The Gary Zukav Deepcast

Every interaction is a chance to create Authentic Power. In this Soul Snack, Gary Zukav explains the Conscious Communications and Actions guidelines, the last section of the Authentic Power Guidelines. Their aim is easy to state and hard to live: make all of your communications and actions conscious and loving. Gary calls this the goal of creating Authentic Power, because when you can do it, you are in a position to give the gifts you were born to give. Getting there means moving beyond the control of the frightened parts of your personality. These include impatience, anger, jealousy, resentment, feelings of entitlement, the need to please, and any compulsions or addictions, past or present.

Gary points out a common gap. If you believe you create Authentic Power only when you notice that a frightened part of your personality is active, you have to wait for that moment before you can begin. Meanwhile, ordinary life keeps happening. You plan an event, set up a play date for your child, run a project at the office, work with classmates, or play a sport. Each of these is also an opportunity to create Authentic Power.

The Conscious Communications and Actions guidelines fill that gap by reminding you that every interaction counts. Because they depend on all the other guidelines, they are the final test of whether you are creating Authentic Power.

What You’ll Discover in This Episode

(00:02) -- Why conscious and loving communication is the goal of Authentic Power, and how it lets you give the gifts you were born to give.

(01:12) -- Frightened parts to challenge, from impatience and resentment to the need to please and addictions, and how the Authentic Power Guidelines guide you step by step.

(02:19) -- Everyday moments as opportunities, from play dates to office projects and sports, and why waiting to notice a frightened part delays Authentic Power.

(03:41) -- Conscious communications and actions as the final test of Authentic Power, and why they can’t work without the other guidelines.

Embrace the Soul Step Challenge

Think of an ordinary interaction from the past day: a meeting at work, a quick plan with a friend, a text to a family member, a game you played. Pause and look at how you showed up. Ask yourself: was this communication conscious and loving? Was a frightened part of my personality, like impatience or the need to please, steering what I said or did? Did I treat this moment as a chance to create Authentic Power, or did I save that for when things felt difficult? Before your next conversation, however small, ask: how can I make this conscious and loving?

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In this Deepcast episode, Gary Zukav introduces the first Courage Guideline created by his spiritual partner, Linda Francis: Take responsibility for my feelings, experiences, and actions. No blaming. After a recap of the frightened parts of the personality, including addictions, he asks a hard question. Can you imagine living without blaming anybody or anything for what you experience? Gary explains why you choose in every moment, and why consequences are how you learn in the Earth school.

From a five-sensory view, the world is responsible for your experiences. I didn’t ask her to leave. I didn’t ask to go bankrupt. Gary says every action is a choice between a loving and a frightened part of your personality. Act without awareness and you act from fear. Pain follows, frightened parts ask, “Why me?” and the wheel keeps turning. There is no power in victimhood.

Gary’s guidance is to know which part of your personality is active before you speak or act. Stop blaming, choose love over fear, and step into your power as a creator.

What You’ll Discover in This Episode:

(02:20) Addiction is the strongest frightened part of the personality, and everyone has one. It can be challenged like any other.

(07:10) The first Courage Guideline: take responsibility for your feelings, experiences, and actions. No blaming. Pain marks the gap between who you are and your self-image.

(10:10) Painful consequences make frightened parts ask, “Why me?” You did intend it. You just weren’t aware of it.

(12:15) Five-sensory humans obeyed commandments to avoid punishment. Multisensory humans learn from consequences. You are choice.

(16:55) “I didn’t ask for this” keeps you on the wheel of suffering. Choosing love over fear breaks the cycle.

(20:35) Each painful part of your personality is the gracious Universe showing you what to move beyond to give your gifts.

Embrace the Soul Step Challenge

This week, write down your feelings, experiences, and actions each day in your soul notebook. Pause beside each one and ask: Am I taking responsibility for this, or am I blaming someone? Is it even possible to be responsible for what I feel? When you think, “I didn’t ask for this,” consider that you created the experience. Return to your entries daily and see what you can learn about yourself.

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Every person is a powerful creator, creating something in each moment. In this Soul Snack, Gary Zukav explains that the real question is what you are creating, and the answer is all around you. Neither signing up for a workshop nor committing to a spiritual practice is the cause that shapes your life. The cause that shapes your future, brings energy into matter, and creates karma is the intention you choose. People who don’t choose that cause consciously and wisely end up creating unconsciously and unwisely. As humans become multisensory and start to create consciously, they become more aware creators. The creative power was always there.

Gary points out that you can say anything at all, however polished, pleasing, or poetic, and the intention behind it will still decide what it creates. A beautiful love poem written to impress someone comes from fear and brings the consequences of fear. The same goes for wisdom about karma, reincarnation, and Earth school. It sounds wise however it is said, but the intention behind sharing it creates what follows.

Emotional awareness shows which intention is active. Every frightened part of the personality pursues external power, while everything shared from a loving, grateful part creates the effects of love.

What You’ll Discover in This Episode

(00:02) – Why choosing your cause consciously matters: without that choice, you create unconsciously and unwisely, and becoming multisensory makes you a more aware creator.

(01:13) – Intention as the fundamental creative act, the cause that shapes your future, creates karma, and brings one possible future into your experience over others.

(02:27) – How the intention behind your words creates their effects, and how even a love poem can come from fear when the goal is to impress someone instead of supporting them.

(03:25) – Emotional awareness as the way to know your intention, and why every frightened part of the personality is, by definition, pursuing external power.

(04:08) – Gratitude for life itself, for the people around you, and for the Universe, and how everything shared with that intention creates the effects of love.

Embrace the Soul Step Challenge

Think of a recent moment when you gave advice, paid a compliment, or shared something you had learned. Pause and look at the intention behind it. Ask yourself: was I trying to impress or support? Was I sharing from my heart, or trying to control? What were my emotions telling me? Look around at your life: what have my intentions been creating? Before your next important conversation, ask: what do I want this to create?

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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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