Wellness + Wisdom | Episode 692
What does it mean to experience GOD and how to embrace pain as a teacher to deepen your spiritual growth?
Paul Chek, World-Renowned Medicine Man and Founder of the CHEK Institute, joins Josh Trent on the Wellness + Wisdom Podcast, episode 692, to dive deep into the true nature of GOD and the difference between believing in God and experiencing God, how love acts as the essence and expression of divinity, why generational healing, plant medicine, and lucid dreams can unlock a deeper understanding of the soul, and the importance of purpose-driven action in aligning with divine consciousness and leading a life of purpose.
“Your awakening and your realization of what God is will astound you and it will keep you so inspired to keep going because you'll realize the more you understand about the magic and the mystery of God the more magical and mysterious life becomes and the more exciting it is to be alive.” – Paul Chek
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In This Episode, Paul Chek Uncovers:
[01:30] What Is God?
- Paul Chek
- Paul Chek | All Is God – 3 Part Series
- Be Here Now by Ram Dass
- Why people misunderstand the word “God.”
- How Paul helped Josh find a new way to approach life.
- Why religions have created the wrong idea of God.
- The Religious Case Against Belief by James Carse
- Why we can't have a spiritual experience if we're not open to the mystery of God.
- How all belief systems are closed.
[11:00] Do You Believe or Do You Know?
- The difference between believing and knowing.
- Why Paul doesn't “believe” in God.
- IG reel @paul.chek
- How Paul shows people how to engage consciousness.
- Why the birth of his first son was a profound spiritual experience.
- How his father made him feel like he was in a prison camp.
[20:35] Trusting The Voice of God
- How a voice told Paul that his life would be one of purpose.
- Why massage was the only thing that helped relieve his asthma as a child.
- How he had a natural gift for massaging.
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[29:00] Becoming One with The Universe
- Why many people experience God through pain and suffering.
- What it means to become one with the universe.
- Why the soul is in possession of our body.
- How pain makes us question if we're going to die.
- Why monks use torture to achieve a conscious out-of-the-body experience.
[32:55] Plant Medicine Experience
- Why Paul has done over 1,000 plant medicine ceremonies.
- How sacred dance can be a tool for experiencing samadhi.
- Why some people experience fear in plant medicine ceremonies.
- Our souls can only have transcendent experiences that match the level of consciousness we are at.
- The definition of wisdom according to Paul.
- How plant medicine can be a karmic experience.
[41:05] Connecting with God
- Why God is the only being that can create and sustain itself.
- How God is an idea that becomes an experience.
- Why Paul had one of the deepest experiences of God through Tai Chi.
[47:45] Love Is God
- Why love is the verb of God.
- How religion gets us trapped in our head.
- Why giving love honestly and receiving love openly is the path to knowing God.
- The beauty of love is that it never works.
- How loving everybody else and not loving ourselves creates disease in the body.
[52:35] The Power of Dreams
- Why God is people which means it doesn't utilize people.
- How every single creation that exists is unique.
- Why the characters in our dreams are an aspect of ourselves until proven otherwise.
- How God dreams novelty into existence.
- The purpose of lucid dreaming.
- How Paul was shown that he didn't need to be afraid of death.
[01:00:30] God Is Ever-Present
- Why we are in an endless game.
- Love is experienced by all sentient beings.
- How people's auras are overlapping and creating a third being.
[01:05:45] Perception of Time
- Why Josh fears that one day he won't be able to hold his children.
- Energy can't be destroyed, only transformed.
- Salicrow and Angie Chek: Death and Beyond
- How our sense of time can create false narratives.
- What happens after we die.
- How Paul taught her sister to talk to her deceased husband.
- Why the biggest challenge for a soul is being addicted to matter.
[01:21:55] Spiritual Alchemy
- How alchemists discovered that the spirit affects matter.
- Why alchemy is the science of what's animating the body.
- How after we die we can connect with our loved ones through dreams.
- How Josh experiences unconditional love.
- Why unconditional love is not easy.
[01:31:10] Evolved Consciousness
- How Yogananda made a professional runner believe in God by outrunning him.
- Why we need to be brave in order to see what's been in front of us the entire time.
- How remote viewing is only accessible if we believe it's possible.
- Why spiritual development is figuring out who we are.
[01:38:35] Leaders Hold Lanterns
- How people fall into the ego trap when they say “I'm God.”
- Why the life people lead shows us the truth about the healing they need.
- How to Eat, Move and Be Healthy! by Paul Chek
- Why working too much on our spirituality can make us resent it.
- How having two wives has been an accelerator of Paul's spiritual development.
- Why we learn from the people that we spend time with.
- When we say “I know that,” it's the ego stopping us from mastery.
- How Paul creates independence in his students to not need him in the future.
[01:49:00] Let The Pain Guide You
- How pain shows us that we haven't resolved the root cause of the problem.
- Why we project our own wounds onto other people.
- How our body is telling us what's going on inside.
- 668 Evolve Your Consciousness: The True Healing Work To BE An Adult, Learn How To Love + Live A Thriving Life | Margo Running
- How pain navigates us to go in the right direction.
[01:56:35] Healing Generational Wounds
- How Paul speaks to the souls in the Spirit Gym.
- When we dream together, we grow together.
- How the environment impacts our epigenetics.
- Why our body can make adjustments when we change our diet.
- How the group soul is connected to us at all times.
- Why we carry the unresolved energy from the previous generations.
- It Didn't Start With You by Mark Wolynn
- How children are tasked with the unfinished business of their parents.
[02:10:50] Paul's Relationship to Women
- Why realizing that our problems are passed onto our children can motivate us to heal.
- How Paul found out that he wasn't happy in a monogamous relationship.
- Why chasing after women could be a pattern he got from his father.
- How knowing his purpose helps Paul take actions that are aligned with it.
- Why men who lie to their wives get physical symptoms from the fear of getting caught.
[02:22:30] Getting The Second Wind in Life
- Why chasing women can get in the way of walking a path of purpose.
- How we're blind to our shadow side.
- Why we shouldn't rush to find our soulmate.
- A soulmate is a mirror sent from God.
- Why having children gave Paul a push to continue the work.
- How to use our heart to feel what we know.
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Power Quotes From The Show
The Unfinished Business of Your Parents
“Whatever you have not resolved in this lifetime will go with you and your children will have to work on it. This is why Jung said, all children are tasked with the unfinished business of their parents' lives. Even if your kids didn't know about it, they're going to have to carry it out because your soul is still in resonance with their genes. So everything that's unresolved in you actually is like a flow of desire that's coming through the psychic energy that the DNA of their bodies is picking up because they're in resonance with you as their parent.” – Paul Chek
Should You Take Plant Medicine?
“People should not do psychedelic journeys either when they're psychologically not ready, they're doing it for the wrong reasons, they're being pressured into it, or they're doing it with the wrong people that have the wrong motives because you can use a psychedelic just as effectively to enter the dark arts as you can the light arts or the healing arts.” – Paul Chek
Where Are You Living Untrue to Reality?
“Your soul only opens the door to the transcendent experiences that are needed for you to awaken to the truth of yourself at the level of our spiritual development that you're at. So you have a God experience when you're ready for it. And until then you have an awareness of all the parts of you that you've put energy into that are blocking you from realizing the truth of yourself. And that's what real spiritual development is, is becoming aware of where you are living untrue to reality.” – Paul Chek
Links From Today's Show
- Paul Chek
- Paul Chek | All Is God – 3 Part Series
- Be Here Now by Ram Dass
- The Religious Case Against Belief by James Carse
- IG reel @paul.chek
- Spirit Gym – 15% off with code “JOSH15”
- Salicrow and Angie Chek: Death and Beyond
- How to Eat, Move and Be Healthy! by Paul Chek
- 668 Evolve Your Consciousness: The True Healing Work To BE An Adult, Learn How To Love + Live A Thriving Life | Margo Running
- It Didn't Start With You by Mark Wolynn
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About Paul Chek
Paul Chek is a world-renowned expert in the fields of corrective and high-performance exercise kinesiology, stress management, holistic wellness, and integrative lifestyle management.
For over 40 years, Paul’s unique, integrated approach to coaching and education has changed the lives of many of his clients, his students, and their clients.
By treating the body as an integrated system of systems and finding the root cause of a problem, Paul has been successful where traditional approaches have consistently failed.
Author of numerous books, videos, and professional development courses, he is the creator of Spirit Gym, founder of the CHEK Institute, and the host of the popular Spirit Gym with Paul Chek podcast.
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