Gary Zukav is author of The Dancing Wu-Li Masters, which won the American Book Award for Science in 1979, as well as the national bestseller, The Seat of the Soul. Here he states that we have crossed a major threshold in which we are learning to seek the spiritual empowerment of the soul rather than the superficial rewards [...]

The path to understanding the soul is through the heart, not the mind. Gary Zukav maintains that the process of spiritual growth is one of aligning the personality with the soul. He also suggests that an understanding of the soul necessitates a nonjudgmental reverence for all of life.