Science - The Chopra Foundation https://choprafoundation.org Committed to Creating a Peaceful, Just, Sustainable, Healthy, and Joyful World. Sat, 21 Nov 2020 22:08:01 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://choprafoundation.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/cropped-CF-Favicon-2-32x32.png Science - The Chopra Foundation https://choprafoundation.org 32 32 How the Reset Works in U.S. Healthcare https://choprafoundation.org/health/how-the-reset-works-in-u-s-healthcare/ Mon, 23 Nov 2020 09:01:08 +0000 https://choprafoundation.org/?p=41944 By Deepak Chopra™ MD and Wayne Jonas, MD The COVID-19 crisis has exposed so many fault lines in the U.S. that a call for a reset has sprung up. Years of reckless attacks on the government’s emergency response to a pandemic, and neglect of our public health infrastructure left us unprepared to handle COVID. Now […]

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]]> Switching from Lifespan to Healthspan https://choprafoundation.org/health/switching-from-lifespan-to-healthspan/ Mon, 20 Jul 2020 04:59:40 +0000 https://choprafoundation.org/?p=41715 By Naveen Jain and Deepak Chopra™, MD Some pessimism has been circulating about lifespan recently. In the modern era lifespan has increased every decade, and dying before you turn seventy would now be considered a premature death. Three score and ten is no longer a destination for a normal life, and average lifespans among people […]

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]]> Your Microbiome: The Most Promising Facts https://choprafoundation.org/health/your-microbiome-the-most-promising-facts/ Mon, 06 Jul 2020 04:26:37 +0000 https://choprafoundation.org/?p=41706 By Naveen Jain and Deepak Chopra™, MD It is fair to say that the exploration of the microbiome has turned out to be the most exciting prospect in medicine since the discovery of DNA. Most people have at least heard the term “gut microbiome,” which applies to the trillions of microbes, chiefly bacteria, that live […]

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]]> Meditation and Yoga Practices as Potential Adjunctive Treatment of SARS-CoV-2 Infection and COVID-19: A Brief Overview of Key Subjects https://choprafoundation.org/science-2/meditation-and-yoga-practices-as-potential-adjunctive-treatment-of-sars-cov-2-infection-and-covid-19-a-brief-overview-of-key-subjects/ Thu, 25 Jun 2020 17:50:54 +0000 https://choprafoundation.org/?p=41699 New Research Paper out now! Read the full paper here.

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]]> Nature’s Identity Crisis and Ours https://choprafoundation.org/video/natures-identity-crisis-and-ours/ Mon, 08 Jun 2020 05:58:41 +0000 https://choprafoundation.org/?p=41688 By Zach Bush MD, Paul J. Mills, PhD, Rudolph E. Tanzi, PhD, Michelle A. Williams, ScD and Deepak Chopra™ MD As our nation dives into sorrow and outrage over another merciless killing of a black man without cause, we must take the opportunity to transform a deep mindset. To achieve this, we will have to […]

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]]> A New World Needs a New Worldview https://choprafoundation.org/health/a-new-world-needs-a-new-worldview/ Mon, 01 Jun 2020 14:58:00 +0000 https://choprafoundation.org/?p=41685 By Zach Bush MD and Deepak Chopra™ MD It is very rare that human beings have a chance to rethink our place in Nature. The modern world is the fruit of a worldview that has placed Homo sapiens reigning supreme over all other life forms. This worldview seems only right and proper to the vast […]

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]]> Self-Care, the Vagus Nerve, and COVID-19 https://choprafoundation.org/health/self-care-the-vagus-nerve-and-covid-19/ Mon, 11 May 2020 04:13:31 +0000 https://choprafoundation.org/?p=41667 By Deepak Chopra, MD and Gustaf Kranck, M.Sc. There is widespread awareness of the wellness movement in this country, and the term “self-care” is being more and more recognized. Since advice has existed for decades on proper diet, exercise, sleep, and the avoidance of alcohol and tobacco, in what way is self-care an advance? This […]

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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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]]> Eric Schadt and the Effects of Meditation at Sages and Scientists https://choprafoundation.org/health/eric-schadt-and-the-effects-of-meditation-at-sages-and-scientists/ Fri, 07 Feb 2020 19:02:51 +0000 https://choprafoundation.org/?p=41604 Eric Schadt discusses the Effects of Meditation at Sages and Scientists

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]]> Einstein, the Moon, and You https://choprafoundation.org/consciousness/einstein-the-moon-and-you/ Mon, 06 Jan 2020 19:35:53 +0000 https://choprafoundation.org/?p=41555 By Deepak Chopra, MD and Menas Kafatos, PhD At the present moment a lot of the basic principles of traditional physics are in a confused state of disarray. Occasionally the media carries a story about strange discoveries by modern science on the order of black holes or dark matter and energy, suggesting that such phenomena […]

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]]> Why Einstein Was Wrong About the Moon https://choprafoundation.org/science-consciousness/why-einstein-was-wrong-about-the-moon/ Mon, 23 Dec 2019 03:00:33 +0000 https://choprafoundation.org/?p=41553 By Deepak Chopra, MD Reality contains many mysteries, some so impenetrable that even the greatest minds are baffled. Albert Einstein was among them. Even though quantum physics had achieved a huge success, Einstein had doubts about its description of reality. These doubts were crystallized in an anecdote. As related the acclaimed modern physicist Lee Smolin, […]

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]]> Why Matter Is a (Useful) Fiction https://choprafoundation.org/consciousness/why-matter-is-a-useful-fiction/ Mon, 25 Nov 2019 03:04:43 +0000 https://choprafoundation.org/?p=41535 By Deepak Chopra, MD Given a choice between physics and metaphysics, almost everyone chooses physics. This is a modern habit that is deeply ingrained, and it turns the tables on the religious approach to reality, which put a divine or supernatural entity, first and foremost in creation. But relying on the physical world as the […]

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]]> The Most Popular Model of Reality Is Wrong https://choprafoundation.org/people/the-most-popular-model-of-reality-is-wrong/ Mon, 18 Nov 2019 03:39:07 +0000 https://choprafoundation.org/?p=41533 By Deepak Chopra, MD It would be ideal if reality and our model of reality merged into the same thing. A model of reality explains how the universe was created and how it operates. You might think that this is a definition of reality itself, but it isn’t, which can be illustrated by looking at […]

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]]> The Future of Personal and Planetary Well Being : An invitation to Sages and Scientists Symposium, Crystal Bridges Museum, Bentonville Arkansas https://choprafoundation.org/consciousness/the-future-of-personal-and-planetary-well-being-an-invitation-to-sages-and-scientists-symposium-crystal-bridges-museum-bentonville-arkansas/ Mon, 04 Nov 2019 02:20:46 +0000 https://choprafoundation.org/?p=41529 By Deepak Chopra, MD Despite a steady increase in life expectancy, medical science is facing diminishing returns. It has been estimated that every increase in lifespan since 1990 has resulted in only ten months of increased healthy life; the rest is only prolonged suffering and the decline of aging. Globally more people now die of […]

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]]> Ending Our Fear of Death https://choprafoundation.org/consciousness/ending-our-fear-of-death/ Mon, 05 Aug 2019 01:26:17 +0000 https://choprafoundation.org/?p=41486 By Deepak Chopra, MD Fear is a powerful force, nowhere more so than when it comes to death and dying. By comparison, the solutions for solving other fears seem useless. You cannot test your fear; you cannot feel it and move on anyway. There is little reason to trust other people who seem to have […]

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]]> Trading In the Afterlife for One Life https://choprafoundation.org/consciousness/trading-in-the-afterlife-for-one-life/ Mon, 22 Jul 2019 16:45:16 +0000 https://choprafoundation.org/?p=41465 By Deepak Chopra, MD Every doctrine of the afterlife has run into the same problem, which is that of belief. For centuries the existence of life after death has been couched in religious terms, which necessitates believing in religion before the question of the afterlife can be approached. Is it possible to say something more […]

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]]> Why Math Is Leading Us Deeper into Illusion https://choprafoundation.org/people/why-math-is-leading-us-deeper-into-illusion/ Mon, 01 Jul 2019 02:14:53 +0000 https://choprafoundation.org/?p=41453 By Deepak Chopra, MD It’s hard to imagine a world without numbers. The square footage of your house, the rent or mortgage payment, the weight you see on your bathroom scale are all examples of lower mathematics, while the GPS that guides your travels, your smartphone, and sending a space probe to Saturn are examples […]

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]]> Is the Self the Ultimate Healer? https://choprafoundation.org/consciousness/is-the-self-the-ultimate-healer/ Mon, 24 Jun 2019 01:14:59 +0000 https://choprafoundation.org/?p=41450 By Deepak Chopra, MD In recent years the self-care movement has been gathering momentum, and in many ways it is a natural extension of what came before, which was prevention. Both put the focus of remaining well on the individual. Instead of running to the doctor’s when symptoms appear, prevention taught people to avoid risks […]

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]]> Why the Greatest Mystery Is You https://choprafoundation.org/consciousness/why-the-greatest-mystery-is-you/ Mon, 13 May 2019 02:59:21 +0000 https://choprafoundation.org/?p=41399 By Deepak Chopra, MD, Menas C. Kafatos, PhD Even though teams of scientists around the world are working on great mysteries, from the origin of the universe to the origin of life, the greatest mystery remains personal, the mystery of the self. So far as we know, human beings are unique in pondering our own […]

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]]> Infinite Potential – You Are Not Your Brain / Rebecca Gladding, MD https://choprafoundation.org/people/infinite-potential-you-are-not-your-brain-rebecca-gladding-md/ Mon, 06 May 2019 15:37:18 +0000 https://choprafoundation.org/?p=41393 Who are you? If you’ve ever stopped to ask yourself this question, a myriad of adjectives have likely swirled around your…brain.  But, is that really you?  My guest today, psychologist and author Rebecca Gladding, MD,  says, not necessarily. In fact, you may be working from a set of deceptive and tenacious, maybe even false, narratives […]

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]]> A New, Improved Reality Depends on You https://choprafoundation.org/consciousness/a-new-improved-reality-depends-on-you/ Mon, 06 May 2019 02:55:24 +0000 https://choprafoundation.org/?p=41392 How do we know that anything is real? This isn’t a question that usually bothers most people, because we’ve all been brought up to look upon the physical world “out there” as a given. But let’s say that someone actually asks you the question, “How do you know the physical world is real?” What would […]

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]]> Changing the World with a Glance https://choprafoundation.org/people/changing-the-world-with-a-glance/ Mon, 29 Apr 2019 02:54:33 +0000 https://choprafoundation.org/?p=41377 By Deepak Chopra, MD, Menas C. Kafatos, PhD The power of seeing is well known to everyone, and many examples exist. There is love at first sight and Alexander Fleming noticing that penicillium mold kills bacteria. Galileo as a youth in church was the first to notice that a pendulum swings in a regular rhythm, […]

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]]> Infinite Potential – Episode 6: AI / Robert LoCascio – Part One https://choprafoundation.org/people/infinite-potential-episode-6-ai-robert-locascio-part-one/ Thu, 25 Apr 2019 22:36:33 +0000 https://choprafoundation.org/?p=41368 Conscious AI / Robert LoCascio – Part One Artificial Intelligence, AI, is now a reality.  It lives with us in our pockets, in our homes, and in our…minds?  We take on this brave new world in two parts, linked by one critical question: will AI ever be truly conscious? In Part One, we speak to […]

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]]> The Faith-Based Science of Neil deGrasse Tyson—It Needs Correcting https://choprafoundation.org/consciousness/the-faith-based-science-of-neil-degrasse-tyson-it-needs-correcting/ Mon, 06 Nov 2017 00:07:26 +0000 https://choprafoundation.org/?p=40641   By Deepak Chopra, MD Peacekeepers entering war zones frequently find that both sides are angry and intransigent, to the point that even mentioning peace causes tempers to flare. This has been the situation with the debate—now worn out to the point of exhaustion—between science and religion. There are ways to bring peace, but they […]

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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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]]> 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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]]> Why the Physical Universe Needs Mental Glue https://choprafoundation.org/science-consciousness/why-the-physical-universe-needs-mental-glue/ Mon, 28 Mar 2016 00:00:43 +0000 https://choprafoundation.org/?p=40147 By Deepak Chopra, MD and Jennifer Nielsen, PhD candidate Robber barons in the 19th century were so rich that they didn’t have to do things the way ordinary people do. If they wanted to live in a French chateau or an Italian palazzo, for example, they didn’t have to build one from scratch. Instead a […]

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]]> Panel on the Nature of Fundamental Reality moderated by Deepak Chopra https://choprafoundation.org/consciousness/panel-on-the-nature-of-fundamental-reality-moderated-by-deepak-chopra/ Wed, 03 Feb 2016 00:47:57 +0000 https://choprafoundation.org/?p=40103 A panel with Edward Frenkel, Bernardo Kastrup, Menas Kafatos, Julia Mossbridge and facilitated by Deepak Chopra.

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]]> Human Universe and Eternal Inflation https://choprafoundation.org/consciousness/human-universe-and-eternal-inflation/ Mon, 21 Dec 2015 19:10:26 +0000 https://choprafoundation.org/?p=40043 By Deepak Chopra, MD   I was reminded recently that we live in a Catch-22 Universe. What makes it a Catch-22 is that no one is qualified to penetrate the mystery of the cosmos without skill in advanced mathematics, and yet those who have this skill are so tied to numbers that they see reality […]

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]]> Why a Mental Universe Is the “Real” Reality https://choprafoundation.org/consciousness/why-a-mental-universe-is-the-real-reality/ Mon, 30 Nov 2015 01:18:53 +0000 https://choprafoundation.org/?p=40024 By Deepak Chopra, MD, Menas Kafatos, PhD, Bernardo Kastrup, PhD, Rudolph Tanzi, PhD                 Science concerns itself with reality, in the form of “real particles”, “real organisms”, and the “real universe”. The tacit assumption is that science can answer the question of reality itself. If this wasn’t the […]

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]]> Why Don’t We Know We Are Enlightened Already? https://choprafoundation.org/other/why-dont-we-know-we-are-enlightened-already/ Mon, 05 Oct 2015 17:39:00 +0000 https://choprafoundation.org/?p=39874 By Deepak Chopra, MD “Enlightenment” is a word that has gotten so entangled with vague confusion that many people have given up on it. I don’t mean the classic seeker who hungers for God, Nirvana, or higher states of consciousness. There isn’t an accepted definition of enlightenment that allows for a general discussion where everyone […]

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]]> Do We Really Know What’s Real? The Most Optimistic Answer Is Maybe https://choprafoundation.org/consciousness/do-we-really-know-whats-real-the-most-optimistic-answer-is-maybe/ Mon, 03 Aug 2015 00:51:28 +0000 https://choprafoundation.org/?p=39673 By Deepak Chopra, MD, and Menas Kafatos, PhD   For a very long time, if you wanted to know if something is real or not, the go-to people have been scientists. The rise of rationality over superstition is considered the single greatest achievement of the past three or four centuries. So it’s startling news–as we […]

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]]> Conversation with Jenny Nielsen and Deepak Chopra https://choprafoundation.org/spirituality/conversation-with-jenny-nielsen-and-deepak-chopra/ Sat, 25 Jul 2015 00:47:08 +0000 https://choprafoundation.org/?p=39645 Deepak and Jenny discuss the non local universe and how everything in the universe is entangled both in space and time.

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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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]]> A New Hot Button: Consciousness-Driven Evolution https://choprafoundation.org/consciousness/a-new-hot-button-consciousness-driven-evolution/ Mon, 06 Jul 2015 19:29:26 +0000 https://choprafoundation.org/?p=39569 By Deepak Chopra, MD and Rudolph E. Tanzi, PhD             Science is meant to be the opposite of a belief system. No one underlined this point more securely than Charles Darwin, who devised a theory of evolution that defied the strongest belief of his time, the all but universal belief […]

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]]> Why “Intelligent” Computers Are Dumber Than Your Ten-Year-Old https://choprafoundation.org/consciousness/why-intelligent-computers-are-dumber-than-your-ten-year-old/ Sat, 06 Jun 2015 00:25:03 +0000 https://choprafoundation.org/?p=39541 By Deepak Chopra, MD   A mounting fear that science fiction may turn into reality came to light recently. Three brilliant physicists (Stephen Hawking, Max Tegmark, and Frank Wilczek) joined with a noted computer scientist (Stuart Russell) to worry in public about what they termed “superintelligent machines.” In an April 14 Huffington Post article, they […]

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]]> How the Universe Pulled a Vanishing Act https://choprafoundation.org/consciousness/how-the-universe-pulled-a-vanishing-act/ Mon, 18 May 2015 23:54:37 +0000 https://choprafoundation.org/?p=39527 By Deepak Chopra, MD The issues facing modern physics are so baffling that they’ve crossed a threshold and now fascinate the general public. We laymen have very little at stake, personally speaking, when scientists argue over the Big Bang—without advanced mathematical training, it’s all but impossible to follow the arguments. But we do have a […]

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]]> Is Physics the Next Guru? https://choprafoundation.org/articles/is-physics-the-next-guru/ Fri, 24 Apr 2015 18:06:21 +0000 https://choprafoundation.org/?p=39499 By Deepak Chopra, MD   The worldview of modern physics teases us with spiritual suggestions like the discovery—premature it seems—of the “God particle.” That nickname embarrasses some in the field, but ever since Fritjof Capra’s book The Tao of Physics, the links between Eastern spiritual traditions and the findings of quantum physics have been tantalizing. […]

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]]> TIME 100 PIONEERS – RUDY TANZI https://choprafoundation.org/other/time-100-pioneers-rudy-tanzi/ Thu, 16 Apr 2015 19:19:45 +0000 https://choprafoundation.org/?p=39495 Congrats to Rudy Tanzi who was recognized by TIME 100 Pioneers.  Rudy is Co Chairman of the foundation’s SBTI research study and 2012 Recipient of the Rustum Roy Spirit Award acknowledged at Sages and Scientists Symposium 2012. Alzheimer’s pioneer I’m a child of Alzheimer’s, and I know firsthand how scary it is to watch the […]

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]]> Synchronicity, Evolution, and Your Genes (Part 3) https://choprafoundation.org/consciousness/synchronicity-evolution-and-your-genes-part-3/ Mon, 13 Apr 2015 00:01:19 +0000 https://choprafoundation.org/?p=39482  By Deepak Chopra, MD, and Jordan Flesher, MA Psychology   Two views of the universe have been contending with each other to explain why human beings exist. The first view holds that human beings are not special in any way. We evolved through random events that have accumulated over time, taking 13.7 billion years since […]

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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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]]> Synchronicity, Evolution, and Your Genes (Part 2) https://choprafoundation.org/consciousness/synchronicity-evolution-and-your-genes-part-2/ Mon, 06 Apr 2015 18:22:52 +0000 https://choprafoundation.org/?p=39440   By Deepak Chopra, MD, and Jordan Flesher, BA Psychology   Everyone has had a meaningful coincidence happen to them–the classic example is thinking of someone’s name and the next minute that person telephones, or seeing an unusual word in your mind’s eye and then running across that word the next time you open a […]

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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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]]> Why Physics Needs God But God Doesn't Need Physics https://choprafoundation.org/other/why-physics-needs-god-but-god-doesnt-need-physics/ Tue, 02 Dec 2014 20:00:18 +0000 https://choprafoundation.org/?p=39259 By Deepak Chopra, MD Recently I created a brief storm on Twitter by throwing out questions that physicists can’t answer. Twitter allows you to contact famous physicists directly, and it’s predictable that a handful will become irritated and even riled up if you dare to challenge them. “What happens in physics stays in physics” is […]

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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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]]> 'I Am the Master of My Fate' — A New Take on Free Will https://choprafoundation.org/consciousness/i-am-the-master-of-my-fate-a-new-take-on-free-will/ Tue, 28 Oct 2014 18:15:33 +0000 https://choprafoundation.org/?p=39248 By Deepak Chopra Back when schoolchildren regularly read uplifting poetry, there was a famous Victorian poem that affirmed the human birthright of free will. It was “Invictus,” by W. E. Henley and began: Out of the night that covers me, Black as the pit from pole to pole, I thank whatever gods may be For […]

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]]> Memo to Neuroscience: “We Are Not Brain Puppets” https://choprafoundation.org/consciousness/memo-to-neuroscience-we-are-not-brain-puppets/ Thu, 23 Oct 2014 01:38:35 +0000 https://choprafoundation.org/?p=39225   By Deepak Chopra, MD   The notion that human beings walk, talk, think, and do things because our brains control us is a fringe idea, easily refuted with a few moment’s thought and rarely taken seriously. But it got a boost from an Op-ed piece in the New York Times last week under the title, “Are […]

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]]> A Science of Miracles – No Longer Optional? https://choprafoundation.org/consciousness/a-science-of-miracles-no-longer-optional/ Mon, 06 Oct 2014 01:44:27 +0000 https://choprafoundation.org/?p=39218 A Science of Miracles—No Longer Optional?   By Deepak Chopra, MD   In its ambition to explain every aspect of the natural world, modern science has sidestepped very few problems. Some mysteries are so difficult that they defy the scientific method. It’s hard to conceive of experiments that will tell us what happened before time […]

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]]> Is a Mind-Element Needed to Interpret Quantum Mechanics? Do Physically Undetermined Choices Enter into the Evolution of the Physical Universe? https://choprafoundation.org/science-consciousness/is-a-mind-element-needed-to-interpret-quantum-mechanics-do-physically-undetermined-choices-enter-into-the-evolution-of-the-physical-universe/ Tue, 15 Jul 2014 02:04:03 +0000 https://choprafoundation.org/?p=38852 By Deepak Chopra, MD and Henry Stapp, PhD   Pick at random any TV show about the universe, and the visuals will be dominated by a black void sprinkled with billions of galaxies. Such images give the impression of a vast emptiness foreign to human existence. Our bodies would perish within minutes of stepping into outer space; […]

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]]> Skepticism and a Million Dollar Challenge (Part 2) https://choprafoundation.org/spirituality/skepticism-and-a-million-dollar-challenge-part-2/ Wed, 02 Jul 2014 20:24:55 +0000 https://choprafoundation.org/?p=38832 By Deepak Chopra, MD. When I made a video offering a million dollars to anyone who could explain how the brain produces the appearance of the three-dimensional world, I didn’t have a publicity stunt in mind. I wanted to draw attention to consciousness research, which has been burgeoning out of sight of the general public. […]

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