Gary Zukav - Thoughts From the Seat of the Soul: Meditations for Souls in Process

I hope that this book will be helpful to you as you move through the difficulties of your life as well as your joys. It is a special gift of love and appreciation. It has been designed to honor the pace of your growth. Its pages are not tied to the tyranny of a calendar. It is easy to read yet takes little space on your desk. Start at the beginning, or open to a place that draws you. Like Life, it is there for you with layers upon layers of depth and richness. How much you see depends only upon how much you allow yourself to open in the moment to the depth and richness of your own life.

This book is independent of The Seat of the Soul . If you have read The Seat of the Soul , you may enjoy having some thoughts from it available to you in this convenient format. If thoughts that you encounter here are useful to you, you can explore them in detail in The Seat of the Soul .

In Love and Friendship,
Gary Zukav

A re you comfortable with the thought that the Universe is alien and dead and no more than your five senses can detect? How does your heart respond to the thought that the Universe is alive and compassionate and that with it and with other souls of great power and Light you learn through the process of cocreating the reality that you experience?

W e were taught that the organism that is best able to control both its environment and all of the other organisms in its environment is the most evolved. Survival of the fittest. But our deeper understanding tells us that a truly evolved being is one that values others more than it values itself, and that values love more than it values the physical world and what is in it.

W hile you are here you participate in the creation of both personal reality and impersonal reality. Just as you can participate in the creation of a building that will remain long after you are gone, you participate in the evolution of group energy dynamics that will remain after you are gone.

F rom the perception of the five-sensory human, we are alone in a universe that is physical. From the perception of the multisensory human, we are never alone, and the Universe is alive, conscious, intelligent and compassionate.

E very physical form, as well as every nonphysical form, is Light that has been shaped by consciousness. No form exists apart from consciousness.

Y ou create your reality with your intentions.

W hen we align our thoughts, emotions, and actions with the highest part of ourselves, we are filled with enthusiasm, purpose, and meaning. Life is rich and full. We have no thoughts of bitterness. We have no memory of fear. We are joyously and intimately engaged with our world. This is the experience of authentic power.

Y ou are a dynamic being of Light that at each moment informs the energy that flows through you. You do this with each thought, with each intention.

A thought is energy, or Light, that has been shaped by consciousness.

F rom the perception of the five-sensory human, the physical world is an unaccountably given in which we unaccountable find ourselves, and we strive to dominate it so that we can survive. From the perception of the multisensory human, the physical world is a learning environment that is created jointly by the souls that share it, and everything that occurs within it serves their learning.

R everence is an attitude of honoring Life. You do not have to be authentically empowered to be gentle with Life or to love Life.

A t each moment you choose the intentions that will shape your experiences and those things upon which you will focus your attention. If you choose unconsciously, you evolve unconsciously. If you choose consciously, you evolve consciously.

C hoice is the engine of our evolution.

T he journey to authentic power requires that you become conscious of all that you feel.

Y our soul is not a passive or a theoretical entity that occupies a space in the vicinity of your chest cavity. It is a positive, purposeful force at the core of your being. It is that part of you that understands the impersonal nature of the energy dynamics in which you are involved, that loves without restriction and accepts without judgment.

T he personality is those parts of the soul that require healing, along with those parts of the soul, such as compassion and love, that the soul has lent to the process of healing in that lifetime.

W e have formed our present understanding of evolution as a process of ever-increasing ability to dominate the environment and each other. This definition reflects the competition for external power that is generated by fear. Our deeper understanding leads us to a power that loves life in every form that it appears, a power that does not judge what it encounters, a power that perceives meaningfulness and purpose in the smallest details upon the Earth. This is authentic power.

T he true human condition in its most perfect form has no secrets. It does not hide, but exists in clear love.

B eing harmless means being so strong, so empowered, that the idea of showing power through harm is not even a part of your consciousness.

T he club that kills can drive a stake into the ground to hold a shelter. The hands that build bombs can be used to build schools. The minds that coordinate the activities of violence can coordinate the activities of cooperation. When the activities of life are infused with reverence, they come alive with meaning and purpose.

T ry to realize, and truly realize, that what stands between you and a different life are matters of responsible choice.

T houghts of vengeance, violence, and greed create emotions such as anger, hatred, jealousy, and fear and lower the frequency of your Light, or consciousness. Creative or loving thoughts invoke high-frequency emotions, such as appreciation, forgiveness and joy, and raise the frequency of your system.

E ventually, you will come to understand that love heals everything, and love is all there is.

W e have come to view feelings as unnecessary appendages, like tonsils--useless, but capable of creating pain and dysfunction; but when we close the door to our feelings, we close the door to the vital currents that energize and activate our thoughts and actions.