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Summary: Take what you can from it
Review: I used to have a very black and white approach to what I got out of a book. This meaning, if I read some concepts that I just didn't agree with at all, I would push away the rest of the book and dismiss it completely. I did get some value out of this book, but overall, I haven't read anything that topped what Joseph Murphy has written. I don't believe in karma from past lives. I do believe in karma in this life and that your soul is eternal. I believe that you have a choice about where your soul ends up later, whether or not it's the choice between the "bad" place and the "good" place. What inspired me in this book to a great deal is his discussion about external and internal power. You can be in a very healthy state of being if you can just surrender your persistent desire for things that you think make you feel good, such as cars and big homes. Your soul can't take that anywhere when you leave. Borrow this book from the library and read what he says about addiction, and what he writes about the energy that is called the soul. If you don't believe in reincarnation, which I don't, you can still get value out of this book.
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Summary: Talking in Circles
Review: Most of this book talks in complex circles and is difficult to follow. I found it very frustrating to to read, unless a specific example was outlined. Most of the gist of what Mr. Zuchov is trying to convey can be summed up in 10 pages. You get what you deserve, what goes around comes around, treat others as you wish to be treated, look inside yourself for the answers.I bought the book because I wanted to see if I can attain a "higher self" -- and that is the most important decision anyone can make BEFORE choosing this book. If you aren't committed before buying, this book may just cloud the issue further. A lot of gobblygook which could have been written in a MUCH more straightforward way. My question is -- how did the editors let this book get published with SOOOO many run-on sentences? Zuchov's writing style is pretty out there, and I'm a writer!
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Summary: Seat of the Soul - A+!
Review: I read The Seat of the Soul in three days and thought it was excellent! It has definitely opened my eyes and my mind to a new way of living. I recommend this book for those who are trying to find the right direction in their "spiritual" lives.
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Summary: Trite and Untrue
Review: Specious gobbdegook. Save your money.
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Summary: reading of deception
Review: This book does not contain the truth that God has placed before us. God created us and the earth from nothing. We are God's devine creation and He desires to bless us if we will trust in the Lord Jesus Christ and find our identity in Him. God loves us and we need Him. Find your happiness and joy in Him.
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Summary: Very Hard to Finish...
Review: I am by no means the well-read expert on the subject of spirituality. I am searching and always open to a good book discussing the topic. This book was totally lost on me. I found it to be mundane and it seemed to be pointless. It treated most of the topics (see the table of contents link) from a schoolbook theoretical view, offering me no practical knowledge. For better reading, I would refer the reader to Carol Adrienne's "The Purpose of Your Life" or James Redfield's "The Celestine Prophecy" (a novel). It is probably worth noting that "The Seat of the Soul" was a national bestseller (according to the cover) but I for one will not find it a memorable book.
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Summary: Understanding key aspects of the soul
Review: In this book, Zukav digs deep. No matter if in the end the reader agrees with the author or not, this book will make you think. It will bring a better understanding to what the soul is all about. It's also unique to find a scientific approach regarding this subject which Zukav uses. Another book on the subject that has a spiritual touch to it and is practical in application as it defines the soul and goes hand in had with this book, is Dietmar Scherf's "I Love Me: Avoiding and Overcoming Depression" also available at Amazon.com
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Summary: Buddaist and Hindu Supersition Masquerading as Junk Science
Review: Gary has written a very poor translation of Buddaist and Hindu mystic religious doctrine as western evolutionary physics with distortion and obfuscation of both. About 10% of the book is grounded solidly in Judeo-Christian belief and the rest is unsupported wild amalgamation onto that to dress it up with science and with eastern mysticism. The truths of Judeo-Chritian do not need either junk physics or eastern mysticism to justify them. This book is no more enlightening on what is the soul than was the Dancing Wu Li Masters on the core truth of Quantum Field Theory or Superstring Theory. If you do not know or believe much in either Christianity or physics, then this book is better, barely, than nothing. It is however dark misinformation. Both of Zukov's books (I have them both) take some truth known by other means and obscure it under layers of rhetorical questions, nonsense, fantasy, supersition, unsupported speculation and misapplied and mismixed theories of truth and falsehoods. Why this book was every on the top ten list is a mystery which only Oprah can know.
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Summary: Guide to Authentic Empowerment
Review: Gary Zukav's "The Seat of the Soul" is a guide to authentic power and inner peace. While overly detailed at times,which may put off some readers, the core ideas merit serious consideration in a culture where so many people have so much and yet are so unhappy. Changing your attitude can change the quality of your life, and this book can help guide you to a more peaceful existence. Take some of the more exotic details with a grain of salt, or ignore them, as you please; there are many principles outlined in the book that you can apply to your own life regardless.
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Summary: A wonderful guide...
Review: After seeing this author on Oprah, I bought this book and read it cover-to-cover. Then I loaned it to my sister, bought it for my friends, and suggested it to other book patrons when in the bookstore. (My sister didn't return the book, so I'm buying another for myself!) I found the book to bring perspective to the world we live in and our relationship to others, to self, the natural world, and our idea of a divine being. Reading without the closed mind my Catholic upbringing created, I found the book enlightening, insightful, and a resource I'll refer to again and again.
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