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by
Gary Zukav
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August 26, 2018
My favorite insight: “When the personality comes fully to serve the energy of its soul, that is authentic empowerment.”
My breakthrough was recognizing that my intention to be liked was causing all the requests. Cause and effect. If your intention is to do what other people want, they will keep asking you to do exactly that.
That was an aha moment! When I changed my intention to be about doing what I wanted, what I felt was worthy of my time, the effect automatically changed.
I would say: State your intention for the show first. Why do you want to
do it? What do you want the outcome to be?
I’ve taught leadership classes at the Oprah Winfrey Leadership Academy for Girls with the help of The Seat of the Soul. I’ve used its principles to teach elementary school students, high school students, even MBAs at the Kellogg School of Management.
it. In the midst of these thoughts, another thought appeared, louder and clearer. It said, “Do not be concerned. This arrow will find its mark.”
The Dancing Wu Li Masters—which won the American Book Award for Science—established me as a popularizer of modern science.
insights. Inspiration is one thing. Applying it to your life is another.
Each choice of fear—anger, jealousy, vengefulness—is a choice to evolve unconsciously through the painful, destructive consequences that fear creates. Each choice of love—gratitude, patience, appreciation—is a choice to evolve consciously
through the healthy, constructive consequences that love creates.
The experiences of the multisensory human are less limited than the experiences of the five-sensory human.
We will move through this change more easily if we are able to see the road upon which we are traveling, our destination, and what it is that is in motion.
We see through our five senses that every action is a cause that has an effect, and that every effect has a cause.
When perception of the physical world is limited to the five-sensory modality, the basis of life in the physical arena becomes fear.
Power to control the environment, and those within the environment appears to be essential.
Brothers and sisters quarrel for the same reason that corporations quarrel—they seek power over one another.
Money is acquired, lost, stolen, inherited, and fought for. Education, social status, fame, and things that are owned, if we derive a sense of increased security from them, are symbols of external power. Anything we fear to lose—a home, a car, an attractive body, an agile mind, a deep belief—is a symbol of external power. What we fear is an increase in our vulnerability. This results from seeing power as external.
Competition for external power lies at the heart of all violence.
When we align our thoughts, emotions, and actions with the highest part of ourselves, we are filled with enthusiasm, purpose, and meaning.
An authentically empowered person is incapable of making anyone or anything a victim. An authentically empowered person is one who is so strong, so empowered, that the idea of using force against another is not a part of his or her consciousness.
From the perception of the multisensory human, the intention behind an action determines its effects, every intention affects both us and others, and the effects of intentions extend far beyond the physical world.
The decisions that you make and the actions that you take upon the Earth are the means by which you evolve. At each moment you choose the intentions that will shape your experiences and those things upon which you will focus your attention. These choices affect your evolutionary process. This is so for each person. If you choose unconsciously, you evolve unconsciously. If you choose consciously, you evolve consciously.
I want to choose CONSCIOUSLY!
The personality can also be loving, compassionate, and wise in its relations with others, but love, compassion, and wisdom do not come from the personality. They are experiences of the soul.
It can recognize, for example, a warm heart beneath a harsh and angry manner, and a cold heart beneath polished and pleasing words.
When the personality comes fully to serve the energy of its soul, that is authentic empowerment.
Every experience that you have and will have upon the Earth encourages the alignment of your personality with your soul. Every circumstance and situation gives you the opportunity to choose this path, to allow your soul to shine through you, to bring into the physical world through you its unending and unfathomable reverence for and love of Life.
For each incarnation, the soul creates a different personality and body. The personality and the body that, for the five-sensory human, are the experiential entirety of its existence, are, for its soul, the unique and perfectly suited instruments of a particular incarnation.
The person who intends hatred for others experiences the intention of hatred from others. The person who intends love for others experiences
the intention of love from others, and so forth. The Golden Rule is a behavioral guide that is based upon the dynamic of karma. A personalized statement of karma would be, “You receive from the world what you give to the world.”
Of one thing we can be certain: A person that is engaging in violence is hurting deeply, because a healthy and balanced soul is incapable of harming another.
We do not know what is being healed in these sufferings, or the details of the energetic circumstance that is coming into balance.
If we do not judge, how can there be justice?
Did neither the Christ nor Gandhi know the meaning of justice?
They knew non-judgmental justice. What is non-judgmental justice? Non-judgmental justice is a perception that allows you to see everything in life, but does not engage your negative emotions.
Approaching and regarding Life with an attitude of reverence permits the experience of being unempowered but not cruel.
Without reverence the experience of being unempowered can become a very cruel one because a disempowered person is a frightened person, and if a frightened person has no sense of reverence, he or she will harm or kill indiscriminately.
Emotions reflect intentions. Therefore, awareness of emotions leads to awareness of intentions.
Every discrepancy between a conscious intention and the emotions
that accompany it points directly to a splintered aspect of the self that requires healing. If, for example, your intention to marry causes pain instead of joy, following the pain will lead you to unconscious intentions. If your intention to advance in your work causes sorrow instead of...
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Hank was not the kind of person to ask himself deeper questions about his life. He did not inquire into the deeper meaning of his existence upon the Earth, because that would have caused him to change his life, and he did not want to do that. He lived his life without much reflection, and one day he awoke to overwhelming emptiness and powerlessness.
Neither the experiences of his childhood nor his military service nor his marriage caused Hank to consider seriously the deeper meaning of his existence. The pains and the joys that flowed through him did not affect his awareness of who he
was, or what he might become.
Thus, Hank’s life was a “body in uniform motion” that never encountered a “force.” What is the “force” that Hank’s life did not encounter?
These changes did not come easily to Gregory. His transition from an angry, manipulative, disdainful person to a more caring and considerate person was a journey through pain that required much courage.
A personality that loses touch with its soul, that loses the source of its Light, is a personality that has become capable of what we call evil, as represented by blackness.
A compassionate heart is more effective against evil than an army.
A person that needs to learn the lesson of trust, for example, will experience a distrust of others.
This misunderstanding results from his inability to accept what his wife has told him, from his inability to trust her.
This does not necessarily mean that multisensory personalities do not experience painful situations, but that they have the capability of learning more quickly from them than five-sensory personalities, and, therefore, are more quickly able to choose more wisely, and with more compassion.
