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Deepak’s talk, Self Directed Biological Transformation, at the Aspen Institute.
What Is Cosmic Consciousness? The Quest for Hidden Reality
By Deepak Chopra, M.D., FACP, and Menas Kafatos, Ph.D.
Is there such a thing as higher consciousness? For a tiny fraction of the population, who believe they have experienced God directly, this is a spiritual question with a definite answer. But for most people the question is hypothetical. Every spiritual tradition has asserted that there is a hidden reality which can be uncovered through transcending – or going beyond – the five senses. There are elaborate directions for accomplishing this leap, in the form of prayer, meditation, renunciation, and faith – the religious history of humankind has never stopped directing its aspirations to a higher plane. But everyday life consumes our attention, and in a skeptical age the erosion of belief makes higher consciousness seem very far away if not irrelevant.
Bridging Sectors, Bridging Capital
Dialogue: Leadership
Conversation with Raymond Chambers, Arianna Huffington, President Vicente Fox, Ben Keesey and Deepak Chopra (more…)
Sleep: A mystery at the crossroads of neuroscience (Part 1)
By Deepak Chopra, M.D., FACP, P. Murali Doraiswamy, MBBS, FRCP, Professor of Psychiatry, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina
Sleep crops up in unexpected places medically, as in the recent finding that for people suffering from bouts of depression, irregular sleep is often the first sign of an attack, and conversely, getting a good night’s sleep can help prevent the onset of depression. But the importance of sleep has become more global in recent years, involving it in obesity, for example, where bad sleep throws off the hormonal balance that tells the body when it’s hungry. (more…)