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Summary: A compendium of misinformation larded w/ poor writing
Review: Basic esoteric wisdom is unapparent. Thisvolume will only serve to mislead the grotesquenumber of individuals who genuinely seek under-standing.
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Summary: Fabulous and deep with great insight.
Review: This book is one of those "life changing" ones. After having the book, I bought the tape and heartily recommend both. Its profound wisdom helps strengthen my resolve to be all I am, lovingly. Much care was taken with the audio tape, in particular. Meaning and intention are embedded in each word spoken. Great focus and care.
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Summary: Who says?
Review: Don't any of you who rated this 5 stars ever stop to say, "Oh, yea? Who says?" Even as one who is "already indoctrinated into the received wisdoms of the New Age" and one to whom much of Gary Zukav's theories sound reasonable, I can not take his total lack of support for what he posits. Not so much as a personal experience or reference to anything in the wisdom traditions. We have Guides and Teachers? Why not just Teachers, or Guides for that matter. Why not Junior and Senior Teachers, and Guides, Angels, and Fairies? Where did he come up with this stuff? ... I can't help thinking this would never had seen the light of day if it hadn't come from the Dancing Wu Li Master guy.
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Summary: New Age Dogma
Review: Gary Zukav is a writer who burns both hot and cold: Hot in "Dancing Wu Li Masters" and cold in "Seat of the Soul." The first book succeeds because it attempts to enlighten the reader through carefully crafted explanations of complex physical phenomena. By contrast, "Seat of the Soul" fails because it offers nothing to support or substantiate the many claims made about the spiritual world. While this may be acceptable to those already indoctrinated into the received wisdoms of the New Age, the more sceptical reader will find it difficult to buy what Zukav is selling. The "Seat of the Soul" is one long, drawn out lecture and a disappointing companion to "Dancing Wu-Li Masters". But perhaps more disappointing is the fact that this and other examples of New Age tripe like the "Celestine Prophecy" rank among the best-sellers. It appears that the dumbing down of America is in full swing.
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Summary: Very disappointing for the "average" reader
Review: Seat of the Soul is very over the top and not "user friendly" for the common man/woman. It "tells" you a lot but doesn't give one exercises in achieving what Zukav says we all can have. Very disappointed.
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Summary: Wonderful book for non-physicists that will cure souls.
Review: Great paradigm for the future.Learn how to become multi-sensory and what guides you. Great physicist, Gary Zukav has done it again. The Dancing Wu Li Masters book will be enhanced by this one in your library. Learn about transformation and what potentials exist in us all. Good book for non-physicists who want to believe in something.
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Summary: Good but not heartfelt
Review: I, too, feel this book is well written and somewhat interesting. I bought it because of all the rave reviews sited here. I think it's a good book for very basic information. What it's missing, for those of you who have already found most of this information in other places, is a genuine sense of a journey retold. That is what makes writers like Wayne Dyer so successful. Stories help increase our faith in the words we're reading. Zukav doesn't offer stories. Nor does he offer meditations or games or any of the other exercises most spiritual writers recognize as necessary to help the reader get in touch with who he/she is at heart. What Zukav offers is mostly viewpoint. And even there, I have to disagree with some of his suggestions, such as that we are souls who have come here to be "healed." Think about it. If the spirit we "come from" is perfection, how could we need healing? That's the very point of "enlightenment"-to understand the essence of the duality that is contained in the wholeness, to see there is no need for healing, because we are all part of one perfection. If you are a person who relishes writing that makes you feel you are indeed on the right road, I'd pass up this book and look for YOUR HEART'S DESIRE by Sonia Choquette, LIVING WITH JOY by Sanya Roman, or THE PURPOSE OF YOUR LIFE by Carol Adrienne. And that's just for starters. You'll be led to others that are equally or more beneficial, but Zukav's book is just starter material, and not nearly as empowering.
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Summary: Something To Think About
Review: While reading Zukav's book, it felt as if I was being reminded of something I forgot a long time ago. It caused me to take a step back from my "rush hour" lifestyle and look at the world with a new, unified perspective with the intention to learn and enjoy the journey of life. I'm not saying Zukav has The Answer because the answers to our universal questions are ultimately personal. But his book is something to think about along with the work of Deepak Chopra, Thomas Moore, the Bible and various other spiritual/new age texts. Zukav doesn't need to cite a laundry list of postgraduate degrees and footnotes for me to give him a respectful hearing.
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Summary: A wonderful book - will be misunderstood by some
Review: This is a fine book about the need for a new way of thinking about who we are. It is also an attempt to begin to create or contribute to this new logos of spirit. Many of these ideas have been around for some time but this book reads like the voice of experience rather than citation. These ideas are difficult because of the very central theme of this book. If you are working from what Gary calls the 5 sensory "level" then there is no way to decide about the phenomena of spirit. In fact from this perspective these phenomena seem to be insubstantial fantasy. Yet,they in fact are not found to be so from a multisensory point of view. We will all have to take his word or work to know this for ourselves. Now there is a choice for you.
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Summary: Around The Bend
Review: How somebody who wrote a book such as The Dancing Wu Li Masters could write a book that is a babble of poorly understood Eastern religions is baffling. He makes bold statements about the soul as if he had been in conference with some Higher Power and gotten the inside scoop. That may have worked for Moses, but Zukav lacks the validity of the burning bush and a couple of stone tablets. His ideology is also remarkably disconnected from the earth and all of God's other creatures, which I find peculiar in light of our long American tradition of deep connections with both. He claims animals don't have individual souls as humans do. I think it's swell he has chosen to believe this, but that so many people are accepting his own quirky thoughts as gospel is astonishing. It also makes me wonder what direction those who follow his thoughts will take when it comes to compassion for our fellow creatures. I'm just not getting what makes him such an authority on who's got the souls and who doesn't, and what shape the soul takes in those who have them. But perhaps most baffling of all is that Oprah Winfrey--during her interview with Mr. Zukav, whose book she claims to have read--equated the Golden Rule with Zukav's definition of Karma and he agreed. Huh? They aren't even close. It made me very suspicious of both Zukav's motives as well as Oprah's memory. Zukav dictates and never questions, which I've always been taught was the way of the fool. He speaks with authority, yet never bows to the great voices of authority of the past. His is a New Age stew with too much spice and far too few veggies.
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