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Summary: Improve your spirituality
Review: This book is great. I highly recommend it if you want to improve your spirituality cause it gives detailed ideas how you can find faith and each chapters get better.
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Summary: SO MUCH HELP HERE --- FOR RECEPTIVE SOULS
Review: After reading some of the other reviews, I can not understand how anyone could read this book in its entirety and NOT get help. There is so much wisdom offered here, so much help for everyday living. Chapters on such things as Relationships, Addiction, Power, Illusion, Choice, - all of the issues that we all so regularly have trouble dealing with. I have read the author's other books and have seen him speak many times. Believe me, he is not in this for the money. As a matter of fact, he is the most loving, unpretentious man I have ever met. He wrote this book because he has a strong heart-felt desire TO HELP PEOPLE UNDERSTAND, and he has devoted his life to this purpose. He was a suffering human being,in great emotional pain, until he was blessed with the experiences and divine guidance that changed his life. All that he wishes to accomplish in this book, is to share with others what he now knows to be his own personal spiritual truth. It transformed his life, and if your heart and spirit are open, it can do the same for you. Please judge this book on its own merit. He has written it in a way that it is clearly understandable, offering his love and wisdom to those of all faiths. You are free to accept only whatever you find that rings true in your own heart and soul, but there is so much insight here. To say that it transformed my life is putting it mildly. I have given away numerous copies of this book to friends and relatives and most have come to view it as a treasure. Hope you will find that it will mean as much to you.
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Summary: The book is about being spiritually responsible.
Review: After reading many puffy New Age books, I was refreshed by The Seat of the Soul. Each line is clear and to the point. Basically, Gary Zukav promotes taking responsibility for the state of your soul instead of handing over that responsibility to a church to govern in the childish way we have been doing for the past two thousand years.
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Summary: Pantheism in Blue-Jeans
Review: Another "feel-good, get-in-touch with your soul" do-it yourself guide. Zukav has obviously followed Mr. Deepak Chopra around and sees that if he spews this new-age drivel, he too can make quite a lot of money. Poor Oprah... Another book that feeds our culture of the "subjective"..we must do what "feels" good. Please think for a minute and try to grasp this most illogical nonsense! If you must have this "feel-good" message in your life, return this book immediately and pick up something by M. Scott Peck...at least he can ground his theories in the realm of the objective.
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Summary: Opens the mind and the heart - absolutely wonderful !
Review: The human resistance to any new idea and change is clearly displayed in many comments about this book. The unknown is a fearful place. Seat of the Soul is a manual for those who are ready to take responsibility for their lives. Are you ready to take and enjoy the next step in human evolution? My deepest gratitude to Gary for his courage and wisdom to write such a wonderful book.
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Summary: insightful..but full of half truths
Review: I didn't know zukav was even on Oprah.. but i read the book anyway and being a practicing buddhist i found his thoughts and his philosophy to be filled with half truths..he gives a good explanation of karma.. but i disagree with his idea of the soul and personality ... it is the idea of personality and soul that we cling to that is the cause of suffering.. in eastern thought ..specifically buddhist thought.. there is no permenant soul.. in fact there is no-soul and no-self.. because everthing is impermenant and constantly changing. i found the book to be enlightening but he didn't grasp the nature of real truth...more specifically the four noble truths found in eastern buddhist thought.
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Summary: Definitely NOT a reference book!
Review: Pompous and entirely unsubstantiated drivel. I've received more insight from Scott Adams' Dilbert calendars. The platitudes aren't worthy of greeting cards. Worth the $6.50 paperback price just to vent here, however. - Disappointed in St Louis
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Summary: Simple language, simple truths.
Review: Gary Zukav is one of our generation's most eloquent minds. You have read the other reviews, you have seen how Zukav gives us an 'opiate' or a 'feel-good New Age' solution to our problems. These people have not given the writing any thought. This book is written in simple language to speak to a mass audience about something we all wonder about: the realm of Spirit. No society in our brief human history has been so backward that it ignored the element of Spirit. We have always sought to define God. In a way, this is arrogance. We seek to name and define the Divine, which is infinitely beyond our grasp. At the same time, Zukav uses his simple and broad definitions to describe what we are all looking for, no matter what our spiritual disciplines. If you hate this writing, you are being defensive of your own religious practices, grounded partially in contemplation of the Divine and partially in control of the masses. If you read this book with open mind and heart, you will find new truth. The truth cannot be faked. The soul cannot be cheated. Truth is. If you look at any moment in your life, ask yourself three questions: 1) Where am I? 2) Where am I? 3) How can I be better? The answers are deceptively simple: 1) I am here. 2) It is now. 3) For the answer here, you must ask your higher self for guidance. The higher self never denies an answer.
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Summary: I may never know
Review: Actually, I haven't read it yet, just the reviews, which have deterred me from putting this title on my shopping list for the time being. "Sort the wheat out from the chaff', is a principal I apply to everything in life. What suits the reader is a personal issue and I can certainly see that some of you have some issues to deal with. I'm actually scanning for a different type of self-help book.
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Summary: New Age and nothing else!
Review: It is truly amazing that hundreds of people actually find "an answer" in writings such as this one. When I read all of the comments from readers about how this book has "changed their lives", how "it has given them answers" and so on, I truly felt sad that our world is so messed-up and confused that any Tom, Dick or Harry can pontificate with such arrogance about things that he has no concrete proof of and we, like a bunch of sheep, buy it and praise it as though he is the true ORACLE of PERFECT TRUTH. Start listening to those that have proven their love for us and not to those trying to have big bank accounts by trying to re-invent the wheel Besides, do any of you know of anyone that has truly come back from death to tell you in detail what happens there? I don't, except for Jesus. So until it's my time to go, I will listen to the voice of experience.
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