Encourage readers to reflect on how the book relates to their own life or work and how its lessons could help them.

1. What prompted you to read this work? Did you hope to learn anything in particular?

2. Which of Zukav’s lessons is most relevant to your life? Why?

3. Which of the author’s concepts felt familiar to you, and which ones were new to you? Did you find yourself interested or resistant to these ideas?

4. Zukav claims that giving love and embodying qualities like forgiveness, humility, and compassion will attract good things and people into one’s life. Do you believe in the “law of attraction”? Why or why not?

Prompt readers to explore how the book fits into today’s professional or social landscape.

1. The Seat of the Soul became a bestseller and helped bring New Age spirituality into the American mainstream. How have works such as these changed American culture? 

2. Compare and contrast this work to other books on spirituality that you’ve read. This may include religious works or other New Age spirituality books (such as Eckhart Tolle’s A New Earth or The Power of Now).

3. The Seat of the Soul borrows many concepts from Buddhism, with Christian elements added in (Jesus is mentioned as a role model numerous times). How does Zukav’s repackaging of certain religious teachings reflect changes in contemporary cultures’ attitude toward organized religion?