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Summary: How to Know God
Review: An excellent insight into the realm of mans search for answers leading to being truly connected to God. This intellectual exploration looking in on historic reference and extending to future expectations is a must for the serious student of spiritual and philosophic study. A bit redundant in the repetitive process of the seven steps but still a five star and in my opinion Chopras best yet....he is getting close to the essence............
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Summary: Great! How to experience God in this world!
Review: This is a great book about both the practice and theory of How to Experience God in your everyday life. The science/theory part explains that there are 7 different types of responses/approaches that we(the human brain)take towards God...from fearful and reactive all the way to mystical unity/oneness with all that is. Chopra's greatness is in making way for All different types of approaches to the experience of God. No one is wrong or right, and it makes it understandable the why and wherefore of so many different religions and approaches to God. It makes it easier to then come to your own practical approach to "Contacting God!" There are many ways... It helped me to see the all experiences of God in my life with more unity. Seeing that different experiences are all part of the same, yet are based in different approaches/ or stages in my life... Another book which I very highly recommend and which is a very profound book about learning to be in Unity with everything in your life - is "Working On Yourself Doesn't Work: A Book About Instantaneous Transformation" by Ariel and Shya Kane. The Kanes are two of the most self-realized people on the planet. Their book and their audios are worth reading or listening to.
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Summary: A spiritual catalysts!
Review: First of all, I think writing a book is currently the ideal method of reaching the masses. Regardless of the profit, it was the best way for Deepak to touch and better souls around the world forever, and that goes beyond any profit. Second, this book was bolder and more "to the point" then a lot of other spirituality books I have read, which concentrate more on details or just part of the picture. Chopra's book allows the reader to better understand the mysteries within, the path to sainthood. There are very few saints in the world right now, and anything that helps people reach their true potential should be praised. I am personally attracted to the book because I can understand and relate to what Deepak is saying. If this book did one thing, it helped my soul propel higher on my spiritual journey. Even if his book doesn't hold all the answers or even the absolute truth, Deepak has made a great contribution to anyone interested in bettering their soul. Highly recommended! If anyone wants to discuss these subjects...
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Summary: The Happy Hooker!
Review: I give this book 1 star to take the lead in the catagory of Spiritual Pimpism. I listened to the Author on the radio and looked at the web site and he sounds "articulate" but devoid of content, and tends to simply tell people what they want to hear in an overwheming fashion, trying to satify everyone in the mix to sell his book.
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Summary: You do not know god, if you say you know god
Review: It was Chuan Tsu who said that if someone said he knows God, then he really do not knows God. This book appear to be a repackaging of "Seven States of Consciousness" : A Vision of Possibilities Suggested by the Teaching of Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, by Anthony. Campbell. Most of the ideas are nothing new, it seems the author appear to be 'lazy' to acknowledge the original sources, maybe he has forgotten them. Nevertheless this repackaging is still interesting and will be useful to those who can match their current state of spiritual inclinations to the ideas in this book.
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Summary: Chopra's best work.
Review: While reading Chopra's some of the earlier books, one felt that they were eastern philosophy repackaged for the western reader. This work is different. I had the opportunity to participate in Internet chat with Chopra recently. Though he claimed that the ideas in the book have been existing for thousands of years in all spiritual texts, I got the feeling that he was mere saying that to make those ideas acceptable. The ideas in this book have a high degree of originality. They are very stimulating intellectual ideas that, on contemplation, leave you saying "Yes, I agree" repeatedly. This work is like a research proposal, that sheds new light on the meaning of religious texts and offers huge insights into human spirituality, while simultaneously making our brains tickle with poetic statements. I recommend this book to every thinker who wants to believe, and to every believer who wants to think.
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Summary: A Transcendental Look at Our Connection to God
Review: This is a challenging book for a reviewer, because it does not follow the normal rules of nonfiction exposition. As such, one has to evaluate the book for what it is . . . not compare it to what it is not. I have read several of Dr. Chopra's books, and find that they are all written at the transcendental level. By that, I mean that they are intended to be tested by your unconscious mind rather than your conscious mind. So the words either resonate or they do not. The way this work communicates has a lot in common with Gary Zukov's works on the soul, such as Soul Stories. One of the things that this book is not, is a book about religion. That may seem strange for a book about knowing God, but it does permit a more holistic look at the question than the context of a single religion sometimes offers. In a very free-ranging discussion, Dr. Chopra cites examples from all major religions as well as those who report paranormal experiences (whether contacts with angels by ordinary people, mind-reading, or psychic healing). From these straws in the wind as examples, he constructs a hierarchy of contact to God that is similar to one that Maslow espoused for the human hierarchy of needs. Dr. Chopra's main point is that our psychological development is tied to our spiritual development, which limits or opens us to new ways to perceive God. He neither condemns nor exalts one state greatly over another, although he does put them on a continuum (beginning with God as protector and moving to God as what "I am"). He ties this percpetual ability to make contact in terms of the physical world, the quantum domain (the area where spirit and the material world meet), and the virtual domain (the area of pure spirit). The work is an original and interesting application of thinking from a variety of fields to find what appear to be their common elements. Whether he is right or not is basically a matter of personal perception and faith. Most of us could use a novel context for having a good spiritual conversation with a trusted religious or spiritual adviser. How to Know God? would make a great book for such a conversation. Whether you agree with it or not, you are probably going to find yourself opened to the possibility of appreciating God's presence in some ways that you did not appreciate before. That's a very worthwhile accomplishment when it happens, and my perception that it is likely is one reason why I gave the book a five star rating. The other reason is simply that the book resonated with me at a very profound level, which left me with a sense of deep peace. I cannot predict what you reaction will be. Anyone who wants a tightly woven book about religion, or a logical argument for this point of view, would do well to go elsewhere. This book simply doesn't explore that part of the potential domain about knowing God. Good luck in transcending whatever limitations you are experiencing now in knowing God!
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Summary: A wonderful guide for the "advanced" soul....
Review: After reading hundreds of books on Buddhism, Hinduism, Chrisitianity and western philosophy, I finally found a book that encompasses all representations of what we call God. Evidently this is NOT for the die-hard Christian or religious fanatic. In fact, if you find this book repulsive, that is most likely an indication of a closed perception of God. If you really want to make sense of spirituality and what it has become in a multi-cultural world, read Dr. Chopra's book. Each time I read it, I feel an overwhelming sense of gratitude that there is this profound text available for those who seek understanding.
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Summary: Fantastic book!
Review: There are those of merit who endorse this book, such as the Dalai Lama and those not so meritorious - Larry King, Shirley MacLaine and Uri Geller (famous for his failed "powers" to make spoons melt between his fingers on the Johnny Carson show, when his rigged spoons had been replaced with those straight from the kitchen). Deepak uses a number of "seven level" descriptions applying to a wide variety of things, from seven stages of God, to characteristics of the brain, to seven kinds of satisfaction. Finding satisfaction somehow "proves" the existence of God, though it's not clear how. His propensity for claims out of blue sky without support is relentless. The comparison of brain to God reads like a horoscope. One could make whatever comparison they might want between brain and God and it would have fit nicely here. Say, the brain of sleep and awareness is akin to the God of knowing and the God who allows free will. His God is a popularly pleasant one as he does not include a jealous or horrific God, nor a God of plague and pestilence.
Since his first big seller he has learned nothing more of quantum mechanics. He confuses the probabilistic nature of the micro, quantum domain with the macro world to service his evidence for God as the power that could pull off such tricks as blinking the universe in and out of existence in a virtual world. He misrepresents quantum mechanics as having revealed everything from telepathy and clairvoyance to split personalities. His book brims with buzzwords from the vocabulary of physics such as "space time continuum". Notice no physicists endorsed his book. He makes use of a current fad in angels by noting a story of a blind priest who, about to collide with two bicyclists, is saved by an angel. We are told despite the fact such events continue to be catalogued we still doubt them. Is this surprising? Volumes of UFO sightings, alien abductions, hauntings and crop circles are "catalogued". Do we believe those too? He preys on the scientifically illiterate and religiously eager. If you want a serious coverage of this interesting topic see John Polkinghorne - an Oxford physicist and Anglican Priest or the likes of Teilhard de Chardin, a Jesuit Priest and biologist. If you want to contribute to Deepak's Southern California mansion, buy his book.
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Summary: Deepak Chopra Should Stay With Healing Wounds and Diseases
Review: I was going to stop reading on page 1 after I found six errors. But I continued to read until page 14 and then had enough. His writings are more like the speeches of the sophists of ancient Athens who twisted the minds of people for political or personal interests. He is a book salesman who appeases people, for instance, in the fields of religion, nformation systems thinkers and physics. Chopra claims that his three component world theory parallels the religious worldview. This is not true. The religious view has only two components -- God and Nature. He adds his third component, which consists of a quantum soup and information, in between God and Nature, seemingly only to appease and sell more books to the physicists and information specialists. By adding this third component, he destroys most religions in the Western world and also the field of metaphysics. His idea that God can be known beyond His existence is also opposed to most religions in the Western world. That was enough for me.
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