Book - The Chopra Foundation https://choprafoundation.org Committed to Creating a Peaceful, Just, Sustainable, Healthy, and Joyful World. Mon, 02 Nov 2020 15:58:12 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://choprafoundation.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/cropped-CF-Favicon-2-32x32.png Book - The Chopra Foundation https://choprafoundation.org 32 32 You and Your Brain: Upgrading the Relationship https://choprafoundation.org/people/you-and-your-brain-upgrading-the-relationship/ Mon, 02 Nov 2020 07:51:41 +0000 https://choprafoundation.org/?p=41934 By Deepak Chopra, ™ MD Although the marvels of the brain as an organ have been wondered at for decades, there’s a risk that science will make us feel like brain puppets. Neuroscience runs this risk by assuming, without any proof, that our brains think, feel, perceive the world, and make choices. In reality the […]

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]]> The Most Precious Freedom Is Inner Freedom https://choprafoundation.org/consciousness/the-most-precious-freedom-is-inner-freedom/ Mon, 12 Oct 2020 04:37:09 +0000 https://choprafoundation.org/?p=41926 By Deepak Chopra, ™ MD There’s a spiritual concept that seems to create a good deal of confusion. It goes by the name of freedom or liberation, both terms referring not to political freedom but inner freedom. The reason that “freedom” has a spiritual meaning is that a state of total freedom is possible. The […]

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]]> The Incredible Vanishing Universe (And How to Bring It Back) https://choprafoundation.org/consciousness/the-incredible-vanishing-universe-and-how-to-bring-it-back/ Mon, 10 Feb 2020 03:10:29 +0000 https://choprafoundation.org/?p=41605 By Deepak Chopra, MD and Menas Kafatos, PhD Looking up at the night sky reveals an uncountable richness of stars and galaxies, which gets augmented billions of times over through telescope images from deep space. The cosmos looks to be in no danger of disappearing, but this is just a comforting illusion.  Starting in 1933, […]

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]]> Personal Transformation—What It Really Means https://choprafoundation.org/consciousness/personal-transformation-what-it-really-means/ Mon, 28 Oct 2019 02:05:58 +0000 https://choprafoundation.org/?p=41526 By Deepak Chopra, MD Most people have mixed feelings about how their lives are going, which seems inevitable. Taking the bitter with the sweet is an old saying dating back to the 13th century, but it expresses a universal experience. In the face of life’s mixed blessings, however, there runs a deep yearning for transformation. […]

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]]> Getting Serious About Nothing https://choprafoundation.org/consciousness/getting-serious-about-nothing/ Mon, 14 Oct 2019 08:05:46 +0000 https://choprafoundation.org/?p=41519 By Deepak Chopra, MD Nothing in the creation myths told in ancient cultures match our current model of creation for strangeness and improbability. We tend to smile indulgently at those old myths, although the average person probably hasn’t gone very far past the Book of Genesis, if they are religious, or a vague sense of […]

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]]> How to Solve Life’s Problems—A Fresh Idea https://choprafoundation.org/consciousness/how-to-solve-lifes-problems-a-fresh-idea/ Mon, 07 Oct 2019 06:06:46 +0000 https://choprafoundation.org/?p=41517 By Deepak Chopra, MD Einstein wasn’t the first person to state one of the basic facts of life when he said, “We cannot solve our problems with the same level of thinking that created them.” But most people attempt, time and again, to think at the level of the problem rather than finding the level […]

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]]> The Mystery of Reality Is the Mystery of You https://choprafoundation.org/consciousness/the-mystery-of-reality-is-the-mystery-of-you/ Mon, 30 Sep 2019 02:44:46 +0000 https://choprafoundation.org/?p=41513 By Deepak Chopra, MD Solving the mystery of reality is left to experts, which is nothing new. The explanations of the cosmos is assigned to physicists today as it was assigned to theologians in an age of faith. In some ways modern people are even less interested in the topic. Your soul isn’t likely to […]

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]]> What You Don’t Know Can Change Your Life https://choprafoundation.org/consciousness/what-you-dont-know-can-change-your-life/ Mon, 19 Aug 2019 01:55:09 +0000 https://choprafoundation.org/?p=41493 By Deepak Chopra, MD We’ve all met people who shrug off their lack of knowledge by saying, “Ignorance is bliss,” but who takes that seriously? The modern world is built upon levels of understanding and knowledge. Our life isn’t blissful, but without a doubt the sciences and technology we base our lives upon represent mountains […]

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]]> Does the Mind Create the Brain or Does the Brain Create Mind? https://choprafoundation.org/consciousness/does-the-mind-create-the-brain-or-does-the-brain-create-mind/ Mon, 27 Mar 2017 00:59:00 +0000 https://choprafoundation.org/?p=40489 By Deepak Chopra, MD   Neuroscience has risen over the past few decades to a crowning place in medical science, due to two innovations, advanced brain scans like fMRIs and the completion of the Human genome Project in 2003. Brain scans allow us to peer into the activity of a living brain without surgery or […]

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]]> The Ultimate Self-Help: Upgrading the Illusion https://choprafoundation.org/other/the-ultimate-self-help-upgrading-the-illusion/ Tue, 28 Feb 2017 18:15:07 +0000 https://choprafoundation.org/?p=40471 By Deepak Chopra, MD The phrase “personal reality” has a range of meanings, and most people would begin with their situation, the place where they find themselves. There’s a natural impulse to improve the situation, whatever it happens to be. If your situation lacks enough money, satisfying work, a loving relationship, and so on, it […]

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]]> Where Do You Call Home? A Cosmic Answer https://choprafoundation.org/consciousness/where-do-you-call-home-a-cosmic-answer/ Mon, 06 Feb 2017 00:45:39 +0000 https://choprafoundation.org/?p=40450 By Deepak Chopra, MD, and Menas Kafatos, PhD Home is a charged word for everyone, a source of emotion that’s intimately associated with feeling safe and loved, of belonging. When asked “Where is home?” people reply with a country or city, perhaps a specific street address. Almost no one says “My home is the universe.” […]

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]]> Hitching a Ride on the Cosmos https://choprafoundation.org/other/hitching-a-ride-on-the-cosmos/ Mon, 23 Jan 2017 00:20:11 +0000 https://choprafoundation.org/?p=40442 By Deepak Chopra MD and Menas Kafatos, PhD The universe and the human brain have something important in common. The inner workings of both are invisible. At this moment you have no perception of what’s happening in your brain; neural activity is unknown to the mind of the person to whom the neurons belong without […]

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]]> Why You and the Universe Are One https://choprafoundation.org/consciousness/why-you-and-the-universe-are-one/ Mon, 02 Jan 2017 04:10:07 +0000 https://choprafoundation.org/?p=40393   By Deepak Chopra, MD, and Menas Kafatos, PhD. It takes a lot to overturn the accepted view of reality, but it doesn’t take a lot to begin. The accepted view of reality holds that human beings exist in the context of a vast physical universe “out there.” Only an extreme mystic would doubt this […]

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]]> One Beauty Secret for Everyone https://choprafoundation.org/health/one-beauty-secret-for-everyone/ Mon, 12 Sep 2016 19:49:00 +0000 https://choprafoundation.org/?p=40301     By Deepak Chopra, MD and Kimberly Snyder, CN   The pursuit of beauty, which has been a constant theme throughout recorded history, makes beauty seem like a mysterious gift granted only to the fortunate few. Even now in a scientific age, there’s the constant search for beauty secrets that will bring this gift […]

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]]> How to See a Beautiful Person in the Mirror https://choprafoundation.org/health/how-to-see-a-beautiful-person-in-the-mirror/ Mon, 05 Sep 2016 00:00:44 +0000 https://choprafoundation.org/?p=40287 By Deepak Chopra, MD and Kimberly Snyder, CN Society has allowed our notion of beauty to go awry. Countless women–and not just women–look in the mirror and see a reflection of inadequacy. They have fallen short of an ideal that was defective to begin with. But conditioned since childhood to equate a “perfect” body with […]

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]]> Pharma 3D https://choprafoundation.org/health/pharma-3d/ Wed, 27 Apr 2016 18:20:51 +0000 https://choprafoundation.org/?p=40175 Congratulations to Board member, Ryan Olohan, McKinsey, Wharton and the Google team!  Their new book, Pharma 3D: Rewriting the Script for Marketing in the Digital Age launches today.  It’s a must read!

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]]> Want to Lead a Happier Life? Talk to Your Genes https://choprafoundation.org/consciousness/want-to-lead-a-happier-life-talk-to-your-genes/ Mon, 23 Nov 2015 17:54:56 +0000 https://choprafoundation.org/?p=40018   By Deepak Chopra, MD, Rudolph E. Tanzi, PhD   Genetics may be on the verge of solving a very complex question in a revolutionary but quite simple way. The question is, What does it take to be happy? The question never goes away. It hangs over our heads every day. The possible answers are […]

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]]> https://choprafoundation.org/other/39853/ Sat, 19 Sep 2015 01:40:11 +0000 https://choprafoundation.org/?p=39853 Such as great read from Sages and Scientists #14 Alumnus, Cat Cora

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]]> A Child who sparked the Civil Rights Movement https://choprafoundation.org/other/a-child-who-sparked-the-civil-rights-movement/ Fri, 28 Aug 2015 19:10:17 +0000 https://choprafoundation.org/?p=39818 Today marks 60 years since 14 year old #EmmettTill was murdered and sparked the Civil Rights Movement. A must read: #EmmettTill The Murder That Shocked the World and Propelled the Civil Rights Movement by @DeveryAnderson

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]]> Mindful Evolution: Can You Guide What Your Genes Are Doing? https://choprafoundation.org/consciousness/mindful-evolution-can-you-guide-what-your-genes-are-doing/ Mon, 20 Jul 2015 16:42:17 +0000 https://choprafoundation.org/?p=39616 By Deepak Chopra, MD and Rudolph E. Tanzi, PhD   Human beings are unique in the scenario of life on Earth–that much is obvious. We are guided by awareness, and to implement our wishes, dreams, and inventions, the higher brain (chiefly the cerebral cortex) has evolved to extraordinary proportions. Although classical Darwinism is mindless, and […]

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]]> From Facts to Meaning, Through Beauty https://choprafoundation.org/science-consciousness/from-facts-to-meaning-through-beauty/ Mon, 13 Jul 2015 18:34:11 +0000 https://choprafoundation.org/?p=39581 By Frank A. Wilczek, PhD and Deepak Chopra, MD Science tells us what the world is, not what it means. As expert as they are at collecting and analyzing data, most modern scientists tend to shy away from the question, “What does it all mean?” To them, the question seems so vague as to be, […]

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]]> The Soul of Leadership – Enlightened Leadership https://choprafoundation.org/people/the-soul-of-leadership-enlightened-leadership/ Wed, 08 Jul 2015 00:51:41 +0000 https://choprafoundation.org/?p=39573 Photo: Rep. Steve Israel, Rep. Tim Ryan, Rep Adam Schiff, and Rep Tony Cardenas Deepak taught the Soul of Leadership to various Congress persons today.

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]]> Share Your Thoughts https://choprafoundation.org/people/share-your-thoughts/ Fri, 15 May 2015 21:20:05 +0000 https://choprafoundation.org/?p=39517 Thank you for being a part of The Chopra Foundation community.  We love to learn more about you!  Would you consider taking this brief survey about Deepak Chopra and Rudy Tanzi and what you like to read. http://bit.ly/DeepakSurvey   Thank you!

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]]> Thank you from Deepak https://choprafoundation.org/consciousness/thank-you-from-deepak/ Wed, 15 Apr 2015 19:49:32 +0000 https://choprafoundation.org/?p=39489 A special thank you from Deepak while on book tour of The 13th Disciple. http://flipagram.com/f/U1eLuema5l

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]]> The 13th Disciple & The Future of God https://choprafoundation.org/consciousness/the-13th-disciple-the-future-of-god/ Mon, 06 Apr 2015 22:45:11 +0000 https://choprafoundation.org/?p=39446 Deepak has generously shared his Prezi presentation on The 13th Disciple & The Future of God.  Check it out: Prezi.  The 13th Disciple The Future of God

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]]> Living with Intent https://choprafoundation.org/people/living-with-intent/ Mon, 06 Apr 2015 20:06:45 +0000 https://choprafoundation.org/?p=39443 Join Mallika Chopra as she discusses her new book, Living with Intent: My Somewhat Messy Journey to Purpose, Peace and Joy on April 7th at Deepak Homebase: a conversation with Mallika Chopra & Gabrielle Bernstein Just because you’re the daughter of famous healer Deepak Chopra doesn’t mean you are immune to the chaos, exhaustion, and hamster-like […]

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]]> Deepak Chopra: The problem with atheism https://choprafoundation.org/consciousness/deepak-chopra-the-problem-with-atheism/ Wed, 01 Apr 2015 16:44:35 +0000 https://choprafoundation.org/?p=39424 No doubt faith is in crisis. But this applies, as is painfully shown in the CNN documentary on American atheism that broadcast last week, to the personal agony of families. Read more CNN.com: Deepak Chopra – The Problem with Atheism

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]]> The 13th Disciple https://choprafoundation.org/consciousness/the-13th-disciple/ Tue, 31 Mar 2015 19:41:40 +0000 https://choprafoundation.org/?p=39418 Join Deepak on his book tour of “The 13th Disciple” as he weaves together masterful storytelling, historical narrative, mystery and intrigue, to reveal surprising discoveries about the unknown last disciple of Christ, offering a new understanding of who Jesus really was in his final days. Enjoy an excerpt and audio of the book. The-13th-Disciple-by-Deepak-Chopra-an-excerpt The 13th Disciple: A Spiritual […]

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]]> Interview with Kabir Sehgal and Deepak Chopra https://choprafoundation.org/other/interview-with-kabir-sehgal-and-deepak-chopra/ Fri, 13 Mar 2015 01:42:27 +0000 https://choprafoundation.org/?p=39389 Here is a interview with Deepak Chopra and Kabir Sehgal on the deeper understanding of the relationship between money and humanity  They discuss Kabir’s book, Coin: The Rich Life of Money and How Its History Has Shaped Us. Deepak: Why did you write Coined? I began working on Wall Street just a few months before the great […]

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]]> The 13th Disciple: A Spiritual Adventure https://choprafoundation.org/spirituality/the-13th-disciple-a-spiritual-adventure/ Thu, 12 Mar 2015 18:22:15 +0000 https://choprafoundation.org/?p=39387   You can preorder your copy now.  

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]]> The 13th Disciple: A Spiritual Adventure https://choprafoundation.org/other/39365/ Tue, 03 Mar 2015 19:32:16 +0000 https://choprafoundation.org/?p=39365 Take a sneak preview of Deepak Chopra’s new book, The 13th Disciple: A Spiritual Adventure – read an excerpt, access a free online course – Discovering Ayurveda and enjoy a guided meditation from the Energy of Attraction.  Visit: The 13th Disciple and complete the Access Your Bonus Gifts form.

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]]> Will God 2.0 Be Indispensable in Ten Years? https://choprafoundation.org/science-consciousness/will-god-2-0-be-indispensable-in-ten-years/ Mon, 15 Dec 2014 16:41:50 +0000 https://choprafoundation.org/?p=39263 by Deepak Chopra, MD The primary difficult with God isn’t belief–more than 80% of US responders tell pollsters that they believe God exists. The problem is that God is irrelevant, providing few if any practical benefits in daily life. In an age of faith the circumstances were in God’s favor. When people got sick or died, […]

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]]> Why God Makes More Sense than Atheism https://choprafoundation.org/spirituality/why-god-makes-more-sense-than-atheism/ Mon, 24 Nov 2014 19:17:00 +0000 https://choprafoundation.org/?p=39257 by Deepak Chopra, MD After two centuries of the tug-of-war between science and religion, it’s clear science occupies the dominant position. It has passed the “So what?” test, meaning that science as applied to practical daily life has been immensely more important to modern people than God. This has given atheism, both casual and militant, the […]

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]]> How Richard Dawkins Lost His Battle with God https://choprafoundation.org/spirituality/how-richard-dawkins-lost-his-battle-with-god/ Mon, 17 Nov 2014 19:03:44 +0000 https://choprafoundation.org/?p=39255 by Deepak Chopra, MD When he wrote his 2006 best-seller, The God Delusion, Richard Dawkins expected to accomplish two aims that have proved to be remarkable failures. The first aim was social. He wanted to attract a horde of doubters, fence-sitters, and agnostics to gather their courage and join the atheist ranks. This never happened. There has been […]

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]]> How to Make God Love You https://choprafoundation.org/spirituality/how-to-make-god-love-you/ Sat, 15 Nov 2014 18:38:44 +0000 https://choprafoundation.org/?p=39253 By Deepak Chopra Although the modern controversy over God centers on the famous headline fromTime magazine, “Is God Dead?” this isn’t really the key question. By definition, God can’t be dead, because “dead” implies that God was alive, and once alive, an immortal being can’t die. Yet defining God as immortal or loving or omnipotent — […]

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]]> Listen to The Future of God https://choprafoundation.org/science-consciousness/listen-to-the-future-of-god/ Fri, 31 Oct 2014 23:37:13 +0000 https://choprafoundation.org/?p=39231 Click for a free meditation audio: The Future of God: Fulfilling Your Divine Potential   Available November 11, 2014 – The Future of God

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]]> Can Sam Harris Wake Us Up? (Part 2) https://choprafoundation.org/consciousness/can-sam-harris-wake-us-up-part-2/ Mon, 29 Sep 2014 18:57:33 +0000 https://choprafoundation.org/?p=39214 By Deepak Chopra, MD Most of us recognized ourselves in the mirror this morning.  The person looking back at us has a familiar name, a family, a job.  He (or she) carries around a long menu of likes and dislikes, along with a personal history from the moment we emerged from the womb. It would […]

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