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Trust isn’t just about believing in people or circumstances – it’s about recognizing that everything you experience, without exception, is here to support your spiritual growth. In this Soul Snack, Gary Zukav takes the conversation from How To Trust: Part 1 even deeper, exploring how trust works within the “Earth School” of life, where every event is a lesson and every emotion is an opportunity to choose between love and fear.

Through practical wisdom, Gary explains how frightened parts of our personality are driven by fear – trying to control the outside world to feel safe, valuable, or in control.

But real trust begins when you see beyond these illusions and act from a loving part of your personality, even when fear is active. This is the gateway to authentic power: living intentionally, aligned with your soul, and seeing life as a constant opportunity to grow.

The essence of trust isn’t passive faith – it’s an active, daily practice of emotional awareness, responsible choice, and love. And when you live this way, you realize that no matter what happens, it’s exactly what you need for your soul’s evolution.

What You’ll Discover in This Episode:

(00:02) – Two Worlds, One Choice: Gary describes the shift in human consciousness and how you can choose to live in gratitude, patience, and awe – or in anger, fear, and despair.

(01:11) – How the Earth School Works: Learn why everything you experience is a lesson for your spiritual development and a chance to choose love over fear.

(02:00) – Fear’s One Intention: Discover how all frightened parts of your personality share the same intention: to change the external world to avoid inner pain.

(03:07) – The Roller Coaster of Emotional Reactivity: Gary explains how highs and lows are created when we react to life’s events without awareness – and how to step off the ride.

(04:10) – Recognizing Energy Frequencies: Understand the difference between low-frequency fear-based energies and high-frequency loving energies – and why your choice matters.

(05:31) – What You Can Truly Trust: Gary shares the ultimate truth: everything in your life serves your soul’s growth, and your role is to align with the right intention, appropriate timing, and trust.

Embrace the Soul Step Challenge:

Reflect on a recent moment when you felt reactive or anxious. What fear-based intention was driving your response? This week, when you notice fear or judgment, pause. Ask yourself: “What would love do right now?” Then act from your loving part, trusting that this moment is here for your spiritual growth.

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In this thought-provoking Soul Feast of The Gary Zukav Podcast, Gary explores the root of emotional pain in the midst of current world events. While it’s easy to believe that the turmoil “out there” is the source of our suffering, Gary reveals that our pain actually comes from within – from a frightened part of our personality that reacts from fear. These parts create a cycle of pain and destructive choices, keeping us locked in the old consciousness.

Gary offers a new way to break free: by becoming aware of our emotions and using them as a compass to distinguish between fear and love.

This awareness opens the door to creating authentic power – aligning our personality with our soul – and allows us to act consciously, even when fear is active.

The path forward is not about changing the world to end our pain; it’s about transforming our internal experience. By choosing to respond from a loving part of our personality, we create different, life-enhancing consequences for ourselves and contribute to a more compassionate world.

What You’ll Discover in This Episode:

(00:42) — The True Source of Emotional Pain: Why world events aren’t causing your suffering—and what is

(03:04) — Escaping the Wheel of Suffering: How fear-based reactions create a cycle of pain and how to break it

(05:59) — Old Consciousness vs. New Consciousness: Moving from external power to authentic power

(08:55) — Fear’s Painful Signature: How to recognize the physical sensations and judgmental thoughts that signal fear

(11:51) — Choosing Love Consciously: Why love can only be created through intentional choice

(15:14) — Becoming the Master of Your Life: How to move beyond the control of frightened parts of your personality

Embrace the Soul Step Challenge:

This week, carry a small notebook with you. Write down every time you act impulsively from a frightened part of your personality – moments when you react in anger, jealousy, resentment, or superiority. Also record the times you feel a frightened part active in you but choose instead to act from love – responding with patience, gratitude, or care while fear pushes you to react. At the end of the week, reflect on the different consequences each choice created. Which do you choose?

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Trust is often viewed as something you place in others – your partner, your job, your children’s well-being – what if the deepest kind of trust isn’t about the outside world at all?

In this powerful episode, Gary Zukav invites us to rethink trust as a spiritual practice, one that begins not with certainty about the external, but with radical acceptance of everything – inside and out- as a pathway to our spiritual growth.

Through personal reflection, Gary explains how a frightened part of your personality pursues external power by attempting to control outcomes and avoid pain. But as he shares, true trust is found in releasing that need for control and making the responsible choice to act from a loving part, even while the painful energy of a frightened part is active.

The path to authentic power is paved with trust: trusting that every experience is here to serve your soul’s evolution. This episode offers a profound reminder that choosing love – no matter what – is the most courageous and transformative act we can take.

What You’ll Discover in This Soul Snack:

(00:00) – Two Worlds, One Choice: Gary introduces the choice we face in every moment: to live in love or fear—and how this defines our experience of trust.

(01:12) – You Can’t Control Anyone: We often try to trust people or circumstances, but Gary reminds us that control is an illusion—and surrendering it opens the door to real trust.

(01:50) – What Can You Trust?: Learn why trusting that everything (inside and outside) is for your benefit is essential to your spiritual growth.

(02:42) – Recognizing the Frightened Parts: From anger and jealousy to addiction and compulsion, Gary explores how fear-based reactions reveal where we are not trusting life.

(04:38) – The True Meaning of Authentic Power: Discover how choosing love in every moment—no matter what—is the key to aligning your personality with your soul.

Embrace the Soul Step Challenge:

Reflect on a moment when you felt anxious, reactive, or out of control. What were you trying to resist or change? This week, when you notice yourself slipping into fear or judgment, pause. Ask yourself: “What would love do right now?” Practice trusting that what’s happening is here to support your growth – and choose love, no matter what.

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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 Soul Feast:

(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.

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In this powerful and personal soul snack, 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 soul snack offers a soul-level perspective that invites reflection, growth, and a path to authentic power.

What You’ll Discover in This Soul Snack:

(00:02) – Two Realities, One Choice: How addiction is rooted in the choice between love and fear—and why both exist in all of us.

(01:13) – Personality Is Not One Thing: Why your personality has many parts—and how identifying them helps you understand addiction.

(04:04) – What Addiction Really Is: Addiction as a frightened part of your personality—and how it functions to mask deep emotional pain.

(07:28) – The Pain Beneath Addiction: The root of all addiction: the pain of powerlessness, and how every frightened part tries to hide it.

(10:53) – Healing as a Spiritual Journey: Why 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 Teachers: Your 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?

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When political chaos surrounds us and fear seems to dominate public discourse, how can we respond from a place of love? In this Soul Feast, 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 Soul Feast:

(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.

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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 Soul Snack:

(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.

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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 the 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 Soul Feast:

(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.

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In this illuminating Soul Snack, Gary Zukav explains that your intentions create your reality and what it means to live with a splintered personality.

The intentions of the different parts of your personality – a loving part and a frightened part – are always creating the experiences of your life, whether you are conscious of them or not .

The fundamental creative act is your choice of intention. Every part of your splintered personality – a frightened part and a loving part – has an intention. When you are not conscious of these parts, your reactions create painful experiences. Using your emotional awareness gives you the clarity to make a responsible choice. Choosing to align with a loving part of your personality is how you create authentic power .

By learning to pay attention to the physical sensations in your energy centers and to observe your  thoughts without judgment, you will see the intentions of the different parts of your personality. This is how you heal a splintered part. You make a responsible choice to act from a loving part, even while feeling the energy of a frightened part .

What You’ll Discover in This Soul Snack:

• (01:12) – The Deeper Meaning of Intention: Why your intention is the cause that creates the effect of every experience in your life.
• (02:30) – A Splintered Personality in Action: A relatable example of the conflicting intentions between a frightened part and a loving part of your personality.
• (03:50) – How Your Actions Create Your Life: Why you create painful experiences each time you act from the intentions of a frightened part of your personality.
• (07:06) – The Key to Becoming Conscious: How using your emotional awareness to feel the physical sensations in your energy centers reveals your unconscious intentions .
• (10:30) – Thoughts of a Frightened Part: Recognizing the thoughts of judging, analyzing, and comparing that signal a frightened part of your personality is active.
• (12:29) – The Pathway to Authentic Power: How making a responsible choice to act from a loving part of your personality is how you create authentic power .

Embrace the Soul Step Challenge

Think back to a time when your words or actions didn’t align with what you thought your intentions were. What were the physical sensations in your chest, throat, or solar plexus? What thoughts ran through your mind – were they judgmental, fearful, or avoidant? Now pause. Revisit that moment and imagine responding from a loving part of your personality. What choice would you make instead? This is the sacred work of unsplintering your personality—moment by moment, intention by intention.

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What if temptation wasn’t a trap – but a sacred opportunity for soul growth? In this episode, 

Gary Zukav deepens the conversation on temptation, revealing its role as a “dress rehearsal for a negative karmic event.” 

Rather than something to avoid or fear, temptation becomes a revealing messenger – an invitation to notice which part of you is speaking: a frightened part of your personality or a loving part. of your personality. 

From rage to jealousy to the need to please, every temptation is an opportunity to see a frightened part of your personality in action. 

It is a moment of choice between reacting from that frightened part, or consciously responding from a loving part . When you choose to act from a loving part of your personality, you align yourself with your soul and create authentic power .

This episode offers a liberating shift in perspective. Temptation is not evidence of failure or evil, but a compassionate signal from the Universe to pause, become emotionally aware, and make a responsible choice . In that conscious choice lies your power to shape your reality with love by creating authentic power.

What You’ll Discover in This Soul Feast:

• (00:42) — Temptation, Reframed: Why temptation is not a punishment, but a compassionate “dress rehearsal for a negative karmic event”.
• (01:57) — There is No “Evil”: Understanding evil as an absence of Light and Love, not an outside force to resist.
• (03:49) — Everyday Temptations: Recognizing how currents of energy like rage and superiority are signals from a frightened part of your personality.
• (06:40) — The Point of Choice: How every temptation is your opportunity to create authentic power by choosing to come from love, not fear.
• (11:45) — Emotional Awareness as a Compass: How to use the physical sensations in your energy centers to know if a frightened part or a loving part of your personality is active.
• (13:28) — The Spiritual Gift of Temptation: Why temptation is a compassionate gift that is essential to your soul’s evolution.
• (17:35) — You Are a Chooser: Understanding that making a responsible choice is the fundamental creative act of your life.

Embrace the Soul Step Challenge:

This week, take a moment to write in your journal each time you notice a tempting thought or impulse. Ask yourself: Which frightened part of my personality is behind this? Describe what it wants to do. Then, ask: What would my life feel like if I didn’t follow this impulse? Shift your attention to a loving part of your personality and choose your response from there. That is how you create authentic power—one conscious choice at a time.

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