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Wednesday November 18, 2009

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The Happiness Formula


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Wednesday November 11, 2009

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Subtle Action: A Powerful Tool for Energy Change

Subtle action is the most powerful tool we have to change our energy. Deepak Chopra explains how we can change the energy in our daily lives by viewing our bodies as a flowing process guided by energy.
Recently I've been discussing how to change your energy. Many problems--physical and mental--seem to come down to a person's beliefs, habits, lifestyle, moods and emotions.
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Monday November 9, 2009

Categories: Consciousness

Are we the masters of time? (part 2)

The mind gives us mastery over our lives far more than people recognize. It's become unrespectable to make such claims for the mind, because the fashion is to give all credit to the brain. In the first part of this post we argued that the mind, although invisible, is the true creator of reality, including the brain's reality.

Let's see how far this bold statement can take us.

There's no doubt that you possess hidden powers. You have mastered levels of nature you aren't aware of. When you reach for a piece of chocolate, your desire is carried out by your arm automatically. Yet away from your awareness, the motor cortex in your brain sent electro-chemical signals to your arm muscles. You aren't aware of this level of nature, but it obeys you nonetheless.

Going to an inner level, brain and muscle cannot do anything without thousands of chemical reactions taking place in every cell each second. These also obey your command to reach for a piece of chocolate. Since cells operate by creating new proteins and enzymes, we can say that you literally create whatever is needed to carry out your desires. There is no gap between what you want and what your body does. (When there is a gap, some disorder or disease process has created damage in the chain of command.) The quantum world, where atoms interact to form the building blocks of life, is open to consciousness.

Once we get to this ultra-subtle level of nature, more is coming into being than just particles and waves, although that is primarily what quantum physics studies. Time and space also come into being. Are they under the mind's command, also? We speak casually about people who rewrite the past to suit themselves. What if that is literally true?

In the laboratory, isolated experiments have shown that photons can travel from point A to point B without crossing the space in between: this is a rudimentary form of teleportation. In the same vein, when an observer performs the classic experiment that determines whether light will act as a wave or a particle (we discussed this in Part 1 of this post), the so-called observer effect can be delayed. A beam of light can wait until a second observer, using a second piece of equipment, makes a later observation. Then and only then does it "decide" to be a wave or particle.

Without going into complications, what is happening is a rudimentary way of changing the past. By delaying what will be observed, an action in the future is able to change an action in the past. History is literally rewritten. Of course, in both these cases, whether we are talking about teleportation or changing the past, the experiments are isolated and very tiny. Yet speculative thinking carries us to exciting possibilities.

In science fiction time travel is common, but in real life it supposedly can't exist. Why not? Because time travel runs into paradoxes. Here's a familiar one: if you travel back in time and kill your grandfather, you wouldn't be born. Since you were never born, you can't travel back in time to kill anybody, thereby negating your ability to not be born. A paradox. But in the rich spiritual tradition of India, there's a way out. One could rise to a level of consciousness that escapes the limitations of time. This so-called state of enlightenment exists in everyone, potentially. If any person is able to master time, by implication there must be a way to explain how it works.

The observer effect gives us a clue. Simply by looking at light in the laboratory, and doing nothing else, an observer can determine whether the light is a wave or particle. There's nothing special about light being shone in a lab. Ordinary light is affected by the observer effect. In fact, everything you are looking at right now depends upon you to exist.

This includes not just objects and events but time itself. Time didn't create you; you created time. Other sentient beings would perceive time in totally different ways. Why, then, do two people agree when they look at their watches? Because as life forms, we are set up to repeat the perceptions of our ancestors. Our brains are the depository of all the realities that have been experienced over two billion years. DNA makes us who we are, in terms of brain activity. However, our every action alters DNA at the same time.

In this case, we cannot tell the dancer from the dance, to paraphrase the poet W.B. Yeats. His famous line even implies the observer effect: "O brightening glance, how can we know the dancer from the dance?" Sitting here in the present, you and I aren't aware of being the masters of time, but if we knew our consciousness deeply enough, we would see it. After all, before the advent of microscopes, no one would have believe that thinking "I want some chocolate" depends upon mastery of quantum reactions.

The latest Nobel Prize in physics was given for the basic discovery of how photons can carry information through fiber optic cables. That represents the state of current knowledge. The late Herms Romijn, a brilliant Dutch neurologist, surmised that photons also carry consciousness. They interface everyday reality with the quantum world and beyond to the realm of intelligence, information, and awareness.

You aren't aware that you create the scent of a rose by smelling it, or that what you decide today can alter something you did yesterday. None of us were raised to think that way. But as speculative thinkers, backed up by thousands of years of spiritual insight and the most current experimental evidence, we believe that thinking can be changed. It must. As long as we remain prisoners of materialism, destined to obey random events and subatomic interactions over which we have no power, the true nature of mind will be distorted. More importantly, we will postpone the day when we can master every level of nature through no more than the wisp of a thought and the power of an intention.

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Monday November 2, 2009

Are we the masters of time?

We live in an age where massive amounts of money are spent for research into the brain and almost nothing into researching the mind. This represents a huge demotion. In prior centuries the mind was exalted. It was the mind that perceived beauty, experienced love, and reached for God. Can the brain really do all those things on its own? Neuroscience says yes, but that's a leap of faith. Why would a neuron have any interest in beauty, love, and God to begin with? Its whole life is spent exchanging chemical and electrical signals with other neurons. On the fringes of speculative thinking, the mind is coming back into its own.

Instead of trying to rehabilitate the mind, we think it's more fruitful, and far bolder, to put the mind at the very center of reality. Nothing exists except in your own awareness. If you can't see, hear, touch, taste, and smell a thing, if you can't even think about it, the thing cannot exist. Yet even without a world of things, consciousness does exist, and it has enormous untapped potential. That was proven decades ago when physicists discovered the observer effect. Technically, the observer effect applies to light. Light can act like a wave or a particle, but not both at the same time. It defies ordinary logic, but Einstein and his colleagues discovered that light "decides" whether to act like a wave or particle depending on the observer.

Until it is observed, light exists in suspended animation, so to speak. It doesn't take the form of particle or wave until an observer tries to measure it. After that, there's no turning back. Whatever the observer sees is reality. This implies that observation is a creative act, and quantum physics has lived with that fact for two generations or more. Only for ordinary people, the observer effect hasn't had much to do with their lives.

Or has it?

Children who are raised under a disapproving eye, who are made to feel bad, worthless, and unlovable, are very likely to grow up to feel that way permanently. Isn't a judgmental parent a kind of observer, creating the very flaws he sees? On the other hand, children raised under a loving eye have a far greater chance of loving themselves and developing the good qualities seen in them. You can come up with many examples of how the observer effect might influence daily life.

But what if we are missing the forest for the trees? What if consciousness is creating much more than we suppose. It could be creating something as basic as time and space. At the quantum level, Nature isn't bound by either one. Not only is time relative, but certain phenomena travel faster than the speed of light, needing no time at all to cover billions of light years in distances. That, too, is well known in modern physics. But few thinkers have applied the same effect to the mind.

Here things get tricky. Let's say you are an observer. You watch an event unfold such as the action of light deciding whether to be a wave or a particle. Since your brain is composed of quantum interactions, it isn't a stable observer. Waves are watching waves, particles are observing particles. Which implies that your brain only "decides" to be a brain at the moment you perceive anything. This quirky notion drops us immediately into the quantum soup, where nothing is stable at all.

To get out of the soup, we need to know why time and space look so stable. I don't expect the room I'm sitting in to collapse a minute from now, and I don't expect my car to shoot off at the speed of light, even though photons and subatomic particles are the basis for my car and my room. The reason we have a stable sense of time and space isn't because they are "real," in the sense that time and space don't need an observer. They absolutely do, for without a mind, nothing exists but randomness and chaos at every level.

The mystery of how time and space become real is tied to the mystery of mind. Some cosmologists, looking at the evolution of the universe, can't tolerate randomness. They don't believe that the explosion of the Big Bang could create the complexity of DNA, any more than a hurricane blowing through a junkyard could create a 747 jetliner. It has been proposed that the visible universe is matched to our own minds. The events we observe that lead to our existence here on planet Earth are precisely the events that can be observed by the human mind. One can imagine life forms on other planets that see an entirely different universe, the one that led to their existence.

Calling an idea tricky doesn't make it absurd. This so-called "anthropic principle" rests upon an irrefutable basis: Nobody can observe anything that the mind isn't set up for. Silicone crystals may be vibrating in a language that sings and makes up poetry, but we have no means of eavesdropping since our minds can't conceive of minerals leading complex social and artistic lives. Now let's go a step further.

Instead of hogging the limelight by saying that the mind must be human, what if we posit that life is in charge of the universe? This was certainly true before the rise of science. The creation emanated from a living God, and since God was everywhere, life was everywhere. Science traditionally considered this a matter of faith rather than reason. They could point to atoms and molecules, amino acids and enzymes, proteins and primitive life forms, all the way from blue-green algae to human DNA. Isn't it obvious, they say, that life developed from non-life over billions of years?

Actually, no, The tracks of evolution are just that, footprints to show that something or someone has passed here. A radio playing Mozart is just such a footprint. It proves that Mozart once lived, but you can't tear apart the radio and find Mozart inside. You and I are the children of evolution, but only part of our evolution is visible; the rest, the most mysterious part, is invisible. Therein lies the answer to how we became masters of space and time.

(To be continued)

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Thursday October 29, 2009

Categories: Consciousness

Setting Your Body Free: An Information Revolution

Why does bad news make us sad? Why does getting a raise make us want to celebrate? Not many people have thought about these questions. They seem too simple, yet in a way they are deeply mysterious. In fact, the right answer can set your body free, while the wrong answer can prove to be an inescapable trap.

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Monday October 26, 2009

Can you change the past?

by Robert Lanza and Deepak Chopra Can decisions we make now change the past? Modern physics tells us that particles possess a range of possible states, and that it's not until the actual act of observation that they take on...

Wednesday October 21, 2009

Categories: Consciousness

The best aging secret: Make time your friend

We've all been conditioned to look upon time as our enemy. This belief is wrong, but it's so deeply ingrained that if affects even the most gifted people. Years ago, I was riding in a car with a woman who...

Monday October 19, 2009

Categories: Consciousness

The illusion of past, present, future

by Robert Lanza and Deepak Chopra The universe evolves backward in time, not the other way around as we were taught in school. "The histories of the universe," concedes Stephen Hawking, the famed physicist "depend on what is being measured,...

Friday October 16, 2009

Categories: Consciousness

Interview: Reinventing the Body

Tuesday October 13, 2009

Categories: Consciousness

How the Brain Got Liberated

They mystery of the human brain recently took a step closer to being solved. This didn't happen through a single breakthrough or because of an Einstein moment. Instead, an old belief was overturned by many separate researches. The old belief...

Monday October 12, 2009

Categories: Consciousness

What we don't know is thrilling

Last week was a big one for the human family tree -- it grew by a million years. With considerable splash the media announced that our oldest ancestor was Ardi, short for Ardipithecus ramidus, an upright walking hominid who lived...

Monday October 5, 2009

Categories: Consciousness

Evolution reigns, but Darwin outmoded

by Robert Lanza and Deepak Chopra This year, the world celebrated Charles Darwin's 200th birthday. But now that all the backslapping is nearing an end, it may be time to reflect on where things really stand. When Darwin finished writing...

Tuesday September 22, 2009

Categories: Consciousness

Attraction and the laws of love

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Monday September 21, 2009

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Science and the Superstition of Materialism

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Sunday September 20, 2009

Categories: Consciousness

Our thoughts are not created by our brain

Thursday September 17, 2009

Categories: Consciousness, Health

The body as an energy and information field

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Tuesday September 15, 2009

Categories: Consciousness

The mind of God: Quantum entanglement

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Monday September 7, 2009

Categories: Consciousness

The joy of giving

Giving, taking, earning, stealing, squandering, hoarding. These are all human impulses, and we wouldn't be human without them. Yet on this list only one item — giving — appears in the world's wisdom traditions. Why is giving set apart? After...

Monday August 31, 2009

Categories: Consciousness

Reinventing the body: Changing the metabolism of time

Friday June 26, 2009

Categories: Consciousness

A Tribute to My Friend, Michael Jackson

Michael Jackson will be remembered, most likely, as a shattered icon, a pop genius who wound up a mutant of fame. That's not who I will remember, however. His mixture of mystery, isolation, indulgence, overwhelming global fame, and personal loneliness...

Thursday June 25, 2009

Reconnecting to the source

A lot of people struggle with turbulent emotions and addictive behavior. They spend years in psychotherapy and at times they are able to overcome addictive habits through will power, only to have a recurrence and go back to old ways....

Tuesday May 5, 2009

Categories: Consciousness

Giving a Gift? Increase Its Impact by Choosing Green (By Tommy Rosen)

Consider the amazing time in which we live. We just happen to be alive on this planet at the moment when the sum total of mankind's mistreatment of The Earth, along with other factors less in our control, have...

Friday May 1, 2009

Categories: Consciousness

The law of attraction and sankalpa

Sankalpa is the subtlest level of intention at the cusp of choiceless awareness and thought. It is like the seed structure of intelligence around which time, space, and matter consolidate into a manifested event. The fundamental mechanics of intention manifesting...

Wednesday April 22, 2009

Categories: Consciousness

Winning Freedom from Religion

How would you respond to radical Muslim clerics in northwest Pakistan -- now under Islamic law -- who are calling for expansion of Islamic law across the entire federal republic of Pakistan? Should any nation be governed by religious...

Wednesday April 22, 2009

Categories: Consciousness

Earth Day Message

I'm calling all my friends on Earth Day to just remind them that the earth is recycling in our bodies. Through our rivers and waters are our circulation, its atmosphere is our breath, its trees are our lungs. We call...

Monday April 13, 2009

Categories: Consciousness

The Palm Lines and Their Meanings: Locate and Interpret the Life Line

by Margaret Ruth from Intent.com The key points to remember when looking at the lines on the palm are that lines shift and change and that the quality of a line is one of the most important indicators of a...

Monday April 13, 2009

Categories: Consciousness

Insights on Healing: A Deeper understanding of Unity Consciousness

Your body is not a structure, it is a process. Your body, the ecosystem, and the universe are all one process. When we look deeply within any structure it becomes obvious that structures are perceptual artifacts. Even a rock...

Monday April 6, 2009

Categories: Consciousness

Consciousness

Monday April 6, 2009

Categories: Consciousness

The aftermath of Satan

The future appears to be global, and if we want to thrive there, the concept of "pure evil" has to be discarded. As fuel for hostility, nothing is more combustible. After 9/11, angry mobs massing in Baghdad against the U.S....

Thursday April 2, 2009

Categories: Consciousness

The Creative Process

Tuesday March 31, 2009

Categories: Consciousness, Politics

Dalai Lama Banned from Attending South Africa Peace Conference (Mallika Chopra)

According to news reports that came in last week, the Dalai Lama was denied a visa from the South Africa government to attend a peace conference in Johannesburg that would have been attended by five other Nobel Peace prize winners....

Friday March 27, 2009

Categories: Consciousness

Spending $100 billion

Wednesday March 25, 2009

Seven Steps to Releasing Emotional Turbulence

Emotional turbulence interferes with emotional well being and initiative. Fear, anger, guilt and anxiety are deviations from natural condition of balance and stand in the way of spiritual evolution. Restoring balance can be evolutionary in itself. Patients suffering from life...

Thursday March 19, 2009

Categories: Consciousness, Vlog

How can we make the world a better place?

Friday March 6, 2009

Categories: Consciousness

Quantum physics and consciousness

Friday March 6, 2009

Categories: Consciousness

Dharma

Dharma is a Sanskrit word with no direct literal translation into English. Etymologically it means that which sustains, upholds and supports. It should be understood as the most evolutionary impulse in Nature as she expresses herself in her infinite creativity...

Wednesday March 4, 2009

Categories: Consciousness

If You Escaped the Meltdown, What Should You Do?

Published in the Washington Post in response to their question: In tough times, do those of us who handled our finances responsibly have a moral obligation to bail out those of us who didn't? Are we our brother's keeper...

Saturday February 21, 2009

Categories: Consciousness

Karma

The Bhagavad Gita says "the course of karma is unfathomable." And so it is. In Sanskrit the word karma means action. Sanskrit provides a precise vocabulary for this abstract field that can help us navigate through it with more assurance....

Monday February 9, 2009

Categories: Consciousness

How to change diabolical science

Last column I painted a grim picture of science's dark side. A trend toward diabolical creativity began with the atom bomb in 1945 and has only accelerated since then. But it's not just weapons of mechanized death that cause the...

Wednesday January 28, 2009

Categories: Consciousness

Tools of Personal Transformation -Higher States of Consciousness

Since consciousness is the basis of all reality, any shift in consciousness changes every aspect of our reality. Reality is created by consciousness differentiating into cognition, moods, emotions, perceptions, behaviour, speech, social interactions, environment, interaction with the forces of nature,...

Sunday January 18, 2009

Categories: Consciousness

Obama And the Rise of Secular Spirituality

By Deepak Chopra and Dave Stewart It's rare enough for an incoming President to inspire such a flood of hope and optimism, or so much relief that our long imprisonment in the political doldrums should be ending. But Barack Obama...

Tuesday December 30, 2008

Categories: Consciousness

Tools of Personal Transformation - Forgiveness

From an early age we are told forgiveness is an important virtue we should practice, but we are only told to forgive, we are not shown how to forgive and mean it. In the Lord's Prayer we ask God to...

Friday November 14, 2008

The Mystery of the Compassionate Brain

An article in the Washington Post On Faith section in response to their question: Religion scholar Karen Armstrong is asking the world to write a Charter for Compassion, based on her premise that compassion is central to all religions. Do...

Friday November 7, 2008

Categories: Consciousness

The Vow

Dear Friends, On November 7, 2008, at 9:45am , I, Deepak Chopra, took a vow of non-violence in my thoughts, in my speech and in my actions. I, then, also had an opportunity to ask the almost 500 people attending...

Friday November 7, 2008

Categories: Consciousness

Marilyn Ferguson: An Appreciation

Reagan was on the rise, the anti-war movement had sunk to a low ebb, and the New Age was barely christened when The Aquarian Conspiracy appeared in 1980. Overnight Marilyn Ferguson's book became famous and sold in the millions. I...

Monday October 6, 2008

Categories: Consciousness, Politics

Saving the U.S. Economy Through "Trickle Up" Economics

Dear Friends, I would like to share with you the 14 Point Program that my good friend, Rinaldo Brutoco founder and president of World Business Academy, created the day after Paulson proposed his bailout plan and we discussed on my...

Saturday September 27, 2008

Categories: Consciousness

Becoming a Unit of Peace Consciousness (Part 7)

Continuing the daily themes for peacemakers, today's peace practice is: Sharing for Peace Today, share your practice of peacemaking with two people. Give them this information and invite them to begin the daily practice. As more of us participate in...

Friday September 26, 2008

Categories: Consciousness

Becoming a Unit of Peace Consciousness (Part 6)

Continuing the daily themes for peacemakers, today's peace practice is: Creating for Peace Today, come up with at least one creative idea to resolve a conflict, either in your personal life or your family circle or among friends. If you...

Thursday September 25, 2008

Categories: Consciousness

Becoming a Unit of Peace Consciousness (Part 5)

Continuing the daily themes for peacemakers, today's peace practice is: Acting for Peace Today is the day to help someone in need: A child, a sick person, an older or frail person. Help can take many forms. Tell yourself, "...

Wednesday September 24, 2008

Categories: Consciousness, Politics

Becoming a Unit of Peace Consciousness (Part 4)

Continuing the daily themes for peacemakers, today's peace practice is: Speaking for Peace Today, the purpose of speaking is to create happiness in the listener. Have this intention: Today every word I utter will be chosen consciously. I will refrain...

Tuesday September 23, 2008

Categories: Consciousness

Becoming a Unit of Peace Consciousness (Part 3)

Continuing the week-long practices for peace, today's theme for peacemakers is: Feeling for Peace This is the day to experience the emotions of peace. The emotions of peace are compassion, understanding, and love. Compassion is the feeling of shared suffering....

Monday September 22, 2008

Categories: Consciousness

Becoming a Unit of Peace Consciousness (Part 2)

Continuing the weeklong practices for peace, today's theme for peacemakers is: Thinking for Peace Thinking has power when it is backed by intention. Today, introduce the intention of peace in your thoughts. Take a few moments of silence, then repeat...

Sunday September 21, 2008

Categories: Consciousness

Becoming a Unit of Peace Consciousness (part 1)

War is the plague that human beings bring upon themselves. It is also a plague we might be able to end. On any given day since you and I were born, some part of the world has been at...

Friday August 1, 2008

Categories: Consciousness

New Life in a New World

People need a way to deal with the global changes suddenly surrounding us. As often happens, second-hand opinions are gaining the most power. The vocabulary on the left speaks of positive change, a new order, rising prosperity in what used...

Saturday July 19, 2008

Categories: Consciousness

Genes at the Crossroads

For years the general public has been receiving optimistic predictions about how genetic research will change everyday life. In particular, there have been promises that all kinds of human behavior -- including overeating, belief in God, altruism, happiness, and depression...

Thursday July 10, 2008

Categories: Consciousness

Pressing the RESET button (Gotham Chopra)

When I was a kid I used to fantasize about the possibility of being a superhero and if so, which one would I want to be? Which superpower was the coolest to have? There were the normal adolescent temptations -...

Wednesday May 28, 2008

Categories: Consciousness

The Amorality of the Free Market

An article in the Washington Post On Faith in response to their question: Greed, one of the seven deadly sins, is seen as a major factor in the housing market crash and the oil price spike. Can greed ever be...

Friday May 2, 2008

Categories: Consciousness

Evil and the Addiction to Pain (Part 1)

Common sense tells us that people naturally seek pleasure and avoid pain, but common sense is wrong. Pain is rarely a deterrent from destructive behavior. Sometimes the greater the pain, the more fiercely someone will cling to it. We see...

Thursday April 10, 2008

Categories: Consciousness

The Nature of Time

A nine-minute conversation of Deepak Chopra and Shekhar Kapur about the nature of time. It's a big file, so give it time to download. THE NATURE OF TIME...

Wednesday March 12, 2008

Categories: Consciousness

Prayer and Fear

Question: When, after my meditation, I pray for certain things, and then relax, the opposite of the outcome I want to happen pops up in my brain. For instance, if I pray for wealth, then I may picture myself as...

Wednesday February 27, 2008

What is a Bodhisattva? (by Deepak Chopra)

Question: I have read many spiritual works, and many of them mention Bodhisattvas as beings who come back and reincarnate for highly spiritual purposes. I am quite confused about it. Would you please provide some insights into the nature and...

Thursday February 21, 2008

Jesus and Deepak in Midtown

Alison Rose Levy wrote an article of Deepak giving a talk on The Third Jesus, recently in New York City. "When Jesus said, "I'm the son of God," Chopra tells the audience, "His meaning wasn't 'I'm the son of...

Tuesday February 19, 2008

Categories: Consciousness

How Do I Tell If I'm Plugged Into Spirit?

On his way to a conference in Florida, Deepak Chopra talks about three ways we can tell if we're tuned in--or not....

Monday February 18, 2008

The Audacity of Enlightenment (by Deepak Chopra)

Although Barack Obama's slogan is "the audacity of hope," the words have deeper connotations at this moment. One of the most powerful, I think, is the audacity to wake up. In order for the right wing to succeed in its...

Friday February 15, 2008

TIME Magazine Video Interview With Deepak Chopra

Dear Friends, Here's a link to a video interview I did recently with TIME magazine. Interview with Deepak Chopra...

Wednesday February 13, 2008

The Maharishi Years – The Untold Story: Recollections of a Former Disciple (by Deepak Chopra)

August 1, 1991 saw the publication of my book, Perfect Health, a popular guide to Ayurveda that came at the height of my involvement with Maharishi Mahesh Yogi. Although I had been meditating less than a decade in comparison...

Monday February 11, 2008

First Meeting Maharishi (by Deepak Chopra)

It was in 1985, two years after a trip to Rishikesh, that I got an opportunity to meet Maharishi. When my chance came I grew unexpectedly shy. A young psychologist at Harvard, who was doing a study on the benefits...

Thursday January 31, 2008

Why the New Age (Still) Matters (by Deepak Chopra)

The New Age still matters because it is the best resort we have to age-old traditions of wisdom. I wanted to say that up front, even though I have never used the phrase "New Age" in any talk or writing....

Wednesday January 30, 2008

Good Enough For God? (by Deepak Chopra)

I've been pondering the belief that good people go to heaven while bad people go to hell. "Good" can be defined by absolutist rules pertaining to sin, like the Ten Commandments and much of the Koran, painting a clear...

Tuesday January 22, 2008

Categories: Consciousness

Consciousness As the New Civil Rights Issue (by Deepak Chopra)

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