Ben Greenfield: Should You STOP Using Plant Medicines? Wisdom on Microdosing, The Muscle of Faith + How to Grow Your Spiritual Strength
Wellness + Wisdom Podcast
Josh Trent
4.8 • 913 Ratings
🗓️ 16 August 2022
⏱️ 87 minutes
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Summary
God doesn't want you to use drugs to interact with the spiritual world. The reason for that is it's very easy to put your faith in being able to have God or the gods at your beck and call, being able to divine, being able to experience God but not ever truly know God, being able to experience a deep spiritual awakening but never actually go through the blood, sweat, tears, and the hard work that develops true spiritual enlightenment. - Ben Greenfield
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Wellness + Wisdom Episode 462
Health Consultant, Speaker, and New York Times bestselling author of 17 books, Ben Greenfield, joins Josh Trent on the Wellness + Wisdom Podcast to share why he's no longer using plant medicines + the moral obligation he feels to share it with the world, to explore the special circumstances for using plant medicine and to explain why + how you should go about plant medicine with caution and with the right ceremonial set up, environment, and shaman.
For any human being on a spiritual or faith path, should you stop using plant medicines?
By the end of this episode, you will have a deep intelligence around the clarification of what exactly plant medicines are for human beings and how they connect us to spiritual dimensions + higher consciousness.
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| 0:00.0 | God for some reason doesn't want to use drugs to interact with the spiritual world. |
| 0:04.8 | And the reason for that is it's very easy to put your faith in being able to have God or the |
| 0:11.3 | gods at your beck and call, being able to divine, being able to experience |
| 0:18.2 | God, but not ever truly know God, being able to experience a deep spiritual awakening, but never actually go through the blood, sweat, the tears, the chopping wood, the hard work that actually develops true spiritual enlightenment. |
| 0:34.0 | That's Ben Greenfield and this is episode 462 of the Wellness and Wisdom podcast. |
| 0:39.8 | Wellness Wisdom will be discovered the physical and emotional intelligence to live life well. |
| 0:45.0 | How can we bring awareness and reverence to all the little mundane elements of our life. |
| 0:53.0 | Wellness, I think, is a combination of understanding your own internal wants, needs, and desires. |
| 1:00.0 | If you really want to take guidance from your soul, you have to be ready to realize that many of the things that you're asking for guidance on your ego has some kind of an addiction to or an investment in. |
| 1:10.0 | Understanding that we are a piece of nature, you know nature is where we belong I think is a very comforting |
| 1:16.7 | thing to understand that would certainly feed into wellness well. |
| 1:22.0 | Ben Greenfield is a New York Times best-selling author of 17 books and as a health consultant, |
| 1:27.1 | speaker and former collegiate water polo tennis and volleyball player, Ben also has achieved |
| 1:31.8 | 13 Iron Man Triathlons and obstacle course race finishes. Ben has been voted |
| 1:36.4 | by Greatest as one of the top 100 most influential people in health and fitness, but beyond these athletic |
| 1:42.3 | accolades. |
| 1:43.6 | I know Ben to be a deeply spiritual man who uses a connection to God, higher power, to achieve |
| 1:48.4 | what many could only dream of. |
| 1:50.0 | I've been bouncing around inside of Ben Greenfield's orbit and consciousness for 10 plus years now. |
| 1:56.0 | And in true divine timing, it took something both polarizing and controversial to bring Ben and |
| 2:01.0 | I together for this Wellness and Wisdom episode number 462. |
| 2:05.0 | Today Ben and I are asking a profoundly important question for any human being on a spiritual or faith-based path, |
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