Discover millions of ebooks, audiobooks, and so much more with a free trial

Only $11.99/month after trial. Cancel anytime.

The Seat of the Soul: 25TH Anniversary Edition
The Seat of the Soul: 25TH Anniversary Edition
The Seat of the Soul: 25TH Anniversary Edition
Audiobook10 hours

The Seat of the Soul: 25TH Anniversary Edition

Written by Gary Zukav

Narrated by Gary Zukav, Oprah Winfrey and Maya Angelou

Rating: 4 out of 5 stars

4/5

()

About this audiobook

The anniversary edition of this beloved bestseller is celebrated in Prefaces by Oprah Winfrey and Maya Angelou and contains a new Foreword by the author, website links, and a new Study Guide to help readers find even deeper meaning and fulfillment.

The Seat of the Soul encourages you become the authority in your own life. It will change the way you see the world, interact with other people, and understand your own actions and motivations. Beginning with evolution, Gary Zukav takes you on a penetrating exploration of the new phase humanity has entered: we are evolving from a species that understands power as the ability to manipulate and control—external power—into a species that understands power as the alignment of the personality with the soul—authentic power. Our evolution requires each of us to make the values of the soul our own: harmony, cooperation, sharing, and reverence for Life. Using his scientist’s eye and philosopher’s heart, Zukav shows us how to participate fully in this evolution, enlivening our everyday activities and all of our relationships with meaning and purpose.

The Seat of the Soul has sold millions of copies around the globe, and as it changes lives, more and more people begin to live by the values of the spirit. Indeed, a new world is emerging, and this book brings its message to you.
LanguageEnglish
Release dateMar 11, 2014
ISBN9781442370814
The Seat of the Soul: 25TH Anniversary Edition
Author

Gary Zukav

Gary Zukav is the author of Universal Human, the #1 New York Times bestseller The Seat of the Soul, and The Dancing Wu Li Masters, winner of the American Book Award for Science. His books have sold millions of copies and are published in thirty languages. He is a graduate of Harvard and a former US Army Special Forces officer. He lives in Oregon with his spiritual partner, Linda Francis.

More audiobooks from Gary Zukav

Related to The Seat of the Soul

Related audiobooks

Personal Growth For You

View More

Related articles

Reviews for The Seat of the Soul

Rating: 3.937333365333333 out of 5 stars
4/5

375 ratings12 reviews

What did you think?

Tap to rate

Review must be at least 10 words

  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    Enlightens my thoughts and understanding of the Universe. Thank you!

    1 person found this helpful

  • Rating: 1 out of 5 stars
    1/5
    Shucks. I am having a hard time believing this tripe is by the same guy who wrote THE DANCING WU LI MASTERS. Zukav was almost prescient with his insights and final predictions in DANCING. SEAT is all hot air. There are not many books I toss, but I don't think I want to offer the tacit approval a place on my bookshelf offers.
  • Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
    3/5
    Good stuff in here to make your brain work hard. Open the book with an open mind for best results!
  • Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
    3/5
    I feel pretty ambiguous about this book. On the one hand, the author presents a "formula" for living that I largely agree with: the positive aspects of life flow from love, the negative flow from fear. If you can let go of fear, a lot of personal problems just disappear. If we could do that as a society, it would go a long way toward making everything better.

    On the other hand, he presents a lot of very specific information about the mechanics of how a soul moves and advances through the levels of enlightenment. A lot of this sounds like just another new age pseudo religion.

    If you can take the basic principles he is expounding, without getting wrapped up in the quasi-religious stuff, then I think its worth the time.
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    Excellent Book!
  • Rating: 1 out of 5 stars
    1/5
    I started this but just couldn't get through it. I do not agree with his ideas and what he's proposing, and it wasn't interesting enough to keep me reading. I enjoy reading alternate ideas, but this just wasn't done well enough.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    An excellent book for self-reflecting, healing, and positive actions. Readers can take what Mr. Zukav writes as truths (which I believe is his intention) or view it as a more metaphorical structure in which to view their life. I personally believe there is truth in this work. In The Seat of the Soul, Mr. Zukav paints a beautiful picture of our most profound center of who we are...the Soul and the context/process of which it exists. I found his engaging and descriptive narrative very helpful and hopeful in dealing with my own journey of life. His work is prescriptive, in that the ideas put fourth can be used to move toward more positive outcomes in ones life. My reading of "The Seat of the Soul" also guided me in putting episodes of my life into a more favorable and hopeful structure where growth and development to more positive states are possible. This book of New Age ideas can be a wonderful augmentation to other theological belief structures that readers may have. If you are open and looking for more meaning in your life I highly recommend this work. I plan to read others he has written.
  • Rating: 1 out of 5 stars
    1/5
    The sole purpose of this book seems to be to set him up as a guru to sell his workshops. He constantly makes broad unsupported universal statements and asserts things without evidence. I felt quite manipulated and just wanted him to stop including me in his royal "we". He got off on the wrong foot with me on the first chapter "Evolution". Everything he says about scientific evolution is wrong. His point is that "our" beliefs about evolution are wrong. Well, *his* beliefs about evolution certainly are wrong. I'm just glad they aren't *my* beliefs. Disproving a argument that no one is making is called a "straw man" fallacy. I tried to keep reading but I just couldn't get past chapter five. You don't have to eat a whole dish to know if it is putrid, once you have had a bite of it. I tried several bites before I could no longer stomach his self-important manipulative horse crap.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    To quote the author, "we have much to do together. Let us do it in wisdom and love and joy. Let us make this the human experience." Reflections on science, psychology, and spirituality. An inspiring read.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    Found some sections a bit repetitive but still enjoyed it and benefited from it. "When you feel that you are in a pattern of wanting what you do not have instead of what you do have, of seeing the grass in the other pasture as greener because it is in the other pasture, confront it. Challenge it each time that it come up by literally realizing that when it comes up you are not in the present moment, you are not engaged in your present energy dynamic, but rather, you are letting energy leak to a future that does not exist>"
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    Helps to put things in life in perspective. Great.
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    This is a fantastic book, one of my all-time favorites. If I had to put my spiritual beliefs into writing, this comes very close to what I would hope to write. Zukav talks about the transformation the human race is going through to become spiritual beings. A beautiful book, one I highly recommend.