fascia as a liquid crystalline semiconductor that can create its own charge.
1:08:39 When Catherine went all in on quantum biology.
1:15:59 Nurturing a relationship with the natural world is one of the most overlooked ways to elevate our health.
1:26:17 “We don’t end at the barriers of our skin.”
1:32:32 Tantra and the Nada Bindu point.
1:41:07 The physical receiver.
1:47:08 “Use your heart to feel what you know.”
1:53:26 Water: The bridge for frequency information.
2:03:16 “Awe is medicine.”
2:11:04 Digging deeper into the mitochondria.
2:27:47 Did you know each of us can communicate with the universe via infrared light transmission?
Resources
What is Life? by Erwin Schrodinger
Water, The Cradle of Life via its Coherent Quantum Frequencies by Hans Geesink, Dirk Mejier and Igor Jerman (free PDF)
Adenosine triphosphate (ATP)
Electric Body, Electric Health by Eileen McKusick
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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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