The Seat of the Soul: 25th Anniversary Edition with a Study Guide

by Gary Zukav

“When the personality comes fully to serve the energy of its soul, that is authentic empowerment.”

On Gary Zukav’s first appearance on my show, in 1998, we discussed the nature of the soul.

There are so many ways to wisdom and to the heart.

Let us make this the human experience.

It is a school within which, through experimentation, we come to understand what causes us to expand and what causes us to contract, what causes us to grow and what causes us to shrivel, what nourishes our souls and what depletes them, what works and what does not.

Badge, boots, rank, radio, uniform, weapons, and armor are symbols of fear. Those who wear them are fearful. They fear to engage the world without defenses.

What we fear is an increase in our vulnerability.

valuable than the worshiper. We fear to transgress our parents, our bosses, and our God. All perceptions of lesser and greater personal value result from the perception of power as external.

Authentic power has its roots in the deepest source of our being.

An authentically empowered person is incapable of making anyone or anything a victim.

The personality can also be loving, compassionate, and wise in its relations with others, but love, compassion, and wisdom do not come from the personality. They are experiences of the soul.

If you desire to know your soul, the first step is to recognize that you have a soul. The next step is to allow yourself to consider, “If I have a soul, what is my soul? What does my soul want? What is the relationship between my soul and me? How does my soul affect my life?”