The Gary Zukav Podcast

• What to Do about Polarization in My Family or Workplace?

  Learn how to align your personality with your soul and create authentic power in your life. The Authentic Power Guidelines will guide you on this powerful journey.  Learn More Here. www.seatofthesoul.com/authenticpowerguidelinescourse In this eye-opening episode of The Gary Zukav Podcast, Gary explores the rising tension of polarization in our families, workplaces, communities, and across the globe. He offers a perspective from the new consciousness: we cannot change polarization “out there,” but we can transform our internal experience of it - starting with our own reactions and perceptions. With clarity and compassion, Gary reframes division not as an external battle, but as a reflection of our inner state. At the heart of polarization is a choice. When you experience judgment, frustration, or anger, you are reacting from a frightened part of your personality. The pursuit of external power is the attempt to fix others or the world. Gary invites you to instead use your emotional awareness to see your own inner divides. Polarization is a feature of duality in the Earth school. You cannot eradicate it, but you can make a responsible choice about which part of your personality you act from: a frightened part or a loving part. The path to healing the division you see in the world is the creation of authentic power and the alignment of your personality with your soul. That journey begins with your emotional awareness and your responsible choice. When you choose to look inward, you cultivate the loving parts of your personality, like patience, gratitude, and compassion. This is how you contribute to a more loving world, because what is in one, is in the whole. What You’ll Discover in This Episode: (00:42) — Why You Can’t Fix Polarization Out There: The only place to change polarization is within yourself (03:09) — The Myth of External Power: Why trying to change others comes from fear—and why it no longer works in the new multisensory consciousness (05:50) — Love or Fear? The Only Two Options: How every experience brings you to a choice point between love and fear (08:14) — The Power of Perception: Why “others” are projections—and how recognizing this shifts your experience of life (13:24) — Creating Authentic Power: What it means to align with your soul and evolve spiritually (18:13) — Your Role in Polarized Environments: A new way to respond in families, workplaces, and society at large Embrace the Soul Step Challenge: This week, carry a small notebook with you. Each time you experience frustration, fear, or judgment about polarization - whether in your family, workplace, or society - write it down. Note which frightened part of your personality is reacting. Ask yourself: Am I choosing fear or love? At the end of the week, reflect on your notes. You can’t remove duality from the Earth School, but you can choose which side of it you live from. Choose love. Let’s Connect Gary Zukav | Website Gary Zukav | Instagram Gary Zukav | Facebook Gary Zukav | Books Gary Zukav | YouTube Gary Zukav | X

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• Addiction and Spiritual Growth

  Discover a new way of seeing and experiencing the world.  Start your journey to multisensory perception HERE: https://seatofthesoul.com/mutli-five-sensory/ In this powerful and personal episode, Gary Zukav explores the true nature of addiction - not as a clinical disorder, but as a spiritual challenge rooted in fear and the pain of powerlessness. Drawing from his own experiences and the teachings in The Seat of the Soul, Gary reframes addiction as a frightened part of the personality that every human being possesses. By understanding that addiction is an intense attempt to cover inner pain, listeners are guided toward a new definition of healing - one that involves emotional awareness, conscious choice, and spiritual responsibility. Gary reveals that healing addiction isn’t about suppressing behavior but facing the pain beneath it with compassion and courage. If you’ve ever struggled with addiction - or thought you didn’t have one - this episode offers a soul-level perspective that invites reflection, growth, and a path to authentic power. What You’ll Discover in This Episode: (00:02) – Two Realities, One ChoiceHow addiction is rooted in the choice between love and fear—and why both exist in all of us. (01:13) – Personality Is Not One ThingWhy your personality has many parts—and how identifying them helps you understand addiction. (04:04) – What Addiction Really IsAddiction as a frightened part of your personality—and how it functions to mask deep emotional pain. (07:28) – The Pain Beneath AddictionThe root of all addiction: the pain of powerlessness, and how every frightened part tries to hide it. (10:53) – Healing as a Spiritual JourneyWhy overcoming addiction is not clinical or medical—it’s a spiritual endeavor that calls for emotional awareness and alignment with your soul. (12:49) – Addictions as Spiritual TeachersYour addictions are not failures—they are the most important teachers on your path to authentic power. Embrace the Soul Step Challenge Think about an addiction - or recurring behavior - you may have denied, minimized, or ignored. Ask yourself: What pain might this behavior be masking? Are you willing to look at that pain with compassion and courage? How might your life change if you approached it with the intention to heal, rather than avoid? Let’s Connect: Gary Zukav | Website Gary Zukav | Instagram Gary Zukav | Facebook Gary Zukav | Books Gary Zukav | YouTube Gary Zukav | X (Twitter)

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• Resisting Political Divisiveness and Conforming To Fear

  Create the life you desire by choosing love over fear.  Learn how HERE: https://seatofthesoul.com/love-fear/ When political chaos surrounds us and fear seems to dominate public discourse, how can we respond from a place of love? In this episode, Gary Zukav explores how both resisting political divisiveness and conforming to fear are expressions of the same underlying energy: fear itself. He offers listeners a powerful reframing of current events, emphasizing that our external world reflects our internal awareness - and that real change always begins within. Gary explains that we are living in a historic transformation from an old consciousness rooted in external power and fear to a new consciousness based in love, soul-alignment, and authentic power. Whether we conform to the fear around us or attempt to resist the divisiveness we see, we are still often reacting from fear. The path forward lies not in ignoring or fighting fear, but in consciously choosing to act from a loving part of your personality instead - by recognizing the frightened parts of our personality and shifting toward emotional awareness and responsible choice. Creating authentic power doesn't require the external world to become peaceful first - it begins by choosing love even when fear is present. When we cease blaming the external world and instead begin to examine our internal reactions, we gain the capacity to respond with compassion, clarity, and courage. The choice is always ours to make. What You’ll Discover in This Episode: (01:05) — What It Means to Conform to Fear: How fear disguises itself as anger, judgment, competition—and what happens when we unconsciously join it (05:03) — Reading the Signals: Where fear shows up in your body and how to recognize frightened parts of your personality (07:50) — Love vs. Fear: Why choosing love is the foundation of authentic power and the key to personal transformation (09:56) — The Illusion of Divisiveness: How political divisiveness is a mirror of our inner landscape—not a fixed external reality (13:45) — The Shift Toward Authentic Power: Why changing yourself is the most powerful way to change the world (20:06) — Your Role in the New Human Consciousness: How to align your personality with your soul and live from harmony, cooperation, and reverence for life Embrace the Soul Step Challenge: This week, carry a small notebook with you. Each time you have a reaction to political divisiveness - whether it's anger, fear, frustration, or judgment - write it down. Note the frightened parts of your personality that arise, even if you only fear the idea of conforming to fear. At the end of the week, reflect on what you’ve written. Recognize that you are the one who experienced these reactions - and you are the one with the power to choose differently. This is where authentic power is born: not from changing the world, but from choosing love in each moment. Let’s ConnectGary Zukav | Website Gary Zukav | Instagram Gary Zukav | Facebook Gary Zukav | Books Gary Zukav | YouTube Gary Zukav | X

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• Energy Into Matter

  Learn how to connect with your intuition every day. Click here to start your journey to authentic power! https://seatofthesoul.com/daily-intuition-practice/ In this thought-provoking Soul Snack, Gary Zukav explains how your intentions create your reality - literally. Drawing from a multisensory perception now available to our species, Gary illustrates how the choice of intention is the powerful force that shapes the Light that flows through you into the matter of your life.  Whether your intention comes from a frightened part or a loving part of your personality, each choice creates your experiences and the unfolding of your personal karma. Gary explains the relationship between your soul and your personality, showing how each choice of intention creates your reality. He explains that your actions and words are carriers of your intent, which is often unconscious. When you make a responsible choice to act from a loving part of your personality, you create experiences that nourish your soul. But when you react from a frightened part, you create experiences of separation, pain, and a struggle for external power . Ultimately, this episode reminds us that every responsible choice is an opportunity to create a reality aligned with the intentions of your soul: harmony, cooperation, sharing, and reverence for Life. The power to transform your life is yours, and it begins with your conscious choice to act from a loving part of your personality. What You’ll Discover in This Episode: (00:02) – Two Worlds, One Choice: Why we’re living in a time of transition between the old consciousness of external power and the new consciousness of authentic power—and how your intention determines which reality you create. (01:10) – What Intention Really Means: The difference between unconsciously reacting from a frightened part and consciously choosing the intention of a loving part of your personality. (03:50) – The Power of Emotional Awareness: How paying attention to the physical sensations in your energy centers allows you to become conscious of your choices and create with intention . (06:08) – How Intention Shapes Reality: Why every loving or fearful intention you choose shapes the Light that flows through you into the matter of your life. (08:53) – Soul and Personality: Understanding the relationship between your personality and your immortal soul on its journey of evolution in the Earth school. (10:20) – The Path to Authentic Power: How making a responsible choice to act from a loving part of your personality is the path to creating authentic power . Embrace the Soul Step Challenge Think about a moment when your reaction created a reality you didn’t intend. Did you act from anger, fear, or judgment? Now revisit that moment and ask: What would it have looked like to choose an intention of love instead? What reality might you have created? Each moment is an opportunity to bring a new world into being - energy into matter - through the power of conscious intention. Let’s Connect: Gary Zukav | Website Gary Zukav | Instagram Gary Zukav | Facebook Gary Zukav | Books Gary Zukav | YouTube Gary Zukav | X (Twitter)

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• How can you respond with love when there is chaos and political upheaval all around you?

  Are you making choices in love or fear? Take this self-assessment today to find out. https://seatofthesoul.com/cultivating-love-optin/ When the world feels like it’s unraveling - filled with political upheaval, social disintegration, and emotional overwhelm - how can you stay centered in love? In this episode, Gary Zukav answers a deeply relevant question: How can I respond with love when everything around me feels chaotic? Drawing from the principles of the new consciousness, Gary reminds us that real change begins within. It does not come from the pursuit of external power, but through emotional awareness and responsible choice. He explains that we are living in a historic transformation - from the old consciousness rooted in fear, manipulation, and control -  to a new consciousness based in love, gratitude, and aligning your personality with your soul. In the midst of chaos, we’re invited to look inward, become aware of frightened parts of our personality, and consciously choose to respond from a loving part. This choice is not just spiritual rhetoric - it’s the creation of authentic power and the path to personal and collective healing. Creating authentic power doesn’t require the world to calm down first. In fact, the outer world often activates the inner work that is necessary for your soul’s growth. When you use your emotional awareness to feel the painful physical sensations of fear in your energy centers, you see that a frightened part of your personality is active. That is a signal. It is a point of choice. By making the responsible choice to respond with love in that moment, you become an empowered creator of your life, not a victim of your circumstances. What You’ll Discover in This Episode: (01:34) — The Rise of a New Consciousness: Why this transformation is unlike anything humanity has experienced before (04:52) — Old vs. New Power: How control and manipulation are now toxic, and how soul-alignment is the new strength (06:44) — Why Changing the World Doesn’t Work: The truth about external power and the inner shift that truly matters (09:50) — Reading Your Body's Signals: How energy processing centers reveal whether fear or love is active within you (12:15) — Mastering the Moment: What it really means to respond from love—and how to keep choosing it, again and again (17:40) — The Most Powerful Place to Look Is Within: Why your inner world holds more power than anything outside of you Embrace the Soul Step Challenge: This week, notice when the world around you feels chaotic or overwhelming. Instead of reacting, pause. Feel into your energy centers - your throat, chest, and solar plexus. What physical sensations are present? Is fear active? What thoughts are surfacing? Then, shift your awareness to a loving part of your personality. Remember a moment of deep love or appreciation, and let that energy guide your response. This is how you create authentic power - through emotional awareness and responsible choice, one moment at a time. Let’s ConnectGary Zukav | Website Gary Zukav | Instagram Gary Zukav | Facebook Gary Zukav | Books Gary Zukav | YouTube Gary Zukav | X

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