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Is Life Really a Dream?

Deepak Chopra — Mon, 30 Jul 2018 10:33:11 +0000

By Deepak Chopra, MD There are times when life goes out of kilter and the world doesn’t seem real and substantial anymore. Such experiences occur regularly, either to us or other people. For example, when there’s a sudden death in the family or a catastrophe like a tornado or the house burning down, a person […]

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If a Machine Could Make You Happy, Would You Do It?

Deepak Chopra — Sun, 17 Jun 2018 00:00:57 +0000

Artificial Intelligence (AI) makes many claims, some quite futuristic, others just around the corner. Somewhere in the middle lies the prediction of human behavior, with the attendant claim that if people are predictable, this could be the future of well-being. To predict when someone is going to get angry, sad, afraid, or tense is already […]

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The True Meaning of Meditation

Deepak Chopra — Mon, 11 Jun 2018 00:00:02 +0000

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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The Microbiome: How to Talk to Your 2 Million Genes

Deepak Chopra — Tue, 29 May 2018 19:22:30 +0000

By Deepak Chopra, MD and Naveen Jain The term “microbiome” has become popular in the last decade, and most people now realize that their bodies are populated by an enormous quantity of microbes. Taking every location from the skin to the mouth to the intestinal tract into consideration, the microbiome weighs around 3 lbs., roughly […]

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Is There One Best Path in Life?

Deepak Chopra — Mon, 21 May 2018 19:42:20 +0000

By Deepak Chopra, MD Without using the term, everyone has marked out a path in life–a path can be defined as a road map that guides you to a goal. Because every day presents some kind of goal, however small, being on a path is inevitable. It doesn’t have to be a conscious choice. Yet […]

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The Best Strategy to Combat Aging

Deepak Chopra — Mon, 12 Feb 2018 22:16:52 +0000

By Deepak Chopra, MD and Rudolph E. Tanzi, PhD When people think about growing old, they blame the passage of time—the years roll by, and the body stops looking younger year by year. But the latest science disputes this view. A person ages because the cells in their body age, and cells live only in […]

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How to Be Your Own Medical Advocate

Deepak Chopra — Mon, 08 Jan 2018 20:24:02 +0000

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

Deepak Chopra — Tue, 19 Dec 2017 01:44:35 +0000

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

Deepak Chopra — Mon, 11 Dec 2017 00:00:03 +0000

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?

Deepak Chopra — Mon, 20 Nov 2017 17:43:47 +0000

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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Artificial Intelligence Is Already Here—It’s Us

Deepak Chopra — Mon, 30 Oct 2017 00:00:04 +0000

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

Deepak Chopra — Mon, 23 Oct 2017 00:00:41 +0000

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?

Deepak Chopra — Mon, 12 Jun 2017 00:00:29 +0000

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

Deepak Chopra — Mon, 05 Jun 2017 00:00:58 +0000

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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Is There “Instant” Enlightenment?

Deepak Chopra — Mon, 22 May 2017 20:24:57 +0000

By Deepak Chopra, MD Most people look upon enlightenment—whatever the term means to them-as remote, exotic, and unattainable without extreme effort. Enlightenment is the state a Tibetan Buddhist monk may reach after decades of mediation, or a yogi performing esoteric practices in a cave in the Himalayas. Yet if you strip away the Eastern esoteric […]

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Green Shoots in a Desert Kingdom

Deepak Chopra — Mon, 15 May 2017 17:50:12 +0000

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

Deepak Chopra — Mon, 08 May 2017 21:56:19 +0000

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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The Evolving Cosmos: Is Reality Getting Any Closer

Deepak Chopra — Mon, 24 Apr 2017 00:00:54 +0000

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

Deepak Chopra — Tue, 18 Apr 2017 00:03:20 +0000

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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Why You Aren’t Who You Think You Are

Deepak Chopra — Fri, 31 Mar 2017 22:36:09 +0000

By : Deepak Chopra Each of us perceives reality through the filter of a personal self, an “I” that is unique in the world, thanks to the unique experiences we’ve had since birth. We rely on “I” to be able to navigate through everyday situations, not realizing how limiting “I” actually is. It’s fair to […]

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Have Human Beings Stopped Evolving?

Deepak Chopra — Mon, 20 Mar 2017 00:00:33 +0000

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

Deepak Chopra — Mon, 13 Mar 2017 00:00:16 +0000

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)

Deepak Chopra — Mon, 06 Mar 2017 00:00:12 +0000

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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A Note to Skeptics: It’s Time to Go Radical

Deepak Chopra — Mon, 20 Feb 2017 00:00:38 +0000

By Deepak Chopra, MD Anyone who has had the audacity to question mainstream science soon runs afoul, particularly in the blogosphere, of hard-line skeptics. Whether they are simply insistent or outright aggressive, the skeptical viewpoint has long been founded on a simple principle. Reality is what lies before us, in the three-dimensional world “out […]

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How Patient Advocates Can Help with Doctor’s Visits

Deepak Chopra — Mon, 13 Feb 2017 21:50:45 +0000

By Deepak Chopra MD, Lizabeth Weiss, BA, Nancy S. Cetel, MD, Danielle Weiss, MD, Joseph B. Weiss, MD, When the average American goes to the doctor, shows up at the ER, or enters the hospital, the risks and complexities of our healthcare system strike home vividly. Besides the expense of care and the intricate […]

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Where Do You Call Home? A Cosmic Answer

Deepak Chopra — Mon, 06 Feb 2017 21:24:10 +0000

By Deepak Chopra, MD, 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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How to Meet Your Cosmic Self

Deepak Chopra — Mon, 30 Jan 2017 20:38:28 +0000

By Deepak Chopra, MD Science has been falsely portrayed as the enemy of spirituality, largely because of a noisy band of militant atheists who also happen to be scientists. Their outcry that to believe in God is irrational and therefore anti-scientific misses the point. Not all scientists are irreligious, but the whole premise of this […]

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The Genetics of a Silent Killer and the Quest for a Cure

Deepak Chopra — Mon, 16 Jan 2017 00:00:50 +0000

By Deepak Chopra, MD FACP and Mark L. Zeidel, M.D Some diseases make headlines, pull at our heart strings, and inspire high-visibility fundraising events. Others, like kidney disease, wreak havoc more quietly. Chronic kidney disease afflicts more than 26 million people in the U.S., putting them at high risk for other serious illnesses, like heart […]

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All of Us—Doctor and Patients—Need to Face up to Healthcare Hazards

Deepak Chopra — Mon, 21 Nov 2016 00:00:16 +0000

By Deepak Chopra MD, Nancy S. Cetel, MD, Danielle Weiss, MD, Joseph B. Weiss, MD Medical mistakes are a touchy subject in the medical community. Both sides of the healthcare system fear them—patients because of their general anxiety about going to the doctor, physicians because of the looming threat of malpractice. The situation needs to […]

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After Gay Rights, Gay Spirituality

Deepak Chopra — Mon, 31 Oct 2016 21:56:36 +0000

By Deepak Chopra, MD It’s taken decades for gay activists to achieve the most basic right that every minority deserves: equality under the law. In principle one might say that the battle has been won, even if some states are dragging their heels and some groups mount fierce resistance. Thirty years ago, it took mass […]

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Everyday Reality is a Human Construct

Deepak Chopra — Mon, 24 Oct 2016 00:00:45 +0000

By Deepak Chopra, MD It is often overlooked that the role of spirituality was once the same as the role science plays today: to explain how Nature works. As science views reality, objective facts and rational thinking outstrip the traditional spiritual worldview, which explained Nature through higher powers known as the gods or God. But […]

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How to Be Timeless Right This Moment

Deepak Chopra — Mon, 10 Oct 2016 00:00:02 +0000

By Deepak Chopra, MD For most people, the two words “timeless” and “eternal” seem roughly the same. They spell the end of clock time, and for many religious believers, Heaven is eternal, a place where time goes on forever. Whatever you think about it, time coming to an end isn’t a pleasant prospect, because the […]

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A Revolution in Reality Is Around the Corner

Deepak Chopra — Mon, 03 Oct 2016 00:00:34 +0000

Whether they think about it or not, people take sides about reality. The dividing line separating science from spirituality was crossed long ago, and it doesn’t take a lesson in philosophy or theology to pick up a smartphone. Therefore, by default reality for everyone is scientific reality. Let’s set the old science versus spirituality divide […]

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Good News: You Aren’t a Biological Robot

Deepak Chopra — Mon, 19 Sep 2016 00:00:34 +0000

By Deepak Chopra, MD and Rudolph E. Tanzi, PhD We live in a golden age for neuroscience, and new findings about the brain emerge almost by the month. with huge government backing, one foresees the day, which could be quite soon, when every significant region of the brain is correlated with all the things we […]

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How to See a Beautiful Person in the Mirror

Deepak Chopra — Mon, 05 Sep 2016 00:00:44 +0000

By Deepak Chopra, MD and Kimberly Snyder, CN Society has allowed our notion of beauty to go awry. Countless women–and not just women–look in the mirror and see a reflection of inadequacy. They have fallen short of an ideal that was defective to begin with. But conditioned since childhood to equate a “perfect” body with […]

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How to Stop Being a Biological Robot

Deepak Chopra — Mon, 04 Apr 2016 00:00:10 +0000

Most people are too busy, or otherwise distracted, to think about how the mind works, much less about the vexed problem of connecting mind and brain. This includes neuroscientists. They run their experiments and publish new data without addressing the most fundamental questions. Their field runs nicely by simply assuming that the brain is the […]

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Why a Mental Universe Is the “Real” Reality

Deepak Chopra — Mon, 30 Nov 2015 01:18:53 +0000

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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A Conversation with Berit Brogaard and Deepak Chopra

Deepak Chopra — Tue, 11 Aug 2015 16:58:53 +0000

[youtube]https://youtu.be/8lxO_q9bfRc[/youtube] Berit Brogaard and Deepak Chopra discuss the super human mind.

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Powers of Mind: In Praise of Subtle Actions

brian — Wed, 21 Jan 2015 23:01:33 +0000

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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Is a Mind-Element Needed to Interpret Quantum Mechanics? Do physically undetermined choices enter into the evolution of the physical universe? Part 3

brian — Mon, 04 Aug 2014 16:27:53 +0000

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?

brian — Tue, 15 Jul 2014 02:04:03 +0000

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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