Gary Zukav - Universal Human: Creating Authentic Power and the New Consciousness

Creating Authentic Power and the New Consciousness

Universal Human

#1 New York Times Bestselling Author of The Seat of the Soul

Gary Zukav

The Dancing Wu Li Masters

The Seat of the Soul

Thoughts from the Seat of the Soul

Soul Stories

Soul to Soul

Soul to Soul Mediations

Spiritual Partnership

WITH LINDA FRANCIS

The Heart of the Soul

Thoughts from the Heart of the Soul

The Mind of the Soul

Self-Empowerment Journal

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Copyright 2021 by Gary Zukav

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Zukav, Gary, author.

Title: Universal human : creating authentic power and the new consciousness / Gary Zukav.

Description: First Edition. | New York : Atria Books, 2021. | Includes bibliographical references and index.

Identifiers: LCCN 2021005274 (print) | LCCN 2021005275 (ebook) | ISBN 9781982169879 (hardcover) | ISBN 9781982169893 (ebook)

Subjects: LCSH: Consciousness. | Self-actualization (Psychology) | Creative ability. | Choice (Psychology) | Control (Psychology) | Social change. | Love.

Classification: LCC BF311 .Z855 2021 (print) | LCC BF311 (ebook) | DDC 158.1dc23

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2021005274

LC ebook record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2021005275

ISBN 978-1-9821-6987-9

ISBN 978-1-9821-6989-3 (ebook)

This book is dedicated to

Emerging Universal Humans

Gratitude is too small a word for the love and gifts these fellow students in the Earth school have given me: Linda Francis, my colife explorer, spiritual partner, cocreator, coauthor, and cofounder of the Seat of the Soul Institute and the Foundation for the Universal Human, for her great heart, brilliant mind, boundless courage, and joyful laughter; Phil Lane Jr. (www.fwii.net) and Phil Lane Sr. for adopting me into Lakota culture and their wondrous gifts; Oprah Winfrey, the Great Pioneer, for introducing spirituality into commercial television, sowing seeds of authentic power, and her continuing contributions to our world; Maya Angelou for the love and many blessings she gave to Linda and me; Masami Saionji for her total commitment to peace and May Peace Prevail On Earth poles around the world (www.byakko.org); Nipun Mehta and the Service Space community for nurturing kindness and generosity worldwide (www.servicespace.org); Elizabeth Rauscher, founder of the Fundamental Fysics Group at the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, for inviting me into the company of renowned theoretical physicists who became the godparents (my name) of my first book, The Dancing Wu Li Masters: An Overview of the New Physics; Ronnie Earle, district attorney of Travis County, Texas, for his thirty-two years of unwavering commitment to justice in place of convictions and his passion for community involvement instead of the criminal justice system; Brigadier General Michael Harbottle, British Army, cofounder of Retired Generals for Peace and Disarmament during the terrifying depths of the Cold War, who encouraged me as a young man to explore the deeper potential of the military; the many participants in our programs and activities; and the countless people who have graced and inspired me.

When Zukavs ideas stop challenging you, you will laugh with the wonderful laughter of the discoverer who has found a new continent.

MAYA ANGELOU

W elcome to this book. I am so happy you are joining me in it.

This book will bring your attention to the transformation of human consciousness that is happening, so that you can understand it and use it to create a life of more joy and less pain. It will give you opportunities to experiment with a road toward meaning and fulfillment and purpose and joy, but you must use these opportunities in order to benefit from them. This road is challenging like none before and rewarding like none before. This road is the path you are walking. It is your life, and a new consciousness is now illuminating in new and different ways the opportunities and challenges it brings you.

That new consciousness is THE new consciousness. The old human consciousness evolved over thousands of millennia. The new human consciousness is emerging within a few generations. This book shows you how to apply the new human consciousness to your life.

Its one thing to recognize that becoming loving adds love to the world. That is graspable. But how do you love, and especially, how do you love when youre angry, when youre vengeful, when youre jealous, when you want to kill someone, when you want to kill yourself, when you cant stop judging, when you cant stop looking for food, sex, or money? How do you do that? How do you become loving? This book shows you how to become loving all the time in every circumstance. That is creating authentic power. Creating authentic power is easy to understand, but its not so easy to change your life from the ground up.

People become interested in spiritual growth when a new consciousness touches their own, expanding it, enriching it, and revealing new ways of understanding, perceiving, and loving. This is happening now to many people. People also become interested in spiritual growth because they are in a great deal of emotional pain, and they dont know what to do about it. This is happening to everyone everywhere, and it always has.

What are you experiencing in your day-to-day life? What emotional pain are you in? Whats keeping you up at night? What is it you are not satisfied with? This book shows you how to address that and move beyond the control of it. The thing that keeps most people up at night, the thing that theyre not satisfied with, the thing thats not what it should be for them, is their life. They ask, Is this all there is? Wheres the joy? Wheres the meaning? Wheres the purpose? There has got to be more joy in getting money, recognition, success, sex, or fame. Theres got to be more joy in getting shoes, cars, and houses. Theres got to be more fulfillment in getting what I wanted. Theres got to be more. In other words, fear of the world not meeting your expectations is the cause of your emotional pain.