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Binding: Kindle Edition
Dewey Decimal Number: 204.32
Format: Kindle Book
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Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 336
Publication Date: 2007-10-23
Publisher: FREE PRESS IMPRINT
Release Date: 2007-10-23
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"FROM THE AUTHOR OF THE MONUMENTAL BESTSELLER, THE SEAT OF THE SOULIn Soul to Soul Gary Zukav addresses some of the most fundamental questions about the human experience -- from "Why is life so difficult?" to "How can I learn to trust?" -- with profound answers that are of truly universal value.Soul to Soul provides penetrating insights that illuminate our lives and encourage us to examine our own experiences in new and perhaps life-changing ways. Combining true spirituality with profound psychological insight, Zukav also answers nearly one hundred of the most important questions about life that anyone could ask, including: * Do we have a destiny? * Can you prove that life exists after death? * What is the meaning of dreams? * How can I love without fear? * What is the role of soul in my life? * How does a person know what he was put on earth to do? * How can I forgive someone who betrays me again and again? * How can I really change? * Does the Universe care about us? Soul to Soul is profoundly simple, wise, and poetic, a listening experience to return to again and again for guidance and inspiration."
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Summary: Another Great Book by Gary Zukav
Comment: Very well written and easy to read. Part One: Soul Subjects provides very fresh and new perspectives to look at every day life and to find meaning in even the most routine and taken-for-granted things in life. Part Two: Soul Questions provides direct, wise and spiritual solutions to our everyday challenges. The short passages cover a wide range of spiritual growth subjects and are easy to return to for guidance.
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Summary: A Comforting Message with Beautiful Insights
Comment: I remember the first time I heard of Gary Zukav. He was on Oprah. For me this was a life changing experience because it started me reviewing. Since then I have read most of Gary Zukav's books, so I was delighted when I found this one. His books have a comforting and compassionate message that is relevant to our daily lives. In this book he deals with issues like forgiveness and how we shouldn't judge other people (discernment is preferable). These are the same lessons Jesus tried to teach the world thousands of years ago. We are still trying to incorporate these lessons into our lives today in order to be more spiritual creatures.
When Jesus taught us to love our enemies did he mean that we can't protect ourselves when we are attacked? In the bible there are many stories of how Israel went to war with various enemies. Gary Zukav sees retaliation as the wrong response so you may or may not agree with his ideas about 9/11. In an ideal world where everyone was spiritually advanced there would never be war and everyone would share their resources. This hasn't happened yet so the ideas in this book are a little ahead of their time.
In "Soul to Soul" Gary Zukav deals with many questions that need to be answered. His main belief still seems to be that we are all at "earth school" in order to learn lessons for soul growth. Some of the questions he answers include:
What is the difference between a personality and a soul?
What is the difference between habit and addiction?
Can visualization and affirmation change Karma?
How does a person know what he was put on earth to do?
What is the difference between a healthy boundary and emotional withdrawal?
Can I remain a Christian and create authentic power?
I liked his ideas about how we can't always become fearless but we can decide how to respond to fear. Most of the thoughts in this book will make you think about life on a deeper level. One of the things he talks about a lot is nonphysical teachers which sound like angels to me. When he discusses the Universe this could also be taken as God or a Divine Presence.
While I agreed with most of the book, two sentences caused me some concern. One was about how it is not possible to do the wrong thing while on earth. Everyone makes mistakes so it is very possible to do the wrong thing. I also don't believe that when you fight evil you join it. Are you not fighting on the side of good? I also wondered if Gary had ever read about near-death experiences because he doesn't mention them when discussing life after death and how humans return to a nonphysical reality. Apparently we will still have bodies after death, at least this is what I've read in regards to near-death experiences. When you go to heaven your relatives are there to greet you so how could they have been reincarnated? Gary also believes in reincarnation so I'm not sure how you go to a nonphysical reality and are also reincarnated at the same time. Perhaps he believes you go to one and then the other. This was a little confusing.
For the most part, I think Gary Zukav is striving for an ideal world in which we all have control over our emotions and everyone is loving and forgiving. "Soul to Soul" presents many pathways for those who want to be spiritually mature. If you are struggling with negative emotions or addictions then this book has much to offer. The main message is that we are souls having a human experience in which we change ourselves (fight negativity and regain control of our emotions) in order to become more spiritual.
~The Rebecca Review
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Summary: What research shows about New Agers....true?-
Comment: Recent research (Aird, University of Queensland) found that those who practiced New Age spirituality had 50% "higher rates of anxiety, depression, and anti-social behavior" than those who believe in traditional religion, such as Christianity.
I was curious enough to read this book.
Many things disturbed me. His beliefs about evil especially so. If you notice something evil, say, the mass murder of 6 million Jews by the Nazis, and "if you are repulsed and frightened, you are judging what you encounter" (p 157). Zukav insists you are "joining" evil if you judge it. Worse, "if you react self-righteiously to evil, look inside for the very thing that so agitates you, and you will find it" (p 157).
Nonsense. If I am repulsed and frightened by mass murder I am not joining it. Nor is the evil somehow inside me because I react this way.
He claims that "Judgment has an emotional charge to it. It makes one person a victim and another a villain" (p 192). Why, of course, how stupid of humanity to think that the murdered Jews were victims and the Nazis villains.
His winter and summer solstices reminded me forcibly of Druidism, whose reliance on human sacrifice so horrified the ancient Romans that they banned the religion.
The author talks about an "Earth School" (p 91) as if there was evidence of such a thing. And reincarnation. And destiny. He borrows from dozens of belief systems, all of which contradict one another, and ends up with a mushy mess that relies on good feelings to solve all problems.
Aird studied 3700 young people and concluded that New Age and self focused religions may undermine a person's mental health. But of course she was just being judgmental.
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Summary: This is a keeper
Comment: Gary gets better and better. If you're trying to establish a way to start the day on a positive note, but you're not a morning person, this is it. Every passage is only 1-1/2 to 2 pages long, incredibly profound but also understandable if you're not at your peak understanding in the mornings. Page 196 that addresses the question "How do I avoid being drawn into the chaos of others?" is worth the price of the book. Thank you, Gary, and keep up the good work!
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Summary: Meat for the Soul
Comment: I have read all of Gary Zukav's books and I find Soul to Soul to be his best. It follows Seat of the Soul with nourishing meat for the Soul that is easy to understand and fills you with what is needed for your Spiritural Growth. What a journey.
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