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The Gary Zukav Deepcast

Exploring The New Consciousness

Gary Zukav is a 4 x New York Times Best Selling Author, including The Seat Of The Soul, and Spiritual Teacher who has been featured on The Oprah Winfrey Show 36 times.

The Gary Zukav Deepcast shares teachings on the new consciousness and tools to live in gratitude, patience, contentment and awe of the Universe to resolve any anger, worry, overwhelm and despair.

This podcast will help you choose joyfully and effectively as you are lead by one of the greatest American Spiritual Teachers in the transformation of Human Consciousness.

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#106
Yesterday · 24 min
Why Your Anger and Jealousy Are Really Fear | The Illusion Series
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
Friday · 2 min
The Exercise That Stops Old Patterns From Repeating
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)
#105
October 5 · 18 min
The Illusion of Evil | The Illusion Series
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
October 2 · 2 min
Why Feeling Invisible Is a Lie Your Personality Tells You
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)
#104
September 28 · 25 min
You Are Creating Reality, Not Finding It | The Illusion Series
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
September 25 · 12 min
Why You Can't Enjoy Your Life Without Trusting the Universe
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)
#103
September 21 · 22 min
Why Changing the World Never Works (Change This Instead) | The Illusion Series
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
September 18 · 2 min
The Essence Of Creating Authentic Power
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)
#102
September 14 · 29 min
The Illusion of Loss | The Illusion Series
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
September 11 · 4 min
Feeling Fear, Choosing Love
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)
#101
September 7 · 24 min
Gary Zukav In The Wild
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
September 4 · 3 min
Authentic Power vs. External Power: Gary Zukav Explains the Difference
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)
#100
August 31 · 29 min
Why Grief Hurts: Gary Zukav on Losing Linda Francis and What Love Really Is
Your emotions are messages from your soul. Learn How to Tune In and Listen Here: www.seatofthesoul.com/emotionalawarenesscourse In this Deepcast episode, Gary Zukav asks a simple but far‑reaching question: Where does the heart flow? He distinguishes love from need, explaining that romantic attachment is often rooted in unconsciousness rather than genuine connection. To illustrate the difference, he shares the deeply personal story of his twenty‑seven‑year partnership with Linda Francis, and what he discovered about love when her soul returned home. When Linda died, Gary found himself in a pain so intense that he questioned how he would survive the first night without her. It was in that pain that he uncovered a distinction he hadn’t fully understood before: the ache he felt wasn’t coming from his love for Linda, but from the frightened parts of his personality clinging to the safety and comfort of her physical presence. A message from his angelic guide, Genesis, revealed that love itself carries no pain - only fear does. The path forward, Gary explains, is recognizing that the heart always flows toward love because the Universe is love, and nothing, including each of us, is separate from it. What You’ll Discover in This Episode (03:35) — The difference between romantic attachment rooted in need and the soul‑level connection Gary shared with his life partner, Linda Francis, over twenty‑seven years together. (06:39) — The first night after Linda’s soul returned home, and the decision to fully experience the pain rather than escape it. (10:03) — A message from the angel Genesis revealing that the pain of loss comes from frightened parts of the personality clinging to physical presence, not from love itself. (13:41) — What the Universe actually is - an intelligent, loving presence beyond the vastness of space and matter, and why that understanding changes everything about how we see ourselves. (17:40) — The shift from five‑sensory to multisensory perception and toward universal humanity, and what that evolution means for where the heart flows. (24:50) — Why “other” is an illusion of the Earth School, and how recognizing our unbroken connection reshapes the experience of love and loss. Embrace the Soul Step Challenge This week, when you feel the pain of a loss or a longing for someone or something to be different than it is, pause and ask yourself: is this pain coming from love, or from fear? Notice where you're clinging to how things used to be versus where you're open to what is. Keep a soul notebook of what you notice, and at the end of the week, look back to see what your own words reveal about where your heart truly flows. Let's Connect Gary Zukav | Website Gary Zukav | Instagram Gary Zukav | Facebook Gary Zukav | Books Gary Zukav | YouTube Gary Zukav | X
August 28 · 3 min
Your Personality Is an Earth Suit: Gary Zukav on the Practice of Reverence
Join the Seat of the Soul monthly newsletter and receive weekly, wisdom filled, insights from Gary: https://seatofthesoul.com/soul-connections-newsletter/ In this Soul Snack, Gary Zukav explores reverence as the experience of perceiving beyond appearance and into essence, a direct, essence-to-essence contact with a person, an animal, a plant, or any living thing. He explains that an unprecedented new consciousness is transforming the human species, and that every moment offers a choice between two inner worlds: one rooted in gratitude, patience, and contentment, and one rooted in anger, worry, and despair. Gary illustrates the difference between essence and appearance through the image of a beloved friend showing up to a dinner party in an outfit you don't care for. He explains that what someone wears has nothing to do with who they are, their joys, challenges, and aspirations, and that as a person becomes multisensory, they begin to experience themselves as a soul wearing a personality, rather than being their personality. The invitation is simple: recognize the personality, with all its attributes, as an "earth suit" that the soul adopts and uses for a period of time to grow, and let reverence be the practice of looking past that suit to the essence underneath. What You’ll Discover in This Episode (00:02) — Reverence is defined as perceiving beyond the shell of appearance and into the essence of a thing, a person, a bird, a plant, or an animal - an essence‑to‑essence experience. (01:12) — The metaphor of a friend arriving at a dinner party in an outfit you dislike illustrates that appearance - what someone wears, or their personality itself - is an aspect of the Earth School, separate from who they truly are. (01:12) — Becoming multisensory is described as the shift from experiencing yourself only as a personality to experiencing yourself as a soul, with your personality as an appearance that clothes your essence rather than defines it. (02:39) — Personality and all of its attributes are described as “earth suits” - garments the soul adapts and adopts for a time, used by the soul to grow in the areas it has chosen to grow. Embrace the Soul Step Challenge Think of someone in your life whose appearance, style, or personality traits you find yourself reacting to or judging. Pause and ask yourself: am I in contact with this person's essence, or only with their "earth suit"? What would it look like to greet this person - and yourself with reverence today? Let’s Connect: Gary Zukav | Website Gary Zukav | Instagram Gary Zukav | Facebook Gary Zukav | Books Gary Zukav | YouTube Gary Zukav | X (Twitter)
#99
August 24 · 27 min
Why the World Cup Just Revealed the Rise of the New Male
Your emotions are messages from your soul. Learn How to Tune In and Listen Here: www.seatofthesoul.com/emotionalawarenesscourse In this Deepcast episode, Gary Zukav turns to the World Cup once again, this time to explore what it reveals about the emergence of the new male archetype. He points to moments of tenderness, forgiveness, and soul-to-soul connection on display among world-class athletes, and suggests that these moments are not exceptions but evidence of a consciousness already reshaping how humanity understands strength, power, and worth in the Earth School. For generations, the old consciousness tied self-worth to winning, protecting, and providing, leaving little room for tenderness or for those who did not come home with gold. Gary recalls a message given to him nearly thirty years ago by an angelic guide named Genesis, who told him the entire human species was acquiring a new consciousness within three generations. He points to a moment from the World Cup, opposing players consoling a goalie who failed to stop the winning goal, as a living expression that this shift, and the new male within it, is already here. The path forward, Gary explains, is to recognize that authentic power is created, not won and that the new consciousness competes not to prove its worth, but simply to give its best. What You’ll Discover in This Episode (01:10) — Why the old consciousness tied self‑worth to winning and losing, and why that reality is already losing its power for half the human species. (04:41) — Maya Angelou’s insight about being remembered for how we make people feel, and why it reveals what this World Cup will ultimately be remembered for. (08:06) — A nearly thirty‑year‑old message from the angel Genesis predicting the rise of a new human consciousness, and how the World Cup is becoming an expression of it. (11:00) — The moment opposing players consoled a goalie after a missed save, and what it reveals about tenderness replacing the old story of victory and defeat in the Earth School. (15:36) — The distinction between the personality that lives and dies and the immortal soul beneath it, and what that distinction means for how we experience and understand ourselves. (21:10) — Why the new consciousness competes not to win but to give, and the question of what your best is, and when you will choose to offer it as a contribution of love. Embrace the Soul Step Challenge This week, before you speak or act, pause and ask yourself: am I coming from love, or from fear? Notice the moments when a loving part of you shows up instead of a frightened one, tenderness where you expected judgment, giving where you expected to compete. Keep a soul notebook of what you notice, and at the end of the week, look back to see what your own words reveal about you. Let's Connect Gary Zukav | Website Gary Zukav | Instagram Gary Zukav | Facebook Gary Zukav | Books Gary Zukav | YouTube Gary Zukav | X
August 21 · 5 min
The One Question That Turns Fear Into Authentic Power
Join the Seat of the Soul monthly newsletter and receive weekly, wisdom filled, insights from Gary: https://seatofthesoul.com/soul-connections-newsletter/ In this Soul Snack, Gary Zukav explores the difference between reacting unconsciously from old patterns and consciously choosing a different path. He explains that an unprecedented new consciousness is transforming the human species, and that every moment offers a choice between two inner worlds: one rooted in gratitude, patience, and contentment, and one rooted in anger, worry, and despair. Gary describes what happens internally when emotions coming from fear are activated - a frightened part of the personality that wants to react, please, or protect, pulling against what an individual knows to be true. He explains that when someone cannot support another in creating Authentic Power, it is often because they are operating from a frightened part of their personality, such as the part that needs to please others. The invitation is simple: in each moment of emotional awareness, a person can choose to infuse their actions and words with love instead of fear - and that choice, made moment by moment, is what creating Authentic Power actually means. What You’ll Discover in This Episode (00:02) — An unprecedented shift in consciousness is described as transforming the entire human species, with both an old and a new world calling for your awareness and your choice. (01:12) — Choosing love over fear in moments of emotional activation, rather than reacting from frightened parts of the personality, is presented as the heart of creating Authentic Power. (02:39) — Choices made moment by moment between love and fear are identified as the central curriculum of the Earth School. (03:35) — The soul is described as immortal and unable to tolerate brutality, violence, or being lied to, revealing how each daily choice affects the well‑being of the soul. Embrace the Soul Step Challenge Think of a recent moment when you felt torn - pulled between reacting the way you always have and choosing something different. Pause and ask yourself: was I acting from a frightened part of my personality, or was I choosing love? What would it look like to infuse that same moment with love 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)
#98
August 17 · 19 min
Why Millions of Strangers Are Cheering for Each Other
Your emotions are messages from your soul. Learn How to Tune In and Listen Here: www.seatofthesoul.com/emotionalawarenesscourse In this DeepCast episode, Gary Zukav steps away from his usual evergreen approach to explore something happening in real time: the World Cup, and what it reveals about the new human consciousness emerging across our species. He invites us to see the tournament not as a passing news event, but as a vivid expression of a transformation already underway, a shift from the old consciousness built on winning, manipulation, and control, to the new consciousness rooted in harmony, cooperation, and reverence for life. Gary draws a clear distinction between cooperation and co-creation. Cooperation can still serve a goal, even a limited or destructive one. Co-creation arises from the heart, serves the well-being of all, and dissolves the old hierarchies of stronger versus weaker, bigger versus smaller. He points to fans wearing the colors of countries not their own, Americans in orange for the Dutch, in plaid for the Scots, as small but unmistakable signs that fear-based stories about "the other" are losing their power in real time. The World Cup, Gary suggests, is showing us what we already are beneath the appearance of competition: not separate teams and nations, but one human family discovering itself through the heart, a species becoming multisensory, learning to give rather than to conquer. What You’ll Discover in This Episode (04:42) — Why Gary is setting aside his usual evergreen approach to talk about the World Cup as a real‑time expression of the new consciousness. (07:14) — The distinction between cooperation and co‑creation, and why only one of them truly serves the well‑being of all. (09:17) — How fans wearing another nation’s colors - and the real story behind stereotypes about Mexico - reveal fear‑based narratives losing their power. (11:33) — The deeper “technology of the soul” beneath the World Cup’s global reach, and why it runs deeper than the technology connecting screens. (16:43) — What it means to be a species becoming multi‑sensory rather than a space‑faring one, and why that reframes humanity’s entire future. (18:11) — The real question beneath “who wins the World Cup?” - and why it cannot be answered by a final score. Embrace the Soul Step Challenge This week, notice a moment - in a game, a conversation, or somewhere in your own life - when your heart moves toward someone outside your familiar “team.” Notice the instant a stranger’s win or loss touches you as if it were your own. You don’t need to explain it. Just notice where the line between “us” and “them” becomes thin. Let's Connect Gary Zukav | Website Gary Zukav | Instagram Gary Zukav | Facebook Gary Zukav | Books Gary Zukav | YouTube Gary Zukav | X
August 14 · 2 min
Oprah Winfrey: The One Line That Changed How She Sees Purpose
Join Gary LIVE every month as shares his wisdom and answers your questions live. REGISTER HERE for An Evening with Gary Zukav: www.seatofthesoul.com/eveningwithgaryzukav In this Soul Snack, Oprah Winfrey reflects on what it truly means to live in Authentic Power. Speaking to a graduating class, she shares that her favorite line from The Seat of the Soul is that when personality comes to serve the energy of the soul, that is authentic empowerment - and she invites listeners to consider what it looks like to actually live that alignment. Oprah explains that everyone carries both a personality shaped by skills, talents, and passions, and a soul with its own deeper purpose. The real work isn't choosing between the two - it's learning to align them, so that what a person does with their life reflects who they truly are at the soul level. The solution: when your personality aligns with soul purpose, no one can touch that sense of certainty - a person wakes up energized, clear, and unshakably connected to their reason for being here. What You’ll Discover in This Episode: (00:43) — Authentic empowerment is defined as the moment personality comes to serve the energy of the soul. (01:13) — Aligning developed skills and passions with the soul's deeper purpose is presented as work available to everyone. (01:42) — Alignment between personality and purpose creates an unshakable sense of energy and certainty in daily life. Embrace the Soul Step Challenge Think of an area of your life where your personality - your skills, habits, or ways of doing things - may not yet be serving your soul's deeper purpose. Pause and ask yourself: what is my personality currently in service of? What would it feel like to align it with why I'm really here? Let’s Connect: Gary Zukav | Website Gary Zukav | Instagram Gary Zukav | Facebook Gary Zukav | Books Gary Zukav | YouTube Gary Zukav | X (Twitter)
#97
August 10 · 25 min
The World Is Not Out There | What About the World
Are you ready to live Beyond the Five Sense? Learn how HERE: www.seatofthesoul.com/beyondthefivesensescourse In this DeepCast episode, Gary Zukav continues the What About the World series by picking up a thread from last time: you are not someone who has perceptions, you are your perceptions! He asks listeners to follow that shift all the way through, into what happens to the line between "in here" and "out there," and why an objective world outside you starts to look less like reality and more like a fantasy of the old consciousness. The old consciousness needs a "this" and a "that" - a self relating to a world it stands apart from. Gary shows why that framework falls apart once the new consciousness takes hold, where there is no outside, only one continuous field each person uniquely expresses. This is also where the Earth School comes back into view: a structured field for the most fundamental lesson there is - choice - and everyone in it is always choosing between love and fear. The way through isn't a better explanation of the world, but the end of standing outside it. Once you stop trying to see the picture and recognize you are the picture, the world stops happening around you and starts happening as you. What You'll Discover in This Episode (02:10) — Why the old consciousness limits you to the perceptions of the five senses, and how the new consciousness dissolves the beginnings and endings that appear so solid from that perception. (04:07) — The reintroduction of the series question "What about the world?" and why taking "you are your perceptions" seriously means there's no longer an "I" standing behind them. (10:51) — Why the Earth School exists to teach exactly one thing - choice - and why every choice, without exception, comes down to love or fear. (13:39) — The moment the episode's title comes into focus: you don't have the picture, you aren't in the picture, you are the picture. (17:08) — Why a perception, seen through the new consciousness, reveals the structure of the perceiver rather than anything true about the world being perceived. (19:05) — How humanity built its image of God out of a five-sensory fear of power and control, and why the Sufi mystic Hafiz's teaching - that you are the creator of God - points toward what the new consciousness is actually revealing. Embrace the Soul Step Challenge This week, notice the moments when you feel like you're standing outside of something - a conversation, a relationship, your own life - watching it happen to you rather than as you. When you catch that feeling, pause and ask: am I seeing this as separate from me, or can I find where I am this, too? You don't need an answer. Just notice who's asking. Let's Connect Gary Zukav | Website Gary Zukav | Instagram Gary Zukav | Facebook Gary Zukav | Books Gary Zukav | YouTube Gary Zukav | X
August 7 · 8 min
The Real Reason You React in Anger (And How to Stop)
Join the Seat of the Soul monthly newsletter and receive weekly, wisdom filled, insights from Gary: https://seatofthesoul.com/soul-connections-newsletter/ In this Soul Snack, Gary Zukav redefines what courage really means. He shares that he once believed courage meant risking his life - jumping out of airplanes, running secret military patrols - but discovered that none of that came close to the courage it now takes him to stop a power struggle with his Spiritual Partner, Linda Francis, or to sit with his own pain instead of acting from it.. Gary explains that beneath every destructive behavior - shouting in anger, withdrawing in jealousy, judging, numbing out with food, substances, or sex - is emotional pain in the body’s energy processing centers. Ignoring that pain does not make it disappear. It allows a frightened part of your personality to act without your awareness, while feeling it instead of acting on it requires a different, deeper kind of courage than any physical risk ever did. The solution Gary offers: true courage today means feeling your pain without acting on it - choosing not to react in anger, not to enter the power struggle - because this is how authentic power is created, and authentic power, unlike external power, can never be taken from you. What You’ll Discover in This Episode: (02:40) — The deepest power struggles aren't external; they're the ones between a person's own frightened parts and another person's frightened parts, both fighting to win. (03:03) — External power can be fought for and lost, but authentic power can only be created — never taken - making every "win" in a power struggle a hollow one. (04:00) — Destructive patterns like anger, withdrawal, judgment, and addiction are driven by emotional pain in the body's energy processing centers, and courage means facing that pain instead of letting it drive you unconsciously. (05:22) — Choosing not to act on anger - clenched fists, clenched jaw, and all - marks the first real step into a new kind of courage, one that changes who and what you draw into your life. (06:52) — Over time, this practice evolves from simply not reacting to actually listening to the other person, even while still feeling outraged. (07:24) — Cultural conditioning teaches that "rising to the bait" is brave, but real courage is refusing to take bait offered by someone else's fear. Embrace the Soul Step Challenge Think of a recent moment when you felt the pull of anger, judgment, or the urge to win a power struggle. Pause and ask yourself: what pain might be underneath this reaction? What would it look like to feel that pain fully, without acting it out or needing to win? 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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