Gary Zukav - The Seat of the Soul

“My life is dedicated to the birth of a new humanity. That birth is now in progress. We are all involved in it. The new humanity is being born inside us. We are awakening to new perceptions and new values. These are leading us to new goals. n Our new perceptions are that the Universe is alive, wise, and compassionate. It is a friendly place, not the violent, merciless place that we have often made our small part of it. Our new values are the values of the soul – harmony, cooperation, sharing, and reverence for Life. Our new goals are authentic power – the alignment of the personality with the soul – and a planet without conflict. n Your soul is much more than your personality. It is the essence of who you are. It existed before you were born, and it will exist after you die. We are beginning to understand that all that we choose, create, and experience is part of a learning process. That process serves the evolution of our souls. This is the heart of the new perception that is transforming the human experience. This is multisensory perception, the ability to see and experience far beyond the limitations of the five senses. Our species is becoming multisensory very fast. n This emerging multisensory humanity has needs – the thirst for harmony, cooperation, sharing, and reverence for Life. Current social structures cannot meet these needs, and so, they are dissolving. We are creating their replacements – seven billion of us, together. Let us do it in wisdom, joy, and love.” Gary Zukav

For the many people who read The Seat of the Soul a decade ago, and drove it to the bestseller list then, Gary Zukav was a clear and prescient voice introducing the concept of soul. His simple, elegant prose touched the lives of hundreds of thousands of readers. Now, ten years later, a new generation of awakening has begun to find The Seat of the Soul an invaluable guidebook for the study of the spirituality of human experience and the endless possibilities of human perception.

Organized in a lucid and very accessible way, The Seat of the Soul takes the reader on a journey of enlightenment, beginning with the seeds of self- and spiritual awareness, and moves through the mechanics of spirit: Intuition, Energy (Light), and Intention. Zukav then guides us toward the responsibility of the soul, toward the “evolution of authentic power.” The book’s closing chapters are profoundly insightful yet very direct, dealing with the responsibility of and the nature of power and what it means to be a truly powerful human being. Zukav charges the reader to “align your personality with your soul and move toward becoming a being of the Light, fully whole and empowered and inwardly secure. Humbleness, forgiveness, clarity and love...take root and bloom, and you draw to yourself the Universe’s greatest gift: human beings with open hearts.”

The Seat of the Soul was originally titled Physics and Consciousness. Using his well-honed ability to explain abstract scientific thought, Zukav intended to write about the parallels between quantum physics and psychology. In the process, he became less interested in the science and  totally absorbed in the “physics of the soul.” He says, “I learned to listen to what the  Universe wanted to share with me. Then I began to share it with others.”

Zukav, a graduate of Harvard University and a former Green Beret officer who served in Vietnam, raises several key issues in The Seat of the Soul. He questions the value of traditional Western spiritual philosophies in light of the seeming lack of meaningful human evolution. Describing the importance of understanding the non-physical reality of spirit, Zukav contrasts what he calls the ‘five-sensory human,’ who puts mind over heart, with the ‘multisensory’ individual, who has evolved to align the soul with the personality. He also relates this philosophy to the socio-political state of the world, opining that the Earth is a single living entity with a soul – Gaia. While the themes he discusses are not entirely new, Zukav has obviously tapped into a thirsty collective consciousness that touches readers in a deeply moving way.

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