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Spirit Gym with Paul Chek

EP 226 — Russell Sturgess: The Cathar Code

Spirit Gym with Paul Chek

Paul Chek

Religion & Spirituality, Wellness, Society & Culture, Plant Medicine, Relationships, Alternative Health, Metaphysics, Philosophy, Paul Chek, Spirituality, Sexuality, Holistic Health, Health & Fitness, Personal Development

4.8 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 31 January 2023

⏱️ 167 minutes

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Summary

Depending on who you ask, the Tarot can be a pleasant, unserious distraction to the uninitiated or the work of the Devil for those who hold rigidly to their religious beliefs without question.

For the knowledgeable and skilled, however, the Tarot can be a great source of knowledge and human insight if they are willing to listen and learn.

Meet Russell Sturgess, author of The Spiritual Roots of the Tarot: The Cathar Code Hidden in the Cards, who shares how his life’s calling was transformed by a voice in a gift store at Christmas and describes the globe-spanning journey he’s taken to document then share what he’s learned in this historical Living 4D conversation.

Learn more about Russell’s work on his website and the Western Mindfulness website and YouTube.

For Living 4D listeners: Russell is offering special discounts on his CHASM/Pathways to Mindfulness mentoring programs at his online store. Use the promo code CHEK1 (CHASM 8 session course) or CHEK2 (CHASM 28 session course) when you register to receive your discount.

Timestamps

  • How religion fits into the bigger truths. (8:55)
  • Vivid dreams of snakes. (17:21)
  • The objective psyche. (25:23)
  • Origins of the Tarot. (33:19)
  • Connecting the Cathars with the Tarot. (46:46)
  • Who were the Cathars? (56:40)
  • Jesus: Not a true savior based on what the Cathars believed. (1:09:06)
  • An Abrahamic test question Russell asks at every workshop. (1:21:40)
  • “We live in the existence of illusion.” (1:32:01)
  • Becoming the observer. (1:40:28)
  • The real meaning of righteousness. (1:46:08)
  • Do you have free will? (1:52:07)
  • “Hold the intention but stay an observer.” (2:01:42)
  • No judgement. (2:11:34)
  • What is mindfulness? (2:23:03)
  • The CHASM acronym. (2:30:13)

Resources

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Transcript

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These four cards represent the worst of the world of illusion.

0:05.0

Now, it then goes on to say what's in the world of illusion is justice, time, the passage of time, and chance the Wheel of Fortune.

0:14.6

They are only in the illusion, they're not found anywhere else.

0:18.1

They're part of what brings balance to the illusion or shows the illusion to be the illusion. And so you go through this and then you go through they then had this message of how you move beyond that and that is the dark night of the soul journey and so you know the hanged man going through the

0:34.1

devil card is the dark night of the soul and then you go into the Treasury of

0:37.6

light and all the last cards are all light symbols the star card the moon

0:42.2

card the sun card they're all about symbols, the star card, the moon card, the sun card, they're all about light and the

0:45.1

Gnostics talked about the temple as being the treasury of light.

0:50.5

This is a place of an enlightenment. And so these guys understood all of this and created these beautiful images to

0:57.2

depict this journey about how to leave the world of illusion

1:02.0

Welcome to Living 4D with Paul Chet.

1:04.7

Today Paul is talking with Russell Sturgis.

1:07.8

Russell is a thought leader in Western mindfulness.

1:11.2

Early in his life he became a very successful health professional, a father and a lay minister.

1:17.0

However, he became burnt out, divorced, depressed, seriously obese, had left the church and declared bankrupt.

1:25.0

But as the saying goes, when the student is ready, the teacher appears,

1:29.0

and Providence provided Russell with a series of teachers who helped him to heal, create the impetus to develop

1:34.8

the Center for Western Mindfulness and find his mission in life, which is to train

1:39.2

sufficient people to mentor others using his program such that a critical mass can initiate a global

1:45.4

reset based on love and not fear. If you enjoy today's episode please consider

1:50.8

leaving us a five-star rating and a warm review at the top of the show page on Spotify or at the bottom of the show page if you are listening on Apple Podcast.

2:00.0

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