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Summary: A reminder that only you can understand what you need....
Review: Gary's book is a great reinforcement for listening to your body and emotions to understand yourself better, and to see where your "escapist" addictions lie. It's a hard reminder to feel yourself in your body, and pay attention to that at all times. We do so little to really listen to ourselves and what our soul is trying to tell us. This is a great tool to help you remember. Great follow up to Carolyn Myss's "Spirit of the Anatomy" which talks about the energy centers in our bodies and how they are all coordinated with the "Sacred" sacraments of most religious teachings. Both together will get you paying more attention to yourself, and help you make the changes to be happier and healthier both phisically and emotionally. Happy Reading!
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Summary: Would you want to evolve if everyone you cared for did not?
Review: I can remember being a little girl and being extremely confused as to why all of those 'grown-ups' went to church to learn right from wrong. I assumed they were born knowing this, as I was...why did they need reminders?
I know now that I am empathic, and have a robust 'super-ego'. I just realized at 29 that a great majority of the world thinks of themselves before all others. Quite a shock after spending a lifetime assuming the community around me cared as much about me as I did about them! It took losing all my material possessions and needing help from others for the first time for me to realize how things really are.
Gary's books give me hope that maybe there really are some people out there who care/feel for our human family as much as I do.
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Summary: WOW
Review: I have read all of Gary's books and this one just adds to the others. Not only has he been eavesdropping in my closet but just in case I might have missed any obvious epiphanys for my life, they have printed them in BOLD letters. It is a must have for those on a spiritual journey into self. It is a help for the struggle and a hopefullness that I may not always be struggling. I have been dealing with a situation for two years that comes up in anger lately and the chapter on anger hit me right between the eyes. Thank God for people like Gary and Linda who aren't afraid to speak their truth and ultimately mine.
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Summary: The world is not perfect
Review: I have read parts of this book and I am somewhat disappointed. The chapter about perfectinism argues that the world is perfect and that all choices will lead to perfect consequences. The book also argues that the root of emotions doesn't lie in the interaction with other people and the situation. In my opinion, it is true that emotions are caused by our energy system, but there is also a reationship with external factors. The theme of this book is that we can only change ourselves, and not external factors, but this is not the truth. Gary's and Linda's work is nice if seen from a pure spiritual perspective, but it is far from the truth from an earthly perspective.
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Summary: I am still trying to understand the point of writing this
Review: I sat down to read this book with great anticipation, especially because I had glanced through Seat of the Soul and liked what I saw. WHAT A DISAPPOINTMENT!!! The discussions presented here could have been accomplished in less than half the pages, or maybe even in a pamphlet. I found the material poorly organized and unnecessarily repetitive to the point of being patronizing to the reader. In essence, what Gary is saying to us is : While you remain locked in anger, jealousy, vengefulness and other forms of fear and powerlessness, you cannot see the opportunities your life presents to you. Dah!!! You create authentic power when you shift from the pursuit of external power, and are able to align your personality with your soul. A good writer Gary is not. I borrowed this book from the library and when it goes back, that is where my interaction with it ends. In other words, I will never purchase a copy for my personal collection. The cover design is attractive. That is about it.
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Summary: Too Simplistic and Repetitive
Review: I wish I had read the reviews below before I purchased the book. I really WANTED to like it, learn from it. Unfortunately, the ideas are so simplistic they could have been presented in three or four pages. They just get repeated over and over, in bold, with pictures. It made me feel as if the authors assumed that their readers were complete idiots and had to be hit over the head with a concept to "get it". Not a good way to win the hearts and minds of the reading public.
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Summary: Repetitive, frustratingly incomplete and possibly dangerous
Review: I'm currently doing extensive research, both professionally and personally, on soul and its implications, especially in a business context. Zukav's book looked interesting and relevant, but turned out to be repetitive and frustratingly incomplete. Its basic theme is a useful rework of the well-known seven-chakras model, linking physical sensation and thoughts to each of the seven centres. There's enormous emphasis, and much advice, on exploring emotional pain, seen from many different angles, such as anger and addiction; but almost nothing about what to do with that pain, and only the most cursory references to exploring the healthy side of one's inner landscape - which is equally important. In that sense, by leading readers into intense emotional space but leaving them dangling without adequate tools or positive models, the book could be downright dangerous. Interesting, and useful in some cases, but not to be recommended.
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Summary: One of the VERY BEST books on spiritual developement
Review: If there is only one book you can afford for spiritual developement this is it. This is one of those purchases I have never regretted. Mr. Zukav talks about: Evolution, Karma, Reverence, Heart, Choice, Addiction, Relationships, Responsibility, Souls and more. The reader is shown how infusing the activities of life with reverence, compassion and trust make us come alive with meaning and purpose. We as individual souls evolve but also we as a whole, all of us together are interconnected and as a whole (yes repeated cause it's important) are evolving together - whatever one does to another he truely does unto himself. This is not "one of those mystical books" in so much as just a geniune book on inner developemnent and how we fit into the "big picture". In my opinion a truely great book.
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Summary: Precisely
Review: If you have the Power of Now by Eckart Tolle and this transformed your life, then you would enjoy this too. It's Zukav's brilliant contribution to the overall importance of knowing what your body is feeling as often as possible while you're awake. ( for those who choose the unabridged audio version, if you like the way Zukav says: "precisely" as much as Oprah does, Gary gets this word in more than a couple of times ). H.O.F.S. over and over reminds you that EVERY circumstance you encounter that trigger emotions, you can choose to end the cycle of these circumstances and learn the lesson by being conscious of what area of your body is experiencing. So it's an exhilirating reminder that bad stuff that happens that forces your choice of being conscious, or just reacting, can really be good, because this is the evolution of your Soul! Zukav points out the many people in our culture who use food, workaholism, or excessive busy-ness at home doing things as a way to avoid having to experience emotions and allowing their attention on that. This turns to disease if this goes on long enough. This book also gets into the chakras, and Linda Francis, Gary's "spiritual partner", punctuates each chapter with an exercise to apply what Gary so eloquently explains. If you have Seat of the Soul, and/or Power of the Now, this is definitely recommended. I struggle to give it 5 stars, because I don't equate it with books like my favorite: Neville's Resurrection, but it deserves more than 4 stars.
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Summary: My Follow-up To Soul Stories....
Review: Looks like Zukav is a Cuba Gooding Jr. fan, because from now on it's "Show me the money" for him. I suspected that when I wrote my review of "Soul Stories" the "soul" topic was just a money maker and not something the author really believed in. Zukav went 20 years between his first and second book. Now he's pumping out books faster than Aerosmith puts out "Greatest Hits" cds. I am convinced he is milking the "soul" for all its worth....Zukav must be hanging out with Tim LaHaye & Jerry B. Jenkins of "Left Behind" fame. If you want religious inspiration read Bill Myers' "Eli" or "Fire Of Heaven Trilogy".
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