Uploaded July 2025 | Updated September 2026, 4 hours ago
Did you ever consider the movies, TV shows and YouTube videos you watch may be bending your mind, will and health in harmful ways?
Staring at screens for many hours each day (in addition to the time you spend in front of a computer monitor each work day) is quietly training your brain and shaping your worldview for good and bad.
Not to mention, all of this staring fills you up with other people’s myths and stories at the expense of creating your own and living a fuller, richer life.
Filmmaker Ben Stewart ( paulchek.com/blog/podcast-episodes/episode-13-ben-stewart-beyond-the-veil-of-deception ) describes the tactics mass media uses to bend your mind to their will and how you can turn the tables by living your own myths and stories and embracing the badassery of being human by learning how to use the tools the fat cats use for good, this week on Spirit Gym.
Learn more about Ben’s work on his website at benjosephstewart.com and social media via Instagram at instagram.com/benjosephstewart . Watch his series Psychedelica at gaia.com/series/psychedelica and Limitless at gaia.com/series/limitless on Gaia. Take the first steps to tell your own stories on film by checking out Ben’s The Soul of Filmmaking program at souloffilm.com .
For Spirit Gym Listeners: Spirit Gym listeners can save an additional $100 on top of a $500 early discount for signing up for Ben’s The Soul of Filmmaking program at souloffilm.com when you select Spirit Gym With Paul Chek in the How did you hear about us? box at checkout.
Listen to Paul's conversation with Ben Stewart and check out the show notes page on our Spirit Gym website at or watch it on YouTube at
Did you ever consider the movies, TV shows and YouTube videos you watch may be bending your mind, will and health in harmful ways?
Staring at screens for many hours each day (in addition to the time you spend in front of a computer monitor each work day) is quietly training your brain and shaping your worldview for good and bad.
Not to mention, all of this staring fills you up with other people’s myths and stories at the expense of creating your own and living a fuller, richer life.
Filmmaker Ben Stewart ( paulchek.com/blog/podcast-episodes/episode-13-ben-stewart-beyond-the-veil-of-deception ) describes the tactics mass media uses to bend your mind to their will and how you can turn the tables by living your own myths and stories and embracing the badassery of being human by learning how to use the tools the fat cats use for good, this week on Spirit Gym.
Learn more about Ben’s work on his website at benjosephstewart.com and social media via Instagram at instagram.com/benjosephstewart . Watch his series Psychedelica at gaia.com/series/psychedelica and Limitless at gaia.com/series/limitless on Gaia. Take the first steps to tell your own stories on film by checking out Ben’s The Soul of Filmmaking program at souloffilm.com .
For Spirit Gym Listeners: Spirit Gym listeners can save an additional $100 on top of a $500 early discount for signing up for Ben’s The Soul of Filmmaking program at souloffilm.com when you select Spirit Gym With Paul Chek in the How did you hear about us? box at checkout.
Listen to Paul's conversation with Ben Stewart and check out the show notes page on our Spirit Gym website at or watch it on YouTube at
