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Summary: God explained?
Review: As a devout hindu, I feel compelled to say Deepak is making a business of both hinduism and christianity and understands neither. Christianity and other religions in hinduism's point of view follow the "karma yoga" path. That is, trust God more than yourself and everything will be fine. However hinduism doesnot suggest that it is the only way. If we were rational, we should realize that paths put down by religion didnot come from GOD, they came from PEOPLE. After all, what is the guarantee that Manu's teachings or even Christ's teachings are what we know from the books. They represent opinions of people, not GOD's be he one or a dozen. The only way to understand religion is as we do with science. DO what religion asks you to do and if doesnot work, discard it with an open mind, regardless of who proposed it. But the key word is doing. And I wonder if Deepak has done that. Religion is a notoriously difficult subject to practise, but the end goal is worth it. Somewhat obligated to answer the previous reviewer on hinduism, it's true that hindus worship cows as gods, it is because it teaches us to see god in everything on this planet. The idea is simple. You are God not because no one else is, but you are God because everyone is God's manifestation. If he is the supreme father, we carry his genes, don't we? God is only one, I accept, but like the sun, he could be reflected in many things.
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Summary: You Don't Have to Be Religious!
Review: I'm not a terribly religious person, and that's why I can't get over how much I enjoyed this book. I've long been a fan of Deepak's, and I guess I had been looking for more spirituality in my life and hadn't realized it. The crux of this book is the Seven Biological Responses the author points out that we all experience in life and he does a masterful job of supporting his claims with a very scientific approach. I found myself thinking about and looking at situations in my own life, disecting them and coming to new understanding of them. I would recommend this book to anyone who longs to know more about God and their own spiritual self.
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Summary: Wonderful and enlightening.
Review: Dr. Chopra presents a comprehensive and all-encompassing understanding of experiencing God. It is nice to see that religious leaders from all faiths have endorsed his ideas.
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Summary: Wake up!
Review: Deepak Chopra has some good ideas - however, they are that - ideas. This book is a grand way for him to make more money saying the same thing he's already said in his other books. I wonder if he has studied the Bible and the life of Christ? This book fits in with all the new ageism that deceives our world. We are not GOD. We can create things, but not the heavens, nor the earth, nor the breath of life. I look forward to Deepak Chopra gaining "true" insight from God, through his holy spirit. Chopra just helps keep lost souls in bondage.
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Summary: Better Study-Up Fellow Humans
Review: I found this author to be arrogant and pretentious. Anyone who writes a "How To" book about God must consider him/herself to have some inside track to the divine that all of us heathens have failed to notice or study-up on. Dr Chopra doesn't have any more awareness or special insight into God than the rest of us have. He simply writes and talks alot about it but at the end of the day what are we really left with but someone who's read alot of books on physics and religion and blurred them together into a big bad quantum soup of "my ideas are better than your ideas 'cause I read alot and you... well you people deserve to hear my viewpoint 'cause I know better". How can anyone write a "How to" book on God? Better study-up fellow humans and get your soul cleaned up for the big bad day at the end of the rainbow. Oh and while your at it here's my "How to" book of God recipes for the great unwashed. END
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Summary: Obviously a book that creates controversy...
Review: I think this is a fantastic book -- I couldnt put it down. I'm happy to see that religious leaders and thinkers from all faiths (see Editorial reviews) seem to agree with me. What I find fascinating is the range of opinion expressed in the customer reviews. To me, that says this is a book that will provoke debate and discussion!
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Summary: CHOPRA'S BEST EVER
Review: I have been so taken with Chopra's books and audiotapes that I learned Primordial Sound meditation (much to my benefit!)and if you knew me you would be a little shocked at that. BUT this book here is the ultimate Chopra book. No one who has attempted to show the alignment of religions has also succeeded at THRILLING us with it. And no one who has demonstrated the alignment of what religion does for a person and the way it fits quantum physics has ever made both subjects BETTER for it. People clinging to being Right about their former beliefs will be challenged by this book, even alarmed by it. But people who want to experience a real shot of intellectual and spiritual joy will read it many times and buy copies for their dearest friends.
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Summary: A Book for All Faiths
Review: I really believe this book has the potential to speak to a broad range of people from varying backgrounds and disciplines without alienating anyone. It's for those who really want an understanding of Self, and a great opportunity to look at ourselves (and our responses to life experiences) clearly. I've always felt that one day scientists and theologians would run smack into eachother in their search for meaning and truth. Deepak's works, and this book in particular, demonstrate this in lay terms that we all can fathom. I thoroughly enjoy the thought process he takes us through, the stories, the analogies, the unveiling of what has always seemed so mysterious and yet what is so available to us all. What a gift! What joy...remember only Love is real...all the rest is an illusion.
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Summary: Recyled Chopra
Review: The book's okay but rehashes alot of the stuff he's videoed and written over the years. He still uses the same tired old terms like "energy and information" never really explaning what it means, and "quantum soup" only deepening the mystery of the mystery. I fail to understand why anyone who writes about "God" has to make this all sound "mysterious". To explain one mystery with another is annoying, probably misleading and certainly lacking in a clear and distinct thesis. For clarity I'd read Aquinas - really! Oh well... Chopra is popular reading for popular ideas in mind / body problems and should really be sold as Philosophy 101 rather than billed as any kind of medicine or healing. Whew... Sorry Deepak. I don't think you know any more about this "mystery" than anyone else except maybe that you're very good at the presentation - as poetry and prose. It's well written no doubt and it's not bad either. I simply didn't get the purpose of the book other than to make me feel good about "God". Touchy feely books about God are all over the place and so are Churches and Temples and prayer beads along with incense and black light posters.Let's hope Chopra write's a book with new material next time. If you wnat some challenging stuff I suggest you read Charles Templeton's new book.
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Summary: Lovin' the God I know
Review: This book takes a provocative and probing look at the issues of faith and spirituality that all of us are curious about: who are we, why are we here, and what it's all about. And it's a refreshing reminder that God is a subjective, if not complex experience, rather than a dogmatic objective and antiquated portrait. A daring, inspired, and vivid examination of the science of the soul of God and us, I recommend this book to every single human who wants to take a stepper to understanding the world and cosmos around us.
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