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Your emotions are messages from your soul. Learn How to Tune In and Listen Here: www.seatofthesoul.com/emotionalawarenesscourse  A new consciousness is transforming the human species. The old world is disintegrating while a new one is being born, and both now call to every individual. In this Soul Snack, Gary Zukav explains that multisensory perception is a gift already unfolding in humanity. No one has to develop it. Cognition expanded over the course of human history, and multisensory perception is emerging the same way, on its own. Over time, humanity will find ways to strengthen, deepen, and enhance their awareness of it. The potential that multisensory perception brings is a different matter. Gary describes two parts of this potential: Authentic Power and the Universal Human. Neither appears automatically. Both require work, and the Universe does not judge anyone for creating them or for leaving them uncreated. Multisensory perception arrives as a gift, but its potential becomes real only through choice and effort. Spiritual tools exist to help each individual develop Authentic Power and become a universal human. What You’ll Discover in This Episode (00:02) – The choice between two worlds: one of gratitude, patience, and contentment, the other of anger, worry, overwhelm, and despair. (00:29) – Why multisensory perception is a gift that is already unfolding and needs no effort to appear, much as cognition emerged earlier in human history. (01:13) – The difference between multisensory perception and the potential it brings, and why that potential requires intention, commitment, and spiritual tools. (01:43) – Authentic Power and the universal human, the two new potentials of multisensory perception, and why the Universe does not judge whether you create them. Embrace the Soul Step Challenge Think of a moment when you sensed something beyond your five senses. Maybe a hunch proved right, or you felt something about a person before they said a word, or a choice seemed to matter more than it appeared. Pause and notice how that felt. Ask yourself: what am I doing with this awareness? Where in my life am I waiting for change to happen on its own when it is asking for my effort? What would one step toward Authentic Power look like for me today? Let’s Connect: Gary Zukav | Website Gary Zukav | Instagram Gary Zukav | Facebook Gary Zukav | Books Gary Zukav | YouTube Gary Zukav | X (Twitter)

Are you ready to live Beyond the Five Sense? Learn how HERE: www.seatofthesoul.com/beyondthefivesensescourse In this Deepcast episode, Gary Zukav closes The Illusion Series by integrating the illusions of loss, other, objective, evil, and fear. He explains that as we become multisensory, we experience ourselves as immortal souls who voluntarily incarnate into the Earth School, a domain of time, space, matter, and duality. Drawing on quantum physics and the stories of Jesus and Siddhartha, Gary shows why the deepest duality, love and trust versus fear and doubt, is an illusion within an illusion. Inside the Earth School, fear feels real, and anger, jealousy, and resentment seem to come from the world. Gary explains that the world only activates the frightened and loving parts of our personality, and every choice between them creates consequences. The Earth School is a learning environment, so each consequence offers an opportunity to learn. Gary's guidance is to see each temptation as a frightened part of your personality showing you what it will do unless you intervene, and to choose love. Each time you do, you move beyond the control of that frightened part of your personality and bring the love that you are into the Earth School. What You’ll Discover in This Episode: (03:09) – Why the idea of an "objective" world falls apart, from Newton's admission that he did not know what gravity is to the quantum discovery that the world depends on how we choose to experience it. (09:02) – How love can be all that is real when we still choose between love and fear, and why in the new consciousness, you see it once you believe it. (12:49) – The Earth School as a learning environment where immortal souls incarnate, and why the painful parts of your life point directly to the parts of your personality that keep you from loving. (15:51) – The two ways to learn wisdom, through fear and doubt or through love and trust, and how every intention infuses its quality of consciousness into your words and deeds. (22:09) – Temptation as the gracious mechanism of transformation in the stories of Jesus and Siddhartha, and what it means for you to be fully divine and fully human at the same time. (25:34) – The purpose of the Earth School: to learn love, share love, teach love, and become the love you are. Embrace the Soul Step Challenge This week, notice when a frightened part of your personality tempts you toward anger, jealousy, resentment, righteousness, or control. Pause and ask: What is this temptation showing me? What consequences will I create? What would love choose? Each night, note in your soul notebook what in this episode resonated and what didn't. At week's end, review your entries to see what is real for you and what is illusion. Let's Connect: Gary Zukav | Website Gary Zukav | Instagram Gary Zukav | Facebook Gary Zukav | Books Gary Zukav | YouTube Gary Zukav | X

Are you creating with love or fear in your life? Take this self-assessment today to find out: https://seatofthesoul.com/cultivating-love-optin/ Every day brings a choice between two ways of living: one rooted in gratitude, patience, and contentment, the other in anger, worry, overwhelm, and despair. In this Soul Snack, Gary Zukav describes the light of the Universe, which is everywhere, always has been, and always will be. He reveals that this light is the light of the soul, and that every individual is a being of that same light. This truth reaches far beyond what the multi-sensory personality expects. Planets, galaxies, mountains, oceans, crops, and even sidewalks are forms of light. Gary aligns Light with Consciousness, meaning reverent awareness rather than the operation of the intellectual mind, and with Love, the divine energy that moves the stars and shines when you care for another individual more deeply than for yourself. Light, Consciousness, and Love are one and the same, and each individual is a being of this light. We are systems of light living within systems of light. What You’ll Discover in This Episode (00:02) – The two choices now calling to every individual: one of gratitude, patience, and contentment, the other of anger, worry, overwhelm, and despair. (00:43) – Why the light of the Universe is the light of the soul, and why planets, galaxies, mountains, oceans, and sidewalks are all forms of this divine light. (01:15) – How Consciousness, understood as reverent awareness, and Love, the energy that moves the stars and governs the tides, are one with Light. (02:12) – What it means to live as a system of light living within a system of light within systems of light. Embrace the Soul Step Challenge Think of a moment this week when you cared for someone more than you cared for yourself, or felt connected to something larger, like the ocean or the night sky. Pause and notice what that felt like. Ask yourself: what would change if I saw myself and the people around me as beings of light? How would I treat the person in front of me if I remembered we are made of the same light? Let’s Connect: Gary Zukav | Website Gary Zukav | Instagram Gary Zukav | Facebook Gary Zukav | Books Gary Zukav | YouTube Gary Zukav | X (Twitter)

Are you ready to live Beyond the Five Sense? Learn how HERE: www.seatofthesoul.com/beyondthefivesensescourse In this Deepcast episode, Gary Zukav explores the emotion that underlies so much of human experience: fear. He describes how humanity is moving from five-sensory perception, which relies only on the physical senses, into multisensory perception, where we recognize ourselves as immortal souls. From this perspective, anger, jealousy, superiority, the need to please, and overwhelm all reveal themselves as forms of fear. Gary draws on his own journey, including years of acting from superiority and his deep grief when the soul of his spiritual partner, Linda Francis, returned to non-physical reality, to show how fear works and what it has to teach. The challenge is that fear causes emotional pain, and five sensory consciousness responds to that pain by trying to manipulate the world. We reach for a new business, a new partner, or more control, believing that something outside us caused the pain. Gary names what lies at the root of every fear: the pain of powerlessness, of feeling unlovable and flawed. As long as we look externally, the frightened parts of our personality stay in charge. Gary's guidance is to turn toward the fear and feel it fully. Fear is love in disguise, identifying the exact parts of your personality that keep you from loving. Experiencing them consciously  is how you create authentic power and move beyond their control. What You’ll Discover in This Episode: (03:50) – How external power, defined as manipulation and control, grew from the impulse to control what frightened us. (05:43) – Jealousy, superiority, the need to please, and overwhelm as forms of fear, and why only love is real. (09:20) – Why fear, attachment, and emotional pain are expressions of the same underlying experience, rooted in the pain of powerlessness. (14:56) – What grieving Linda Francis taught Gary about the difference between unconditional love and the fear of loss. (17:34) – A practical way to transform fear by experiencing the physical sensations in the throat, chest, and solar plexus instead of intellectualizing them. (20:47) – Why loss reveals what has not yet evolved within you, and how to choose authentic power over a frightened part of your personality without judging it. Embrace the Soul Step Challenge This week, notice each moment a frightened part of your personality takes over, whether as anger, jealousy, a need to please, or superiority. Pause before you act. Bring your attention to your throat, chest, and solar plexus and ask: What sensations am I feeling? What judgmental thoughts is this part thinking? What is this fear pointing to that keeps me from loving? Write what you find in your soul notebook, then review your entries at the end of the week to see what you learn. Let's Connect Gary Zukav | Website Gary Zukav | Instagram Gary Zukav | Facebook Gary Zukav | Books Gary Zukav | YouTube Gary Zukav | X

Every day brings a choice between two ways of living: one rooted in gratitude and contentment, the other in anger and despair. In this Soul Snack, Gary Zukav explains what comes after emotional awareness, once a painful or pleasing sensation has been noticed near an energy processing center like the throat, chest, or solar plexus. That sensation signals a frightened part of the personality has become active, wanting to shout, withdraw, agree, or please. Acting on it repeats old patterns of jealousy, anger, or resentment. The way forward is to frustrate that impulse instead of obeying it. Choosing not to act creates a responsible choice, and that choice is what builds Authentic Power. What You’ll Discover in This Episode (00:02) — The two worlds now calling to every person, one of gratitude, patience, and contentment, the other of anger, worry, overwhelm, and despair. (00:43) — What it means to challenge an emotion after scanning it: recognizing a frightened part of the personality and frustrating its need to shout, withdraw, agree, or please. (01:42) — Responsible choice defined as a choice whose consequences a person is willing to assume, and why noticing a frightened part in action opens the door to choosing differently. (02:11) — How refusing to repeat old patterns of jealousy, anger, or resentment, and choosing harmony or cooperation instead, is what creates Authentic Power. Embrace the Soul Step Challenge Think of a moment this week when a frightened part of your personality became active, maybe a flash of anger, the urge to withdraw, or the need to please someone at your own expense. Pause before acting on it. Ask yourself: what have I caused in the past by following this pattern, and is that the consequence I want again? What would a responsible choice look like here instead? Let’s Connect: Gary Zukav | Website Gary Zukav | Instagram Gary Zukav | Facebook Gary Zukav | Books Gary Zukav | YouTube Gary Zukav | X (Twitter)

In this Deepcast episode, Gary Zukav takes on one of humanity's oldest fears: the idea that evil is a force loose in the world, something separate from us that can attack, tempt, or possess us. He traces this belief back through Christianity and Buddhism, both built on the story of a young man (Jesus, Siddhartha) who faced temptation on his path to a higher state of being. In the old consciousness, that temptation gets treated as an outside enemy, an independently existing evil that only an institution like the church can help you defeat. Gary argues this framing has always been a trap, one that keeps people dependent and afraid instead of powerful. The deeper problem, as Gary lays it out, is that treating evil as a real, external thing gives us no way to actually deal with it. You cannot punish an illusion into submission. You cannot lock up something that was never really there. As long as evil is imagined as some independent force, every attempt to fight it, through shame, punishment, or even righteous outrage, just adds more darkness to the pile. His answer is simple: evil is not a thing at all. It is the absence of light, and the only cure for an absence is a presence. Once you understand that, the whole equation changes. What You’ll Discover in This Episode (00:02) — Christianity and Buddhism both center on temptation, and why the old consciousness says only the church can save you. (03:02) — Evil reframed as an absence of light, not an independent entity, with frightened parts of your personality as its true source. (06:13) — Why "choosing evil" is a myth: the only real choice is love or fear, and evil is just imagined darkness where none exists. (09:08) — Gary's Sioux uncle's story of a tribal council choosing restoration over execution, and what it reveals about consequences over punishment. (12:02) — The soul's intentions (harmony, cooperation, reverence for life), and how aligning personality with soul replaces old ethics. (15:04) — Why fighting darkness with rage pulls you into it, while illuminating it with love actually ends it. Embrace the Soul Step Challenge This week, notice every time you label something, a person, an event, a part of yourself, as evil or bad. Pause before reacting and ask: is this really an external force, or is it an absence of light I have the power to fill? What frightened part of my personality might be showing itself here? Keep a soul notebook, and at the end of the week, look back at what you wrote to see where you slipped into judgment versus where you chose to bring light instead. Let's Connect Gary Zukav | Website Gary Zukav | Instagram Gary Zukav | Facebook Gary Zukav | Books Gary Zukav | YouTube Gary Zukav | X

In this Soul Snack, Gary Zukav goes after the frightened parts of the personality that convince people they are invisible and without impact. His answer is that this feeling is never actually true, it's only ever a perception, and he traces it back to a Buddhist saying that puzzled him for decades: the river of suffering is deep and wide, a turn of the head is the other side. That turn of the head is the shift Gary describes: moving out of one enclosed world and into an entirely different one, from fear into love. Two worlds are now calling to each person at once, one built on gratitude, patience, and contentment, the other on anger, worry, and despair, and the choice between them is never made for you. The invitation is to recognize that this choice is never only personal. It shapes the maturation of your own personality and the evolution of your soul, while also feeding directly into the collective consciousness and the evolution of humanity itself. What You’ll Discover in This Episode (00:02) — The two worlds now calling to every person, one of gratitude, patience, and contentment, the other of anger, worry, and despair. (00:59) — Why frightened parts of the personality feel invisible and without impact, and why that feeling is only ever a perception, never the truth. (01:43) — The Buddhist saying that puzzled Gary for decades, and what it reveals about how close a world of fear and a world of love actually are. (02:25) — How choosing love shapes your own soul's evolution and ripples into the collective consciousness and the evolution of humanity. Embrace the Soul Step Challenge Think of a moment this week when you felt unseen, worried, or overwhelmed. Pause and ask yourself: is this feeling actually true, or only a frightened part of my personality convinced it's invisible? What would it take to simply turn your head toward the other side, toward gratitude and love instead of fear? You don't have to force the shift. Just notice that the choice is already there, waiting for you. Let’s Connect: Gary Zukav | Website Gary Zukav | Instagram Gary Zukav | Facebook Gary Zukav | Books Gary Zukav | YouTube Gary Zukav | X (Twitter)

In this Deepcast episode, Gary Zukav dismantles a word most people never think to question: "objective." Objective, he explains, is the assumption that a world exists independently of you, unaffected by what you think, feel, or do. It is the foundation empirical science has stood on since Newton, the belief that reality can be observed, measured, and controlled from the outside. Gary argues that this assumption, however useful it once was, no longer holds. The old consciousness built everything on that separation between an experiencer and an experienced world, and used it to develop external power, the ability to manipulate and control circumstances for personal gain. But quantum physics itself revealed a century ago that a physical theory cannot prove anything about reality, only correlate what is observed. As more of the human species awakens to multisensory perception, that gap between self and world dissolves entirely. There is no objective reality waiting to be discovered. There is only the reality each person creates through the currents of love or fear moving within them, and the conscious intentions they choose to strengthen. What You’ll Discover in This Episode (00:02) — What "objective" actually assumes, a world existing independently of you, and why the old consciousness built its entire understanding of empirical reality on that assumption. (03:59) — The unbridgeable gap between old and new consciousness, and why there is no use trying to persuade someone experiencing the old consciousness that a multisensory reality exists. (07:22) — Physical theory as correlation, not proof, and why science's predictive power says nothing about an objective world beyond it, only about consistent, repeatable experience. (10:56) — Fire, tools, and technology as triumphs of the old consciousness's pursuit of external power, and why that same drive now produces only violence and destruction. (14:22) — Emotional awareness as seeing your own currents the way an angel might, and how learning to distinguish love from fear is the beginning of authentic power. (18:18) — Intention as what actually shapes an undetermined life, and why the new consciousness makes you not a path finder, but a path creator. Embrace the Soul Step Challenge This week, notice each time you treat something as simply "the way it is," independent of you: a relationship, a work circumstance, a belief. Pause and ask: what current, love or fear, is shaping this? Is it objective, or a reflection of an intention I've set? Keep a soul notebook, and at week's end see where you shifted from finding a path to creating one. Let's Connect Gary Zukav | Website Gary Zukav | Instagram Gary Zukav | Facebook Gary Zukav | Books Gary Zukav | YouTube Gary Zukav | X

In this Soul Snack, Gary Zukav asks where trust fits into everything he has been teaching about authentic power, multisensory perception, emotional awareness, and non physical guides and teachers. His answer is that trust does not sit beside these tools. It permeates the entire picture and gives it meaning, bringing the new human experience home to your heart and your life in the Earth School. Without trust in the Universe, a person lives in fear, never sure what will happen next, unable to fully laugh, give, or enjoy life. Trust arrives, Gary explains, when you see that everything you do in the Earth School serves the evolution of your soul perfectly, whether you are jealous or forgiving. You cannot quit the quest for authentic power. The only choice is how you will learn wisdom: through fear and doubt, or through love and gratitude. The invitation is to relax into the knowing that all roads lead home, to experience the frightened parts of your personality consciously so you can choose harmony and cooperation, and to release your wisdom to a higher wisdom through prayer. What You’ll Discover in This Episode (00:29) — A recap of the journey so far: authentic power as the alignment of personality with soul, emotional awareness, and the gift of multisensory perception versus the work only you can do. (02:50) — Trust permeates the whole picture rather than occupying one corner of it, and it is what allows you to laugh, give, and stop living in fear of what comes next. (03:55) — Everything you do in the Earth School, from jealousy to forgiveness, serves the evolution of your soul perfectly; now is the time to inject consciousness into that dynamic. (05:26) — You cannot quit the quest for authentic power, but you can choose to learn wisdom through anger and jealousy or through joy, appreciation, and gratitude. (07:33) — The Universe does not work the way humanity does; it provides what you need to fulfill your sacred contract, not what your personality wants. (09:57) — All roads lead home: relax into the counsel of your guides and teachers, and release your wisdom to divine intelligence through prayer. Embrace the Soul Step Challenge Think of a recent experience your personality would not have chosen, a disappointment, a loss, or a moment when things did not go the way you wanted. Pause and ask yourself: is it possible this experience is serving the evolution of your soul perfectly? What would it feel like to trust that the Universe is providing exactly what you need to grow, and how might you choose to learn wisdom from this moment through gratitude instead of fear? Let’s Connect: Gary Zukav | Website Gary Zukav | Instagram Gary Zukav | Facebook Gary Zukav | Books Gary Zukav | YouTube Gary Zukav | X (Twitter)

Are you ready to live Beyond the Five Sense? Learn how HERE: www.seatofthesoul.com/beyondthefivesensescourse In this Deepcast episode, Gary Zukav takes on a word so ordinary we never question it: "other." The other team, the other country, the other person. Other means everything that is not you. From the old human consciousness, an uncrossable barrier stands between inside and outside, and changing the world by changing yourself sounds like a fantasy. Gary challenges that assumption directly. The world is a reflection of what we are, and fixing it with manipulation and control only adds more of what it is made of. Drawing on his own years of addiction, Gary describes the moment every addict reaches: the world has been reshaped to serve the craving, and the pain remains. War and cruelty feel like they happen out there, but they are experiences within you, and seeing this is where responsibility begins. The only source of your pain and your love is you, and only you can change it. Generosity feels good because it arises from a loving part of your personality, and cruelty hurts because it comes from a frightened part of your personality. What You’ll Discover in This Episode (00:02) — The difference between a broadcast, a podcast, and a Deepcast, and why this series turns to the deepest questions about life. (03:01) — Why the old consciousness sees a wall between inside and outside, and how the new consciousness erases it so changing yourself and the world become one act. (05:30) — The world as a reflection, and why the frightened parts of the personality, from jealousy to addiction, pursue external power. (07:57) — Gary's own story of sex addiction and the turning point every addict reaches: the world bends to the craving, and the hurt remains. (10:45) — Temptation as a gracious dynamic of the Universe that surfaces negativity so it can be healed before it becomes karma. (15:08) — You are your perceptions: why awareness and its object arise together, and how a broadcast life chases attention to fill an unfillable hole. (19:58) — The personality as an Earth suit a soul wears, and why generosity feels good and cruelty hurts when there is no other. Embrace the Soul Step Challenge This week, notice each time you say or think of the word "other." The other person, the other side, the people causing the problem. Pause and ask: what am I seeing in them that lives in me? Where do I feel it in my body? The world reflects what we are, so treat these moments as invitations, not accusations. Keep a soul notebook, and at week's end see where the line between you and the world softened. Let's Connect Gary Zukav | Website Gary Zukav | Instagram Gary Zukav | Facebook Gary Zukav | Books Gary Zukav | YouTube Gary Zukav | X

In this Soul Snack, Gary Zukav distills the core message of the podcast down to a single practice: learning to distinguish, within yourself, the difference between love and fear, and then choosing love no matter what is happening inside of you or around you. He frames this as the whole message, the foundation from which everything else in creating authentic power flows. Gary explains that this choice cannot be conditional. It is not simply choosing love when you are happy, or surrounded by supportive people, or feeling grateful. Real authentic power comes from choosing love especially when circumstances make that difficult, since without this practice a person remains at the mercy of whatever is happening outside of them. The solution he offers is to turn inward: rather than trying to change someone or something external in order to relieve pain, such as trying to convince another person to change their mind, authentic power asks you to look at what you are experiencing internally and address what is creating that pain from within. What You’ll Discover in This Episode (00:02) — The new consciousness transforming the human species, and the choice available in every moment between gratitude, patience, and contentment, or anger, worry, and despair. (00:29) — The essence of creating authentic power is introduced: learning to distinguish love from fear within yourself and choosing love regardless of circumstance. (01:04) — Choosing love is not conditional; it applies even when you are not happy, supported, or feeling grateful. (01:32) — Self-mastery and authentic power are contrasted with being at the mercy of external events, illustrated through the example of trying to change someone else's mind to relieve your own pain. Embrace the Soul Step Challenge Think of a recent moment when you tried to change something or someone outside of yourself in order to relieve a pain you were feeling inside. Pause and ask yourself: what was that pain actually about, and what might it look like to address what was happening inside of you instead of trying to change what was happening outside of you? Let’s Connect: Gary Zukav | Website Gary Zukav | Instagram Gary Zukav | Facebook Gary Zukav | Books Gary Zukav | YouTube Gary Zukav | X (Twitter)

In this Deepcast episode, Gary Zukav explores loss, one of the most painful human experiences. Whether it's the death of a grandmother, a spouse, or a child, loss feels catastrophic and irreversible. Gary challenges this directly, explaining that from the new consciousness, loss as we understand it is an illusion born of five-sensory limitations. The old consciousness perceives the world in parts, making death appear a complete ending, an "all systems crash" with no recovery. But death is not the end of a soul; it is the completion of an incarnation, a temporary allotment of a soul's energy within the Earth School. What feels like devastating loss is actually attachment and fear, the very things the Earth School exists to teach us to move beyond. This is illustrated through Gary's own experience of losing his beloved Linda Francis, and the connection he still feels with her. Nothing that exists can ever truly be lost, because the personality is not what we are. We are the soul, the Universe, and the Universe cannot lose a part of itself. Seeing loss through this expanded lens transforms suffering into fulfillment and celebration of life. What You’ll Discover in This Episode (00:02) — Why the old and new consciousness are colliding right now in the human species, and how this shapes the way we experience power, fear, and loss. (07:35) — The connection between fear, pain, and loss, and why any attachment is fear in disguise. (09:57) — The world as a mirror: how what we dislike in others reflects unacknowledged parts of ourselves, and how writing these projections down can birth compassion. (13:44) — Emotions as currents of energy flowing through us like a river, and how treating emotional pain as physical, chakra-based sensation opens the door to meditation and awareness. (21:16) — A personal reflection on the passing of Linda Francis, why celebration takes the place of mourning, and what it means to stay in communication with a soul after the body is gone. (25:22) — Why "you are the Universe" is not a narcissistic claim but an emerging perception of the new consciousness, and how recognizing this reshapes the entire experience of loss. Embrace the Soul Step Challenge This week, notice a moment when you feel the sting of loss, whether a person, a relationship, or a version of yourself you feel is gone. Pause and ask: is this loss real, or is it the old consciousness perceiving separation where none exists? What would it feel like to celebrate instead of grieve? Keep a soul notebook, and look back at week's end to see where you found a broader perspective, rooted not in loss, but in wholeness. Let's Connect Gary Zukav | Website Gary Zukav | Instagram Gary Zukav | Facebook Gary Zukav | Books Gary Zukav | YouTube Gary Zukav | X

In this Soul Snack, Gary Zukav explores what it means to forgive yourself for stepping out of your power, and why the frightened part of your personality shows no mercy until you choose to challenge it. He introduces this through the lens of the new consciousness now transforming the human species, and the choice available in every moment between gratitude, patience, and contentment, or anger, worry, and despair. Gary illustrates this choice with a story from his years living in Mount Shasta, where driving through a sudden blizzard on the way to the airport made it feel as though the entire world had disappeared into snow, until he drove just a few miles further and emerged into clear sunlight. He connects this to what happens when a frightened part of the personality takes over: it can feel as though the whole world is buried, even when that isn't true. The solution he offers is simple: in that moment, remind yourself of what you're grateful for, what you can learn, and the other parts of your personality that are available to you, calling back to a Buddhist teaching that the far shore of suffering is reached with nothing more than a turn of the head What You’ll Discover in This Episode (00:02) — The new consciousness transforming the human species, and the choice available in every moment between gratitude, patience, and contentment, or anger, worry, and despair. (00:43) — Self-forgiveness is explored as a choice, since the frightened part of the personality will not forgive on its own. (01:28) — A story from Mount Shasta shows how driving through a sudden blizzard can make the whole world feel buried in snow, until a few more miles bring clear skies. (02:36) — Being in a frightened part of the personality is compared directly to being caught in that blizzard, with gratitude offered as a way through it. Embrace the Soul Step Challenge Think of a recent moment when you were brutally judging, blaming, or criticizing yourself. Pause and ask yourself: which part of your personality was doing the judging, and what would it look like to remind yourself, in that same moment, of what you're grateful for and what other parts of you are available to you instead? Let’s Connect: Gary Zukav | Website Gary Zukav | Instagram Gary Zukav | Facebook Gary Zukav | Books Gary Zukav | YouTube Gary Zukav | X (Twitter)

In this Deepcast episode, Gary Zukav explores a question that sounds simple but runs deep: what does it really mean to be wild? He makes clear that wildness has nothing to do with recklessness or lawlessness. It means living beyond the control of fear. Wild and control, he explains, are mutually exclusive, just like love and fear. Gary shares how, for most of his life, frightened parts of his personality quietly ran the show, including the need to impress, to gain, and to appear a certain way, from his years as a paratrooper and Green Beret officer to the self-imposed decorum he later adopted as a spiritual teacher. Drawing on the discovery of the unconscious by early psychotherapy, he explains that whatever we don't know about ourselves doesn't disappear; it controls us anyway, often surfacing as projection onto the people around us. The way through, Gary explains, is to identify these frightened parts, create distance from them through conscious awareness, and choose from that space of choice, because beyond the control of fear is love, and love is authentic power. What You’ll Discover in This Episode (00:02) — What "wild" actually means: not lawlessness or chaos, but freedom from the control of fear, and why wild and control are mutually exclusive, just like love and fear. (03:07) — How frightened parts of personality — the need to please, to gain, to control — quietly run the show, and why what stays unconscious in us ends up controlling us instead. (06:59) — Projection as a mirror: how strong reactions to what we dislike in others reveal the very parts of ourselves we haven't yet acknowledged. (10:16) — The pain of powerlessness, and the shift from five-sensory humans reaching outward to control the world, to multisensory humans learning to look inward instead. (13:55) — Naming the frightened parts — fear, anger, judgment, entitlement — and creating the "arm's length" distance needed to choose consciously rather than react. (17:44) — Why fear is control, and why love — not sentimental, but authentic power — is what remains once that control dissolves. Embrace the Soul Step Challenge This week, notice a moment when you feel yourself trying to control something outside of you: a person, an outcome, or how you're perceived. Pause and ask yourself: what frightened part of my personality is driving this need for control? Is this coming from fear, or from love? Keep a soul notebook of what you notice, and at the end of the week, look back to see where you found the courage to walk on the wild side, beyond fear's control and into love. Let's Connect Gary Zukav | Website Gary Zukav | Instagram Gary Zukav | Facebook Gary Zukav | Books Gary Zukav | YouTube Gary Zukav | X

Are you creating with love or fear in your life? Take this self-assessment today to find out: https://seatofthesoul.com/cultivating-love-optin/ In this Soul Snack, Gary Zukav examines the meaning of Authentic Power and distinguishes it from external power. He introduces the transformation in human consciousness now underway, and describes the choice available in every moment between two ways of living: one grounded in gratitude, patience, and contentment, and one dominated by anger, worry, and despair. Gary explores how external power - the ability to control or manipulate the physical world - has shaped human history through tools, weapons, agriculture, and technology, and was long equated with strength and safety. He explains that this same kind of power, the power to dominate and force compliance, now produces only violence and destruction, and reveals how the very understanding of power that once enabled humanity’s survival now interferes with its evolution. The alternative Gary offers is Authentic Power: the alignment of personality with soul, a sustainable source of safety and value that does not depend on domination or control. (00:02) — The new consciousness transforming the human species, presenting a choice in every moment between a life of gratitude, patience, and contentment, and one of anger, worry, and despair. (01:12) — Authentic Power is defined as the alignment of personality with soul, distinct from external power such as a weapon or military force. (01:50) — External power - the ability to control and manipulate - is shown to produce only violence and destruction, and its role in developing tools, weapons, agriculture, and technology throughout human history is traced. (02:49) — The very power that enabled the human species to survive is revealed as now interfering with its evolution. Embrace the Soul Step Challenge Think of a moment recently when you sought to feel safe or valuable through controlling a person, a situation, or an outcome. Pause and ask yourself: what would it look like to find that same safety from within, through the alignment of your personality with your soul, rather than through control? Let’s Connect: Gary Zukav | Website Gary Zukav | Instagram Gary Zukav | Facebook Gary Zukav | Books Gary Zukav | YouTube Gary Zukav | X (Twitter)