How to Know God: The Soul's Journey Into the Mystery of Mysteries - Softcover

Chopra, Deepak

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0609805231 ISBN 13: 9780609805237

Publisher: Harmony, 2001

Synopsis

You don't have to believe in God in order to experience God.
--- Deepak Chopra

The celebrated author of Ageless Body, Timeless Mind and The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success has written his most ambitious and important work yet, a runaway international bestseller that has inspired hundreds of thousands of readers to rethink their concept of God.

According to Chopra, the brain is hardwired to know God. The human nervous system has seven biological responses that correspond to seven levels of divine experience. These are shaped not by any one religion (they are shared by all faiths), but by the brain's need to take an infinite, chaotic universe and find meaning in it. How to Know God describes the quest each of us is on, whether we realize it or not. For, as Chopra puts it, "God is our highest instinct to know ourselves." This book makes a dramatic and enduring contribution to that knowledge.

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Product Description:

How to Know God In this work we are taken on a journey of self and spirit, teaching us how to come face to face with the beginning of life, eternity and the essence of our being. This is an exploration of seven ways in which God can be experienced. Full description

Review:

How to Know God is a truly remarkable work and in many ways it can be viewed as a summation of Deepak Chopra's work so far. A distinguished physician and lecturer, Deepak Chopra is also renowned for the small library of inspirational titles he has authored. His core subjects are physical and spiritual health, moral responsibility and ancient wisdom, and throughout he offers an insightful and holistic approach to the deepest questions in our internal and external lives. How to Know God draws upon all of these subjects in a profound study which marks an evolution in Deepak Chopra's thinking. The key factors here are religious philosophy and quantum physics, neuroscience and mysticism. Together they form a synthesis--a seven-stage theory of how we can know, understand and reach God. The stages are a series of responses: fight or flight, reactive, restful, intuitive, creative, visionary and sacred. At each stage we are learning to understand the complexities within ourselves, our environment, humanity as a whole and the totality of existence--the totality that equals God or "infinite intelligence".

It's an immense undertaking to explain. But in 300 pages, Deepak Chopra guides us through with simplicity and skill and with a deep sense of empathy. He also avoids the rarefied academic tone which a work such as this could fall prey to. How to Know God is both accessible and easily absorbed. It's about the God within ourselves and the God we perceive around us; it's about how we can reach our God and effect positive change. No less an authority than the Dalai Lama commented, "I absolutely agree with Dr. Chopra's view that if we want to change the world we have to begin by changing ourselves". --Lucas LoBlack

About this edition

• Publisher: Harmony
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0609805231
• ISBN 13: 9780609805237
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 336