Be the Change Community Outreach Program Tampa, Florida February 6th, 2009 Deepak Chopra - Poetry reading Unity Consciousness - Tagore featuring: Ann Marie Calhoun - Violin
Poem begins at 4:20
"Running out of time," "losing track of time"--we talk about time as if it were a finite object. But time is a psychological event. What do you think?...
Sitting with my American-Chinese-Indian grandson I realized he is the face of the "new world." We are going through a wonderful transition and going beyond our narrow ethnic and nationalistic boundaries....
While I was waiting to leave for the airport, I started to think about how our emotional exchanges with others regulate our emotional and biological states....
Is your neighbor yourself? Sitting in the airport I had a moment of recognition that because we share molecules, we are part of one consciousness. Everyone here is recycling their thoughts, emotions, and molecules with me....
Tantra believes sexual and spiritual energy are the same because they're the universe's creative energy. They can be used for passionate lovemaking or art, poetry, music, and be channeled for transformation and manifestation....
when we understand the brain, we'll be able to understand consciousness objectively. But consciousness can only be explored by consciousness so it has to be a subjective experience....
Do you believe that we are accidents? This morning I was thinking about the idea of atheism, which believes that we are accidents and purpose of our biological science is to prolong the accident indefinitely....
Will information technology trump military strength? What if a hand-held computer could hijack airplanes by interfering with air traffic signals? We need to use technology to heal the rift in our collective soul or risk using it to destroy ourselves....
As I was waiting at the train station in Barcelona, I noticed that the person next to me kept looking at his watch even though he knew what time the train was coming. It made me contemplate how we've become...
Do we live in a world of free will or determinism? The answer seems to me to be the paradox that it is simultaneously both. While these processes appear to be two separate processes they are actually the manifestation of...
When my elevator suddenly stopped in a hotel in South Africa, I meditated for an hour and then tried to call for help. But I was taken aback when the friend I called likened my predicament to the solitary confinement...
What do you think is the nature of evil? Does it exist? According to Jungian psychology evil is the projection of our collective and our personal shadow. This echoes Jesus' statement, "Resist not evil."...
I think what Jesus was saying with this verse is that the power of intention can orchestrate its own fulfillment. It's being talked about today as the Law of Attraction. But if you're connected to the creative power inside you,...
In a world of so much suffering, how could God be laughing? One answer is that "ha-ha" is just like "ah-ha!"--"I get it." My two giggling special guests help me out in this....
If you are easily offended when someone questions your faith, do you have faith? I believe if you're really spiritual then you don't need to get offended....
An article in the Washington Post On Faith section in response to their question: "Do you believe that faith can effect your health or is that a lot of new age nonsense?" Faith is too vast a subject to generalize...
What is science? If we're the expression of a bigger intelligence, then isn't science God trying to understand God? During my morning meditation (working out at the gym with my eyes closed), these thoughts came to me. Watch the video...
"Running out of time," "losing track of time"--we talk about time as if it were a finite object. But time is a psychological event. What do you think?...
After my grandchildren asked if the dinosaurs at a museum were real, I thought deeply about the line about reality and unreality--and then had an illuminating dream I'd like to share....
In my new book "The Third Jesus," I write not about the historical Jesus, or the church's Jesus, but about the third one--a state of expanded and enlightened Christ consciousness. Click "play" for more....