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Summary: Deepak's Guide to "Me-ism"
Review: Deepak has written the definitive guide to "Me-ism", his newfangled brand of "make it up as you go" religion. I gave the book a try, but put it down half-way through, as the good doctor did not strike me as sincere, just slick.
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Summary: Chopra crossed his own line here
Review: This new book has been marketed very well and I know why. It lacks intrinsic strength. Better read the books of Neal Walsch. These have more depth.
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Summary: At long last an intelligent book about God.
Review: Brilliant and clear discussion of surely the most difficult and murky topic there is--God. With almost 30 years experience in the field of meditation and spiritualty, I often feel I have read most of what is out there on this topic. So it is truly a breath of fresh air to find such a practical and lucid account of our relationship to God. Not only is the book intelligent and thoughtful, but as with all of Dr. Chopras books, very well written and a real pleasure to read.
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Summary: Not so good.
Review: This book seems to have been written for the pop-religion audience. It's lacks any real depth or meaning. It's more of a self-indulgent study in self-adoration. He writes in circles and attempts so be deep without any real foundation. Don't waste your time on this diatribe of muck.
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Summary: Nothing new here. Should be titled "Be your own god"
Review: This is yet another would-be guru reinventing spirituality and presenting it as new. His arguements are verbose, yet without a foundation or logical progression. Rather, he just presents his ideas where he (we) can be our own gods. It's a vacant waste of paper and time.
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Summary: Everyday Spirituality
Review: I've been reading spiritual books of all kinds for many years. I found this one especially enlightening because it addressed the entire range of possible reactions to God, over the course of a lifetime...or a day.What I appreciate the most about the book is the moment-to-moment changes I'm noticing at work and in potentially stressful situations. I'm witnessing my actions and reactions and moving closer to the sacred response, simply by being more aware of my choices. The experience of reading "How to Know God" has truly been a life-altering one for me!
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Summary: Access to God
Review: I highly recommend this book to anyone concerned with personal development and transformation. This beautifully written map to soul reveals that whether we realize it or not we are all seeking to unite with God. The author brilliantly clarifies this profound inquiry with an easy to understand blend of eastern philosophy and science. I was inspired and amazed by the depth of his understanding and his ability to impart this knowledge to his readers. By using the author's distinctions of the seven different God responses, the reader is able to gauge his own personal evolution at any given moment, from the fight or flight response, to the sacred response. These insights allow for personal choice, intention and awareness, causing shifts in our perceptions, which change our reality. In my experience, nothing is more powerful.
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Summary: How to Know God is the most important book I've written.
Review: Dear Reader: As a child growing up in India I saw signs of spirit all around me--in the faces of near-naked sadhus, or holy men, in the saffron-robed monks who begged for rice in the streets, and in the people rich and poor who thronged the Hindu, Muslim and Sikh temples. My parents sent me off to be educated by Catholic nuns who taught me to respect the God of Christianity. At an early age I understood that these expressions of divinity must have something in common, despite their obvious differences. After many years of study I have come to the conclusion that all human beings are actually hard-wired to know God. Our brains are structured to make sense of the world around us, and spirit is necessary to limited in our ability to know God by our minds, through which we filter experience. As I sat down to write my new book, HOW TO KNOW GOD, I concluded that there are seven stages of human experience--and therefore of God consciousness--beginning with survival, or "fight or flight," which yields the all-powerful, capricious God of the Old Testament, and ending with unity consciousness, through which we can truly experience God in all things, living and inert. (All of us can access the seventh stage briefly, whereas the truly enlightened such as Buddha, Christ, and Mohammed, could spend a lifetime there). While writing this book I became very excited by the notion that these seven sacred responses apply to everyone, regardless of religion. As importantly, they explain how even those who do not subscribe to a religion can have the direct experience of God. Also, once I placed them in the context of the sacred responses anomalies such as clairvoyance, telepathy, ESP, ecstasy, and genius suddenly made perfect sense, which supported my sense that I was working with a breakthrough concept. Einstein once said, "I want to know the face of God. Everything else is detail." My goal is to make the face of God available to all of us, and with it the power to make miracles in our lives. In addition, one of my goals is to know if you the reader or someone you know has ever had experiences with what are so called "anomalous". If you have, I would like to invite you to write an essay in 750 words or less and submit it to godmessage@ chopra.com. I and my team will personally review these essays, select 30-40 of them, and then make editorial comments from a scientific point of view. These essays will be published in a book entitled "Messages from God," which could be the beginning of a series. I, therefore, encourage you to participate and become one of our published authors. I thank you profusely in advance.* With love, Deepak Chopra *By submitting your essay, you agree to the use of your name and the publication and use of the essay (in complete form or as may be edited by Deepak) in all editions, versions and media throughout the world of a book (and its related advertising) tentatively entitled "Messages From God," which could be the beginning of a series. Essays will not be retained, so please keep a copy."
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Summary: A departure for Dr. Deepak Chopra.
Review: When I began my publishing career at Bantam Books in 1986, Deepak Chopra's first book, Quantum Healing, was published--and I was hooked. Here was a doctor who knew as much about the spirit and quantum physics as he did about the body. I can't tell you what a thrill it is to now be Editorial Director of Harmony and be once again part of the publication of another departure for Dr. Chopra. Here he looks at physics and the great mystical traditions, as well as the way our brains are wired, to show that all of us experience God in some form, whether we recognize this or not. This is a provocative and incredibly gripping read for anyone who is interested in where the spirit, mind and universe meet.
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Summary: A fresh look at a profound subject
Review: This is a very thought-provoking book, and for anyone with an open mind it will at least give them a new way of looking at the nature of reality and how it might be possible to "know" God. Because Chopra takes a fresh approach and does not follow any particular dogma, some may have a bit of a knee-jerk response and write him off as "New Age." The search for a deeper understanding of God, however, is as old as humankind itself, and hardly started with the "New Age" movement in the modern world. Hinduism and Christianity are two of the world's great religions, and each has contributed great insights to that ancient search. Anyone with a true spiritual motivation will be able to recognize certain universal religious truths revealed in other religions besides their own, even though there may be many differences in terms of methods, traditions, and so on. I'm a bit sorry to see the reviews for this thoughtful book become a forum for aggressive assertions of the superiority of one religion over another. There's no problem whatsoever with the basic teachings of either Hinduism or Christianity, but the problem is the growing tendency toward fundamentalism in both of those religions. With a fundamentalist viewpoint, one sees only the outer form of one's own and other religions, and completely loses the insight into the deeper underlying truths. That seems to be the source of some of the attacks on this book, whereas, ironically, this book itself is a very helpful antidote to that type of closed-minded thinking.
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