consciousness - The Chopra Foundation https://choprafoundation.org Committed to Creating a Peaceful, Just, Sustainable, Healthy, and Joyful World. Thu, 30 Jan 2020 20:44:38 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://choprafoundation.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/cropped-CF-Favicon-2-32x32.png consciousness - The Chopra Foundation https://choprafoundation.org 32 32 The True Meaning of Meditation https://choprafoundation.org/other/the-true-meaning-of-meditation/ Mon, 11 Jun 2018 00:00:02 +0000 https://choprafoundation.org/?p=40837 By Deepak Chopra, MD The American way of meditation is now firmly a part of our lifestyle, and millions of people who have taken up yoga and learned about mindfulness feel quite comfortable meditating. I’m saying “the American way,” because it took scientific research and the promise of improved health to convince the average person […]

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]]> Welcome to the Society for the Suppression of Curiosity https://choprafoundation.org/articles/welcome-to-the-society-for-the-suppression-of-curiosity/ Mon, 29 Jan 2018 10:40:59 +0000 https://choprafoundation.org/?p=40738 By Deepak Chopra, MD The secular world is built upon science, which overturned the world of faith. Exchanging spiritual beliefs for objective facts looks like a clear-cut choice, but it isn’t. In all our lives there are values like compassion and loving kindness that are not scientific, and so everyday life straddles two worlds. In […]

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]]> How to Be Your Own Medical Advocate https://choprafoundation.org/articles/how-to-be-your-own-medical-advocate/ Mon, 08 Jan 2018 20:24:02 +0000 https://choprafoundation.org/?p=40697 By Deepak Chopra, MD and Rudolph E. Tanzi, PhD When the average person goes to the doctor, shows up at the ER, or enters the hospital, the possibility of controlling what happens next is minimal. We put ourselves in the hands of the medical machine, which in reality rests upon individual people—doctors, nurses, physician’s assistants, […]

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]]> Artificial Intelligence, False Gods, and Driverless Everything https://choprafoundation.org/articles/artificial-intelligence-false-gods-and-driverless-everything/ Tue, 19 Dec 2017 01:44:35 +0000 https://choprafoundation.org/?p=40680 By Deepak Chopra, MD and P. Murali Doraiswamy, MD Artificial Intelligence (A.) has succeeded by being far-seeing; it’s a field where proponents began by envisioning a computer that can take over functions of the human brain, like computation and logic. Today the field has progressed to the point where algorithms can recognize photos, speech and […]

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]]> The AI Paradox: How Computers Will Make Us More Human https://choprafoundation.org/articles/the-ai-paradox-how-computers-will-make-us-more-human/ Mon, 11 Dec 2017 00:00:03 +0000 https://choprafoundation.org/?p=40666 By Deepak Chopra, MD Various scientific fields over the course of history have hoped to master nature for the benefit of humankind. At the top of the heap right now is artificial intelligence (AI), which has allied itself with the technology of robotics. Between them AI and robotics are having a sizable impact on the […]

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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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]]> 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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]]> Artificial Intelligence Is Already Here—It’s Us https://choprafoundation.org/articles/artificial-intelligence-is-already-here-its-us/ Mon, 30 Oct 2017 00:00:04 +0000 https://choprafoundation.org/?p=40638 Deepak Chopra, MD As news keeps pouring out about the latest advances in artificial intelligence (AI), people don’t know how much to welcome the technology or fear it. There are warnings from top-level scientists about a future in which super computers become so advanced that they leap into autonomy. Freed to make their own decisions, […]

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]]> How Reality Is Made: The Play of Consciousness https://choprafoundation.org/articles/how-reality-is-made-the-play-of-consciousness/ Mon, 23 Oct 2017 00:00:41 +0000 https://choprafoundation.org/?p=40632 By Deepak Chopra, MD It’s a peculiar part of being human that we have both a mind and consciousness but cannot tell them apart. The difference is that the mind is constantly in motion, producing sensations, thoughts, images, and feelings, while consciousness is the basic “stuff” of the mind, which remains unchanged no matter how […]

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]]> A Surprising Answer to “Who Am I? https://choprafoundation.org/articles/a-surprising-answer-to-who-am-i/ Mon, 12 Jun 2017 00:00:29 +0000 https://choprafoundation.org/?p=40539 By Deepak Chopra, MD Not many people reflect philosophically on the age-old question, “Who am I?” For practical purposes, everyday life depends on accepting the self that gets up in the morning, eats breakfast, and goes off to work. This makes it seem as if “Who am I?” is a given. But in fact, it […]

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]]> Closing the Truth Gap and How to Close It https://choprafoundation.org/articles/closing-the-truth-gap-and-how-to-close-it/ Mon, 05 Jun 2017 00:00:58 +0000 https://choprafoundation.org/?p=40537 By Deepak Chopra, MD There’s a truth gap that has nothing to do with facts versus lies in politics. Rather, it has to do with how we verify that something is true. Without doing it consciously, everyone shifts their “mode of knowing” all the time. That phrase is necessary because everyday truth is relative. It […]

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]]> Grounding the Human Body for Health : https://choprafoundation.org/articles/grounding-the-human-body-for-health/ Mon, 29 May 2017 00:00:33 +0000 https://choprafoundation.org/?p=40534 By Marty Zucker, Gaetan Chevalier, PhD, Clint Ober, Paul J. Mills, Deepak Chopra, MD The Earth is like a gigantic battery that contains a natural, subtle electric charge—a special kind of energy present in the ground. For safety and stability, almost everything in the electrical world is connected to the ground, whether it is an […]

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]]> Green Shoots in a Desert Kingdom https://choprafoundation.org/articles/green-shoots-in-a-desert-kingdom/ Mon, 15 May 2017 17:50:12 +0000 https://choprafoundation.org/?p=40525 By Deepak Chopra, MD Although fears over our planetary woes make headlines and keep people up at night, it should be apparent that finding solutions is about our mindset. The mindset of dread contributes to passivity and depression. Recently I encountered a mindset that holds promise because it combines consciousness-awareness raising with technology. The green […]

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]]> The “New Old Age” Just Got Better https://choprafoundation.org/articles/the-new-old-age-just-got-better/ Mon, 08 May 2017 21:56:19 +0000 https://choprafoundation.org/?p=40521 By Deepak Chopra, MD, Rudolph E. Tanzi, PhD   For at least two decades we’ve been living with a drastic revision of growing old. What is now dubbed the “old old age” prevailed for centuries; it was a set of beliefs that turned the aging process into inevitable decline physically and mentally. After a lifetime […]

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]]> https://choprafoundation.org/articles/40516/ Mon, 01 May 2017 10:27:40 +0000 https://choprafoundation.org/?p=40516 By Deepak Chopra, MD and Pankaj S. Joshi, PhD Although it takes place outside the headlines, even those that deal with science, a heated debate is occurring about mind and matter. On one side is a camp of so-called physicalists, formerly known as materialists, who hold fast to the assumption that any and all phenomena […]

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]]> The Evolving Cosmos: Is Reality Getting Any Closer https://choprafoundation.org/articles/the-evolving-cosmos-is-reality-getting-any-closer/ Mon, 24 Apr 2017 00:00:54 +0000 https://choprafoundation.org/?p=40505 By Deepak Chopra, MD and Pankaj S. Joshi, PhD Science is the modern authority for telling us what’s real, using verifiable facts to prove its theories. Over the last century many facts have emerged about the nature of the universe, and since we know we live in an evolving universe since the big bang occurred […]

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]]> How Does Something Come Out of Nothing? A Cosmic Tale https://choprafoundation.org/articles/how-does-something-come-out-of-nothing-a-cosmic-tale/ Tue, 18 Apr 2017 00:03:20 +0000 https://choprafoundation.org/?p=40503 By Deepak Chopra, MD and Prof. Pankaj S. Joshi The question of where the universe came from isn’t solved by pointing to the big bang, because this begs the question of where it came from. In physics creation is often dubbed “something out of nothing,” meaning that the entire observable cosmos emerged from a pre-created […]

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]]> A Meditation to Restore Hope, Faith, and Trust https://choprafoundation.org/articles/a-meditation-to-restore-hope-faith-and-trust/ Mon, 10 Apr 2017 00:00:22 +0000 https://choprafoundation.org/?p=40498 By Deepak Chopra, MD and Steve Israel Everyone has been experiencing the ill effects of disruptive politics. Thinking of the present situation in terms of a partisan divide doesn’t go far enough–there has been a wholesale loss of trust. Hope for a better future is defeated on a daily basis. Faith in the democratic system […]

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]]> Have Human Beings Stopped Evolving? https://choprafoundation.org/articles/have-human-beings-stopped-evolving/ Mon, 20 Mar 2017 00:00:33 +0000 https://choprafoundation.org/?p=40485 By Deepak Chopra, MD No idea has become baked into the social fabric than Darwinism, and yet Darwin himself never meant this to happen. In his mind, he was scientifically describing “the descent of species,” a specific notion of how life forms changed over time. Evolution was a rebuttal of the prevailing concept that species […]

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]]> Reality Is Structured in Consciousness https://choprafoundation.org/other/reality-is-structured-in-consciousness/ Mon, 13 Mar 2017 00:00:16 +0000 https://choprafoundation.org/?p=40483 By Deepak Chopra, MD One of the most surprising survivors in our society, long counted out as either moribund or dead, is philosophy. The “love of truth,” as the Greek term describes, was defeated by science and its love of facts. So it was unexpected when the New York Times ran an op-ed piece titled […]

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]]> How to Be a Know-It-All (For Real) https://choprafoundation.org/articles/how-to-be-a-know-it-all-for-real/ Mon, 06 Mar 2017 00:00:12 +0000 https://choprafoundation.org/?p=40478 By Deepak Chopra, MD Omniscience, the ability to know everything, has a strong spiritual tradition, which places it as a divine quality, not a human one. In secular society, artificial intelligence grabs headlines while omniscience, except for those who believe in an all-knowing God, is an archaic notion. But there’s a reason why omniscience arose […]

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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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]]> What Came Before the Big Bang? A Surprise Answer https://choprafoundation.org/articles/what-came-before-the-big-bang-a-surprise-answer/ Mon, 09 Jan 2017 20:23:16 +0000 https://choprafoundation.org/?p=40419 By Deepak Chopra, MD and  Menas Kafatos, PhD The most widely accepted notions about the universe are central to how we view reality. One striking example links birth and death. In the age of faith, religion existed to reassure believers about a higher plane of reality. On this plane, the everyday experience of birth and […]

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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 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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]]> 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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]]> Who Controls Your Mind? (Hint: It’s Not Your Brain) https://choprafoundation.org/consciousness/who-controls-your-mind-hint-its-not-your-brain/ Mon, 01 Feb 2016 01:46:36 +0000 https://choprafoundation.org/?p=40093   By Deepak Chopra, MD One of the easiest bets to win is to offer a million dollars to anyone who can accurately predict their next thought.  It would be foolhardy to accept such a bet. As we all experience every day–and yet rarely notice–our thoughts are unpredictable and spontaneous. They come and go at […]

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]]> There Is No Absolute Evil–Here’s Why https://choprafoundation.org/consciousness/there-is-no-absolute-evil-heres-why/ Fri, 29 Jan 2016 17:44:47 +0000 https://choprafoundation.org/?p=40092 By Deepak Chopra, MD   At the turn of the new year it feels as if evil is more present and dangerous than ever. One component of worldwide fear is terrorism, and in the minds of religious fanatics who turn to terror tactics, there’s a black-and-white conception of evil. This mental picture of God battling […]

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]]> Will Pope Francis Become a Holy Man for the World? https://choprafoundation.org/consciousness/will-pope-francis-become-a-holy-man-for-the-world/ Mon, 04 Jan 2016 19:19:40 +0000 https://choprafoundation.org/?p=40044 By Deepak Chopra, MD Pope Francis I is poised to be more than a very popular pontiff graced with humility and an approach of love and gentleness, two words he often uses. He could rise to become a symbol of holiness beyond the Catholic Church, as the Dalai Lama is a symbol of enlightenment beyond […]

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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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]]> Faith, Itself, Must Evolve in Our Modern World https://choprafoundation.org/other/faith-itself-must-evolve-in-our-modern-world/ Mon, 21 Sep 2015 18:01:16 +0000 https://choprafoundation.org/?p=39862 Originally published by MariaShriver.com on September 21, 2015 Faith, Itself, Must Evolve in Our Modern World By Deepak Chopra, MD Photo Credit: Jacob Sciacchitano, Unsplash Like everything in human life, faith evolves—or not. Among the species on the planet in danger of extinction is the creature of simple faith, a person who accepts the supernatural reality […]

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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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]]> 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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]]> 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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]]> 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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]]> 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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]]> Synchronicity, Evolution, and Your Genes (Part 1) https://choprafoundation.org/consciousness/synchronicity-evolution-and-your-genes-part-1/ Mon, 30 Mar 2015 21:05:41 +0000 https://choprafoundation.org/?p=39408 By Deepak Chopra, MD, and Jordan Flesher   Over the past decade, the hunt for genetic connections with behavior as intensified. For any experience, there must be a physical activity in the brain—otherwise, the experience has no basis. Using this irrefutable assumption, researchers have looked for the seat of anger, criminal behavior, gender identification, the […]

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]]> The Best Way to Get Rid of Evil https://choprafoundation.org/consciousness/the-best-way-to-get-rid-of-evil/ Mon, 23 Mar 2015 21:01:58 +0000 https://choprafoundation.org/?p=39407 By Deepak Chopra, MD   The best way to get rid of evil is to change our ideas about it. The two concepts about evil that do nothing to end it are, first, the concept of cosmic evil embodied by Satan, and second, the concept of human evil as a permanent human inheritance, part of […]

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]]> Why Spirituality Matters More than Ever https://choprafoundation.org/consciousness/why-spirituality-matters-more-than-ever/ Mon, 09 Feb 2015 20:22:55 +0000 https://choprafoundation.org/?p=39309 By Deepak Chopra, MD In troubled times, when the world seems to be on fire, people think about God and the religion they were raised in–a source of solace and hope matters more in a crisis. I don’t find myself thinking about spirituality in those terms, however. Like a winter coat that’s put away in […]

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]]> Do Your Emotions Help You or Hold You Back? https://choprafoundation.org/consciousness/do-your-emotions-help-you-or-hold-you-back/ Fri, 23 Jan 2015 21:25:27 +0000 https://choprafoundation.org/?p=39300   By Deepak Chopra, MD Recently, a close friend of mine made the remark that our emotions for the most part are basic, primal, immature, and unevolved. Ever since then, I have been ruminating on the validity of this statement. If our emotions are basically primitive, then how they be our allies, especially on the […]

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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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]]> 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 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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]]> 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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]]> 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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]]> Solving Climate Change Now: The Clean Energy “Moonshot” Approach https://choprafoundation.org/other/solving-climate-change-now-the-clean-energy-moonshot-approach/ Fri, 17 Oct 2014 22:15:41 +0000 https://choprafoundation.org/?p=39224   Picking climate change as the problem I’d like to fix is the easy part — who wouldn’t pick it? The hard part is to envision a solution that isn’t either blue sky or far away in the future. That’s where a unique program called the California Clean Energy “Moonshot” offers a real-time, present moment […]

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]]> 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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]]> 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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]]> 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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]]> 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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]]> 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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]]> 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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]]> 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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]]> Can Current Science Give Us Access to Reality? https://choprafoundation.org/other/is-the-scientific-method-as-now-practiced-enough-to-get-us-the-nature-of-fundamental-reality/ Wed, 23 Apr 2014 22:23:06 +0000 https://choprafoundation.org/?p=38642 Can the Scientific Method as now practiced and based on naive realism http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naïve_realism; give us access to the nature of Fundamental Reality  – the “stuff” or “essence” of the universe? Deepak Chopra, MD, Menas Kafatos, PhD, and Neil Theise, MD Here are some of our thoughts, gleaned from our own contemplative practices, meditation, experiences of transcendence and […]

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]]> Will the “Real” Reality Please Stand Up? https://choprafoundation.org/consciousness/38723/ Mon, 21 Apr 2014 23:06:35 +0000 http://54.241.22.76/?p=38723 By Deepak Chopra, MD In the pursuit of knowledge about the universe, recent discoveries have pushed earlier than the Big Bang, bringing physics to the point when the early universe was doubling in size every hundredth of a trillionth of a trillionth of a trillionth of a second.  Such fine-scale measurement is awe-inspiring. The technicalities […]

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]]> Is the Universe Evolving? https://choprafoundation.org/consciousness/38709/ Thu, 17 Apr 2014 19:19:24 +0000 https://choprafoundation.org/?p=38709 By Deepak Chopra, MD Behind the mask of matter, something more mysterious is happening in the universe. To get at the mystery, let’s follow the path a hydrogen atom might take over the thirteen billions years or so following its creation.  First it drifts out into space in a completely disorganized, random fashion, bouncing around […]

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]]> Five Spiritual Mysteries: #1 Is Karma Fair? (Part 2) https://choprafoundation.org/other/five-spiritual-mysteries-1-is-karma-fair-part-2/ Tue, 01 Apr 2014 23:55:56 +0000 https://choprafoundation.org/?p=38659 By Deepak Chopra, MD Even at a time when religion is declining in the West, most people remember the Biblical saying “As you sow, so shall you reap.” they cling to a belief taught in childhood, that good is rewarded and evil punished. In the first post we started to look at the possibility that […]

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]]> Online Consciousness Course, Starting April 27, 2014 https://choprafoundation.org/consciousness/online-consciousness-course-starting-april-27-2014/ Tue, 25 Mar 2014 16:55:19 +0000 https://choprafoundation.org/?p=38627 The question “Who am I?” and its related search for a firm reality underlying all appearances has been at the core of humanity’s search for self-understanding. In recent years, neuroscience research has developed to the point where it is beginning to converge with the styles of questioning from philosophy and the “wisdom” traditions. This online […]

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]]> Hidden Truths: Going Beyond Common-Sense Reality (Part 3) https://choprafoundation.org/other/hidden-truths-going-beyond-common-sense-reality-part-3/ Thu, 20 Mar 2014 00:07:50 +0000 https://choprafoundation.org/?p=38606 By Deepak Chopra, MD, Menas C. Kafatos, Ph.D., and Subhash Kak, Ph.D.   We all live in the common-sense world, trusting in our five senses as if they transmit all reality to us. Yet the quantum revolution, as we’ve detailed in the last two posts, long ago undermined such a world view. We’ve argued that […]

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]]> Hidden Truths: Going Beyond Common-Sense Reality (Part 2) https://choprafoundation.org/other/hidden-truths-going-beyond-common-sense-reality-part-2/ Mon, 10 Mar 2014 19:40:53 +0000 https://choprafoundation.org/?p=38531 By Deepak Chopra, MD, Menas  Kafatos, Ph.D., and Subhash Kak, Ph.D. Although everyone as a practical matter accepts “reality as given” – the world presented by the five senses – that common-sense version of the world was radically undermined over a century ago with the advent of relativity and quantum theory.  Equally dramatically, results from […]

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]]> Radical Well being: Where We Need to Go (Part 2) https://choprafoundation.org/health/radical-well-being-where-we-need-to-go-part-2/ Mon, 24 Feb 2014 00:01:11 +0000 https://choprafoundation.org/?p=38486   By Deepak Chopra, MD, FACP and Rudolph E. Tanzi, PhD     There are two reasons why radical well being hasn’t captured the imagination of the general public. As we saw in the first part, people all too often let their health go and then depend on the standard medical approach of drugs and surgery. […]

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]]> The Future of God https://choprafoundation.org/science-consciousness/the-future-of-god/ Wed, 19 Feb 2014 00:21:01 +0000 https://choprafoundation.org/?p=38476 What Is Cosmic Consciousness? The Quest for Hidden Reality (Part 2) https://choprafoundation.org/consciousness/what-is-cosmic-consciousness-the-quest-for-hidden-reality-part-2/ https://choprafoundation.org/consciousness/what-is-cosmic-consciousness-the-quest-for-hidden-reality-part-2/#respond Mon, 27 Jan 2014 04:19:34 +0000 https://choprafoundation.org/?p=38424 By Deepak Chopra, MD, FACP, and Menas Kafatos, Ph.D. The question at hand is whether there is such a thing as higher consciousness? We are using the term “cosmic consciousness” to denote a state of awareness that knows itself completely, a state of inner silence that is in direct contact with existence. Such a state […]

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]]> https://choprafoundation.org/consciousness/what-is-cosmic-consciousness-the-quest-for-hidden-reality-part-2/feed/ 0 Fred Alan Wolf https://choprafoundation.org/other/fred-alan-wolf/ https://choprafoundation.org/other/fred-alan-wolf/#respond Thu, 23 Jan 2014 02:23:14 +0000 https://choprafoundation.org/?p=38409 Fred Alan Wolfe shares a very interesting concept: CLICK: Fred Alan Wolf movie    

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]]> https://choprafoundation.org/other/fred-alan-wolf/feed/ 0 What Is Cosmic Consciousness? The Quest for Hidden Reality https://choprafoundation.org/consciousness/what-is-cosmic-consciousness-the-quest-for-hidden-reality/ https://choprafoundation.org/consciousness/what-is-cosmic-consciousness-the-quest-for-hidden-reality/#respond Mon, 20 Jan 2014 02:58:17 +0000 https://choprafoundation.org/?p=38403 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 […]

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]]> https://choprafoundation.org/consciousness/what-is-cosmic-consciousness-the-quest-for-hidden-reality/feed/ 0 What Is Consciousness & Where Is It? https://choprafoundation.org/consciousness/what-is-consciousness-where-is-it/ https://choprafoundation.org/consciousness/what-is-consciousness-where-is-it/#respond Tue, 31 Dec 2013 18:45:20 +0000 https://choprafoundation.org/?p=38122 [youtube]http://youtu.be/vXC0RUH1axE[/youtube]   What is the fundamental activity in the universe? Although neuroscience has made enormous progress in looking at the brain correlates of subjective and objective experience, there is still no theory on how we experience mental or perceptual reality. This is known as the “hard problem” in consciousness research. • Is there a scientifically […]

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]]> https://choprafoundation.org/consciousness/what-is-consciousness-where-is-it/feed/ 0 A Better Answer to “Who Am I?” https://choprafoundation.org/consciousness/38108/ https://choprafoundation.org/consciousness/38108/#respond Mon, 30 Dec 2013 17:52:00 +0000 https://choprafoundation.org/?p=38108 By Deepak Chopra, MD, FACP  image credit: h.koppdelaney It’s strange that we use the word “I” more often in a day than any other word except “a” and “the” without really knowing who “I” is. Ancient thinkers, both East and West, considered the self to be the highest mystery. The ultimate question, then, is “Who […]

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]]> https://choprafoundation.org/consciousness/38108/feed/ 0 “What Is Consciousness & Where Is It?” – a panel conversation recorded at Science and Nonduality Conference 2013 with Rudolph Tanzi, Menas Kafatos and Lothar Schäfer facilitated by Deepak Chopra https://choprafoundation.org/science-consciousness/what-is-consciousness-where-is-it-a-panel-conversation-recorded-at-science-and-nonduality-conference-2013-with-rudolph-tanzi-menas-kafatos-and-lothar-schafer-facilitated-by-deepak-chopra/ https://choprafoundation.org/science-consciousness/what-is-consciousness-where-is-it-a-panel-conversation-recorded-at-science-and-nonduality-conference-2013-with-rudolph-tanzi-menas-kafatos-and-lothar-schafer-facilitated-by-deepak-chopra/#respond Thu, 14 Nov 2013 18:30:22 +0000 https://choprafoundation.org/?p=37991   [youtube]http://youtu.be/scI9ZFImN8o[/youtube] What is the fundamental activity in the universe? Although neuroscience has made enormous progress in looking at the brain correlates of subjective and objective experience, there is still no theory on how we experience mental or perceptual reality. Where our memories are stored? Is there a scientifically viable way to explain consciousness? Does […]

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]]> https://choprafoundation.org/science-consciousness/what-is-consciousness-where-is-it-a-panel-conversation-recorded-at-science-and-nonduality-conference-2013-with-rudolph-tanzi-menas-kafatos-and-lothar-schafer-facilitated-by-deepak-chopra/feed/ 0 The Rise and Fall of Militant Skepticism https://choprafoundation.org/consciousness/the-rise-and-fall-of-militant-skepticism/ https://choprafoundation.org/consciousness/the-rise-and-fall-of-militant-skepticism/#respond Mon, 04 Nov 2013 00:57:24 +0000 https://choprafoundation.org/?p=37946   By Deepak Chopra, M.D., FACP   Skepticism has gotten itself into a pickle – perhaps something a lot more serious than a pickle – that is undermining its good name. The credibility of Wikipedia may be at stake (see below). We live in a skeptical age, because the cornerstone of science, “Everything must be […]

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]]> https://choprafoundation.org/consciousness/the-rise-and-fall-of-militant-skepticism/feed/ 0 Thinking Outside the (Skull) Box – Part 5 https://choprafoundation.org/science-consciousness/thinking-outside-the-skull-box-part-5/ https://choprafoundation.org/science-consciousness/thinking-outside-the-skull-box-part-5/#respond Mon, 09 Sep 2013 00:59:56 +0000 https://choprafoundation.org/?p=37816 By Deepak Chopra, M.D., FACP, Menas C. Kafatos, Ph.D., Fletcher Jones Endowed Professor in Computational Physics, Chapman University, P. Murali Doraiswamy, MBBS, FRCP, Professor of Psychiatry, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, Rudolph E. Tanzi, Ph.D., Joseph P. and Rose F. Kennedy Professor of Neurology at Harvard University, and Director of the Genetics and […]

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]]> https://choprafoundation.org/science-consciousness/thinking-outside-the-skull-box-part-5/feed/ 0 Dawkins and Chopra Debate https://choprafoundation.org/other/dawkins-and-chopra-debate/ https://choprafoundation.org/other/dawkins-and-chopra-debate/#comments Tue, 03 Sep 2013 19:18:24 +0000 https://choprafoundation.org/?p=37783 Deepak Chopra and Richard Dawkins will debate at CDI La Ciudad de las Idea 2013.   Pre register.

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]]> https://choprafoundation.org/other/dawkins-and-chopra-debate/feed/ 1 Can the Truth Come Back With a Capital “T”? (Part 4) https://choprafoundation.org/articles/can-the-truth-come-back-with-a-capital-t-part-4/ https://choprafoundation.org/articles/can-the-truth-come-back-with-a-capital-t-part-4/#respond Mon, 05 Aug 2013 20:05:09 +0000 https://choprafoundation.org/?p=37483 By Deepak Chopra, M.D., FACP, Menas C. Kafatos, Ph.D., Fletcher Jones Endowed Professor in Computational Physics, Chapman University, P. Murali Doraiswamy, MBBS, FRCP, Professor of Psychiatry, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, Rudolph E. Tanzi, Ph.D., Joseph P. and Rose F. Kennedy Professor of Neurology at Harvard University, and Director of the Genetics and […]

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]]> https://choprafoundation.org/articles/can-the-truth-come-back-with-a-capital-t-part-4/feed/ 0 Can the Truth Come Back with a Capital “T”? – Part 2 https://choprafoundation.org/articles/can-the-truth-come-back-with-a-capital-t-part-2/ https://choprafoundation.org/articles/can-the-truth-come-back-with-a-capital-t-part-2/#respond Mon, 22 Jul 2013 20:50:49 +0000 https://choprafoundation.org/?p=37450 Can the Truth Come Back With a Capital “T”? (Part 2) By Deepak Chopra, M.D., FACP, Menas C. Kafatos, Ph.D., Fletcher Jones Endowed Professor in Computational Physics, Chapman University, P. Murali Doraiswamy, MBBS, FRCP, Professor of Psychiatry, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, Rudolph E. Tanzi, Ph.D., Joseph P. and Rose F. Kennedy Professor […]

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]]> https://choprafoundation.org/articles/can-the-truth-come-back-with-a-capital-t-part-2/feed/ 0 Reply to Chris Anderson, TED and the TED Community: We’re Halfway There, But… https://choprafoundation.org/consciousness/reply-to-chris-anderson-ted-and-the-ted-community-were-halfway-there-but/ https://choprafoundation.org/consciousness/reply-to-chris-anderson-ted-and-the-ted-community-were-halfway-there-but/#respond Sat, 20 Apr 2013 03:19:51 +0000 https://choprafoundation.org/?p=37001 By Deepak Chopra, MD, Founder and CEO, The Chopra Foundation Originally Posted on Huffington Post : 04/19/2013 10:10 pm Dear Chris, Thank you for clearing up some issues, particularly the confusion surrounding TEDx’s decision to take down or shift the talks by Sheldrake and Hancock. Actions speak louder than words, and the talks were removed […]

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]]> https://choprafoundation.org/consciousness/reply-to-chris-anderson-ted-and-the-ted-community-were-halfway-there-but/feed/ 0 The Science Delusion: Rupert Sheldrake at Tedx White Chapel https://choprafoundation.org/consciousness/the-science-delusion-rupert-sheldrake-at-tedx-white-chapel/ https://choprafoundation.org/consciousness/the-science-delusion-rupert-sheldrake-at-tedx-white-chapel/#respond Mon, 11 Mar 2013 16:47:27 +0000 https://choprafoundation.org/?p=36872 [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kO4-9l8IWFQ[/youtube] In Rupert Sheldrake’s presentation, The Science Delusion: Science Set Free, he discusses  the ten dogmas/assumptions of science and turns them into questions. Sheldrake challenges the viewers to rethink their sense of reality and what is possible.    

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]]> https://choprafoundation.org/consciousness/the-science-delusion-rupert-sheldrake-at-tedx-white-chapel/feed/ 0 Daily Inspiration https://choprafoundation.org/consciousness/daily-inspiration-63/ https://choprafoundation.org/consciousness/daily-inspiration-63/#respond Wed, 16 Jan 2013 19:39:15 +0000 https://choprafoundation.org/?p=36594 Practice empathy so that you can experience the world through someone else’s eyes.

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]]> https://choprafoundation.org/consciousness/daily-inspiration-63/feed/ 0 Daily Inspiration https://choprafoundation.org/consciousness/daily-inspiration-61/ https://choprafoundation.org/consciousness/daily-inspiration-61/#respond Wed, 16 Jan 2013 02:47:08 +0000 https://choprafoundation.org/?p=36588 Be passionate about your life and the experiences you fill it with. Enthusiastically learn new things.

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]]> https://choprafoundation.org/consciousness/daily-inspiration-61/feed/ 0 Daily Inspiration https://choprafoundation.org/consciousness/daily-inspiration-60/ https://choprafoundation.org/consciousness/daily-inspiration-60/#respond Mon, 14 Jan 2013 02:44:51 +0000 https://choprafoundation.org/?p=36586 Value yourself. Don’t wait for the approval of others to validate you. Instead of desiring external validation, strive to help others.

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]]> https://choprafoundation.org/consciousness/daily-inspiration-60/feed/ 0 Daily Inspiration https://choprafoundation.org/consciousness/daily-inspiration-58/ https://choprafoundation.org/consciousness/daily-inspiration-58/#respond Fri, 11 Jan 2013 01:28:44 +0000 https://choprafoundation.org/?p=36552 By devoting more energy to any endeavor you increase the reward of understanding that will come to you.

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]]> https://choprafoundation.org/consciousness/daily-inspiration-58/feed/ 0 DAILY INSPIRATION https://choprafoundation.org/consciousness/daily-inspiration-57/ https://choprafoundation.org/consciousness/daily-inspiration-57/#respond Wed, 09 Jan 2013 01:30:31 +0000 https://choprafoundation.org/?p=36532 Experience your awareness not as a stream of thoughts but as the potential for becoming who you want to be.

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]]> https://choprafoundation.org/consciousness/daily-inspiration-57/feed/ 0 AskDeepak: Love and Relationships https://choprafoundation.org/consciousness/askdeepak-love-and-relationships/ https://choprafoundation.org/consciousness/askdeepak-love-and-relationships/#respond Fri, 14 Dec 2012 01:41:29 +0000 https://choprafoundation.org/?p=36247 Join Deepak on a journey of personal, social, global and spiritual transformation and ease your mind and soul. Addressed within are reflections, thoughts, and inspirations on big questions about love and relationships. The ASK DEEPAK e-book series was created to encourage people to live healthier, fuller lives and to be more aware. Deepak Chopra delivers […]

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]]> https://choprafoundation.org/consciousness/askdeepak-love-and-relationships/feed/ 0 Super Brain with Rudy Tanzi https://choprafoundation.org/consciousness/super-brain-with-rudy-tanzi/ https://choprafoundation.org/consciousness/super-brain-with-rudy-tanzi/#respond Wed, 28 Nov 2012 21:27:02 +0000 https://choprafoundation.org/?p=36146 PBS hosts Rudy Tanzi, recipient of the 2012 Chopra Foundation’s Rustum Roy Spirit Award.  The program explores new discoveries in neuroscience that maximize the potential of the human brain in practical and actional ways and discusses Rudy and Deepak’s new book, Super Brain. Check your local listings. New York Times’ Bestseller: Super Brain: Unleashing the Explosive […]

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]]> https://choprafoundation.org/consciousness/super-brain-with-rudy-tanzi/feed/ 0 Five Myths to Dispel About Your Brain https://choprafoundation.org/consciousness/five-myths-to-dispel-about-your-brain/ https://choprafoundation.org/consciousness/five-myths-to-dispel-about-your-brain/#respond Wed, 07 Nov 2012 02:42:37 +0000 https://choprafoundation.org/?p=35953 By Rudolph E. Tanzi, Ph.D., is the Joseph P. and Rose F. Kennedy Professor of Neurology at Harvard University, and Director of the Genetics and Aging Research Unit at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH).  How many of us grew up believing that the brain we are born with is the brain we get for the rest […]

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]]> https://choprafoundation.org/consciousness/five-myths-to-dispel-about-your-brain/feed/ 0 Daily Inspiration https://choprafoundation.org/daily-inspiration/daily-inspiration-34/ https://choprafoundation.org/daily-inspiration/daily-inspiration-34/#respond Tue, 06 Nov 2012 00:17:43 +0000 https://choprafoundation.org/?p=35943 Today every word I utter will be chosen consciously. I will refrain from complaints, condemnation, and criticism.

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]]> https://choprafoundation.org/daily-inspiration/daily-inspiration-34/feed/ 0 Daily Inspiration https://choprafoundation.org/daily-inspiration/daily-inspiration-26/ https://choprafoundation.org/daily-inspiration/daily-inspiration-26/#respond Tue, 23 Oct 2012 01:58:47 +0000 https://choprafoundation.org/?p=35707 You will be in love when you know that you are love.

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]]> https://choprafoundation.org/daily-inspiration/daily-inspiration-24/feed/ 0 The Gap Between Thoughts: Sages and Scientists – Menas Kafatos – Part 3 https://choprafoundation.org/consciousness/the-gap-between-thoughts-sages-and-scientists-menas-kafatos-part-3/ https://choprafoundation.org/consciousness/the-gap-between-thoughts-sages-and-scientists-menas-kafatos-part-3/#respond Fri, 07 Sep 2012 00:59:20 +0000 https://choprafoundation.org/?p=35503   Description: Eminent physicist and author Menas Kafatos concludes his brilliant discussion of “The Riddle of Consciousness.” How do we know that what we see and experience is reality?* How do we explain consciousness in the current scientific paradigm? Kafatos is joined by Deepak Chopra to explore these fascinating questions.

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]]> https://choprafoundation.org/consciousness/the-gap-between-thoughts-sages-and-scientists-menas-kafatos-part-3/feed/ 0 Space, Time, and Reality: Sages and Scientists: Menas Kafatos – Part 2 https://choprafoundation.org/consciousness/space-time-and-reality-sages-and-scientists-menas-kafatos-part-2/ https://choprafoundation.org/consciousness/space-time-and-reality-sages-and-scientists-menas-kafatos-part-2/#respond Fri, 07 Sep 2012 00:57:27 +0000 https://choprafoundation.org/?p=35500 Description: Eminent physicist and author Menas Kafatos, Ph.D., Fletcher Jones Endowed Professor in Computational Physics, Chapman University, continues his discussion on “The Riddle of Consciousness.” How do we know that what we see and experience is reality?* How do we explain consciousness in the current scientific paradigm? Kafatos is joined by Deepak Chopra to explore […]

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]]> https://choprafoundation.org/consciousness/space-time-and-reality-sages-and-scientists-menas-kafatos-part-2/feed/ 0 The Riddle of Consciousness: Sages and Scientists – Menas Kafatos https://choprafoundation.org/other/the-riddle-of-consciousness-sages-and-scientists-menas-kafatos/ https://choprafoundation.org/other/the-riddle-of-consciousness-sages-and-scientists-menas-kafatos/#respond Fri, 07 Sep 2012 00:55:27 +0000 https://choprafoundation.org/?p=35496 Description: Eminent physicist and author Menas Kafatos, Ph.D., Fletcher Jones Endowed Professor in Computational Physics, Chapman University, discusses “The Riddle of Consciousness.” How do we know that what we see and experience is reality? How do we explain consciousness in the current scientific paradigm? Kafatos is joined by Deepak Chopra to explore these fascinating questions.

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]]> https://choprafoundation.org/other/the-riddle-of-consciousness-sages-and-scientists-menas-kafatos/feed/ 0 Daily Inspiration https://choprafoundation.org/consciousness/daily-inspiration/ https://choprafoundation.org/consciousness/daily-inspiration/#respond Wed, 25 Jul 2012 18:07:22 +0000 https://choprafoundation.org/?p=35277 Know that you are greater than any result, good or bad. Identify yourself with the bigger picture and not the minute details.

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]]> https://choprafoundation.org/consciousness/daily-inspiration/feed/ 0 Science and Spirituality Don’t Have to be Opposites https://choprafoundation.org/consciousness/the-debate-in-tucson-on-science-vs-spirituality/ https://choprafoundation.org/consciousness/the-debate-in-tucson-on-science-vs-spirituality/#respond Tue, 22 May 2012 19:40:04 +0000 https://choprafoundation.org/?p=35171 Written by Menas Kafatos, Fletcher Jones Professor of Computational Physics, Vice Chancellor for Special Projects at Chapman UniversitySusan Blackmore, Deepak Chopra, Leonard Mlodinow and myself participated in a panel during the “Towards the Science of Consciousness” conference in Tucson, Arizona on 10 April 2012. The idea behind the panel came from Chopra’s book with Mlodinow War […]

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]]> https://choprafoundation.org/consciousness/the-debate-in-tucson-on-science-vs-spirituality/feed/ 0 Keep Your Eye on the Path: Responding to Susan Blackmore https://choprafoundation.org/consciousness/keep-your-eye-on-the-path-responding-to-susan-blackmore/ https://choprafoundation.org/consciousness/keep-your-eye-on-the-path-responding-to-susan-blackmore/#respond Tue, 22 May 2012 19:23:27 +0000 https://choprafoundation.org/?p=35169 By Deepak Chopra   In her recent account, “Debating Deepak: Is this ‘spiritual guru’ really spiritual?” (May 9, 2012), Susan Blackmore raises questions that have fascinated me for over a quarter of a century. What is consciousness? How is the mind related to the body? What does it mean to lead a spiritual life? Her […]

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