Deep Thoughts from Deepak Chopra

I can’t remember exactly when I first learned about Deepak. I believe it was from iTunes. A couple of years ago I started *searching* for some relaxing music to listen to and something to help distract me from my pain. I ended up downloading “The Soul of Healing Meditations,” which I still enjoy to this day. Since I enjoyed it so much, I started to explore this Deepak person and listened to his audio book called “The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success,” which really resonated with me. Being raised in the Catholic church has left me a little puzzled with religion and his simple guidelines really make sense to me.

So, over the past couple of years, I’ve been inspired by his views, music and his voice. He has a sort of magical voice that puts your brain in a trance and keeps you interested. He also has the range and depth to speak about topics from Eastern and Western medicine, science, religion, history, philosophy and rattles off quotes by famous people like no tomorrow. He is simply a great teacher and philosopher himself.

He’s also now on the brink of becoming a bit contraversial in the Christian community due to his latest book entitled, “The Third Jesus, The Christ we Cannot Ignore.” A recent Dallas Morning News article covered the book release yesterday and stated that: 

“Chopra examines the teachings of Jesus not in the context of his historical existence as a rabbi of Nazareth, and not in light of the Christian belief that he is the son of God, but as ‘a cosmic Christ’ — Jesus as a state of mind.”

One of the other audio books I listened to, or at least attempted to was “The New Physics of Healing,” which I have to admit was a bit too deep for me. I am interested in the phenomenon of Quantum physics but it can be hard to get your head around. Is what we see really there or isn’t it?

Anyway, last night I had the opportunity to see Deepak speak in Copenhagen and hear him speak about the “nature of human consciousness.” I also had the chance to get my book signed, which was very exciting, as well as give him a very solid hand shake.

       

He wore these super funky, and what looked like they could be women’s, glasses with lots of sparkly red and white rhinestones on them, and he seemed very present, relaxed and at ease.

 As for the speech, he covered a lot of ground. His main message was about consciousness existing in discontinuity. He spoke about the difference between happiness in ignorance versus happiness in enlightenment, the law of impermanence, Nirvana being the ultimate reality, Quantum leaps of creativity, meta-biological evolution, the non-local domain, synchronicity, hidden dimensions, and the realm of the unmanifest.

He also mentioned that while he was researching for an upcoming book he explored the habits of some of the world’s great leaders and learned that they each sit in silence for at least five minutes every day. He said that how people see things or perceive things makes up about 80% of what determines their happiness and that less than 8% is determined by a person’s conditions for their life. I thought this was particularly interesting in light of the discussions around Denmark being named “the happiest place in the world.”

He also talked about an initiative he’s spearheading called The Alliance for a New Humanity whose mission it is to:

“connect people, who, through personal and social transformation, aim to build a just, peaceful, and sustainable world, reflecting the unity of all humanity.”

A video about the initiative can be seen HERE. And if you are interested in learning more about Deepak, visit his blog at www.deepakchopra.com or the site of the Chopra Center of Wellbeing.  

All in all, it was a great experience. I am left with a new way of looking at things and “a positive way of thinking,” as my husband describes his own reaction. I was once again reminded of “The Power of Now,” and impotance of living in the moment and letting go of the past or to “live, breath and move in the unknown.” I also took along some insight into neuropeptides and their potential role in my post-meningitis pain signals, which is interesting to say the least.

I saw a little bit of myself in one of Deepak’s Secrets to Enlightenment, which was that ”we live in multi-dimensions.” I swear I can be in 10 places at the same time! It’s what he describes as observations coming and going, having a “there goes my body but here I am” kind of state, sychronicity, spontaneous self-fulfillment of desire, the realm of miracles, experience of immortality or feeling of/being in love.

Finally, it was simply an honor to shake the hand of a person that has provided me with such a great amount of inspiration and to tell him that in person.