"In teaching your ego that your future is actually safer than your past, it begins to protect it more than your past."
Matthew Paetz
EFR 556: How to Become Someone You Are Proud Of and Go From Being an Unconscious Consumer to Conscious Creator with Matthew Paetz
Matthew Paetz returns to Ever Forward Radio to share how he has been navigating the seemingly endless period of uncertainty brought about by the pandemic—particularly around how he has been striving to shift from being what he calls an “unconscious consumer” to being a “conscious creator”.
“I’m creating a life I’ve never had by doing things I’ve never done,” says Matthew, adding that his focus has been on building on himself over his achievements. One of the major ways he has been doing this over the past 18 months is by immersing himself in the world of psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy as a modality for addressing trauma.
Matthew defines these guided sessions as “medicines for the soul”—contrasting it with alcohol which he calls “medicine for the ego”. He then breaks down the development of our ego and how these sessions allow you to detach from that ego and see your life from a completely different perspective.
“These medicines, in a guided session, would be the greatest gift I could give the entire world,” says Matthew. He believes that, should the public embrace this gift, Western medicine as it pertains to mental health would be “eradicated” in a matter of months.
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Key Highlights
Matthew shares how he has been striving to make the shift from unconscious consumer to conscious creator since his last appearance on the show in September 2020.
How do we achieve expansion through restriction?
A common experience among those who engage in guided psychedelic experiences is the almost instantaneous dissolution of ego. Matthew describes how this happened for him.
Matthew addresses skeptics wondering whether psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy is really the next step in discovering who they were meant to become.
Matthew explains why he considers these guided experiences as his “greatest gift to the world”.
Powerful Quotes by Matthew
Environment always wins. Always.You cannot out-intention your environment. It may not win immediately, but it will win inevitably.
The ego is the identity—oftentimes the original identity—we adopt around the age of seven. It’s that zero-to-six timeframe where you establish over 60% of what you believe you are and what you believe to be true about the world around you.
In teaching your ego that your future is actually safer than your past, it begins to protect it more than your past.
These medicines, in a guided session, would be the greatest gift I could give the entire world. [...] I believe psychedelic experiences are medicines of the soul.
Episode resources:
Matthew's first appearance in episode 383
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