EPISODE 151
Paul Chek: The People Who Changed My Life
We are reminded all the time how much of a guiding force Paul has been for so many people throughout his life as a teacher, mentor and skilled health practitioner. But who has influenced the influencer of so many people all over the world?
Paul celebrates his 60th birthday with an intimate Living 4D podcast devoted to the many people who have changed his life.
SHOW NOTES
- Paul’s mother, Meera Censor, taught him the importance of spirituality. (3:57)
- “I was raised by a grizzly bear.” (10:15)
- Paramahansa Yogananda’s philosophies were a major influence on the 4 Doctors. (14:50)
- The birth of Paul Jr. was Paul’s first profound spiritual experience. (28:39)
- The first book Paul read at age 22. (33:17)
- How Paul met the mother of the CHEK Institute. (48:17)
- The father Paul never had. (54:11)
- Master Fong Ha’s influence with tai chi on Paul. (1:05:04)
- Paul’s first experience with a Shaman set the bar high. (1:11:39)
- Did you know Rudolf Steiner developed a form of movement called Eurythmy? (1:22:36)
- What do Paul, Carl Jung and Madonna have in common? (1:41:54)
- “The reality of war is the reality of polarity, and you can’t have consciousness without polarity.” (1:47:56)
- Is Plotinus a philosopher or a mystic? (1:59:38)
- Three qualities of the soul. (2:02:17)
- “Upgrade your software no matter what religion you’re in by studying the mystics of that religion.” (2:13:32)
- How often do you talk to your soul? (2:20:03)
- Do you live and breathe God or have an intellectual but superficial relationship with your Higher Power? (2:37:36)
- The four qualities of a spiritual master. (2:50:36)
- Is the universe sentient and conscious? (3:00:19)
- The only man who spent five years studying each of the world’s major religions. (3:12:56)
- Do you feel vibrations when you touch a book? (3:23:50)
- Could disease be a spiritual growth opportunity? (3:30:52)
- A conversation with Rumi translator Coleman Barks inspired Paul to get back to rock stacking as a spiritual practice. (3:37:07)
- Who inspires Paul to stick to the truth and God? (3:56:58)
- This amazing man taught Paul how to receive gifts. (4:01:38)
- Paul’s grandfather resembles this famous philosopher. (4:15:12)
RESOURCES & FURTHER READING
- The Secret of the Golden Flower: A Chinese Book of Life by Richard Wilhelm and Carl Jung
- The Six Enneads of Plotinus by Stephen McKenna
- Return to the One: Plotinus’ Guide to God Realization by Brian Hines
- The Perennial Philosophy by Aldous Huxley
- Quantum Mind: The Edge Between Physics and Psychology, ProcessMind: A User’s Guide to Connecting With The Mind of God and The Shaman’s Body by Arnold Mindell
- Why Lazarus Laughed, Open Secret, Fingers Pointing Toward the Moon and Posthumous Pieces by Wei Wu Wei
- The Forgotten Truth: The Common Vision of the World’s Religions by Huston Smith
- The Drowned Book: Ecstatic and Earthly Reflections of Bauhauddin, the Father of Rumi by Coleman Barks and John Moyne
- The Forbidden Rumi: The Suppressed Poems of Rumi on Love, Heresy and Intoxication by Nevit Ergin and Will Johnson
- Tami Simon’s conversation with Coleman Barks on Rumi, Grace and Human Friendship on Sounds True
- Native American Teachings by Joseph Rael (DVD)
- Jeffery Mishlove interviews Arthur M. Young on YouTube
- The work of Jack LaLanne, Dr. Vladmir Janda, Kabir, Mal Meninga, Huston Smith, Saint Bernard of Clairvaux, Saint Hildegard of Bingen, Giordano Bruno and Jason Pickard
- Paul’s Living 4D conversations with Danny Way, Dr. Tom Cowan, Jason Smith, James Hollis, Dr. Keith Witt, Tom Campanero, Jared Pickard and Dr. Nathan Riley
- Paul’s Evolve series on Living 4D starting with Evolve Yourself Physically and his solo podcast on Ancient Wisdom and Re-imagining Your Health and Performance
- Autobiography of a Yogi by Paramahansa Yogananda
- Life is Movement: The Physical Reconstruction and Regeneration of the People by Eugen Sandow
- The Essential Lectures of Alan Watts on Gaia
- The books of Walter Russell at Dowsers.com
- Joseph Campbell and The Power of Myth series with Bill Moyers audiobook series
- Tao Te Ching: The Book of Meaning and Life by Richard Wilhelm
- The Second Book of the Tao by Stephen Mitchell
- Stalking The Wild Pendulum: On the Mechanics of Consciousness and A Brief Tour of Higher Consciousness by Itzhak Bentov
- An interview with David Bohm from 1979
- Songs of Kabir
- Streams of Wisdom by Dustin DiPerna and Ken Wilbur
- A Year with Rumi by Coleman Barks
- Health as Expanding Consciousness by Margaret Newman
- The Spiritual Universe: One Physicist’s Vision of Spirit, Soul, Matter and Self by Fred Alan Wolf
- The Reflexive Universe: Evolution of Consciousness by Arthur Young and Huston Smith
- The Ever-Present Origin Part 1 by Jean Gebser
- Seeing Through The World: Jean Gebser and Integral Consciousness by Jeremy Johnson
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