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Summary: Infinite Wisdom, Can You Define That?
Review: I enjoyed Deepak Chopra's book, and plan to use it as a reference during my lifetime to review other people's different "constructions" of "their GOD". For me it's hard to believe that this world's "work-a-job" people (most people) have time to read, research, and (most important) practice spirituality to an extent to give credit to another's (humans-Deepak's) ability to grasp an ineffable infinite intelligence or Being. Read a modern (LIFE Application Bible) Bible and after sorting through numerous conflicting footnotes after 6 months, you too will wonder why this Bible seems so "contradictory" (Yes even inspired with the Holy Spirit). I say this after seeing others "doubt" Chopra's reasonings. Let me end with this: Create a Universe, heck Galaxy of Billions of Suns and Planets full of infinite wonders and life...and then perhaps you can talk to us, and our egos will be able to comprehend why "negative reviewers" understand so well how 'dumb and boring' extensive works (like Deepaks) are elementary. Give me a break critics, perhaps once in "Heaven" you'll be arguing (to God himself) your right of entry in your unbelief in anything but your own falible EGO. May God bless us all, and slow us down enough to notice that He may have already done so...daily, daily daily, GOD BLESS YOU. /////// + B. Morgan
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Summary: How to know Depak Chopra's intentions?
Review: When I bought and started to read this book I was expecting to find out some new paths in getting closer to GOD but after I have read the first hundred pages I found out that Chopra has
written more about India/ns and their methods of healing than about GOD. Each one of us is different and as the saying goes "One man's garbage is another ones treasure" but my one and only opinion regarding this book is : "This book has a lot of nothing on almost everything and hell no
I couldn't waste my precious time on a book like this". Mind you
the Seven Spiritual Laws book was amazing just as if it was written by someone else! Hoping that mr.Chopra has made a lot of money I would like him to write books that can be read and appreciated by his readers. As I said I am just sharing my opinion so I am sorry if I am
offending someone else's views regarding this book. Thank You.
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Summary: Can we truly concieve of God?
Review: This book combines the perrennial philosophy with modern science and suggests ways in which we can plausibly concieve of God in modern times. This is done in anthropomorphic terms; we can know God through ourselves. However it ought to be emphasised that in an important sense we cannot know God at all, for He always remains shrouded in mystery. The author`s notion that 'God is as we are' is only half-true if we are to reserve our claim to knowledge of God for the genuine spiritual experience of formless cessation. There is otherwise a tendency towards a kind of crass pantheism, implied here, which ignores human responsibility for good and evil. If we are to concieve of the spiritual in more realistic terms we need to take an holonic approach, and recognise that our own pathologies cannot be legitimised as the work of God. The book might better have been called how to know yourself, since it only refers to human experiences. In these terms the notion that 'God is as we are' is meaningless, since it is not God acting in the world but ourselves, as separate entities in different of states of conciousness.
Nonetheless, an enjoyable work which is both insightful and moving and will prove a challenge to scientific doubt.
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Summary: Dr. Chopra's Most Brilliant Work YET
Review: This book will show you exactly where you are in your spiritual growth, and will help you to embrace it. Don't feel bad if you think you're "not there yet". Everything is okay. Quantum physics, which seems incomprehensible, is made to seem almost simplistic. Dr. Chopra keeps it this way. The prose is superb. He is writing to all of us, not just the intellectual or the spiritually enlightened. Dr. Chopra explains projection and the biological, psychological, and religious need for projection throughout the work. From my point of view, sychronicity and projection are two key words. Projection seems to be what holds us back and the observance of synchronicity is one of the mechanisms for opening and expanding our awareness of ourselves, and ultimately, God. The ego projects whatever it is that we are ready to comprehend or accept at the time. Dr. Chopra describes this brilliantly in his verbal expression of the seven stages of spiritual growth. Somewhere along the path, ego begins to recede and spirit takes over. I experienced an epiphany while reading this. A few days ago, I had an explicable urge to go to my electronic file of old poems I had written. A poem that I had written a few months back, called "Samadhi" called to me so I printed it and placed on my dining room table. It stayed there for a couple of days while I wondered why I had placed it there to start with. Then I read the most touching story where Dr. Chopra had, in one day, been put in touch with an illustrator for an upcoming work in the most amazing instance of synchronicity. When I continued reading the work and entered "Stage Seven", I was amazed to find that my poem decribed this stage with an incredible likeness to Dr. Chopra's description. This sent the work home for me. I'm nowhere near stage seven, but the "observer" in me knows what it is, and always has. I suspect that this is true for everyone, the sinner and the saint alike. We'll all get there when the time is right.
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Summary: Excellent Scientific Treatment
Review: It is clear that this book draws its ideas from great Eastern books in addition to including examples from Western Culture. It does make a lot of sense to draw interpretations and ideas from the great Eastern sources since they are complete and scientific. Western religions are more shallow and superficial and dwell more in the material world. How else can one explain the Western books talking more about Commandments for living? I think that most critics of this book have a problem because they are non-accepting of different or more complete universal interpretations of God. Most of these people are so immersed with their lives in their world, this planet and following the commandments that they cannot see the rest of the Universe.
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Summary: There are better books
Review: Deepak is looking at God through India glasses, tinted differently than rose-colored perhaps, but definitely different than the God I know and love. There are better books on the market which explore and take God "out of the box," such as Tiffany Snow's "Psychic Gifts in the Christian Life - Tools to Connect." Through Tiffany's glasses (and I know we all wear some version of them) I saw many more facets, rainbow colors and true gems of the nature of God than I did through Chopra, whether you are a Christian or not. I did like Chopra's "7 Laws" though, and some of his other works.
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Summary: Journey to know God
Review: If you indeed want to take this journey, a good starting point is "Autobiography of a Yogi" by Swami Paramahamsa Yogananda. I don't need to say anymore, you will figure it out for yourself.
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Summary: Infinite Wisdom, Can You Define That?
Review: I enjoyed Deepak Chopra's book, and plan to use it as a reference during my lifetime to review other people's different "constructions" of "their GOD". For me it's hard to believe that this world's "work-a-job" people (most people) have time to read, research, and (most important) practice spirituality to an extent to give credit to another's (humans-Deepak's) ability to grasp an ineffable infinite intelligence or Being. Read a modern (LIFE Application Bible) Bible and after sorting through numerous conflicting footnotes after 6 months, you too will wonder why this Bible seems so "contradictory" (Yes even inspired with the Holy Spirit). I say this after seeing others "doubt" Chopra's reasonings. Let me end with this: Create a Universe, heck Galaxy of Billions of Suns and Planets full of infinite wonders and life...and then perhaps you can talk to us, and our egos will be able to comprehend why "negative reviewers" understand so well how 'dumb and boring' extensive works (like Deepaks) are elementary. Give me a break critics, perhaps once in "Heaven" you'll be arguing (to God himself) your right of entry in your unbelief in anything but your own falible EGO. May God bless us all, and slow us down enough to notice that He may have already done so...daily, daily daily, GOD BLESS YOU. /////// + B. Morgan
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Summary: A fake!
Review: This book does not deal with the question of the Divine but with the description of several common images of God - not with God Himself. The style is confusing and confused, repeating over and over a hardly helpful classification of how God can be perceived in the human mind. No help at all to unveil all this (mis-)conceptions of God we human beings carry with us but almost reinforcing them by describing them again and again! Stones instead of bread and disgusting talkative...How is it possible that this man with such a shallow "teaching" could become the spiritual guide of so many people in the US and abroad?There are deep, clear and wonderful guides on the journey to unification with the ONE - people who do "know"!There is no "knowledge" in this book.
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Summary: Boooorinnnng
Review: I too can write a book by repeating myself over and over and over and ad nauseam.
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