Self - The Chopra Foundation https://choprafoundation.org Committed to Creating a Peaceful, Just, Sustainable, Healthy, and Joyful World. Mon, 30 Jul 2018 10:33:11 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://choprafoundation.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/cropped-CF-Favicon-2-32x32.png Self - 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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]]> The Microbiome: How to Talk to Your 2 Million Genes https://choprafoundation.org/articles/the-microbiome-how-to-talk-to-your-2-million-genes/ Tue, 29 May 2018 19:22:30 +0000 https://choprafoundation.org/?p=40830 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? https://choprafoundation.org/articles/is-there-one-best-path-in-life/ Mon, 21 May 2018 19:42:20 +0000 https://choprafoundation.org/?p=40824 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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]]> 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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]]> 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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]]> A Note to Skeptics: It’s Time to Go Radical https://choprafoundation.org/articles/a-note-to-skeptics-its-time-to-go-radical/ Mon, 20 Feb 2017 00:00:38 +0000 https://choprafoundation.org/?p=40463 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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]]> Where Do You Call Home? A Cosmic Answer https://choprafoundation.org/articles/where-do-you-call-home-a-cosmic-answer-2/ Mon, 06 Feb 2017 21:24:10 +0000 https://choprafoundation.org/?p=40452 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 https://choprafoundation.org/articles/how-to-meet-your-cosmic-self/ Mon, 30 Jan 2017 20:38:28 +0000 https://choprafoundation.org/?p=40446 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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