Gary Zukov's easy to understand book goes right to the essence of who we are under the surface of our exterior selves. In simple terms, he explores the nonphysical aspects of our beings and shows how we can perceive existence using more than just our usual bodily sense mechanisms.

Struggled between giving it a 3- and 4- star. It's a great book, and spirituality is a beautiful topic. I think it was the approach to the breakdown - the story-telling style - that sometimes lost me and other times carried me along. Maybe I just could not appreciate the depth of the topics that Zukav was covering. That's very likely ;)! The dolphin soul is leaving the Earth, that is, the dolphin species is becoming extinct. The dolphins are beaching themselves. They are creating diseases within themselves. This is their way of refusing to continue to live upon the Earth. They feel that they cannot fulfill the purpose for which they are born. Therefore, they are leaving. Their deaths are not suicides because they are not frightened. They are exhausted.”

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I also know there's something very gratifying, and potentially dangerous, about painting people as "highly evolved beings," with a "multi-sensory consciousness" or whatever, and portraying their credulity as superiority. This doesn't just press our god buttons, but our righteousness buttons. That's when people will shell out the serious cash. People ingest righteousness like a drug. Who among us is an expert on the human experience? We have only the gift of sharing perceptions that hopefully can help those on their journey. There is no such thing as an expert on the human experience. The human experience is an experience in movement and thought and form, and, in some cases, an experiment in movement and thought and form. The most that we can do is comment on the movement, the thought and the form, but those comments are of great value if they can help people to learn to move gracefully, to think clearly, to form — like artists — the matter of their lives.

The decisions that you make and the actions that you take upon the Earth are the means by which you evolve. At each moment you choose the intentions that will shape your experiences and those things upon which you will focus your attention. These choices affect your evolutionary process. This is so for each person.”

Changing the world begins with the very personal process of changing yourself, the only place you can begin is where you are, and the only time you can begin is always now.” Next, Zukav talks about the importance of centering into your heart and acting from a state of love. This is by no means a new idea, but the message is still important. It helps to solidify the niggling wonders you have about where we come from and where we will return. More importantly, it helps you to consider why you are here, why you wished to be here now, and what your mission could be. For players who never went Night Fae (or never bothered to change their Soulshape form), the toy still works, transforming you into the default Soulshape form of a Vulpin.

A person who identifies with this revelation is unmistakably empowered to change the human behavior, by neither acting nor portraying anyone as a victim. You do an experiment because your own philosophy makes you want to know the result. It’s too hard, and life is too short, to spend your time doing something because someone else has said it’s important. You must feel the thing yourself…” We encapsulate Gary’s most profound revelations and key takeaways. Who Should Read “The Seat of the Soul”? And Why?Yet, with patience and diligence, we are ultimately rewarded when we start seeing new growth. When we see the sprouts of Light shoot forth within and hear the faint whispers of the inner Sound calling to us, we realize that our efforts sprinkled with God’s grace are bearing fruit. Then, the steady growth of the plant reveals that all was not wasted. Our efforts have borne fruit and we grow spiritually. The process of progression from single-cell organisms to conscious human beings is merely an illustration of this evolution . We spend our lives doing all that is expected of us, blindly trusting that the life we have chosen is the right and accepted path. As the years pass by, and we obediently live the lives we have been conditioned to accept, a gentle but insistent feeling begins to stir. It is uncomfortable, and disrupts our predictable and ordinary existence. Most try to ignore it. Others listen closely. It whispers quietly to your soul that there is more than this, that You are more than this. With patience, contemplation and self-reflection, you begin to understand its secret message – that you and your existence are far more wondrous and magnificent than you could possibly imagine. For some, it is time to take the first steps on a remarkable and life-changing journey. The idea of spiritual evolution isn’t simply to act with compassion and reverence, it’s to begin to recognize that everything is interconnected, and that we all operate as a part of the same infinite energy. An authentically powered person lives in love. Love is the energy of the soul. Love is what heals the personality. There is nothing that cannot be healed by love. There is nothing but love.

It’s in the interest of the society to put an accent on the internal forces because that’s the only way to find our hidden treasure. But there are some gems, some very beautiful pieces in this book, some deep truths, some hard facts to come to terms with, and some good takeaways. The plants and trees in the outer gardens of the world cannot move or act on their own. They cannot talk, so they cannot ask for what they want. They cannot walk, so they cannot go out on their own to get what they need. They are planted in one place with no ability to communicate, move, or take action. They are at the mercy of Nature and God. Yet, everything is provided for them. God provides them with soil, sunlight, air, and water. Whether they are in a tended garden or out in the wild, God has provided for them for ages. If God can provide for every blade of grass on this planet, can’t we trust that God is going to provide for us also? This energy is the energy of love, and it permeates everything. When you recognize this fact, you can begin to develop a higher degree of love in your life, and live a life filled with intense passion, exhilaration, and joy. I'll try to set my feelings aside and explain, with a straight face, what I think is the premise of this book: up until now, our evolution has been oriented around the five sensory experience. We tried to gain power by hurting others, but that was not authentic power. Now, with modern physics, we are entering into the multi-sensory experience of non-physical reality. We are becoming aware of the Lightness of our souls. We are choosing our experience, through our intentions. When we become multi-sensory beings, we can bring more Light to our souls, and become One with the Universe.This book is full of ridiculous new age, pseudoscience, psychobabble. It almost sounds like a new age parody. It was so silly that I had to keep reminding myself that the author actually believes this stuff, that a lot of people do. It was the book that convinced Oprah Winfrey to transform her business from tabloid talk shows into a clearinghouse for spirituality and woo-woo philosophy. It's a book that is pulled straight out of a body part. I wasn't looking for science law, but at least a theory as to how the conclusions were reached. Any reasoning as to how his theories are supported would have been nice. I don't see how anyone can read it without wondering how he figured his ideas and that's my issue. The content is unsupported. Again, I'm not asking for scientific fact (as in the law of gravity) just a simple reason as to how he reached is viewpoint. Just one reason... Here was the final straw: "All of the energy of the soul does not incarnate. To incarnate, the soul creates a personality from those parts of itself that it wants to heal in the physical environment, and from those parts of itself that it lends to the process of healing in that lifetime. So powerful is the energy of the soul that it could not advance into physical form without, literally, exploding that form." Soul Star Chakra Activation And Alignment | Anchor Into Divine Love | Enhanced Spiritual Abilities And Intuition | Distant Energy Healing