Science & Consciousness - The Chopra Foundation https://choprafoundation.org Committed to Creating a Peaceful, Just, Sustainable, Healthy, and Joyful World. Sat, 13 Mar 2021 00:10:29 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://choprafoundation.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/cropped-CF-Favicon-2-32x32.png Science & Consciousness - The Chopra Foundation https://choprafoundation.org 32 32 The Brain Needs Reinventing—Here’s How https://choprafoundation.org/science-consciousness/the-brain-needs-reinventing-heres-how/ Tue, 16 Mar 2021 09:08:33 +0000 https://choprafoundation.org/?p=41990 By Deepak Chopra™ MD and Rudolph E. Tanzi, Ph.D. We’re living in a golden age for brain research, which could revolutionize how we think, feel, and behave. Thanks to advanced brain scans like the fMRI, brain activity can be localized and even the most precise activity pinpointed. For example, researchers can spot the minuscule area […]

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]]> Did Life Create the Universe? https://choprafoundation.org/science-consciousness/did-life-create-the-universe/ Mon, 09 Nov 2020 09:00:21 +0000 https://choprafoundation.org/?p=41936 By Deepak Chopra, ™ MD No matter how life began on Earth—there are still some huge gaps in our knowledge about that—it seems indisputable that the universe set up the conditions for life. But a radical twist has now been offered by the prominent stem-cell biologist Robert Lanza and theoretical physicist Matej Pavšič in their […]

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]]> The Future of Wellbeing and Technology https://choprafoundation.org/science-consciousness/the-future-of-wellbeing-and-technology/ Wed, 09 Sep 2020 19:10:03 +0000 https://choprafoundation.org/?p=41815 The slide show will automatically play, or you can click and drag to move through the slides.   Additional Research & Information   William Bushell, Ryan Castle, Michelle A. Williams, Kimberly C. Brouwer, Rudolph E. Tanzi, Deepak Chopra, and Paul J. Mills. Meditation and Yoga Practices as Potential Adjunctive Treatment of SARS-CoV-2 Infection and COVID-19: […]

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]]> The Spread of “Stranger Than We Can Think” https://choprafoundation.org/consciousness/the-spread-of-stranger-than-we-can-think/ Mon, 17 Aug 2020 04:00:31 +0000 https://choprafoundation.org/?p=41733 By Deepak Chopra,TM MD and Menas C. Kafatos, PhD As we go about everyday life, we are embedded in a mystery no one has ever solved. The mystery was voiced by one of the most brilliant quantum pioneers, Werner Heisenberg: “Not only is the Universe stranger than we think, it is stranger than we can […]

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]]> The Surprising Success of Wholeness https://choprafoundation.org/consciousness/the-surprising-success-of-wholeness/ Mon, 27 Jul 2020 04:33:55 +0000 https://choprafoundation.org/?p=41726 By Deepak Chopra™, MD, Tiffany J Barsotti, MTh, Paul J. Mills, PhD As the notions of “holistic” and “wholeness” became popular in recent decades, they also turned into a paradox. People who focused on holistic health, diet, and wellness found themselves to be cut off from people who didn’t care about such things (which is […]

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]]> Energy Healing Comes into the Light https://choprafoundation.org/science-consciousness/energy-healing-comes-into-the-light/ Mon, 13 Jul 2020 04:44:40 +0000 https://choprafoundation.org/?p=41712 By Deepak Chopra™, MD, Tiffany Barsotti, MTh, Paul J. Mills, PhD When faced with traditional healing systems outside the Western tradition, science looks askance. That was true when traditional Chinese medicine, including acupuncture, and Ayurveda from India began to be known a generation ago. Popular acceptance doesn’t budge these prejudices, but if there’s a crossover […]

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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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]]> Finding the Universe in a Coffee Cup https://choprafoundation.org/consciousness/finding-the-universe-in-a-coffee-cup/ Mon, 13 Jan 2020 03:31:34 +0000 https://choprafoundation.org/?p=41558 By Deepak Chopra, MD and Menas Kafatos, PhD The universe is hard to explain, because there are so many moving parts and so many levels, probably infinite in both cases. It is a cherished goal in physics to unify these parts, but so far success has eluded even the most brilliant investigators. The average person […]

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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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]]> 2020 Wellbeing Predictions with Deepak Chopra https://choprafoundation.org/consciousness/2020-wellbeing-predictions-with-deepak-chopra/ Wed, 18 Dec 2019 21:17:53 +0000 https://choprafoundation.org/?p=41547 “The future of wellbeing is bioregulation and homeostasis through self-regulation.”‘ – Deepak Chopra Deepak recently participated in Virgin Pulse’s 2020 Vision: Wellbeing Industry Predictions where leading experts in health and wellbeing, HR and business share insights on emerging trends that will impact your employee experience in 2020 and beyond. You can explore the predictions in detail […]

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]]> There Is No chaos, There Is Only Creativity https://choprafoundation.org/consciousness/there-is-no-chaos-there-is-only-creativity/ Mon, 16 Dec 2019 03:42:55 +0000 https://choprafoundation.org/?p=41544 By Deepak Chopra, MD The human mind is addicted to opposites, but it turns out that Nature isn’t. This statement becomes important in a deep way when it comes to chaos. In our minds chaos, or disorder, is the opposite of order. By thinking like this, we oblige the human tendency to prefer order over […]

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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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]]> 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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]]> It’s Much Better to Be Conscious than Smart https://choprafoundation.org/consciousness/its-much-better-to-be-conscious-than-smart/ Tue, 10 Sep 2019 01:52:56 +0000 https://choprafoundation.org/?p=41508 By Deepak Chopra, MD If you had the choice, would you rather be smarter than you are or more aware? Go a step further. If a wizard came to you and said you could be either the smartest person in the world or the most aware, which would you choose? It’s a symptom of the […]

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]]> The Balanced Mind: A Better Model https://choprafoundation.org/consciousness/the-balanced-mind-a-better-model/ Mon, 02 Sep 2019 02:24:45 +0000 https://choprafoundation.org/?p=41504 By Deepak Chopra, MD Now that meditation has caught on widely, it’s time to understand why it works. The physical findings measured by neuroscience gives intriguing hints about changes in brain wave activity, but that’s an effect, not a cause. The same holds true for physiological changes outside the brain, such as lowered heart rate […]

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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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]]> The Magic Behind Creation https://choprafoundation.org/consciousness/the-magic-behind-creation/ Mon, 12 Aug 2019 01:24:10 +0000 https://choprafoundation.org/?p=41491 By Deepak Chopra, MD Magic is supposed to be a primitive belief, and in modern society it has largely disappeared. Science and technology are not only triumphs of rationality; they represent victories over magic, which is irrational. It is magical to explain thunder as the anger of the gods. It is magical to believe in […]

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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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]]> Should You Plan for Your Next Incarnation? https://choprafoundation.org/consciousness/should-you-plan-for-your-next-incarnation/ Mon, 15 Jul 2019 02:49:43 +0000 https://choprafoundation.org/?p=41459 By Deepak Chopra, MD Do you believe in reincarnation, and if so, does it matter? According to a 2018 Pew Research survey, 33% of Americans say they believe in reincarnation, yet it is beyond the range of ordinary polling to ask why this belief exists. In an age of faith, both East and West, a […]

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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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]]> Taking a Beautiful Line from Rumi: Beyond the Boundaries of the Intellect https://choprafoundation.org/spirituality/taking-a-beautiful-line-from-rumi-beyond-the-boundaries-of-the-intellect/ Mon, 17 Jun 2019 01:52:50 +0000 https://choprafoundation.org/?p=41442 By Deepak Chopra, MD The popularity of the mystic Sufi poet Rumi is based on his love affair with God, expressed in such ecstatic terms that he makes the spiritual journey seem deeply romantic. But Rumi also reported about how his state of consciousness felt, which gives valuable clues about higher consciousness itself. Here is […]

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]]> Experiments Suggest Humans Can Directly Observe the Quantum https://choprafoundation.org/science-consciousness/experiments-suggest-humans-can-directly-observe-the-quantum/ Mon, 10 Jun 2019 17:43:35 +0000 https://choprafoundation.org/?p=41439 A recent article by William C. Bushell and Maureen Seaberg on Psychology Today dives into our capabilities as humans for quantum perception, adept potential, and the implications for consciousness theory. We highly recommend giving the full article a read! William C. Bushell, PhD, is the Director of Research & Academic Liaison of the Integrative Studies […]

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]]> Higher Consciousness in Less than a Minute https://choprafoundation.org/consciousness/higher-consciousness-in-less-than-a-minute/ Mon, 10 Jun 2019 17:26:42 +0000 https://choprafoundation.org/?p=41438 By Deepak Chopra, MD There are very old, rich traditions of higher consciousness around the world, and diverse as they are, they seem to have one thing in common: Arriving at higher consciousness takes time, perhaps a lifetime. Along with this idea comes other, closely related ones. Higher consciousness is exceptional. It requires intense inner […]

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]]> Your Body Wants to Be Your Strongest Ally—Let It https://choprafoundation.org/consciousness/your-body-wants-to-be-your-strongest-ally-let-it/ Mon, 27 May 2019 02:34:53 +0000 https://choprafoundation.org/?p=41410 By Deepak Chopra, MD Modern medicine has triumphed on many fronts in conquering diseases and extending life, but its greatest advance is almost totally unsung. Health and longevity have made it possible to see the body as our greatest ally. After centuries of inevitable sickness and early death for the vast majority of people, the […]

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]]> Three Impossible Things We Can’t Do Without https://choprafoundation.org/consciousness/three-impossible-things-we-cant-do-without/ Mon, 20 May 2019 02:49:10 +0000 https://choprafoundation.org/?p=41408 By Deepak Chopra, MD If you want to know what human beings really want, consider how Alice reacts to Wonderland. Lewis Carroll’s inventions are so entertaining, we tend to smile at how upset, vexed, and unsettled Alice actually is. Wonderland overturns our regular, orderly, and predictable life, which is what people actually want. The inhabitants […]

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]]> OZY Fest 2019 – NYC, July 20-21 https://choprafoundation.org/people/ozy-fest-2019-nyc-july-20-21/ Tue, 14 May 2019 23:22:16 +0000 https://choprafoundation.org/?p=41404 OZY Fest is back — and it’s bigger, bolder and weirder than ever. This summer, get ready for the ultimate mashup in New York City’s Central Park. SATURDAY JULY 20 & SUNDAY JULY 21, 2019 Learn more here.

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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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]]> The Hidden Power of “Follow Your Bliss” https://choprafoundation.org/science-consciousness/the-hidden-power-of-follow-your-bliss/ Thu, 25 Apr 2019 17:17:17 +0000 https://choprafoundation.org/?p=41366 By Deepak Chopra, MD When you take the popular phrase “Follow your bliss” and trace it back to its source, something more powerful was intended. In a late interview the famous expert on mythology Joseph Campbell first used the phrase, saying “If you follow your bliss, you put yourself on a kind of track that […]

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]]> In loving memory of Charity Sunshine Tillman Dick https://choprafoundation.org/other/in-loving-memory-of-charity-sunshine-tillman-dick/ Wed, 24 Apr 2019 22:39:57 +0000 https://choprafoundation.org/?p=41360 Remembering Charity Tillman Dick, Sages and Scientists alumnus 2013. Topic: Discourses from the Undead A journey through the precipice of life and death   Speaker Bio: Charity Sunshine Tillemann-Dick is a soprano, composer and writer. She has performed extensively across Europe, Asia and the United States sharing the stage with noted artists and musicians including […]

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]]> 2019 WMIF | 1:1 Fireside Chat: Rudolph E. Tanzi and Deepak Chopra https://choprafoundation.org/health/2019-wmif-11-fireside-chat-rudolph-e-tanzi-and-deepak-chopra/ Wed, 24 Apr 2019 21:52:31 +0000 https://choprafoundation.org/?p=41358   Dr. Rudolph Tanzi moderated the Fireside Chat with Chopra Foundation Founder, Deepak Chopra, MD at the World Medical Innovation Forum (April 10, 2019), Boston, MA Moderator: Rudolph Tanzi, PhD Vice-Chair, Neurology, Director, Genetics and Aging Research Unit, MGH; Joseph P. and Rose F. Kennedy Professor of Neurology, HMS Deepak Chopra, MD, Author and Founder […]

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]]> INFINITE POTENTIAL https://choprafoundation.org/other/infinite-potential/ Fri, 08 Mar 2019 21:44:52 +0000 https://choprafoundation.org/?p=41287  In his first ever podcast, Deepak Chopra investigates the greatest mystery of all: what makes us conscious beings and why it matters that we are. Through stories and conversations with remarkable people, Deepak engages with perspectives rooted in science, art, humor, the future and even outer space. He welcomes a far-ranging group of guests, […]

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]]> Does the Human Mind Need a Fresh Start? https://choprafoundation.org/science-consciousness/does-the-human-mind-need-a-fresh-start/ Mon, 20 Nov 2017 17:43:47 +0000 https://choprafoundation.org/?p=40660 By Deepak Chopra, MD Most people would agree, even without a degree in psychology, that many if not most problems are created by the mind.  It’s impossible to be human without the functioning of the higher brain (the cerebral cortex), which is proportionately larger in Homo sapiens, and evolved with unusual swiftness into the state […]

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]]> Unveiling Reality: The Mystery of “Who Am I?” https://choprafoundation.org/science-consciousness/unveiling-reality-the-mystery-of-who-am-i/ Thu, 16 Nov 2017 00:50:59 +0000 https://choprafoundation.org/?p=40656 By Deepak Chopra, MD At a public lecture, a psychology professor was reported to say, “Until you are fifty, you won’t know who you are.” This seems overly optimistic, because much more than maturity is involved in discovering who we are; in fact, much more than psychology is involved. To answer, “Who am I?” requires […]

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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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]]> 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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]]> 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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]]> Six-Day Clinical Trial Finds Integrative Medicine Program Alters Blood Serum https://choprafoundation.org/health/six-day-clinical-trial-finds-integrative-medicine-program-alters-blood-serum/ Fri, 09 Sep 2016 17:03:46 +0000 https://choprafoundation.org/?p=40297 Six-Day Clinical Trial Finds Integrative Medicine Program Alters Blood Serum Meditation, yoga and vegetarian diet linked to decline in plasma metabolites associated with inflammation and cardiovascular disease risk In a novel controlled clinical trial, participants in a six-day Ayurvedic-based well-being program that featured a vegetarian diet, meditation, yoga and massages experienced measurable decreases in a […]

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]]> Scientific Revolution https://choprafoundation.org/other/scientific-revolution/ Wed, 24 Aug 2016 18:38:28 +0000 https://choprafoundation.org/?p=40272 Conversation with Deepak Chopra & Eric Schadt at Deepakhomebase https://choprafoundation.org/other/conversation-with-deepak-chopra-eric-schadt-at-deepakhomebase/ Wed, 24 Aug 2016 01:35:18 +0000 https://choprafoundation.org/?p=40269 Watch Deepak Chopra and Eric Schadt discuss the effects of meditation on epigenetics, gene expression, cell biology, anti-aging, and health: Facebook Live

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]]> What Is Your DNA Doing For You Right Now? https://choprafoundation.org/health/what-is-your-dna-doing-for-you-right-now/ Mon, 08 Aug 2016 22:06:07 +0000 https://choprafoundation.org/?p=40252 By Deepak Chopra, MD and Rudolph E. Tanzi, PhD Ever since its structure was unraveled in the early Fifties, DNA has been considered the mastermind of the cell. Sitting in splendid isolation in the cell’s nucleus, DNA encodes all of life. It sends duplicates of itself (RNA) to direct the manufacture of proteins; and proteins, […]

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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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]]> How to See the Whole Universe: Nonlocality and Acausality https://choprafoundation.org/science-consciousness/how-to-see-the-whole-universe-nonlocality-and-acausality/ Mon, 21 Mar 2016 02:09:53 +0000 https://choprafoundation.org/?p=40131 By Deepak Chopra, MD and Jennifer Nielsen   Whenever there’s a new breakthrough in science, a closer step is taken to seeing reality as a whole. Essentially science works on the jigsaw-puzzle principle: Having taken apart a picture of the Eiffel Tower or the Grand Canyon, reassembling the pieces gives you the whole picture again. Applied […]

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]]> If Science Is a Game, Here’s a Game-Changer https://choprafoundation.org/other/if-science-is-a-game-heres-a-game-changer/ Tue, 15 Mar 2016 18:12:14 +0000 https://choprafoundation.org/?p=40129   By Deepak Chopra, MD, Menas C. Kafatos, PhD   The quantum pioneer Erwin Schrödinger was one of the best thinkers about philosophy in a generation of physicists, around a century ago, that was rich in philosophers (a very rare breed today). One of Schrödinger’s most intriguing statements has explosive implications for the future of […]

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]]> Taking Personal Reality Seriously (Including Yours) https://choprafoundation.org/science-consciousness/taking-personal-reality-seriously-including-yours/ Mon, 07 Mar 2016 02:43:42 +0000 https://choprafoundation.org/?p=40126   By Deepak Chopra, MD   In college, a time-honored theme for assigning term papers is to discuss appearance versus reality, which can be applied to questions as diverse as “Is the ghost of Hamlet’s father real?” and “What was actually at stake in the Cold War?” But this intriguing topic doesn’t usually stick, and […]

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]]> Why Gravitational Waves Are Red Herrings https://choprafoundation.org/science-consciousness/why-gravitational-waves-are-red-herrings/ Sat, 05 Mar 2016 02:43:21 +0000 https://choprafoundation.org/?p=40125 By Deepak Chopra, MD, Menas C. Kafatos, PhD, Rudolph E. Tanzi, Ph.D. When big science gets a major boost, the news goes around the world with an air of celebration. The latest such event was the confirmation of gravitational waves, which were predicted by Einstein in his General Theory of Relativity. As enthusiastically explained by […]

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]]> Why Science Is Ultimately Spiritual, and Vice Versa https://choprafoundation.org/science-consciousness/why-science-is-ultimately-spiritual-and-vice-versa/ Mon, 22 Feb 2016 00:08:46 +0000 https://choprafoundation.org/?p=40118 By Deepak Chopra, MD   Despite attempts to reconcile science with the long history of spirituality, a gulf still exists between them–a totally unnecessary one. There is only one reality, and science differs from spirituality only in its style of describing what is real. If this is true, then it’s not simply an option to […]

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]]> Nature vs. Nurture Debunked: The Power of our Genes @ Digital Health Summit CES 2016 https://choprafoundation.org/video/nature-vs-nurture-debunked-the-power-of-our-genes-digital-health-summit-ces-2016/ Tue, 16 Feb 2016 00:05:27 +0000 https://choprafoundation.org/?p=40117 Courtesy of Digital Health Summit CES 2015   Speakers: Mike Feibus, Columnist; President and Principal at TechKnowledge Strategies, USA Today; Rudolph Tanzi, MD, Professor of Neurology, Harvard University; Deepak Chopra, MD, Founder, The Chopra Foundation

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]]> What’s the Point of Being Human? The Best Answer So Far. https://choprafoundation.org/science-consciousness/whats-the-point-of-being-human-the-best-answer-so-far/ Mon, 08 Feb 2016 19:16:04 +0000 https://choprafoundation.org/?p=40112 By Deepak Chopra, MD The point of being human is to push the envelope of being human. This is worth remembering when times are tough and we lose confidence in ourselves. No other creature on earth has the capacity to redefine itself. We do.  How humans gained this ability remains a totally mystery. Looking at […]

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]]> Which Universe Do You Want to Live In? It’s Your Choice https://choprafoundation.org/science-consciousness/which-universe-do-you-want-to-live-in-its-your-choice/ Mon, 31 Aug 2015 18:01:37 +0000 https://choprafoundation.org/?p=39822   By Deepak Chopra, MD, and Menas Kafatos, PhD   The night sky that you can view from your back yard is roughly the same, given a few changes in the positions of stars, as the night sky Galileo turned his telescope on to. But visual similarity is misleading. There have been half a dozen […]

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]]> A Conversation with Berit Brogaard and Deepak Chopra https://choprafoundation.org/people/a-conversation-with-berit-brogaard-and-deepak-chopra/ Tue, 11 Aug 2015 16:58:53 +0000 https://choprafoundation.org/?p=39626 [youtube]https://youtu.be/8lxO_q9bfRc[/youtube] Berit Brogaard and Deepak Chopra discuss the super human mind.

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]]> A Conversation with Fred Alan Wolfe and Deepak Chopra https://choprafoundation.org/consciousness/a-conversation-with-fred-alan-wolfe-and-deepak-chopra/ Fri, 07 Aug 2015 16:44:32 +0000 https://choprafoundation.org/?p=39625 [youtube]https://youtu.be/1NWJnO2-baA[/youtube] Fred Alan Wolf and Deepak Chopra discuss consciousness is the way the universe turns nothing into something, Fred explains why he thinks consciousness may be the stuff of the universe.

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]]> A Conversation with Rupert Spira & Deepak Chopra https://choprafoundation.org/people/a-conversation-with-rupert-spira-deepak-chopra/ Wed, 05 Aug 2015 00:38:37 +0000 https://choprafoundation.org/?p=39622 [youtube]https://youtu.be/bjik0C9PXx4[/youtube] Rupert Spira & Deepak Chopra discuss non dual reality. Rupert Spira, a masterful teacher, helps us to understand the nature of fundamental reality through meditation.

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]]> Conversation with Drs. Ruth Kastner and Deepak Chopra https://choprafoundation.org/people/conversation-with-drs-ruth-kastner-and-deepak-chopra/ Wed, 29 Jul 2015 00:42:27 +0000 https://choprafoundation.org/?p=39623   Drs. Ruth Kastner & Deepak Chopra discuss understanding our unseen reality. Quantum Physics mathematically describes reality at the smallest scales. However scientists argue over its interpretation and what it means. Dr Kastner explains the transactional interpretation.

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]]> Physics’ Split Personality: Is the Dark Side Winning? https://choprafoundation.org/science-consciousness/physics-split-personality-is-the-dark-side-winning/ Mon, 27 Jul 2015 17:22:17 +0000 https://choprafoundation.org/?p=39660 By Deepak Chopra, MD, and Menas Kafatos, PhD   For some time now most of the universe has gone dark. This startling news was brought to popular attention in a June Op-Ed piece in the New York Times called “A Crisis at the Edge of Physics.” It began, “Do physicists need empirical evidence to confirm […]

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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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]]> Curious Minds https://choprafoundation.org/people/curious-minds/ Wed, 22 Jul 2015 01:06:57 +0000 https://choprafoundation.org/?p=39619 Ignite the power of your mind and dive deep into consciousness,  watch “Curious Minds“ a brand new series of intimate dialogues around the science of our universe featuring nobel laureates, academicians, and thought leaders. Available now

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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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]]> Dr. Menas Kafatos and Deepak Chopra: Creative Cosmos https://choprafoundation.org/science-consciousness/dr-menas-kafatos-and-deepak-chopra-creative-cosmos/ Mon, 29 Jun 2015 17:17:46 +0000 https://choprafoundation.org/?p=39563 [youtube]https://youtu.be/kXtTuEOpAoA[/youtube] Is Consciousness Fundamental in the Universe. Which interpretation of Quantum Mechanics is most popular? Available soon on www.CuriosityStream.com: Deepak Chopra’s Curious Minds is a brand new series of intimate dialogues around the science of our universe ..featuring nobel laureates, academics & thought leaders.

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]]> How to Make Quantum Reality Our Reality: Looking for a Better Deal https://choprafoundation.org/other/how-to-make-quantum-reality-our-reality-looking-for-a-better-deal/ Mon, 29 Jun 2015 00:24:37 +0000 https://choprafoundation.org/?p=39560 How to Make Quantum Reality Our Reality: Looking for a Better Deal By Deepak Chopra, MD and Ruth E. Kastner, PhD   If you ask a scientist to talk about quantum mechanics, it’s predictable that the first thing he or she is likely to say is that this is the most successful theory in the […]

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]]> How to Overcome the Fear of Death–Two Possibilities https://choprafoundation.org/science-consciousness/how-to-overcome-the-fear-of-death-two-possibilities/ Mon, 08 Jun 2015 00:25:08 +0000 https://choprafoundation.org/?p=39542   By Deepak Chopra, MD   The fear of death always comes at or near the top of people’s worst fears. Some psychologists believe that this is such a potent fear, we push it down into the subconscious in order to avoid it. Yet from its hiding place the fear remains active, re-emerging in times […]

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]]> The President’s Tweets and the Future of Shame https://choprafoundation.org/consciousness/the-presidents-tweets-and-the-future-of-shame/ Tue, 26 May 2015 18:48:54 +0000 https://choprafoundation.org/?p=39536 By Deepak Chopra, MD   Last week the new Twitter account @POTUS of President Obama became a lightning rod for the worst in social media behavior. Within minutes of its setup, as reported in the New York Times, the account was flooded with vitriolic racist tweets, complete with hideous images, including one of Mr. Obama […]

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]]> Does Everything Happen for a Reason? https://choprafoundation.org/science-consciousness/does-everything-happen-for-a-reason/ Mon, 27 Apr 2015 00:06:54 +0000 https://choprafoundation.org/?p=39500 By Deepak Chopra, MD, and Jordan Flesher, MA Psychology The human mind can adapt to almost anything, but not chaos. No one can lead a completely random and chaotic life. The messy room of a teenager may look completely chaotic, but even there a decision was made. The choice was to be messy rather than […]

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]]> Life Makes Death Possible https://choprafoundation.org/other/life-makes-death-possible/ Thu, 29 Jan 2015 19:05:35 +0000 https://choprafoundation.org/?p=39297 Remember Me – Support Cure Alzheimer's Fund Research https://choprafoundation.org/science-consciousness/remember-me-support-cure-alzheimers-fund-research/ Mon, 26 Jan 2015 18:06:48 +0000 https://choprafoundation.org/?p=39292 “The Voice” and the Neuroscientist Team Up to Fight Alzheimer’s.  After meeting in a television studio this unlikely pair has teamed up with Cure Alzheimer’s Fund for a worthy cause: Campaign Remember Me.  Proceeds from sales of the song and direct donations will support innovative research into the causes of the disease and the development of effective […]

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]]> Powers of Mind: In Praise of Subtle Actions https://choprafoundation.org/science-consciousness/powers-of-mind-in-praise-of-subtle-actions/ Wed, 21 Jan 2015 23:01:33 +0000 https://choprafoundation.org/?p=39278 By Deepak Chopra   At a time when the mass of headlines seem to be about the brain, artificial intelligence, robotics, and smarter computers, not enough is said about the mind. When reduced to a mechanism, the mind somehow is thought to turn into the brain, with no difference between them. It’s true that the […]

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]]> Celebrating the message of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. https://choprafoundation.org/people/celebrating-the-message-of-dr-martin-luther-king-jr/ Mon, 19 Jan 2015 20:18:13 +0000 https://choprafoundation.org/?p=39273 Drs. Clarence B. Jones and Diane Nash joined our 2013 Sages and Scientists Symposium and share the history of the non violence movement and their continued commitment to social change.   Topic: The Legacy of Dr. King’s Commitment to Non Violence: The 21st Century Challenge to Our Nation  Topic: The Nonviolent Movement of the 1960’s: A Legacy […]

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]]> Can Science and Religion Save Each Other? (Part 2) https://choprafoundation.org/science-consciousness/can-science-and-religion-save-each-other-part-2/ Mon, 12 Jan 2015 20:51:10 +0000 https://choprafoundation.org/?p=39271 by Deepak Chopra, MD   Science is used to being dominant, and religion is used to being defensive–these are familiar poses for two worldviews, the one being on the rise, the other on the decline. Generally when an entire belief system is on the decline, it steadily disappears. There’s no need to believe that the […]

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]]> Can Science and Religion Save Each Other? https://choprafoundation.org/science-consciousness/can-science-and-religion-save-each-other/ Mon, 05 Jan 2015 20:46:14 +0000 https://choprafoundation.org/?p=39270 by Deepak Chopra, MD   A flurry of controversy surrounded the astronomer Neil deGrasse Tyson two weeks ago when he took a jab at religion in the name of science. It began Christmas day with a mischievous tweet: “On this day long ago, a child was born who, by age 30, would transform the world. […]

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]]> Death Makes Life Possible https://choprafoundation.org/video/death-makes-life-possible-3/ Fri, 19 Dec 2014 21:03:23 +0000 https://choprafoundation.org/?p=39265 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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]]> God Is the New Physics https://choprafoundation.org/other/god-is-the-new-physics/ Mon, 08 Dec 2014 16:37:08 +0000 https://choprafoundation.org/?p=39262 By Deepak Chopra, MD   When spirituality and physics started to be linked, many scientists called it the use of metaphor. It couldn’t literally be true that there was a Tao of Physics that linked quantum mechanics to ancient Chinese philosophy. At best there might be a weak link–God and the new physics–the way one […]

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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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]]> 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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]]> '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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]]> Sages and Scientists 2014 – The Merging of a New Future https://choprafoundation.org/people/sages-and-scientists-2014-the-merging-of-a-new-future/ Thu, 23 Oct 2014 01:41:05 +0000 https://choprafoundation.org/?p=39227 A Science of Miracles — No Longer Optional? (Part 2) https://choprafoundation.org/consciousness/a-science-of-miracles-no-longer-optional-part-2/ Wed, 15 Oct 2014 16:37:13 +0000 https://choprafoundation.org/?p=39222 By Deepak Chopra, MD For most people, miracles are something left behind in childhood. They require innocent belief, not adult rationality. The camp of vocal skeptics and atheists provide a crossroads, in fact, where one way leads to irrationality, the other to rationality, as if this definitively defines where the truth lies. If you don’t […]

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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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]]> Multi-institutional Collaborative Clinical Trial to Examine Health Benefits of Integrative Lifestyle Practices at the Chopra Center for Wellbeing https://choprafoundation.org/other/multi-institutional-collaborative-clinical-trial-to-examine-health-benefits-of-integrative-lifestyle-practices-at-the-chopra-center-for-wellbeing/ Mon, 15 Sep 2014 00:27:10 +0000 https://choprafoundation.org/?p=39034 Self-Directed Biological Transformation Initiative (SBTI) study will use latest mobile health sensors and genomic/cellular/metabolomics biomarkers  Scientists and clinicians from seven research institutions have joined together for a first of a kind clinical trial on a whole systems approach to wellbeing. Such an in-depth clinically focused study is unique because previous research studies have typically examined […]

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]]> Getting Real About Brain Science – A Challenge to the Current Model (Part 2) https://choprafoundation.org/health/getting-real-about-brain-science-a-challenge-to-the-current-model-part-2/ Mon, 08 Sep 2014 21:00:47 +0000 https://choprafoundation.org/?p=39032 By Deepak Chopra, MD, Bernardo Kastrup, PhD, Menas C. Kafatos, PhD, and Rudolph E. Tanzi, Phd   Brain research could someday hit a dead end if we do not address the basic question of what the brain truly is. Assuming that we know what the brain is won’t work—not forever. In the first part of this series the assumptions of […]

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]]> Getting Real About Brain Science – A Challenge to the Current Model https://choprafoundation.org/health/getting-real-about-brain-science-a-challenge-to-the-current-model/ Tue, 02 Sep 2014 18:11:47 +0000 https://choprafoundation.org/?p=39026 By Deepak Chopra, MD and Bernardo Kastrup, PhD It’s time to make up our minds about the brain. Every day, it seems, neuroscience announces new findings that uncover more and more of the brain’s secrets. The day cannot be far off, we are told, when the deepest mystery of all—how the brain produces consciousness—will be solved. At the […]

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]]> A Better Way to Approach Pain, and America's Pain-Pill Epidemic https://choprafoundation.org/health/a-better-way-to-approach-pain-and-americas-pain-pill-epidemic/ Mon, 01 Sep 2014 17:53:20 +0000 https://choprafoundation.org/?p=39022 By Deepak Chopra, M.D., FACP, and P. Murali Doraiswamy, MBBS, FRCP, Professor of Psychiatry, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina You may have noticed headlines about the rise of prescription drugs as a major cause of addiction and death by overdose. Pain pills are overshadowed by illegal drugs like heroin and their dangers masked by a certain air […]

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]]> Naïve Realism, Or the Strange Case of Physics and Fake Philosophers (Part 2) https://choprafoundation.org/consciousness/naive-realism-or-the-strange-case-of-physics-and-fake-philosophers-part-2/ Mon, 01 Sep 2014 17:37:51 +0000 https://choprafoundation.org/?p=39021 By Deepak Chopra, MD and Menas Kafatos,PhD Scientists have assigned the role of Mister Answer to science, the source of knowledge on every subject. This is peculiar because science does not accept a complete body of knowledge at any one time as final, therefore no answer can be final. This is how science progresses. Scientists though […]

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]]> Naïve Realism, Or the Strange Case of Physics and Fake Philosophers https://choprafoundation.org/science-consciousness/naive-realism-or-the-strange-case-of-physics-and-fake-philosophers/ Mon, 11 Aug 2014 17:01:57 +0000 https://choprafoundation.org/?p=38935 By Deepak Chopra, MD In a most unexpected way, physics has started to criticize its own sense of reality. Noted figures are speaking out against other noted figures, and heads are being knocked. A prime example: In the blog section of Scientific American, the highly respected South African physicist and cosmologist George Ellis says, quite […]

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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? Part 3 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-part-3/ Mon, 04 Aug 2014 16:27:53 +0000 https://choprafoundation.org/?p=38877   By Deepak Chopra, MD and Henry Stapp, PhD   Our previous two posts on the role of mind in nature have argued that rational analysis of the empirical evidence entails that the world is not only influenced by ideas, but consists of them. Of course, the everyday experience of a physical reality made of […]

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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? Part 2 https://choprafoundation.org/consciousness/is-a-mind-element-needed-to-interpret-quantum-mechanics-do-physically-undetermined-choices-enter-into-the-evolution-of-the-physical-universe-part-2/ Mon, 28 Jul 2014 21:30:34 +0000 https://choprafoundation.org/?p=38880 By Deepak Chopra, MD and Henry Stapp, PhD The time is ripe for a theory of cosmic mind to be seen by all scientists, not as a speculative notion that conflicts with basic scientific principles, but as a necessary part of a rational science- based understanding of ourselves and nature. The earlier idea, cemented into […]

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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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]]> Getting Zombies Excited (It Takes a Million-Dollar Challenge) https://choprafoundation.org/other/getting-zombies-excited-it-takes-a-million-dollar-challenge/ Wed, 09 Jul 2014 17:42:34 +0000 https://choprafoundation.org/?p=38846 By Deepak Chopra, MD   In science, problems get solved faster when the pot begins to boil. Dormant questions need motivation, which is why I posed a million-dollar challenge to anyone in the materialist camp who could demonstrate how matter turns into mind. (Please see the two preceding posts, which set up this provocative issue.) […]

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