Exploring Our Limited Understanding of Reality | Deepak Chopra
05/20/20 • 73 min
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This week’s conversation is with Deepak Chopra, a world-renowned pioneer in integrative medicine and personal transformation.
Deepak is the founder of The Chopra Foundation, a non-profit entity for research on well-being and humanitarianism, and Chopra Global, a modern-day health company at the intersection of science and spirituality
TIME magazine has described Deepak as “one of the top 100 heroes and icons of the century.”
He is the author of over 89 books translated into over forty-three languages, including numerous New York Times bestsellers.
His 90th book and national bestseller, Metahuman: Unleashing Your Infinite Potential, unlocks the secrets to moving beyond our present limitations to access a field of infinite possibilities.
Deepak also has a new short form podcast called - Now for Tomorrow. I had the chance to be a guest and we stitched it onto the end of this conversation so I hope you enjoy it.
In this conversation, we explore big questions -- about the nature of reality and consciousness.
We discuss why it's so challenging to use language and sensory information to try to makes sense of the true nature of what is.
How can we understand reality when what we see and hear and feel is not complete?
My hope is that you'll leave this conversation with a different perspective on the way you think about what is real.
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This week’s conversation is with Deepak Chopra, a world-renowned pioneer in integrative medicine and personal transformation.
Deepak is the founder of The Chopra Foundation, a non-profit entity for research on well-being and humanitarianism, and Chopra Global, a modern-day health company at the intersection of science and spirituality
TIME magazine has described Deepak as “one of the top 100 heroes and icons of the century.”
He is the author of over 89 books translated into over forty-three languages, including numerous New York Times bestsellers.
His 90th book and national bestseller, Metahuman: Unleashing Your Infinite Potential, unlocks the secrets to moving beyond our present limitations to access a field of infinite possibilities.
Deepak also has a new short form podcast called - Now for Tomorrow. I had the chance to be a guest and we stitched it onto the end of this conversation so I hope you enjoy it.
In this conversation, we explore big questions -- about the nature of reality and consciousness.
We discuss why it's so challenging to use language and sensory information to try to makes sense of the true nature of what is.
How can we understand reality when what we see and hear and feel is not complete?
My hope is that you'll leave this conversation with a different perspective on the way you think about what is real.
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Please support our partners!
We're able to keep growing and creating content for YOU because of their support. We believe in their mission and would appreciate you supporting them in return!!
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1 RecommendationsThis week’s conversation is with Dr. David Fajgenbaum, a groundbreaking physician-scientist and disease hunter.
The timing of his insights is incredibly relevant for us right now.
David is best known as the ‘doctor who cured himself’ – he received his last rites while in medical school and nearly died four more times battling Castleman disease.
To try to save his own life, he spearheaded an innovative approach to research through the Castleman Disease Collaborative Network and discovered a treatment that has put him into his longest remission ever.
Now, he is spreading this approach to other diseases like COVID19.
David is also one of the youngest individuals ever appointed to the faculty at Penn Medicine and the top 1 percent youngest grant awardees of a highly-competitive National Institute’s of Health grant.
As someone who’s been on the verge of death multiple times, David has a unique perspective... he shares how it’s altered his approach to life.
David likes to refer to it as playing in “overtime.”
In his words:
I’ve been in overtime ever since I had my last rights read to me. Think about overtime in sports. In overtime, all of a sudden there's this incredible clarity and purpose that comes with every tick of the clock. You can make a mistake in the first quarter of a game and you can make up for it, but if you make one wrong move in overtime the game's over. And I think that's the perfect analogy for how I feel every day of life. It’s not that I'm afraid to make a mistake or a paralyzing feeling, but it actually gives me clarity. I can hear the clock ticking, I know that I have this awful disease, but it helps me to focus on what's important and what's not important.
And that really sets the tone for this conversation.
We discuss the preciousness of life and why it really comes down to having clarity of purpose and making sure you take the proper actions to back it up.
David also shares how his lab is approaching finding a cure for COVID-19.
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Cultivating Healthy Relationships | Psychologist, Dr. Melanie Joy
This week’s conversation is with Dr. Melanie Joy, a Harvard-educated psychologist specializing in relationships, communication, and social change.
Melanie is best known for her groundbreaking theories on the psychology of violence, nonviolence, and building healthy relationships.
Her analyses have helped explain why people engage in “nonrelational” behaviors—behaviors that harm other people, animals, the planet, and themselves—as well as how to change this pattern
She is the eighth recipient of the Ahimsa Award—previously given to the Dalai Lama and Nelson Mandela—for her work on global nonviolence; and she also received both the Peter Singer Prize and the Empty Cages Prize for her work developing strategies to reduce the suffering of animals.
Melanie’s mission is to raise awareness of the obstacles preventing people from interacting in ways that create a sense of mutual connection.
These obstacles are both internal (psychological) and external (social), and they are a key reason why we act against our own interests and the interests of others—often without realizing that we’re doing so.
With awareness, we are better able to think freely and act compassionately, to create healthier and more fulfilling relationships and a more equitable and sustainable world.
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