This was very informative! I really liked his discussion on karma, the higher self and the soul, animal spirits and the evolution of animal souls into human souls. Very interesting! I have learned to be very intentional and aware of my intentions behind every emotion and action. A helpful read.

Me costó demasiado terminar este libro. Tiene información interesante, pero sólo un par de cosas me resonaron.

Finally got around to reading this after Oprah has mentioned it for 25 years. Lots of great ideas and lessons in this book. Some of the teachings went a little beyond and written with a definitiveness that raised my eye brows personally but overall motivating and comforting.

One of my favorite books of all time. Life-changing.

I don’t know how I survived this book - it’s completely not my taste in books and I hated myself throughout the book.

1.5 stars. (FYI...I RARELY rate below a 2.5.) In all honesty, this should have been a DNF, but I just couldn't let it beat me.

Analogy time. In undergrad, I did a psychology independent study in which I simply had to do research on a chosen topic and write a term paper. Per usual student actions, I procrastinated the CRAP out of that project. Sure...I gathered some research here and there and had random articles scattered about my dorm room, but the writing of this paper 100% took place in the last 4 days before it was due. My method for construction was primarily to grab quotes I found interesting and "meaningful" and then wrap my narrative around them. It really read like a giant rambling sentence weaving around a few things that made sense.

This is how reading this book felt. It was 100% not for me. It was too much grasping for an assumed truth and a whole lot of rambling. Like my term paper, it had a few moments of clarity and things that I thought were actually good takeaways, but then I was plummeted back into the abyss. Sure, it got published...but hey...I also got an A+ on my paper. Sometimes weird things happen.

To enjoy this book I think you have to be WAY more open-minded than me and take the author's assumptions about the soul as fact. I couldn't do that. I guess I'm not enough of a multisensory person and I'm stuck in my five-senses analytical scientific way of looking at things, but there was just too much reaching. I'm all for being spiritual and having a feeling of there being something greater, but there was a lot of assumption thrown in here that came completely out of left field. Also...the fact that he states that all humans have their own soul, but that animals are only parts of collective souls really pissed me off. Sorry. My dog isn't a freaking genius, but if there are souls, then he certainly has his own. He's not just some tidbit of the greater "dog" consciousness. Nope. I can't jive with that theory.

Thank goodness this one was borrowed from the library.

Interesting. There are some dated thoughts but overall lots of useful takeaways for improving thought processes and seeing the world in a more positive light.

This book is awful.
while I am a fan of spiritual self-help works, and of Zukav's good book on physics 'Dancing Wu Li Masters' - it is surprising to me that this got published.
I muscled through due to Oprah and Maya's recommendations.

It wasn't that Mr. Zukav needed to 'define' works like Evolution, Reverence, Intention, Light, and numerous other perfectly serviceable English words. Because Zukav doesn't seem to have the vocabulary to communicate his ideas, he made a hash of the language.

It wasn't the fact that the entire book is chuck full of hot molten hooey.

Nope. It was howlers like this....
"Just as visible light is one portion, like an octave in a continuum of energy of graduated frequencies that extends below and above what the eye can see, the continuum of nonphysical Like extends below and above, so to speak, the frequency range in which the human exists."

and
"in order to develop and nurtuer your mind and your body,m it is necessary to r4ealize that you have a mind and a body."

Ugh.

One saving grace: Chapter 2 - Karma - is a decent explication of this great Hindu concept.

A book that gives so much to think about.