The Seat of the Soul

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Summary: It makes an important point!
Review: My wife bought the book after seeing the author on Oprah. I read it and found that I do not agree with some of the concepts he mentions, such as reincarnation. However, I think it does make an important point: we need to go beyond taking care of our minds and bodies and pay a special attention to our souls, especially when it comes to our relationships.

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Summary: Not very gripping
Review: I found this book to be very bland and though I finished it, I really felt it was a waste of time. The points discussed in the book are common day logic, but not practical in the real world.

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Summary: The Throne of the Soul
Review: If you're on the journey of self-discovery, Zukav's book, The Seat of the Soul, is a must read. You won't regret it. Enjoy.

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Summary: This is a must read
Review: for any person on the path to higher realization that there is more to life than just living and dying. The soul energy is forever. The life force is forever. This book is for the angry person, for the addicted person. This book will lead you out of the muck and mire of victimization and judgements. We are responsible for our actions! Years ago this book helped me get through a very difficult time in my life when I was full of anger-that anger contributing to the breakup of a once beautiful and loving relationship. The book is full of wisdom and guidance to overcome our fears-humanities greatest stumbling block to unconditional love and forgiveness. Love and forgiveness-wasn't that the bottom line teaching of the Christ? This is a book of truth. "Truth is that which does not contaminate you, but empowers you." This book will empower you. "When you choose the energy of your soul-when you choose to create with the intentions of love, forgiveness, humbleness and clarity-you gain power. When you choose to learn through wisdom you gain power." If these words speak to you, you must read this book. I would like to thank Gary Zukav and his Guidance for penning this very important work. "A conscious lifetime...is a treasure beyond value." Quotes from The Seat of the Soul. Good reading and happy trails to the infinity of consciousness!

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Summary: An almost-perfect little book
Review: It was one of the first books I read during the period when I was beginning to open up to the new dimensions in my life. As such, it served as a powerful tool to help me understand -- and begin living in -- some of those dimensions. However, I had read The Dancing Wu-Li Masters just a short time before this period, and I was confused as to why Gary Zukav had changed so much from the clear, well-written and well-organized style of the first book. It has humour and anecdotal first-person insights, to the relatively affect-free, impersonal and (at times) maddeningly inchoate syntax of the second. It felt to me as though large parts of The Seat of The Soul were dictated into a tape-recorder. More frustrating to me, however, was the complete lack of autobiographical information, of first-person testimony, of here's-how-I-came-to-these-insights-and-conclusions.

Neale Donald Walsch recognizes something very important in "Friendship with God": readers want to know the hows and the whys of the author's experience. Well, Gary Zukav seems like a very interesting and likable person. He imparts some very valuable lessons in his book. I just would have enjoyed hearing more of the story of his personal evolution -- from popularizer extraordinaire of the mysteries and marvels of quantum mechanics, to end-of-millennium guide to the mystic states of being -- because it would have helped me assimilate more easily the profound truth of his words.

I'm glad the book is enjoying a revival. It deserves to.

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Summary: Two years later I'm still thinking about it...
Review: I was completely unaware that Oprah Winfrey had praised thisbook, and can understand some of the less stellar reviews of it,because it's such a departure from her usual touts. Because of Zukov's background, I was stunned and fascinated to learn that he had addressed this subject matter. It's beautifully and intelligently written and needs to be read leisurely-it's not a sound byte, mass market book. In a way, I'm sad that this is getting the Oprah treatment, because this small book has made its way, hand to hand, to an intelligent, questioning, and devoted group of readers, and something about the purity of that process resonates with the book itself. Oddly, when I was last in Los Alamos, New Mexico, I saw many of the physicists and Lab employees there perusing it during their breaks. Some adjacent reviews call the book pretentious; I didn't find it pretentious, but rather deeply satisfying. Visiting Amazon.Com, I found I was curious to see what others had written. All I can tell you is that it's two years later, and I'm still thinking about The Seat of The Soul.

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Summary: a very tough read
Review: Certainly not a "page turner". Could not force myself through it.

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Summary: The way through the life you've created
Review: This book speaks to many people's longings to know what unlocks the keys to their hearts. When people are unconscious and need to be brought to consciousness they turn to books like these. I object to its dry tone. He could have spiced it up a bit, but that's him.

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Summary: Five-sensoried people won't get it!
Review: Zukav is right--five-sensoried people are not going to understand his book and do not possess the spiritual maturity to handle the higher truths he asserts in his book. Oprah Winfrey, whom I consider one of our nation's leading spiritual teachers, is a genius for promoting Gary and his brand of spirituality.

Granted, the writing is confusing and at times incoherent. I would have liked some examples, illustrations of his ideas. But one must get beyond the weak writing to grasp the higher truths presented in this book. Granted, I don't align my own beliefs with everything he says in the book, but the gist of what he says is real and brilliant.

I dare say his severe critics are people who think in black and white and cannot see shades of gray. They swallow religious dogma without question and have a mind set that does not permit one to delve within and come up with their own soul's beliefs. They are not intuitive beings. Do those critics ever stop to think that Gary is, as someone said in a review, in conference with a Higher Power! He tells you all the way through the book that people with multi-sensories have an ability that others don't have. Yes, he is in touch with a higher power...the God within his soul! That's where he got his truths. And you except him to reference his facts? Did you expect MLA documentation at the end of the book? Who is he going to quote? Zukav's book does not need to be based in any religion that the world knows. The soul has no religion. The soul speaks truths that are not based in myths the world has created.

From reading the Dancing Wu Li Masters, we understand there is scientific proof that the universe changes by the way we interact with it...which means we affect the way the universe operates on the quantum level... which means we create our own universe. And therefore, we can, on the spiritual level, evolve into higher beings by the way we interact with ourselves, our fellow humans, and the environment. Zukav attempted to take the knowledge he learned in the Dancing book and apply it to the spiritual world. For those who need for SOS to be based on SOMETHING, then it is based on the Dancing book. It is the Dancing book retold in spiritual terms. And if you don't get it today, someday you will...as Gary says, we won't judge you...just treat you with compassion and "reverence."

I am baffled at those who read the book and missed the beauty of the messages in it. Love, purity, honesty, reverence, compassion....carved on a another set of tablets from the burning bush of the soul...thanks to Gary Zukav.

One word to Gary if you are reading these reviews: please keep writing and give us examples and details. Thank you for the book.

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Summary: THE SOUL IS JUST ONE PART OF THE EQUATION
Review: I finished reading the Seat of the Soul just prior to the beginning of this Millennium and recognized many truths contained within the book. The book does not reinforce preconceived notions but dares to challenge one's perception of the world. Whether he succeeds is not the point. The point is that one's consciousness level is raised. Zukav has also written a book on modern physics. Combined, they form a more complete picture of the universe. While Zukav does not inform the reader that both Seat of the Sould and The Dancing Wi Lu Masters both explore our relation to the universe, when read in tandem, they form a clearer picture. One can take away a greater understanding of the problems facing humankind and that the solutions to those problems lie in spirit and science working in tandem. I urge anyone who has been moved by Seat of the Soul to read the other. It is quantam physics made easy for the lay person but when taken in tandem with SOS, you can see the world from both sides of the coin.