Spirituality - 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 Spirituality - 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 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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]]> 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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]]> 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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]]> 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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]]> Is There “Instant” Enlightenment? https://choprafoundation.org/articles/is-there-instant-enlightenment/ Mon, 22 May 2017 20:24:57 +0000 https://choprafoundation.org/?p=40532 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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]]> 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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]]> 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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]]> Everyday Reality is a Human Construct https://choprafoundation.org/articles/everyday-reality-is-a-human-construct/ Mon, 24 Oct 2016 00:00:45 +0000 https://choprafoundation.org/?p=40355 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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]]> 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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]]> 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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]]> Skepticism and a Million Dollar Challenge https://choprafoundation.org/articles/skepticism-and-a-million-dollar-challenge/ Wed, 02 Jul 2014 20:12:01 +0000 https://choprafoundation.org/?p=38830 By Deepak Chopra, MD     When public perception is skewed and distorted, it’s important to push back. I’ve found myself doing this in the arena of skepticism. Without a doubt we live in a skeptical age, and it affects everyone. To doubt is a tool for finding truth, but like every positive value, there […]

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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: #2 Why Does God Let Bad Things Happen? (Part 2) https://choprafoundation.org/consciousness/five-spiritual-mysteries-2-why-does-god-let-bad-things-happen-part-2/ Tue, 15 Apr 2014 00:37:54 +0000 https://choprafoundation.org/?p=38679 By Deepak Chopra, MD   One of the biggest stumbling blocks for people who want to believe in God is the existence of bad things in our lives.  The evening news carries enough stories about war, crime, famine, oppression, and much else that a loving God wouldn’t permit. But as we saw in the first […]

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]]> 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/daily-inspiration/daily-inspiration-25/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 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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