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How to Know God: The Soul's Journey Into the Mystery of Mysteries [Abridged, Audiobook] [Audio Cassette]

Deepak Chopra (Author, Reader)
3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (173 customer reviews)

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Release Date: Feb 22 2000 | Series: Deepak Chopra
Read by the author
Three cassettes / approx. 5 hours


The bestselling author Deepak Chopra is back with a new work that explores the seven ways we experience God.  As Chopra explains, these experiences are shaped not by any one religion but by an instinct that is hard-wired into the brain.  In this remarkable work, Chopra takes us step by step, from the first stage, where the brain's "fight or flight" response yields us the experience of a God who is an all-powerful parent, to the seventh stage, where the brain experiences God as pure being, a sacred presence that just is.  All seven stages are available to us at all times.

In How to Know God, Chopra charts a fascinating course for us, as we explore mysticism, religious ecstasy, genius, telepathy, multiple personality, and clairvoyance, drawing insights from psychology, neurology and physics as well as from the great religions.

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God is not a person or a thing but rather a process, according to world-renowned author and spiritual leader Deepak Chopra. The purpose of this ambitious book is to assure readers that anyone can engage in this process--"it isn't a matter of faith, religious teaching, innate goodness, luck or some other mysterious factor," Chopra explains. "Our brains are hardwired to find God." This hardwiring is deftly explored as Chopra lists the seven ways humans know God and how they correspond to the anatomy of our human brains. He devotes a chapter to each of the seven visions of God: "Protector," "Almighty," "God of Peace," "Redeemer," "Creator," "God of Miracles," and "Pure Being--I am." In every chapter he asks and answers the same questions for the readers: "Who am I?" "How do I fit in?" "How do I find God?" The format works well, helping to tame this broad discussion while also illuminating the different personality types that are attracted to these seven different visions.

Fortunately, Chopra is a gifted narrator, able to make human anatomy and quantum physics understandable while also keeping spiritual and metaphysical discussions grounded. As he drifts through the cloudy realms of ESP, telepathy, clairvoyance, miracles, obedience, loyalty, evil, ego, addictions, and mentors, readers can trust that there is a competent pilot at the helm, deftly guiding this excellent book. Plan to take some time with this one. It is perhaps his best yet and as such deserves a slow and steady commitment. --Gail Hudson --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.

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Prolific author Chopra (The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success, Creating Health, etc.) explores the different ways people apprehend God. Chopra contends that there are seven responses to God and that "the brain cannot register a deity outside the list of seven responses." Chopra's seven include: fight or flight (a God who can save us from danger), reactive (a rule-giving God), restful awareness (a God who brings tranquility out of chaos), intuitive (a good and forgiving God), creative (God as Creator), visionary (God as exalted) and sacred (God as the source of everything). Different personalities envision God differently, says Chopra; a go-getter determined to shape his own destiny will imagine a creative God, whereas someone who feels she is just barely getting through the day will have the stage-one "fight or flight" response, envisioning a God who can rescue her. For Chopra, these seven ascending stages are normative; someone who has reached stage seven is more in tune with God than someone stuck at stage one. (Readers from law-based religions may feel dismayed that Chopra so devalues their "stage two" conception of God.) To help spiritual pilgrims reach the seventh stage, Chopra recommends that they see themselves and others "in the light," forgive themselves when they err and seek out the sacred and the unknown. Like most theories that claim to be all-encompassing, Chopra's scheme is often reductive, but this will nonetheless be a worthwhile addition to the spiritual seeker's library. (Feb.)
Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
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1.0 out of 5 stars Duck Soup or The High Art of Suckership Mar 31 2001
By mel borsuk
Format:Hardcover
It has been said that if you are in a poker game, look around the table and if you can't find the loser, then you are it! There are some books that should be judged not only on what they say or don't say, but on what they promise and who profits and who loses. This is not one of those. This book should be judged on all those criteria.

The winner at this God-centered crap-shoot is Mr. Chopra, high priest of the Spiritual Slim-Fast for the happiness-addicted New Age. He has perfected the art of 'give 'em what they want', and, apparently, we American Dreamers of the American Dream want our spirituality fun, quick, and inexpensive. He provides the stuff of dreams in a delicious melange of East and West, Science and Mysticism, Worldliness and Beyond this World. The difficulty in digesting this froth is in the details, where the devil usually resides. For it is in a close reading of the details and in integrating the various loose strands of his thinking that, to vary the metaphor, the suffle collapses.

The foundation premise is actually nonsensical except to Mr. Chopra's ardent fans and Duck Soup colleagues. To argue that various views of God arise from our varied psychological and biological responses to our vision of the world is a nicely simple idea that some might think elegant. Unfortunately, although the seven-storied scheme would give arcane significance by its numbered architecture, we and the world (and hopefully God as an infinite wisdom) are not so simple. For instance, if one reads with a modicum of understanding the Psalms or Saint Teresa of Avila or the Upanishads, one sees that approaches to Reality/God are varied and complex in any one sincere seeker or culture. It is convenient in terms of Chopra's scheme (or scam, depending on one's point of view), to characterize the Old Testament approach as a basic Fight/Flight response but it is inaccurate. Every level of Chopra's "seven-only" possibilities are represented there - and more. One either cannot see it or refuses to see it depending on one's devotion to Chopra and his way of affirming our childish needs.

Ask yourself who wins and who pays the winner's share? If it's not you, then who is it? With a yearly take of over $25 million, Chopra may not know God, but he sure has learned to play Him. Just ask those who pay for their yearly fix and constantly need another whether it be the next book or a colleague's book or tapes or seminars or or or....

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1.0 out of 5 stars Not just about religion or spirituality. Mar 30 2001
By Anand Fan
Format:Paperback
What I like about this book is how Chopra objectively treats the different approaches, by religions or methods, for reaching God. I would definitely recommend this book to people prone to statements like "I was brought up this way", as a means (mostly involuntarily) to disguise a lack of awareness of other types of backgrounds. It provides surprisingly good insight to differences in cultural thinking. A good book for people who enjoy travel, or meeting other cultures, or are forced to meet them, but don't really understand them. At the end of this read, I definitely felt smarter, and intellectually uplifted. A keeper (hardcover please).
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1.0 out of 5 stars journey Mar 18 2001
By jw
Format:Audio Cassette
brothers and sisters please dont judge this man gain positive feelings out of it and move on to the next book the ansers are limitless stay openminded and follow your soul& please dont judge the spelling does it really matter to be perfect thankyou i love u
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