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Gary Zukav for years has
conveyed the most complex insights in language all can understand.
Over and over, he challenges us to see the depth of our potential
in the world…
and act on that awareness.
He is the author of four consecutive New York Times Bestsellers.
In 1979, The Dancing Wu Li Masters: An Overview of the New Physics,
plumbed the depths of quantum physics and relativity, winning The
American Book Award for Science. In 1989, The Seat of the Soul led
the way to seeing the alignment of the personality and the soul
as the fulfillment of life and captured the imagination of millions,
becoming the #1 New York Times bestseller over thirty times and
remaining on the New York Times bestseller list almost three years.
Soul Stories (2000), as well as The Heart of the Soul: Emotional
Awareness (2002) and The Mind of the Soul: Responsible Choice (2003),
both co-authored with Linda Francis, also became New York Times
Bestsellers.
His
gentle presence, humor, and wisdom have endeared Gary Zukav to millions
of viewers through his many appearances on The Oprah Winfrey Show,
over six million copies of his books are in print, and translations
have been published in twenty-four languages. Gary Zukav grew up
in the Mid-west, graduated from Harvard, and became a Special Forces
(Green Beret) officer with Vietnam service before writing his first
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Wednesday, August 6, 2008
Savior Searching and the U.S. Election |
The 2008 Presidential election contrasts the old and the new, the young and the old, the establishment and the agents for change in the most graphic way since the contest between John F. Kennedy and Richard Nixon, except that the differences today are more stark. Youthful, charismatic, and black vs. old, staid, and white. War hero (of a very unpopular war) vs. brilliant protagonist for change.  Eight years of diplomatic, military, economic, and moral failure have made change attractive indeed to millions of voters, especially the young and the previously disenfranchised. The pervasive perversion of politics into self-serving ends that has created chaos and carnage in Iraq, threatened American democracy, and destabilized the Middle East in numerous and dangerous ways have left a large portion of the American electorate open and eager for a fresh breeze to disperse stale policies and perceptions of a corrupt and narcissistic administration, to bring new life to Washington, the country, and the world.
No individual can accomplish this, not even Barack Obama, the hero of those who long for the fresh breeze. He appears fresh, brilliant, capable, and committed but he is a hero to many and with that come serious limitations. Heroes are icons, not individuals. So are villains. The more that we long for a hero to save us, to transform the United States into a new and unprecedented influence for good and for Life, the more peril we call upon ourselves, and the more danger we create for Barack Obama, or any savior, to fall off the pedestal that we create and plunge from idolization to disparagement. On national, international, and interpersonal levels saviors rise and fall; the rise is always exhilarating and the fall is always painful.  The solution for avoiding this debilitating dynamic lies not with the next President, but with you. It is you who create idols and you who disdain them when they fail to meet your expectations. We are ripe in the United States for this to happen if Barack Obama is elected the first black President and brings to the White House his youth, energy, and devotion. The process is independent of the next President, whoever is elected. It depends solely upon you. When you cease searching for saviors in your life – a wealthy advocate, perfect mate, family, job, car, or house – you will cease searching for a savior for America as well. You will instead assume responsibility for contributing all that you can to the nation and the world that you long to live in rather than waiting for some one to create them for you. You will contribute to one another rather than exploit one another, and when the challenges becomes great and the weight of your aspirations heavy, you will not blame a failed savior for your pain but instead learn from your experiences what you need to change in yourself in order to create the world that you want. You will cherish your fellow students in the Earth school and look upon all of them, including the President of the United States of America, as partners to support and be supported by.
This dynamic is not only American. It is human and the new evolutionary requirement to create authentic power – to become the authority in your life, aware of your emotions, and responsible for your choices – applies now to all individuals in all cultures, nations, races, religions, and both sexes. Every savior search is a step away from the constructive use of your own creative capacity, and denies you the opportunity to exercise it consciously and wisely. Every step into awareness and responsibility diminishes the danger of erecting a pedestal, putting a savior on it, and then bringing him or her down to avoid facing the consequences that you, yourself, have created.
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| Authentic
power is the experience of fulfillment, gratitude, and meaning.
It is the alignment of your personality with your soul – with harmony, cooperation,
sharing, and reverence for Life. Creating authentic power is the
evolutionary requirement of a new, emerging multisensory humanity – a
species that is not confined to the perceptions of the five senses.
We are becoming a highly intuitive, heart-centered species, and
our previous understanding of power as the ability to manipulate
and control now produces only violence and destruction.
From our new perspective,
external circumstances are symbolic and provide us information
about our intentions, individual and collective, so that we can
change them and create healthy and inspiring symbols rather than
unhealthy and debilitating symbols. The symbols that surround
us – our systems of governance, commerce, education,
health care, science, and military, among others – reflect
the pursuit of external power and are disintegrating. This disintegration
of social (and interpersonal) structures is the product of a profoundly
positive process, not a pathology. This is important to understand.
The thoughts that you
will read here will always support you in viewing our collective
experiences and your personal experiences as opportunities to
create authentic power – to become emotionally
aware, choose responsibly, consult your intuition, and contribute
the gifts that you were born to give to this new and unprecedented
phase of human evolution. |
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