• EP 326 — Paul Chek: How to Thrive in 2025
    Dec 30 2024

    Are you ready for 2025 and the challenges ahead? Paul reviews the chaos that was 2024 and shares his vision for the coming year based on numerology and the symbology of Tarot card number 9 this week on Spirit Gym.

    And, if that’s not enough wisdom for you, our very special guest Julie Dean Richards, an attorney and an expert in astrology, numerology and the Tarot, offers a forecast full of change for 2025.

    For Spirit Gym listeners: Explore the Spirit Gym program with a free mini-course that will help you experience more love, life and freedom at the Spirit Gym website. Download a PDF of Paul’s Master Key: The 10 Principles of Spirit Gym for free at this link.

    Learn more about Julie at her Astrological Attorney website and her Crunchy Lawyer website where you can download several free guides about protecting your bodily autonomy and check out her courses. Look out for Julie on Instagram. Listen to the Feminine Alchemy podcast she hosts with Kayelee Rose and Jaye Anne Beringer on Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts.

    Check out the Spirit Gym YouTube page for this FULL LENGTH episode which includes additional charts and visual guides.

    Timestamps

    4:00 Looking back at 2024.

    13:55 Re-establishing a common field of values.

    22:51 Number field basics.

    33:04 The archetypical significance of 2025 embodied by the number 9.

    44:19 “Your attitude will serve you best if it remains philosophical, spiritual and detached.”

    52:40 Tarot archetype 9: The hermit.

    56:46 Reviewing the Tarot from the perspective of spiritual development.

    59:55 The difference between magic and magick.

    1:10:50 The fool’s big question: Who am I?

    1:25:25 “To find your soul, use your heart to feel what you know.”

    1:34:13 2025: The year of the hermit.

    1:45:42 Are you truly awake?

    1:51:24 A mountain on a Tarot card symbolizes hard work and the progressive climb toward enlightenment.

    2:00:16 How do you use your power?

    2:06:04 Julie calls 2025 a year of shifts.

    2:10:48 “Old thoughts are going to die.”

    2:14:40 The appearance of Uranus: More innovation, being true to yourself and things breaking down.

    2:20:14 What is true and false?

    2:25:48 Work on your personal abundance.

    2:28:45 Mars is a key player in 2025.

    2:33:10 April 27, 2025 is an important date.

    2:36:39 The Spirit Gym Practitioner’s Credo.

    2:44:01 “Love is the verb of God.”

    2:47:57 Ken Wilbur’s Four Quadrant model.

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    3 hrs and 30 mins
  • EP 325 — Greg Schmaus: The Archetype Wheel: How to Know and Grow Thyself
    Dec 23 2024

    Despite all that Paul has shared on the podcast about archetypes, are you still stuck on figuring out which ones represent your life accurately? And, are you fooling yourself into believing that you’re a specific archetype that doesn’t fit the daily reality of your life?

    CHEK Professional Greg Schmaus returns for a second conversation about his archetypes, this time unveiling his Archetype Wheel and explaining how it can serve as a blueprint of one’s psyche this week on Spirit Gym.

    Learn more about Greg and his work at his Healing 4D website and on Instagram.

    For Spirit Gym listeners: Learn more about your soul’s unique blueprint by taking Greg’s four-week Casting Your Archetype Wheel course and save 10 percent by using the promo code CHEK10 when you checkout. You can also save 20 percent on Greg’s Healing Your Core Archetypes course and his Healing the Mind: A Journey To Wholeness course by using the promo code CHEK20 at checkout. (Special offers from Spirit Gym guests are time-sensitive and at their discretion to redeem after 30 days.)

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    Timestamps

    8:23 Greg’s Archetype Wheel: A blueprint of one’s psyche.

    12:01 Defining the archetype.

    18:56 “Archetypes choose you. You don’t choose them.”

    23:25 Archetypes travel in families and have very similar energetic profiles.

    30:20 Exploring the archetypal houses.

    42:13 Connections between various archetypal houses.

    55:50 Have you explored your relationship with money?

    1:05:33 Greg’s health journey is focused on the 6th house, the hero’s journey.

    1:14:16 Being too focused on helping others at the expense of yourself is a problem.

    Resources

    The work of Caroline Myss and Alberto Villoldo

    Caroline Myss’ Archetypal Wheel

    Archetype Cards by Caroline Myss

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    Music Credit: Meet Your Heroes (444Hz) by Brave as Bears

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    1 hr and 22 mins
  • EP 324 — Jake Takiff: Farming: Our Path to Health and Freedom
    Dec 17 2024

    Is the extent of your interest in agriculture merely how much you pay for the foods you buy at the grocery store?

    Regenerative farming expert Jake Takiff describes a far different way of viewing agriculture — a deep, abiding relationship for the soil and all of the organisms that live on it — this week on Spirit Gym.

    Watch the progress on Jake’s regenerative farm on social media via Instagram and YouTube. Read more about Jake and Meghan at The Guardian. Work with Jake on a regenerative farming project of your own at Restoration Agriculture Development.

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    Timestamps

    3:53 Jake learned about regenerative farming from people who did it before it became cool.

    11:29 What is the point of no return?

    15:44 Jake’s definition of regenerative farming.

    31:42 Beavers: Nature’s water management team.

    37:55 Using bison and other cattle as buffers against drought.

    43:25 The real problem with conventional agriculture is how it imposes its will on a landscape.

    53:27 How long can a dairy cow be productive if you keep it away from feed overloaded with harmful chemicals? A very long time…

    59:06 The intelligence of cows.

    1:05:10 Cows are a force of nature.

    1:19:56 Regenerative farmers look for cheaper opportunities with degraded land while operating on tighter budgets.

    1:27:23 The conventionally grown “cheap” food sham.

    Resources

    Jake talks about regenerative farming on The Medicin podcast on YouTube

    The Water Wizard by Viktor Schauberger and Callum Coats

    The work of Cleve Backster, Carey Reams and Phillip Callahan

    Paul’s Living 4D conversation with Matt Wallden on The Honest Vegetarian

    Paul’s Living 4D conversation with Jayne Buxton

    Restoration Agriculture: Real-World Permaculture for Farmers by Mark Shepard

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    Music Credit: Meet Your Heroes (444Hz) by Brave as Bears

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    1 hr and 35 mins
  • EP 323 — Luke Storey: Riding The Dragon of Life
    Dec 10 2024

    Adversity and tragedy are one-two punches that often break a human being right down to the very core of her/his being, especially when he/she is young.

    Luke Storey describes how he survived his addictions and a cult meant to “reform” him, then found his way to healing through the process of surrender this week on Spirit Gym.

    Learn more about Luke, browse his favorite products and listen to his podcast, The Life Stylist Podcast With Luke Storey, on his website. Check him out on social media via Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, YouTube, Telegram and Rumble.

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    Timestamps

    3:45 “In the case of my parents, what they didn’t know, they didn’t know.”

    9:05 Craving a warm blanket of safety but not knowing how to get that from people, Luke turned to drugs.

    18:02 Do you create chaos for yourself every day?

    23:13 Developing the witness-observer perspective.

    28:54 Be present for the feminine storm.

    36:20 Luke becomes a participant in the cult-like troubled teen industry.

    42:32 There were survivors, not graduates or alumni of Luke’s days at the Rocky Mountain Academy.

    50:08 Can there be “good” brainwashing?

    1:00:13 The contagious nature of trauma.

    1:15:47 Is our society disempowering men?

    1:26:37 Creating micro-communities.

    1:32:18 “We have an opportunity to change the trajectory of the collective.”

    Resources

    The work of Plotinus, Dr. Leonard Sax and Steven Tyler

    The Sacred Art of Listening by Kay Lindahl

    Freedom of Mind: Helping Loved Ones Leave Controlling People, Cults and Beliefs by Steven Hassan

    CEDU

    Synanon

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    Music Credit: Meet Your Heroes (444Hz) by Brave as Bears

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    1 hr and 47 mins
  • EP 322 — Edmund Knighton: Steiner on Children, Parenting and Education
    Dec 3 2024

    Nearly a century after his death, the work of Rudolf Steiner has influenced educational systems so deeply that Waldorf schools have become one of the largest independent school movements in the world.

    Clinical psychologist and Anthroposophy scholar Edmund Knighton explores parenting challenges, growing smart kids the Waldorf way and how he was meant to teach kids this week on Spirit Gym.

    Learn more about Edmund’s work on his website, where you can request a free 15-minute consultation. Join Edmund and Jared Pickard at the Be Human program in February 2025.

    For Spirit Gym members: Edmund will be holding a very special live Q&A session (to be announced) exclusively for Spirit Gym members. Sign up for a Spirit Gym podcast membership, so you can access members-only extended versions of the podcast along with exclusive Q&A opportunities with Paul and his guests.

    Timestamps

    2:50 How Edmund became connected to our planet by teaching kids.

    8:07 “The onus is on the teacher to have the kids be the curriculum.”

    13:46 Love is the greatest protection and the solution for any situation.

    31:40 In the Steiner philosophy of education, the later a child reads, the more capacity she/he has to become a genius.

    42:02 The act of transformation can happen at any time.

    49:34 “We have to enliven reading or we are killed by it.”

    59:27 The god-like nature of issuing grades to students.

    1:05:29 At the heart level, the lives of kids are solely their own.

    1:10:44 Do humans have no conception of conception?

    1:22:15 Elements of conscious conception and birth.

    1:33:13 Why parents with special needs children leave marriages.

    1:42:30 The birthing process.

    1:58:52 Adult men dealing with the child archetype after their child is born.

    2:08:09 Do you have the discipline and the willingness to be uncomfortable and build a connection with your partner?

    2:19:02 Building vitality into food through consciousness.

    2:26:05 Our purpose on planet Earth according to Steiner.

    2:34:07 Are we regressing toward protectionism?

    2:46:21 “The right response is love.”

    Resources

    The Ra Material: Law of One by Jim McCarty, Don Elkins and Carla Rueckert

    Paul’s Living 4D episode on Lucifer, Christ and Ahriman

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    Music Credit: Meet Your Heroes (444Hz) by Brave as Bears

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    2 hrs and 57 mins
  • EP 321 — Kyle Kingsbury: The Wisdom Keepers
    Nov 26 2024


    It’s been a very long time since Kyle Kingsbury, one of Paul’s very best friends, has appeared on the podcast, and there’s good reasons for that.

    Kyle describes what life has been like since their 2021 conversation, including a move to a farm and learning how to live without fear this week on Spirit Gym.

    Find out more about Kyle’s work on Gardeners of Eden and Fit for Service websites and on social media via Twitter and Instagram. Enjoy his Kyle Kingsbury podcast on YouTube, Apple Podcasts or wherever you listen to podcasts.

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    Timestamps

    2:47 Kyle’s life shifted as he started working on the farm and living away from Austin.

    7:50 “My intention in 2020 — even prior to COVID — was to live without fear, but I hadn’t given fear its due respect.”

    21:02 Find your secret passage to nature in your city.

    32:31 You can grow more food than you assume on a quarter-acre.

    44:19 Kyle’s favorite podcast guests.

    52:13 Homeschooling.

    1:00:33 Bioavailability versus the USDA.

    1:09:24 Making eating sacred.

    1:13:40 A light conversation.

    Resources

    Paul’s Living 4D conversations with Zack Bush, Charles Eisenstein, Dr. Nathan Riley, Jamie Wheal, Robb Wolf and Fred Provenza

    Sepp Holzer’s Permaculture: A Practical Guide to Small-Scale, Integrative Farming and Gardening by Sepp Holzer

    Desert or Paradise by Sepp Holzer

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    Music Credit: Meet Your Heroes (444Hz) by Brave as Bears

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    1 hr and 25 mins
  • EP 320 — Paul Chek: The Big 6 For Body-Mind Health Today
    Nov 19 2024

    Need a quick refresher course on the principles Paul and CHEK Practitioners all over the world teach? Paul hits the blackboard to cover the Big 6 principles of healthy living this week on Spirit Gym.

    Timestamps

    1:51 The Big 6: Three yin (feminine) principles and three yang (masculine) principles.

    12:03 One love.

    17:36 Getting clear about your dream.

    26:34 Thinking and manifestation.

    28:33 The Grand Canyon test.

    30:13 Four Doctors core values guide our life choices.

    42:43 Clearly state your core values.

    49:05 Fungal and parasite infections.

    55:18 The four-day rotation diet.

    1:00:19 Qualities of the soul.

    1:03:50 Must-haves and must-not-haves.

    1:09:46 Proper breathing.

    1:16:46 Primal pattern movements.

    1:24:34 Are you properly hydrated?

    1:34:11 Seasonal changes for your health.

    1:38:21 Five program design factors that help you succeed.

    1:46:30 Simple ways to slow down the aging process.

    1:55:46 Three choices.

    Resources

    The work of Stanley Krippner, Walter Russell and Charlie Francis

    Paul’s Living 4D conversation with John Stewart Reid

    Beating The Food Giants by Paul Stitt

    A Consumer’s Dictionary of Food Additives by Ruth Winter

    The Safe Shoppers Bible by David Steinman and Samuel Epstein

    Natural Detoxification: A Practical Encyclopedia by Jacqueline Krohn and Frances Taylor

    Biochemical Individuality by Roger Williams

    Nutrition and Your Mind by George Watson

    Food and Behavior: A Natural Connection by Barbara Stitt

    The Life Stylist Podcast with Luke Storey

    The 1-2-3-4 of Overcoming Addiction, Obesity and Disease

    Find a Spring

    Cymatics

    Your Body’s Many Cries for Water by Fereydoon Batmanghelidj

    The 20th anniversary edition of How to Eat, Move and Be Healthy

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    Music Credit: Meet Your Heroes (444Hz) by Brave as Bears

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    2 hrs and 7 mins
  • EP 319 — Alexander Karp: Kratom: A Safer Approach For Pain Relief
    Nov 12 2024

    If you’ve been looking for safer options for pain relief, kratom — a Southeast Asian plant with at least 40 naturally occurring bioactive alkaloids — has probably popped up in your search results more than once.

    But, how do can you know the differences in quality, potency and safety between naturally sourced kratom products?

    Alexander Karp, chief scientific officer for ETHA Natural Botanics, describes his journey to find pain relief with kratom, the perils of an unregulated marketplace and why you should not mute the Pain Teacher this week on Spirit Gym.

    In the Members section of this podcast, legendary skateboarder Danny Way joins the conversation to share his experiences with kratom as a more effective pain reliever than all the previous ones.

    For Spirit Gym listeners: Save 15% on Element 115 kratom products developed by Alexander and Danny at Element 115 Botanicals or ETHA Natural Botanicals via the promo code PAUL15. (Special offers from Spirit Gym guests are time-sensitive and at their discretion to redeem after 30 days.)

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    Timestamps

    5:10 Our lifestyles have evolved to be more processed and synthetic at the same time more natural treatment options have become demonized by the allopathic world.

    14:09 “Kratom and all of the alkaloids are like a symphony orchestra.”

    16:26 Are you muting the Pain Teacher?

    29:37 How Alexander became aware of kratom.

    34:50 “It was out of a personal need that I had severe pain, heard about kratom, tried it and it was a miracle.”

    40:44 Different alkaloids, different effects in kratom.

    48:22 The complications of an unregulated market.

    1:02:07 Taking a low dose of anything doesn’t imply that it isn’t a powerful one.

    1:17:23 “You don’t want pain to go away 100 percent.”

    1:24:47 A review of the kratom-based products Alexander’s ETHA Natural Botanicals sells.

    Resources

    Paul’s Living 4D conversation with Eben Britton

    The work of Dr. Royal Lee and Dr. Chris McCurdy

    Mitragynine

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    Music Credit: Meet Your Heroes (444Hz) by Brave as Bears

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    1 hr and 36 mins