Deepak Chopra

Source: moviesblog.mtv.com --- 32 days ago
“The Love Guru” didn’t bomb because of Justin Timberlake. It didn’t bomb because Mike Myers waited too long after the last installment of “Austin Powers” to become one with the cultural zeitgeist. It didn’t bomb because Hindu fundamentalists raised a stink over the film’s usage of sacred terms. It bombed, says Deepak Chopra, because Myers got [...] ...

Source: www.huffingtonpost.com --- 22 days ago
A great deal of confusion is being stirred up now over where the disastrous experience of Iraq and the collapse of neoconservatism will lead. By an ironic twist, Barack Obama has been labeled an idealist, when in fact he is an arch-realist who detected the need for change much earlier than any other major politician. John McCain, who cannot escape his share in promoting right-wing illusions, advocates the reversal of history, which means ignoring Iraq and continuing on as if it never happened. But some significant illusions died on the battlefield over the past five years, leading to major shifts on many fronts. Let's continue down the list. 3. The illusion of America as the friendly superpower. As pure wishful thinking, this one has no peer, and yet the vast majority of the public still probably believes in it, thanks to a long history of using American power for good. That good is undeniable, but in its shadow the U.S. acts like any other nation state, aggressively promoting its own ends and using military force when it meets opposition. The concept of nationalism by definition excludes other nations, and that exclusion is never neutral. "They" are suspect foreigners who are different from us, not just in their policies but in their moral being. Thus the U.S. has a ridiculous image of vaguely immoral France, and for fifty years the image of evil Russians was promoted without shame as a means of pumping up American militarism. ( ...

Source: www.huffingtonpost.com --- 30 days ago
An article in the Washington Post On Faith section in response to their question: What's your response to this question from a Post national poll of low-wage workers? "What role does God or your faith play in helping you get through tough financial times?" The new poll on poverty has a certain brazen quality about it, or is it rubbing salt in the wound accidentally? The poorest people in any society are the most vulnerable to economic anxiety. They are the least able to afford downturns and have almost no power to improve their lot through political leverage. The poll revealed that the poor are aware of their teetering situation. Did anyone expect that they would discover anything other than pessimism? To the degree that the poor still believe in the American dream, a Marxist would say that they have been duped. There are more opiates of the masses than just religion. However, there are no unbesmirched Marxists left, it seems, so the social wheel must turn in a new direction. Having abandoned the welfare state in its most liberal and generous aspects, America ignores the poor as never before -- the idealism of the "respectable poor," the compassion shown to victims of the Great Depression, and the social crusades of the sixties are gone. Is there a new idea that can bridge the immense gap between rich and poor in income, education, health, and opportunities? Religion certainly isn't that new idea. Asking the poor if they turn to G ...

Source: www.huffingtonpost.com --- 2 days ago
Sometimes politics has the uncanny effect of mirroring the national psyche even when nobody intended to do that. This is perfectly illustrated by the rousing effect that Gov. Sarah Palin had on the Republican convention in Minneapolis this week. On the surface, she outdoes former Vice President Dan Quayle as an unlikely choice, given her negligent parochial expertise in the complex affairs of governing. Her state of Alaska has less than 700,000 residents, which reduces the job of governor to the scale of running one-tenth of New York City. By comparison, Rudy Giuliani is a towering international figure. Palin's pluck has been admired, and her forthrightness, but her real appeal goes deeper. She is the reverse of Barack Obama, in essence his shadow, deriding his idealism and exhorting people to obey their worst impulses . In psychological terms the shadow is that part of the psyche that hides out of sight, countering our aspirations, virtue, and vision with qualities we are ashamed to face: anger, fear, revenge, violence, selfishness, and suspicion of "the other." For millions of Americans, Obama triggers those feelings, but they don't want to express them. He is calling for us to reach for our higher selves, and frankly, that stirs up hidden reactions of an unsavory kind. (Just to be perfectly clear, I am not making a verbal play out of the fact that Sen. Obama is black. The shadow is a metaphor widely in use before his arrival on ...

Source: www.huffingtonpost.com --- 17 days ago
An article in the Washington Post On Faith section in response to their question: At the Saddleback Church Forum, pastor Rick Warren began his interviews with John McCain and Barack Obama by saying: "We believe in separation of church and state, but not faith and politics." What's your response to that and to the forum? For me, the God quiz that Barack Obama endured with barely concealed sweaty palms and that John McCain breezed through with seasoned casualness has no place in American politics. Rick Warren is a feel-good preacher who softened the interrogation and administered no canings, but that's irrelevant. To claim that "faith and politics" is different -- and more acceptable -- than "church and state" is semantic sleight of hand. The reason that any contemporary presidential candidate is forced to suffer the indignity of confessing his religious beliefs in public goes back to the Reagan revolution. Pandora's box was opened by the right wing in 1980, admitting not just inappropriate matters of religion into political life but also making acceptable a range of prejudice, bigotry, and divisiveness that had been banished by an era of liberal social legislation. Reagan, after all, was the president who, if left to his own devices, would have let thousands more AIDS victims die through neglect and lack of funding for basic medical research. The implicit reason, well understood by the right and endorsed by fundamentalists, was th ...

Source: www.huffingtonpost.com --- 27 days ago
Societies don't remain the same after a war but find that they have radically changed. Sometimes the change is catastrophic, sometimes not. But it can never be ignored. A major undercurrent in the 2008 presidential campaign centers on this fact, because the people who devised and promoted the Iraq war want to preserve the illusion that nothing in America has really changed, when in fact a host of illusions died on the battlefield. On the other side, the anti-war party (as the Democrats became de facto over the past five years) is struggling to invent new realities to replace these lost illusions. The public is caught in between, for there's no doubt that comforting illusions have a way of springing back to life, if only history could be reversed. Consider the major illusions that perished -- or should have -- in Iraq: 1. The illusion of a "free" war. 2. The illusion that American nationalism is good nationalism. 3. The illusion of America as the friendly superpower. 4. The illusion that alliances are expendable. 5. The illusion that America and the free market are synonymous. Each one has a complex history and will continue to, but there's no doubt that reality has shifted so dramatically as to undercut all these false beliefs. 1. The illusion of a "free" war. In the wake of the first Gulf war and the so-called Powell doctrine, it was supposed to be true that overwhelming force could reduce U.S. casualties to a bare minimum. Confl ...

Source: www.huffingtonpost.com --- 24 days ago
An article in the Washington Post On Faith section in response to their question: Another politician (John Edwards) has admitted to having an extramarital affair, and another spouse (Elizabeth Edwards) has been forgiving. At what point does a person of faith cease to forgive? At what point does forgiveness become destructive? A cynic might say, in the wake of so many adulterous politicians, that in future they should issue a preemptive confession before running for President to save The National Enquirer excess ink. Why wait until you are caught? John Edwards' gotcha moment hasn't stirred much glee, perhaps because a rich personal-injury lawyer was an unlikely figure to mold into presidential stature to begin with. On the more humane side, his wife's illness and Edwards' own political failures create a sense of sadness. They both deserve sympathy and the right to retreat into the shelter of home, family, and hopefully a marriage whose wounds will heal. The confession itself smacked of hypocrisy -- as with other cheating politicians, one suspects that Edwards is mostly sorry that he got caught. that he would cheat on a devoted spouse with cancer is best passed over with a cringing silence. But the question posed is whether forgiveness can be so difficult that it stretches religious faith too far. Yes, of course. The most devout Jews are not expected, required, rewarded, or pressured to forgive the Holocaust. Such forgiveness would ...

Source: www.lime.com --- 14 days ago
How can you quit smoking? Deepak Chopra details step-by-step instructions for curbing smoking habits in the long-term, which include feeling the adverse sensations of smoking and listening to your body as it rejects those sensations. Topics: Lime Daily Video Self-Improvement balance Deepak Chopra health lime smoking ...

Source: www.californiapsychics.com --- 10 days ago
Would you recognize a miracle if you saw one? Most people dismiss the most extraordinary events that take place in their lives as coincidences. The mistake we often make is not taking a closer look at our lives so that we can get a glimpse of the miracles that occur on a daily basis - in the most obvious and unexpected ways. ...

Source: www.boxxet.com --- 29 days ago
 India - to be offensive to anyone," actress young actress Meagan Good, who is recognized for her acclaimed performance in the moody family drama "Eve's Bayou". ... Original story at NDTV.com . View our complete collection of news and blogs, plus related videos, photos and more at Boxxet: Meagan Good . ...

Source: www.fwicki.com --- 16 days ago
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Source: www.pinkraygun.com --- 8 days ago
By Brian Thompson I live down here in reality, and I have this pesky thing called a conscience that keeps me from lying to people for money. I just lie to people for fun. So what is it about Deepak Chopra’s “quantum mechanical body” that allows him to cheerfully cash all those royalty checks and lovingly embrace Oprah’s gullible little apple cheeks? ...

Source: www.hear2.com --- 33 days ago
"This is a time for really creative people to do something unusual and different." So says best-selling author Deepak Chopra about the opportunities for and threats posed to radio as a result of new media. I spoke to Chopra on... ...

Source: www.topix.com --- 11 days ago
Who kidnapped Deepak Chopra, and where have they hidden him? Normally, Deepak Chopra's contributions to HuffPo and other forums have been unadulterated woo; pure mystical New Age claptrap. ...

Source: blog.beliefnet.com --- 36 days ago
Will information technology trump military strength? What if a hand-held computer could hijack airplanes by interfering with air traffic signals? We need to use technology to heal the rift in our collective soul or risk using it to destroy ourselves.... ...

Source: blog.seesmic.com --- 31 days ago
(Joanikin) Deepak Chopra enters into a thought provoking discussion today on Seesmic asking if we can solve the mystery of consciousness? Can we truly be objective about who we are? Catch up with Deepak here on Seesmic or at Chopra.com. ...

Source: sunnyislandbreezes.com --- 27 days ago
“Each of us is responsible for how we feel, what we wish for, and how we decide to approach life’s challenges.” “Happiness is something that we look for, strive for, perhaps even struggle for. Happiness is something that we try to find, or, more likely, something that we try to buy. Joy is something that we [...] ...

Source: hillaryzilla.com --- 30 days ago
I admit it. I’m depressed. It’s been that way since the last glimmer of hope faded during the primary elections. Maybe it started with Iowa. Whatever. It’s here now and it’s real. There’s no doubt that I have much to be thankful for these days. I have a steady job. Money in the bank. A loving [...] ...

Source: pondercentral.com --- 32 days ago
"Know that the world ‘out there’ reflects your reality ‘in here.’ The people you react to most strongly, whether with love or hate, are projections of your inner world. What you most hate is what you most deny in yourself. What you most love is what you most wish for in yourself. Use the mirror of relationships to guide your evolution. The goal is total self-knowledge. When you achieve that, what you most want will automatically be there, and what you most dislike will disappear."                  Deepak Chopra, in “Ageless Body, Timeless Mind” For more information regarding this book, visit Amazon . A FREE service since its inception, "Ponder on This" benefits subscribers, authors, and publishers by including "links" to Amazon.com and other Web sites where subscribers can learn more about the book being quoted, and also purchase it. In all instances these links are provided as a convenience, and do NOT generate any type of compensation for Pondercentral. Individuals interested in a direct subscription to "Ponder on This" are requested to please click here or feel free to forward to a friend. ...