Gary Zukav - Finding Your Authentic Power Interview Oprah Winfrey

the soul is the soul it evolves but it's our evolution and my evolution that I focus on but yes the soul is that part of us that existed before we were born and will continue to exist after we die it's that part of us that is immortal and it's that part of us that has the intentions of harmony and cooperation and sharing and reverence for life yes the soul is your mothership so when you're sailing in the same direction that it wants to go your life filled with meaning and purpose and when you sail in another direction it empties of meaning and purpose you can look at it this way you are a personality that means you were born on a certain day and you'll die on a certain day ashes to ashes dust to dust but your soul won't die your soul is you also we're on a journey to the soul you could put it that way while we're here in this span between birth and death think of yourself as a body in a soul and while we have this precious opportunity to walk on the earth the question becomes what will we do with this personality what will you do with you now here we can define you in a couple of ways one is you with a little y ou the personality that was born and that will die the other you is the you with a big Y that's your soul and if you use your time while you're on the earth to align the little you with the big you your life begins to fill with meaning fill with purpose fill with joy and you know why you're alive following what you know your soul wants you to do there's been a huge change in human consciousness that has occurred and its ramifications are going to be felt and the experience of it is going to be felt by everyone you think so yes I do what I'm talking about is this I'm talking about an expansion of your perception beyond the five senses beyond what you can see and taste and touch and hear and smell as people become multi-sensory they begin to become aware that's a sense in some way that there is a big why a big why a big why a mothership something that is meaningful and millions of us are acquiring that sense that sense that life as a meaning that I have a purpose that I am more than this mind and body on more than molecules and dendrites and neurons and enzymes I have a part of me that is immortal now the question becomes what now multi-sensory perception does not make us more kind or patient or caring or less angry it makes us more aware and when you get that sense the the spiritual work begins yes because how do you do that well the answer is elegantly simple you find the parts of your personality that don't want those things you become very familiar with them so that you can recognize them when they come up in you and you don't act on them and you find the parts of your personality that do want those things and you recognize them and you become very familiar with them and when they come up in you you act on them and that's how you create authentic power creating authentic power is developing the ability to distinguish between love and fear within yourself and then choosing love no matter what is happening inside of you or what is happening outside of you yeah let's look at the time between your birth and the time of your death as a learning experience call it the earth school yeah is a real-time multimedia surround-sound full color cast of billions learning environment that always provides you with every interaction in every circumstance opportunities that are perfect for your spiritual growth given the wisdom of the choices that you've made but it's not as though it's predestined it's not as though it's written right you're ordering it you make choices yes and every choice you make creates consequence so when you make that choice consciously you create your future consciously and if you're willing to encounter those consequences now it won't come as the painful surprise to you encounter them that's right entertain considering the possibility that you are a powerful and creative compassionate and loving spirit let me seem a lot but try that on for size and if you find that it doesn't fit if you find that there is a distance between who you are you think you are and what you say and what you do and the way that you behave and a powerful and creative compassionate and loving spirit then also consider that that distance is the distance that you have to travel that is your spiritual path that's your curriculum in the earth school so how do you make that journey between what you're saying what you're doing what you're thinking now and what those things would be if you were fully operating as what you are a powerful and creative compassionate and loving spirit an intention is a quality of consciousness that you bring to a deed or words it's an energy it's an energy it's an energy it's an energy so it's a quality of a consciousness got it it's it's your reason for ceasing it's your motivation motivation yes so the real motivation is the one that creates consequences for example when someone says I want a bigger home it could be because I want to impress the neighbors or it could be because we've adopted four children and I want to give them more space mhm so it's the Y beneath the Y OH the Y but neither Y you you might say that the first intention like I want to get another job so that can have more money this this could be called an out tension because it's really what you want to do to change things in the world but your intention is the bedrock bottom this is it real intention I want to support my wife she needs some support now I want to send my children to college I want to have room for my newly adopted children a personality has a lot of different aspects are parts for example some parts of your personality are angry jealous vengeful feel superior and in title feel inferior and need to please can't stop smoking drinking watching pornography addicted addicted compulsive can't stop working obsessive can't stop thinking you know I've got to have her oh he's so great or I'm so stupid or she's so stupid and the thoughts keep going all of those things you can put into one basket and here's why because they have a couple of things in common number one they hurt when you really experience them compulsive addictive obsessive painful action or word is an attempt in that moment to mask that pain the real thing the real pain let's go back to his feelings because this is really interesting yes the first thing that they have in common is they hurt yes the second thing they have in common is that when you act on them they create painful consequences destructive consequences so we put all of those yes parts of your personality that share those two things into this basket and we'll give it a generic name we'll write on the side fear now there's other parts of your personality for example the part that's grateful the part that's content the part that's appreciative patient caring in all of the universe these parts of your personality also share two things number one they feel good yeah I feel great yes but no there's a difference between that feeling of it yeah and the feeling of I got in my Mercedes yes that is happiness yes that's not joy yeah we're talking about something else that is an experience in the fear basket because when you get something that a frightened part of your personality wants yes a fear-based part it makes you ecstatic or happy temporarily so we're not talking about magnitude on a material level we're talking about intention energy attachment we're talking about fear parts of your personalities that originate in fear that reach outward to change the physical world in order to mask the pain and I take I'll tell you what that pain is if what is it no yes I don't want to know it's the pain of powerlessness the pain of powerlessness and you can go right down to the very root of the pain of powerlessness and that is feeling unlovable feeling as though you want to belong and you don't belong feeling as though you're not worthy you're not worthy feeling as though you want to love but you you can't love it's the feeling that you're intrinsically flawed that you're you're you're fundamentally defective if people could see you the way you really are they wouldn't want to have anything to do with you that's the pain of powerlessness and everybody has it everybody who's human now for millenia we have addressed the pain of powerlessness just as we've been talking about by reaching outward to change the physical world you get a trophy husband a trophy wife you get a mountain bike that's better than anyone else's your dreadlocks are cooler than anyone elses in the world your sandals are the best so these parts of your personality that come from fear always in the past have you can still mask them temporarily by striving to change people around you that's the pursuit of external power by the way the ability to manipulate into control yeah now here's the thing I a choice of intention is the fundamental creative act I ask everyone to consider that they are powerful and creative compassionate and loving spirits but you are co-creating your life with the universe and your part is the choice of intention yes so that when you become unaware creator you do not become a more powerful creator you become more able to use your creative capacity in a loving way so when you're not aware of what your intention is for example in that moment when someone gets angry or jealous in that moment when someone goes to the refrigerator and eats a quart of chocolate-chip ice cream they don't need when you're not aware of your intention you're creating with fear you're a powerful creator when you are aware of your intention then you can choose whether you want to create with an energy of fear with an intention of fear or with an intention of love it is to allow us to learn through our own experiences how powerful we are as creators and how responsible we are for what we create so treat other people the way you'd like them to treat you because they will that's the short of it yes give to the world what you want to receive from the world because you will receive that you may betray someone who put all their trust in you and then later in your life or longer you will find yourself betrayed in another way and it will hurt as much so once you know that then you can begin to look at your experience as less personally you don't have to take them so personally if someone betrays you the first thing you can understand is there's a factor of karma involved the other thing that you can understand is that the person who is acting in that way is acting from a frightened part of his personality he or she is in pain that is karma it you don't have to take on the role of judge and jury yes and if you do it will create negative negative karma for yourself always oh and the reason is that what other way could you learn that would create changes in you so permanent so deep so constructive as through your own experience encountering the consequences of your own choices until finally you stop trying to use other people you stop trying to blame other people you stop shaking your fist and railing against the universe you stop curling up in a ball and wanting to die you stop trying to impress everyone you stop everything why not begin to create authentic power and when you do when you keep following that path it will eventually as the saying goes bring you to your knees and then you are open then you are open for the first time because everything else you have tried has n't and you know it's not going to the painkillers the drugs the wealth doesn't matter that point comes when you open yourself and when you do then change is possible but that's not the kind of change you can learn from a sermon that's change that transforms and rearranges you and in the process everything that was based in fear falls away in my experience it's very painful to be aware of the sensations that are behind the impulse to show the impulse to be right to win a power struggle that's right but as painful as they are I've come to see that it's not as painful as the consequences that I have created is understanding that when you feel emotional pain yeah at first it seems as though something or someone else caused that pain yes but as you develop emotional awareness you'll discover that your pain was not caused by someone else someone else triggered a dynamic in you that is painful to experience hmm and when you divert your attention to changing the trigger you may or may not gain some satisfaction looking at the parts of your personality that originate in fear such as jealousy and anger and rage and and those kind of painful experiences that are destructive the more you don't act on them the more you challenge them by not acting on them the more they lose their control over you the universe doesn't look in terms of good bad better worse success/failure it looks in terms of limitation and opportunity the more the loving parts of your personality are the ones you're cultivating the more opportunity you have absence or fear is controlling you the more contracted and the less and the more limitation you have you are a powerful and creative compassionate and loving spirit and the more you cultivate a loving part of your personality the more it begins to fill your experience in your field of awareness until that's all that is so creating authentic power is a process it's not an event it's done decision by decision step by step choice by choice the point is to contribute what you can to life because that's the nature of love and love doesn't require that it be acknowledged doesn't require that it even be effective and the Sun shines on you it doesn't say how did I do today are you appreciating me yet I can do better tomorrow yeah it just shines and that's where the joy and life comes from and to create that place is our evolutionary requirement now that's creating authentic power that's what requires becoming aware of every part of our person analogy and not acting on those that control us compulsively unconsciously and acting on those that we know are aligned with our soul that's why the choice of intention is the fundamental creative act the choice of intention is the choice that brings energy into form that creates matter that creates cost is the most important one the soul is that part of you that existed before you were born and that will exist after you die it's the highest most noble part of yourself that you can reach for dimension and weight and volume are characteristics of the earth school this domain of time and space and matter and duality but all souls have the capacity to be great souls and your job and my job while we are in the earth school is to align our personalities with our souls and we do that by becoming the personality that has the same intentions of the soul harmony and cooperation and sharing and reverence for life what is your definition of God I don't have a definition of God because I've never really understood that word people have different understandings of it and it's caused a great deal of conflict I do know that the universe is sacred and that it's holy as a substitute I sometimes use the word divine intelligence if I had to say what would my definition of God be if I were going to use that word I would say that this universe has layers upon layers upon layers of compassion and wisdom beyond ours that we might think of is God what do you think happens when we die we go home you return to where you came from which is non-physical reality and as we become multi-sensory which means while we are walking on the earth we begin to experience ourselves not only as personalities as bodies and minds we begin to experience our sense somehow that we are more than that we sort of have a dual identity and our gratification and our fulfillment comes in aligning ourselves with the big identity and we can see that and experience it because we're becoming multi-sensory and that allows us to at least entertain the idea that the major part of who we are exist in non-physical reality do we drop the body and the soul Rises the soul doesn't sink or rise it's always there and the body the personality your intuitional structure your all the things that a psychologist calls a personality effect perception cognition all of those returned to the earth that dies your soul doesn't die but while we're here the goal and the purpose of being here is to align our personalities with our souls and when that happens the intentions of the soul flow through you like the breath of a musician through a flute and when that happens you cannot tell in such a person where the personality ends and the soul begins right as you look at your experiences and use them to create authentic power everyone will experience their soul when you go home when your personality dies you will experience the fullness of who you are and you'll see so many things so many things things that you did and didn't even notice you'll see what that caused and what those effects caused and what those effects cause and how they ripple out as far as you can imagine every little thing that you did in your life and you'll learn from those

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Length: 22min 31sec (1351 seconds)

Published: Fri Apr 17 2020