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Deepak Chopra Explores Conscious Being
by Linda Sechrist D
eepak Chopra, founder of the Chopra Foundation and the Chopra Center for Wellbeing, in Carlsbad, California, is a New York Times bestselling author and world-re- nowned authority in the field of mind- body healing. Regarded by Time Maga- zine as the “poet-prophet of alternative medicine,” he also lectures around the world and hosts Deepak Chopra Radio on
BlogTalkRadio.com.
In War of the Worldviews: Science vs. Spirituality, you and physicist Leonard Mlodi- now debate humanity’s most fundamental perennial ques- tions. What is the crux of this
contention? Overall, my co-author suggests that the universe operates according to laws of physics, while acknowledging that sci- ence does not address why the laws ex-
ist or how they arise. I maintain that the laws of nature, as well as mathematics, share the same source as human con- sciousness.
He further observes that while science often casts doubt on spiritual beliefs and doctrines insofar as they make representations about the physi- cal world, science does not—and can- not—conclude that God is an illusion. While not defending God in religious terms, I maintain that God is a way of understanding some extremely crucial things: the source of existence, the real- ity beyond space-time and the underly- ing consciousness and creativity of the universe.
What is your understanding of
When we are personally practicing the divine
attitudes of loving kindness, joy, compassion and
equanimity, we are moving out of our limited ego.
consciousness? Consciousness is that which makes pos- sible perception, cognition, emotions, personal relationships, biology, biologi- cal function, the environment and its relationship to us, as well as the universe and its relationship to us. Without con- sciousness, there would be none of this.
Do you feel consciousness and
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God are one and the same? Yes, God is infinite consciousness that expresses itself as the universe. We are little bubbles of consciousness in the ocean of consciousness. Outside of space-time, Infinite Consciousness expresses itself and gives birth to every form of individual consciousness—the individual observer and the internal process of observation, as well as the objects, which are also experienced within the observer.
What steps can we take to
shift human consciousness? No social transformation happens in the absence of personal transforma- tion. Therefore, without worrying about other people, the questions to ask your- self are these: Can I be the change that I want to see in the world? What kind of world do I want to live in and how can I become the agent to create that world for myself?
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