Gary Zukav In The Wild
About this episode
Gary Zukav explores the concept of wildness as freedom from fear and the importance of self-awareness in overcoming unconscious control.
In this Deepcast episode, Gary Zukav explores a question that sounds simple but runs deep: what does it really mean to be wild? He makes clear that wildness has nothing to do with recklessness or lawlessness. It means living beyond the control of fear. Wild and control, he explains, are mutually exclusive, just like love and fear. Gary shares how, for most of his life, frightened parts of his personality quietly ran the show, including the need to impress, to gain, and to appear a certain way, from his years as a paratrooper and Green Beret officer to the self-imposed decorum he later adopted as a spiritual teacher. Drawing on the discovery of the unconscious by early psychotherapy, he explains that whatever we don't know about ourselves doesn't disappear; it controls us anyway, often surfacing as projection onto the people around us. The way through, Gary explains, is to identify these frightened parts, create distance from them through conscious awareness, and choose from that space of choice, because beyond the control of fear is love, and love is authentic power. What You’ll Discover in This Episode (00:02) — What "wild" actually means: not lawlessness or chaos, but freedom…
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