Gary Zukav
| Gary Zukav | |
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Zukav in 2009
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| Born |
October 17, 1942 Port Arthur, Texas |
| Occupation | Writer, public speaker |
| Nationality | American |
| Alma mater |
Harvard University Sonoma State College |
| Subject | Spirituality, Self-Help, Empowerment, New-age |
| Notable works |
The Dancing Wu Li Masters (1979) The Seat of the Soul (1989) |
| Partner | Linda Francis (1993–present) |
| Website | |
| seatofthesoul |
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Gary Zukav (born October 17, 1942) is an American spiritual teacher and the author of four consecutive New York Times Best Sellers. Beginning in 1998, he appeared more than 30 times on The Oprah Winfrey Show to discuss transformation in human consciousness concepts presented in his book The Seat of the Soul. His first book, The Dancing Wu Li Masters (1979), won a U.S. National Book Award.
Gary Zukav was born in Port Arthur, Texas, and spent his early childhood in San Antonio and Houston. His family moved to Pittsburg, Kansas, while he was in fourth grade. In 1960 he graduated from Pittsburg High School as valedictorian. During that time he became an Eagle Scout, Governor of Kansas Boy's State, President of the Student Council, and Kansas State Debate championship team member twice. His father, Morris Louis Zukav, owned a jewelry store and his mother, Lorene Zukav, was a housewife who raised him and his younger sister.
In 1959, he received a scholarship to Harvard and matriculated in 1960. In his junior year he left Harvard to motorcycle in Europe, North Africa, and the Middle East before returning the following year. In 1964, he was deeply moved by the murders of James Chaney, Andrew Goodman, and Michael Schwerner in Philadelphia, Mississippi, and worked as a summer volunteer for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) in Jackson, Mississippi, under the direction of Charles Evers, brother of the slain Medgar Evers. In 1965 he graduated from Harvard and enlisted in the U.S. Army. That same year he entered U.S. Army Infantry Officer Candidate School and was commissioned as 2nd Lieutenant in 1966. He volunteered for the U.S. Army Special Forces (Green Berets), completed Parachute Training (Fort Benning, Georgia); U.S. Army Special Warfare School (Fort Bragg, North Carolina), and served as an A Detachment Executive Officer in Okinawa and Vietnam, participating in Top Secret operations in Vietnam and Laos. He left Vietnam after the Tet Offensive of January 1968 and was discharged from the U.S. Army in 1968 as 1st Lieutenant.
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