Universe - The Chopra Foundation https://choprafoundation.org Committed to Creating a Peaceful, Just, Sustainable, Healthy, and Joyful World. Thu, 30 Jan 2020 20:27:52 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://choprafoundation.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/cropped-CF-Favicon-2-32x32.png Universe - The Chopra Foundation https://choprafoundation.org 32 32 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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]]> 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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]]> 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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]]> 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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]]> 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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]]> Why You Aren’t Who You Think You Are https://choprafoundation.org/articles/why-you-arent-who-you-think-you-are/ Fri, 31 Mar 2017 22:36:09 +0000 https://choprafoundation.org/?p=40494 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? https://choprafoundation.org/articles/have-human-beings-stopped-evolving/ Mon, 20 Mar 2017 00:00:33 +0000 https://choprafoundation.org/?p=40485 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 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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]]> 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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]]> 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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]]> 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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]]> What Came Before the Big Bang? A Surprise Answer https://choprafoundation.org/articles/what-came-before-the-big-bang-a-surprise-answer/ Mon, 09 Jan 2017 20:23:16 +0000 https://choprafoundation.org/?p=40419 By Deepak Chopra, MD and  Menas Kafatos, PhD The most widely accepted notions about the universe are central to how we view reality. One striking example links birth and death. In the age of faith, religion existed to reassure believers about a higher plane of reality. On this plane, the everyday experience of birth and […]

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]]> Why the Physical Universe Needs Mental Glue https://choprafoundation.org/science-consciousness/why-the-physical-universe-needs-mental-glue/ Mon, 28 Mar 2016 00:00:43 +0000 https://choprafoundation.org/?p=40147 By Deepak Chopra, MD and Jennifer Nielsen, PhD candidate Robber barons in the 19th century were so rich that they didn’t have to do things the way ordinary people do. If they wanted to live in a French chateau or an Italian palazzo, for example, they didn’t have to build one from scratch. Instead a […]

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]]> Physics’ Split Personality: Is the Dark Side Winning? https://choprafoundation.org/science-consciousness/physics-split-personality-is-the-dark-side-winning/ Mon, 27 Jul 2015 17:22:17 +0000 https://choprafoundation.org/?p=39660 By Deepak Chopra, MD, and Menas Kafatos, PhD   For some time now most of the universe has gone dark. This startling news was brought to popular attention in a June Op-Ed piece in the New York Times called “A Crisis at the Edge of Physics.” It began, “Do physicists need empirical evidence to confirm […]

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]]> Conversation with Jenny Nielsen and Deepak Chopra https://choprafoundation.org/spirituality/conversation-with-jenny-nielsen-and-deepak-chopra/ Sat, 25 Jul 2015 00:47:08 +0000 https://choprafoundation.org/?p=39645 Deepak and Jenny discuss the non local universe and how everything in the universe is entangled both in space and time.

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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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]]> Five Spiritual Mysteries: #1 Is Karma Fair? (Part 2) https://choprafoundation.org/other/five-spiritual-mysteries-1-is-karma-fair-part-2/ Tue, 01 Apr 2014 23:55:56 +0000 https://choprafoundation.org/?p=38659 By Deepak Chopra, MD Even at a time when religion is declining in the West, most people remember the Biblical saying “As you sow, so shall you reap.” they cling to a belief taught in childhood, that good is rewarded and evil punished. In the first post we started to look at the possibility that […]

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]]> Hidden Truths: Going Beyond Common-Sense Reality (Part 2) https://choprafoundation.org/other/hidden-truths-going-beyond-common-sense-reality-part-2/ Mon, 10 Mar 2014 19:40:53 +0000 https://choprafoundation.org/?p=38531 By Deepak Chopra, MD, Menas  Kafatos, Ph.D., and Subhash Kak, Ph.D. Although everyone as a practical matter accepts “reality as given” – the world presented by the five senses – that common-sense version of the world was radically undermined over a century ago with the advent of relativity and quantum theory.  Equally dramatically, results from […]

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]]> The Question of God https://choprafoundation.org/articles/the-question-of-god/ https://choprafoundation.org/articles/the-question-of-god/#respond Tue, 29 Oct 2013 23:42:37 +0000 https://choprafoundation.org/?p=37930 [youtube]http://youtu.be/dsITuYNaxEM[/youtube]   Deepak Chopra addresses the two most fundamental questions in the modern science: (1) What is the universe made up of? (2) How do we have awareness of existence?

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