The Gary Zukav Deepcast

In this Deepcast episode, Gary Zukav introduces courage, the second category of the Authentic Power Guidelines created by his spiritual partner, Linda Francis. Having covered the Commitment Guidelines, Gary explains why courage comes next. Authentic power is love, and before you can love, you have to know intimately the parts of your personality that can’t. Gary draws on his years as an Army paratrooper to compare two kinds of courage. The old kind chases admiration and external power. The new kind turns inward.

Frightened parts of the personality, such as jealousy, anger, resentment, competitiveness, superiority, and inferiority, see you and the world in very limited ways. They hurt physically. They keep you up at night. When you act on them without awareness, they create painful consequences every time. Most people who decide to create authentic power meet fear first, because fear is what they have been living in without knowing it.

Gary’s guidance is to use your courage to look at yourself with your eyes open. Become fully aware of each frightened part so you can move beyond its control, and cultivate the loving parts of your personality that are grateful, caring, and in awe of the Universe.

What You’ll Discover in This Episode:

(02:41) – As a personality aligns with its soul, its energy flows into the Earth school like breath through a flute. Commitment is the dive into the pool.

(05:06) – Courage as the second category of Authentic Power Guidelines, and why you can’t love until you know your personality’s frightened parts.

(08:17) – Old courage versus new. Gary’s paratrooper pride in the Vietnam War sought admiration and external power. New courage explores yourself completely.

(11:01) – Courage stretches you past the limited view of your personality’s frightened parts, and acting on anger or jealousy never brings joy.

(15:47) – Challenge a frightened part by becoming fully aware of it and moving beyond its control, without fighting or giving in. Loving parts need no courage.

(18:15) – Fear comes first when you create authentic power. Chasing external power now brings only violence and destruction.

Embrace the Soul Step Challenge

This week, write in your soul notebook each time you did something you were frightened to do. Pause and ask: Why did I do that? Was I trying to feel better, impress someone, or win admiration? Or was I loving without an agenda? Answer with integrity. At week’s end, read what you wrote. Notice when you used your courage to pursue external power and when you used it to love.

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Most people sense that intuition works, but they can't say what it is. In this Soul Snack, Gary Zukav explains why. Nothing in five-sensory experience can begin to account for intuition. To a five-sensory person, it is a hunch at most. Scientists can't explain it, and psychology, the study of what we feel, think, and perceive, doesn't consider it at all. Gary describes intuition as the voice of the nonphysical world. It matters more and more as humans become multisensory and start to see themselves as souls as well as personalities.

Multisensory humans know their lives have meaning and that they have gifts to give. They want to know what those gifts are, because giving them brings their full potential and their joy. Intuition helps with this, and it shows up in many forms. Some people hear voices. Others notice a thought that feels meaningful, or a moment in a movie that answers a question they asked. Some overhear a conversation that holds the answer they were looking for. Others get goosebumps, or feel a clear yes or no.

There is no right or wrong way to experience intuition. Each person has their own intuitional structure that serves them in Earth school, and it can give answers that go far beyond what the intellect can provide.

What You’ll Discover in This Episode

(00:02) – Why intuition puzzles most people: they sense it works, yet nothing in five-sensory experience can explain it, and to a five-sensory person it is little more than a hunch.

(01:12) – Why psychology leaves intuition out, and what changes when you begin to see yourself as a soul as well as a personality.

(02:11) – Intuition as the voice of the nonphysical world, and why multisensory humans treasure it as access to compassion and wisdom beyond what people can give one another.

(03:20) – The many forms intuition takes, from overheard conversations and goosebumps to a yes or no feeling, and the personal intuitional structure that serves you in Earth school.

(04:02) – How intuition can bring answers more important and fulfilling than anything the intellect can offer.

Embrace the Soul Step Challenge

Think of a time you knew something without being able to explain how. Maybe a line in a film felt meant just for you, a stranger's conversation answered a question you had been carrying, or you felt a clear yes or no about a decision. Pause and notice how that intuition reached you. Ask yourself: how does my intuition usually speak to me? When have I set it aside in favor of my intellect, and what happened? What question could I ask the nonphysical world today, and how will I stay open to the answer?

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In this Deepcast episode, Gary Zukav explores the final Commitment Guideline: pay attention to my intention. He explains that an intention is a quality of consciousness, and the intention behind your words and actions creates the consequences in your life. Through a walk in Golden Gate Park, a multisensory Golden Rule, and the teachings of Christ and the Buddha, Gary shows every choice comes down to love or fear.

Frightened parts of the personality intend to blame, judge, be right, seek admiration, convince others, or hide in intellectual analysis. The soul intends cooperation, sharing, harmony, and reverence for life. Energy attracts like energy, so your intention decides whether your world feels loving or frightening.

Gary’s guidance is to notice your intention and, when it is fear, act from a loving part of your personality. You cannot change what you feel, but you can always change what you do next. That is how authentic power is created.

What You’ll Discover in This Episode:

(02:59) – The intentions of frightened parts of your personality, such as blaming, judging, trying to be right, and convincing others, and the intentions of your soul: cooperating, sharing, creating harmony, and revering life.

(05:44) – Why an intention is a quality of consciousness instead of a goal, and how the intention behind what you say and do creates your consequences.

(08:26) – A child knocked off a bicycle as an example of how the way you hold a circumstance, with fear or with love, determines how you experience it.

(11:30) – The simple law of attraction that always works, energy attracts like energy, and a walk through Golden Gate Park that revealed how quickly one thought changes what you see.

(17:15) – The Golden Rule reformulated for a multisensory humanity: intend for others what you want others to intend for you, and why “love your neighbor” becomes love everybody and everything.

(23:11) – Authentic power as an ongoing meditation, and how holding the thought that all is perfect lets you enjoy your life while you learn love.

Embrace the Soul Step Challenge

This week, notice the intention behind what you say and do. Before you speak or act, pause and ask: Is this intention love or fear? Am I trying to be right, win admiration, or convince someone? What would a loving part of me choose? When you feel fear, choose to act from love. Each night, write in your soul notebook which intentions you acted from that day and what consequences followed.

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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?

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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.

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