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Summary: searching
Review: If you have had mystical experiences, but logic tells you that God does not exist, and yet, you want there to be a God and your experience suggests it, this is the book for you.The prospect of God being earth size has always baffled me. If one was to be overwhelmed by thunder and clouds on Mt. Olympus and one thought that, at that peak, a god or God existed in the intimidation, it seems to me that intelligently posed questions would disspell the notion of God. For example, the universe is endless: clouds on Olympus are miniscule by comparison, so why would so huge a creator, bother? Chopra has proposed God for the intelligent who would otherwise argue that the earth is a molecule in the universe. He speaks to the idea of God being beyond time and space. I began to tap into the idea of time and relativity. And, he proposes that the soul is in the brain...I always wondered about that. The book is a grounded science, but still mystical experience. Chopra provides much for those of us who are searching.
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Summary: When you're ready for it
Review: It was no surprise to see the range of review ratings on this book. There are certain books one must be very careful to recommend to others, such as Ken Wilbur's A Brief History of Everything. Readers must be at a certain point in their own "evolution" before the book makes sense--"speaks to them" as another review said. How To Know God is one of those books. If you've spent time on your own spiritual evolution and can look back to a time when you believed much differently than you do today, this book may very well add clarity to your understanding of where you've been and where you're going. It did for me. I was able to "place" myself very clearly on the timeline of such evolution, so for me the book rates five stars. If your beliefs are strongly "religious" rather than spiritual; if you find it necessary to "defend" your religious position; or if you consider anything that can't be explained by science to be a hoax, this book is definitely not for you.
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Summary: (Amazingly) Meets the expectations of the Title
Review: There could hardly be a more grandiose title than this and so it is a pleasant surprise that the book actually stands up to the expectations it builds. `Life is all about knowing God'. Forget health and wealth, though those are also surely prime concerns, here's the BIG ONE.
This book is probably as ambitious as even Chopra can get. And therefore the `meaning' that he has put into this book is also clear. Chopra has from his rich personal experience and learning carved out the route to know the unknowable. All of us are on the same path, consciously or unconsciously, and it is most interesting to take stock of one's own learnings and `stages' as revealed in this book.
Quit reading the reviews and get on with the book. Whether you dig Chopra or not and whatever your personal belief system, this book is a gift whose time has come.
(There are some friends who reported that they `dropped' the book in its early pages. But I think it's important to read through the beginning as in every stage there are learnings. Things fall in place, ofcourse, as you go along and the farther you go.)
Still stuck reading this review? Bye!
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Summary: Started Out Interesting
Review: I liked the different stages of spirituality but I didn't like some of the examples he gave of spiritual experiences. Some have been proven false. Also, when he spoke in scientific terms sometimes it didn't ring true. I think the process he gave is accurate but it's not linear. Most people go backward before they move to the next stage. Still, there is valuable information if you read it with a discerning mind.
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Summary: A priest's attempt at physics
Review: The physical laws that Chopra tries to use in explaining the meta-physical world comes to this physics major as an utter disgust! Not to mention the heavy biblical influence throughout the book, making it feels like reading the bible. This book insults the intelligence of its reader and discourages criticalness and introspection. Even Krishnamurti's abstract discussions are palatable compared to this one.
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Summary: How To Know God
Review: This is one of the best books I've ever read. Deepak is a genius!
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Summary: The Blind Leading the Blind
Review: Why are you so weak that you need help from charlatans like Deepak Chopra? Stop filling this fool's pockets with your money lest you become a fool yourself. Read Krishnamurti instead.
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Summary: Cha Ching! for Chopra as he laughs cashing his checks
Review: This book is great for those who love to pursue mindless dribble.... or those who have not had a good bowel movement in a couple of days!
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Summary: An Insightful Addition to Your Spiritual Search
Review: I found this book to be perfectly timely in my spiritual search. I found it just as I was trying to understand my less mature concept of a "one God" and justify it with the terrorism of Sept 11th. I found the 7 levels of Spiritual Evolution enlightening to the point of finally helping me to understand how all "religions" give structures leading to behaviors such as judgement and them vs us thinking, while espousing One God, a God of Love. While I was reading this book, I found myself looking for the mystics and more "highly developed" voices within my religion to find my own religion's answers to these tough questions. All the great religions seem to have these opposing concepts and Deepra clearly illustrates why. While it doesn't clearly show us then how to get to "know God" by direct experience, he gives us the kernel to go out and continue our serach. And tying his model into a scientific framework helped me to bring both my scientific and spiritual minds together. A valuable read!
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Summary: God IS
Review: "How to Know God" is a wonderful book. It is profound, non-sectarian and easy to read. Its classification in seven different levels is a jewel of precision. Everyone interested in spirituality should read it. I would only change its name to "How we Perceive God along our Evolution Path". The Editorial Review starts by saying that "God is not a person or a thing but rather a process, according to world-renowned author and spiritual leader Deepak Chopra." I don't agree with such a comment and I am not sure if this is the only way to interpret what Dr. Chopra wrote. For belief systems to which the idea of God is not an issue, Dr. Chopra's book may be viewed as the editorial reviewer says. As a Spiritist, nevertheless, I have to disagree from such an interpretation. Our perception of God is certainly a process that goes hand-to-hand with our evolution. God, on the other hand, is surely not a person or a thing but neither is God a process. God simply IS.
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