EPISODE 396
Does Your Personal Cosmology Need Improvement Before a Plant Medicine Ceremony With Mark Gober
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.
Check out Mark and his work on his website and on social media via Facebook, Instagram, Twitter/X, LinkedIn, YouTube and Telegram. Find Mark’s 2019 podcast series, Where Is My Mind?, on Apple Podcasts or wherever you listen to them.
SHOW NOTES
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.
1:48:30 Plant medicine can introduce you to the community you thought was you.
1:53:09 A person’s cosmology — who we are, why are we here and what is our role in the world — really matters.
2:08:09 Where and how do we find the truth?
2:22:58 “It’s become easier to be authentic in the no and in the yes post-ibogaine.”
RESOURCES & FURTHER READING
An End to the Upside Down Cosmos by Mark Gober
Your Soul’s Plan by Robert Schwartz
Jean Gebser’s structures of consciousness
The work of Stanislav Grof, Dr. Martin Polanco, Bernardo Kastrup, Bert Hellinger, Gregg Braden, Rupert Sheldrake, Richard Feynman and Stephen Greer
Paul’s podcast conversations with Sean O’Laoire, Maestro Hamilton Souther and Dr. Joanna Kujawa
The Red Book: A Reader’s Edition by Carl Jung
It Didn’t Start With You by Mark Wolynn
Food of the Gods by Terence McKenna
The Subtle Body: An Encyclopedia of Your Energetic Anatomy by Cyndi Dale
An End to Upside Down Thinking by Mark Gober
An End to Upside Down Contact by Mark Gober
An End to Upside Down Living 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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