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Summary: Comfortable and real
Review: Gary has captured everyone with this book,wonderfully written,witty and very charming.When you start reading this book in the afternoon,you probably spend the night with it! from alterego in Tulsa Oklahoma USA
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Summary: Spend a day doing good deeds instead of reading this book!
Review: I am shocked that this book is a bestseller. Have millions of people actually waded through this dense, academic language about simplistic concepts? Zukav intellectualizes about concepts that are basic to any beginning meditation student. Sentences such as "So powerful is the energy of the soul that it could not advance into a physical form without, literally, exploding that form." are not useful to me.
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Summary: well intentioned
Review: I can read how well intentioned the author is and still he is inconsistent. He presents a belief like karma or the compassionate universe idea which assuages and numbs peoples' uncomfortable feelings like fear, while telling them to feel all their feelings! I only know through experience that feelings are the tickets to our own truths so why present any belief which clearly stops our feelings? Even karma is a belief that can prevent us from learning our own truth. Life is an experiment so encourage the experience without any belief that may temporarily take away our real feelings of fear and the like. Those feelings, the full range of them, are the tickets to living life on life's terms and facing each day on life's terms, not only ego/personalitie's terms and demands. Our so-called purpose presents itself in every moment of everyday, if we are willing to read the writing on the wall. And Gary, the minute I think I can claim I 'know' something, in that minute, I know nothing. That keeps me fluid and open to learning and 'knowing' more. Thanks for your hard work in writing and somehow the mark is hit and then missed.
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Summary: Exasperating
Review: I bought this book with some enthusiasm, having read The Dancing Wu-Li Masters a few years back. I wasn't just disappointed. I was exasperated. Mr. Zukav appears to have just sat down at his computer and made up his own Theory of Everything and presented it as truth. By that method, any of us could make up a religion and write a book over the weekend. Readers who haven't read anything about the great world religions may think that something remarkable is going on in this book but for my money The New Testament is more radical, and the poetry of Gerard Manley Hopkins more inspiring. Zhukov should go back to writing about physics.
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Summary: Grateful
Review: I'm grateful that a bestseller can present such a clear understanding of the journey of the soul through this physical plane. Having been on a spiritual quest for many years now, I must place this on the top of my bookshelf for a while.
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Summary: A deeply helpful book for troubled souls.
Review: I read this book a couple of months ago while going through some very difficult times. I had been offered it previously, but had dismissed it as a little 'off the wall'. How wrong I was. Gary's book has something for every thinking person. His descriptions of the interactions of our souls was spellbinding and at the same time reassuring and comforting. Gary writes without bias, without pretense, and without judgement - very refreshing for a book that is essentially a text on spirituality.
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Summary: This book was a disappointment
Review: I bought Seat of the Soul from Amazon.com because of the many positive reviews and its popular acceptance, the author's reputation, and because it is in the same genre as a book that I wrote (The Road to Damascus.) I expected more of it. I am not critical of Zukav because of any personal belief system that clashes with his, nor is there any inherent animosity for the ideas that he proposes. My disappointment results from his pedantic, declarative style, in which he presents his proposals without providing reasoning or sources to support his statements, nor any attempt at persuasion. He simply makes his statements as fait accompli, sans justification or explication, which in such an important subject matter I find indefensible. I confess that I quit the book half-read, which is rare with me. Joseph Pierre,
Author of THE ROAD TO DAMASCUS: Our Journey Through Eternity
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Summary: The Seat of the Soul
Review: This book has changed my life. I have read many self-help, psychology and spiritually-based books, some which had considerable impact on my life, but none have come close to this one. This is the first book I have ever read, and reread, countless times. Each time Zukav's words go deeper into my being. I read from the last page to the first, as if there is "no end" but merely a continual process of connecting with my inner self. It is the last thing I read most every night, even if only a few pages at a time; and each night while I sleep, my inner journey continues. I wake in the morning, peaceful and content; I am in a different place and "see" the world around me from a newly-found perspective. I highly recommend this book to anyone looking for "more," looking for "answers," or looking for "meaning." Life is clearer, simpler, and gentler.
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Summary: Beyond thought provoking..
Review: I am an avid reader of spiritually oriented material - and I was touched in a very deep way by this book; in a way that many other great books have not.
It may be a mistake to expect a formulaic cookbook guidance to solving the world's problems here. This is a deep book about our deepest identities, and is not necessarily digested in one reading - it doesn't even lend itself to one continuous reading. This is one book that has marked a turning point in my life.
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Summary: Confusing and Unclear
Review: Although I normally enjoy most of the books that Oprah recommends - this one is a definite "do not buy". She praised the book on her show and I quickly ordered it from Amazon. I read some of it nightly but it is a chore to read and I am not left enlightened but just confused. I watched Zukav on Oprah and liked what he said but the messages he tries to bring out in the book are unclear and lost in babble that goes on endlessly. Although I enjoy reading and learning, this book left me perplexed.
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