science - The Chopra Foundation https://choprafoundation.org Committed to Creating a Peaceful, Just, Sustainable, Healthy, and Joyful World. Thu, 30 Jan 2020 20:42:02 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://choprafoundation.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/cropped-CF-Favicon-2-32x32.png science - The Chopra Foundation https://choprafoundation.org 32 32 Is Life Really a Dream? https://choprafoundation.org/articles/is-life-really-a-dream/ Mon, 30 Jul 2018 10:33:11 +0000 https://choprafoundation.org/?p=40870 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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]]> 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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]]> 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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]]> 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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]]> 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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]]> 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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]]> 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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]]> Good News: You Aren’t a Biological Robot https://choprafoundation.org/articles/good-news-you-arent-a-biological-robot/ Mon, 19 Sep 2016 00:00:34 +0000 https://choprafoundation.org/?p=40312 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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]]> Scientific Revolution https://choprafoundation.org/other/scientific-revolution/ Wed, 24 Aug 2016 18:38:28 +0000 https://choprafoundation.org/?p=40272 How to Stop Being a Biological Robot https://choprafoundation.org/other/how-to-stop-being-a-biological-robot/ Mon, 04 Apr 2016 00:00:10 +0000 https://choprafoundation.org/?p=40152 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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]]> 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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]]> 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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]]> Panel on the Nature of Fundamental Reality moderated by Deepak Chopra https://choprafoundation.org/consciousness/panel-on-the-nature-of-fundamental-reality-moderated-by-deepak-chopra/ Wed, 03 Feb 2016 00:47:57 +0000 https://choprafoundation.org/?p=40103 A panel with Edward Frenkel, Bernardo Kastrup, Menas Kafatos, Julia Mossbridge and facilitated by Deepak Chopra.

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

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]]> Why Does Richard Dawkins Keep Doing Me Favors? https://choprafoundation.org/consciousness/why-does-richard-dawkins-keep-doing-me-favors/ Fri, 10 Apr 2015 20:04:23 +0000 https://choprafoundation.org/?p=39475 By Deepak Chopra, MD In a recent article on his website, Richard Dawkins spontaneously erupted, even though he and I haven’t had contact for many months. We debated once in Mexico City, and he erupted there, too. The ideas I put forth, such as the possibility that we live in a conscious universe, bring out […]

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

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]]> A Science of Miracles — No Longer Optional? (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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]]> 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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]]> 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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]]> Why Robots Don’t Love Music https://choprafoundation.org/other/why-robots-dont-love-music/ Mon, 28 Apr 2014 17:03:06 +0000 https://choprafoundation.org/?p=38736 By Deepak Chopra, MD For more than a decade the media have been eagerly reporting on exciting advances in brain research and genetics, which arrive almost monthly.   These areas of science have become immensely confident and hopeful. They are the finger posts to a time when age-old mysteries about human nature will be explained once […]

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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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]]> 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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]]> 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 1) https://choprafoundation.org/science-consciousness/hidden-truths-going-beyond-common-sense-reality-part-1/ Mon, 03 Mar 2014 00:26:41 +0000 https://choprafoundation.org/?p=38508 By Deepak Chopra, MD, Menas  Kafatos, Ph.D., and  Subhash Kak, Ph.D. Despite their many divergences, science and philosophy are both led forward by reality. This is inevitable if facts, concepts, axioms, and other mental models are to be reliable.  There are two ongoing projects, thousands of years old by now, that sprang from a different response […]

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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 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 Space-Time! Deepak & Friends https://choprafoundation.org/consciousness/space-time-deepak-friends/ https://choprafoundation.org/consciousness/space-time-deepak-friends/#respond Thu, 02 May 2013 23:25:46 +0000 https://choprafoundation.org/?p=37041 Deepak Chopra and Menas Kafatos tackle some of the biggest questions in modern science: what is the relationship between space and time? And what does it tell us about reality? Courtesy of ChopraWell

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]]> https://choprafoundation.org/consciousness/space-time-deepak-friends/feed/ 0 Deepak’s 2002 TED talk https://choprafoundation.org/other/deepaks-2002-ted-talk/ https://choprafoundation.org/other/deepaks-2002-ted-talk/#respond Thu, 25 Apr 2013 22:16:33 +0000 https://choprafoundation.org/?p=37022 [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xxnqGJLeutU[/youtube] Deepak Chopra speaks at the TED conference in 2002. Responding to Richard Dawkins’ earlier presentation on “Militant Atheism,” Deepak discusses the relationship between science and religious experience in understanding reality, as well as our evolving understanding of God and the divine.    

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]]> https://choprafoundation.org/other/deepaks-2002-ted-talk/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 Dear TED, Is it “Bad Science” or a “Game of Thrones”? https://choprafoundation.org/other/dear-ted-is-it-bad-science-or-a-game-of-thrones/ https://choprafoundation.org/other/dear-ted-is-it-bad-science-or-a-game-of-thrones/#respond Thu, 18 Apr 2013 16:03:10 +0000 https://choprafoundation.org/?p=36977 Originally published on Huffington Post on April 18, 2013 at 8:51 am By Deepak Chopra, MD. FACP, Stuart Hameroff, MD, Menas C. Kafatos, Ph.D., Rudolph E. Tanzi, Ph.D., Neil Theise, MD One of modern science’s great strengths is that any questionable finding dies a quick death if it’s invalid. The safeguards are mainly two: Your new finding must be […]

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]]> https://choprafoundation.org/other/dear-ted-is-it-bad-science-or-a-game-of-thrones/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 Science Set Free: 10 Paths to New Discovery https://choprafoundation.org/other/science-set-free-10-paths-to-new-discovery/ https://choprafoundation.org/other/science-set-free-10-paths-to-new-discovery/#respond Fri, 07 Sep 2012 00:41:54 +0000 https://choprafoundation.org/?p=35471 Listen to internet radio with deepakchopra on Blog Talk Radio A Conversation with Deepak Chopra and Rupert Sheldrake: Science Set Free: 10 Paths to New Discover In Science Set Free: 10 Paths to New Discover, Dr. Rupert Sheldrake, one of the world’s most innovative scientists, shows that science is being constricted by assumptions that have […]

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]]> https://choprafoundation.org/other/science-set-free-10-paths-to-new-discovery/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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]]> https://choprafoundation.org/consciousness/keep-your-eye-on-the-path-responding-to-susan-blackmore/feed/ 0 Deepak Chopra Unites Top Scientists and Spiritual Leaders in 3-Day Symposium Covering the Deepest Questions of Our Time https://choprafoundation.org/sagesscientists/3dayevent/ https://choprafoundation.org/sagesscientists/3dayevent/#respond Tue, 24 Jan 2012 18:51:08 +0000 https://choprafoundation.org/?p=34643 The three-day Sages and Scientists: The Merging of a New Future Symposium will explore a series of fantastic emerging facts in both a scientific and spiritual context. Such a contemporary synthesis of ideas and facts allows science and soul to coexist comfortably, and paves the way for the future evolution of humanity. Deepak Chopra and […]

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]]> https://choprafoundation.org/sagesscientists/3dayevent/feed/ 0 The Chopra Foundation Announces Recipients of 2012 Rustum Roy Spirit Award https://choprafoundation.org/sagesscientists/the-chopra-foundation-announces-recipients-of-2012-rustum-roy-spirit-award/ https://choprafoundation.org/sagesscientists/the-chopra-foundation-announces-recipients-of-2012-rustum-roy-spirit-award/#respond Wed, 11 Jan 2012 21:49:40 +0000 https://choprafoundation.org/?p=34604 Deepak Chopra, MD has announced that Dr. Rudolph Tanzi, Joel Primack and Nancy Abrams will receive the 2012 Spirit of Rustum Roy Award for their exemplary work that embodies the Chopra Foundation’s vision to help create a just, sustainable, healthy and peaceful world. San Diego, CA (PRWEB) January 11, 2012 Deepak Chopra, MD, founder of […]

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