Good books provide a quality of art, meaning, and significance that has universal application and appeal. Good books transcend time and endure. Good books lift the spirit and have the power to change lives.
Good books are always important.
Important books don't have to be good. The latter is certainly the case with Gary Zukav's, The Seat of the Soul . While not very good, it is a critically important book for all leaders of The United Methodist Church to read and reflect upon. This international bestseller is being embraced as a guidebook by hundreds of thousands of spiritual seekers at the end of the twentieth century. Grasping bits from Christianity, Judaism, Buddhism, Hinduism, the new physics, Jung, behaviorists, and New Age thinkers, Zukav manufactures a pastiche spirituality du jour that allows people to be comfortable believing just about anything.