182: Voices of Courage with Ken D. Foster and guest Gary Zukav182: Voices of Courage with Ken D. Foster and guest Gary Zukav
UK Health Radio Podcast
Ken D. Foster and Gary Zukav talk about death, grief, addiction, and the shift from fear-based living to what Gary calls new consciousness. The conversation focuses on authentic power, choosing love over fear, and seeing painful experiences as part of a wider spiritual journey.
44:03•5 Sept 2026
The Great Awakening: Gary Zukav on Death, Love and Authentic Power
Episode Overview
- Old consciousness is marked by fear, stress, anxiety, self-medicating and constant striving, while new consciousness recognises that you are more than just body and mind.
- Authentic power is created through emotional awareness and responsible choice, especially when choosing loving actions while fearful parts of the personality are active.
- Grief and loss feel intensely real, yet are framed as part of a larger spiritual process within the "earth school", where every experience serves spiritual growth.
- Meditation and observing the mind can help you step back from reactive thoughts and choose more compassionate responses instead of anger, resentment or fear.
- Love is described as the highest power, and living from love means steadily removing the inner blocks that stop you from giving the gifts you were born to give.
“I don’t have a reason for living anymore, except to love people.”
What emotional and inspiring tales of recovery are out there? This conversation on UK Health Radio’s "Voices of Courage" with host Ken D. Foster and guest Gary Zukav stretches way beyond traditional health chat and into big questions about death, grief, love and what Gary calls the "new consciousness". You’ll hear Gary, a bestselling spiritual author, explain the difference between living from old consciousness and new consciousness. Old consciousness feels like stress, anxiety, fear, self-medicating and constantly striving.
New consciousness, he says, starts when you realise you’re "more than a body and a mind" and that your life is a chapter in a much bigger soul story. The episode gently links emotional pain, self-medication and spiritual growth. Ken shares how his past was filled with fear, stress and self-medicating before he turned towards self-realisation.
Gary adds his own history of being "addicted to sex" and using people, contrasting that with the deep, committed love he later found with his partner Linda. One of the most moving parts of the conversation is Gary’s account of Linda’s stroke, her death, and the years of intense grief that followed.
He describes feeling like he didn’t want to live, yet eventually realising, "I don’t have a reason for living anymore, except to love people." For anyone facing bereavement or the loss of old identities in recovery, his story offers a different lens: grief and loss feel painfully real, but from the new consciousness they’re part of a sacred "earth school" where the core lesson is learning to choose love.
Along the way, they talk about meditation, observing the mind, authentic power, and how to stop acting from fearful parts of the personality and start choosing more loving responses, even in the middle of pain. If you’ve ever wondered whether your struggles, addictions or losses could hold a deeper meaning, this conversation might spark some powerful questions about how you want to live now.
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