Jordan Flesher - The Chopra Foundation https://choprafoundation.org Committed to Creating a Peaceful, Just, Sustainable, Healthy, and Joyful World. Fri, 24 Apr 2015 18:10:15 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://choprafoundation.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/cropped-CF-Favicon-2-32x32.png Jordan Flesher - The Chopra Foundation https://choprafoundation.org 32 32 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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]]> 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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]]> Synchronicity, Evolution, and Your Genes (Part 2) https://choprafoundation.org/consciousness/synchronicity-evolution-and-your-genes-part-2/ Mon, 06 Apr 2015 18:22:52 +0000 https://choprafoundation.org/?p=39440   By Deepak Chopra, MD, and Jordan Flesher, BA Psychology   Everyone has had a meaningful coincidence happen to them–the classic example is thinking of someone’s name and the next minute that person telephones, or seeing an unusual word in your mind’s eye and then running across that word the next time you open a […]

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]]> The Mystery of God and the Brain https://choprafoundation.org/consciousness/the-mystery-of-god-and-the-brain/ https://choprafoundation.org/consciousness/the-mystery-of-god-and-the-brain/#respond Mon, 02 Dec 2013 17:24:21 +0000 https://choprafoundation.org/?p=38047 By Deepak Chopra, M.D., FACP and Jordan Flesher, BA Psychology   As science has steadily undermined the long-held beliefs of religion, almost all that remains for people of faith is to say that God is and will forever be a mystery. Insofar as Einstein was religious, he possessed a feeling of awe and wonder at […]

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]]> https://choprafoundation.org/consciousness/the-mystery-of-god-and-the-brain/feed/ 0 The Rise and Fall of Militant Skepticism (Part 4) https://choprafoundation.org/spirituality/the-rise-and-fall-of-militant-skepticism-part-4/ https://choprafoundation.org/spirituality/the-rise-and-fall-of-militant-skepticism-part-4/#respond Mon, 25 Nov 2013 20:13:54 +0000 https://choprafoundation.org/?p=38032 By Deepak Chopra, M.D., FACP and Jordan Flesher, BA Psychology   Most of us take perception for granted as a photograph – in five sensory dimensions – of the real world. If you walk past the house where you were born, however, you won’t see it the way a camera would. You can’t help but […]

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]]> https://choprafoundation.org/spirituality/the-rise-and-fall-of-militant-skepticism-part-4/feed/ 0 The Rise and Fall of Militant Skepticism (Part 3) https://choprafoundation.org/science-consciousness/the-rise-and-fall-of-militant-skepticism-part-3/ https://choprafoundation.org/science-consciousness/the-rise-and-fall-of-militant-skepticism-part-3/#respond Mon, 18 Nov 2013 00:48:20 +0000 https://choprafoundation.org/?p=37997 By Deepak Chopra, M.D., FACP and Jordan Flesher, BA Psychology   The bond between militant atheism and militant skepticism has been unusually strong, to the point where attacks on religion are delivered as if no rational, science-mined person could object. In two posts the argument was laid out about how shaky militant skepticism really is […]

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]]> https://choprafoundation.org/science-consciousness/the-rise-and-fall-of-militant-skepticism-part-3/feed/ 0 The Rise and Fall of Militant Skepticism (Part 2) https://choprafoundation.org/science-consciousness/the-rise-and-fall-of-militant-skepticism-part-2/ https://choprafoundation.org/science-consciousness/the-rise-and-fall-of-militant-skepticism-part-2/#respond Mon, 11 Nov 2013 20:14:27 +0000 https://choprafoundation.org/?p=37985 By Deepak Chopra, M.D., FACP and Jordan Flesher, BA Psychology   As an attitude, skepticism is a natural part of the scientific method. It calls for solid proof and verification. As an agenda, however, the story of skepticism is quite different. The way that strident atheism has clothed itself in science seems convincing to people […]

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