201. Deepak Chopra

Deepak ChopraDeepak Chopra, MD, serves as the Founder and Chairman of the Board for The Chopra Foundation.

As a global leader and pioneer in the field of mind-body medicine, Deepak Chopra transforms the way the world views physical, mental, emotional, spiritual, and social wellness. Known as a prolific author of more than seventy-five books with twenty-one New York Times best sellers in both fiction and non-fiction, his works have been published in more than thirty-five languages.

Chopra’s medical training is in internal medicine and endocrinology and he is a Fellow of the American College of Physicians, and a member of the American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists. He serves as the Co-Founder and Chairman of the Board of The Chopra Center for Wellbeing, Founder of The Chopra Well on YouTube, Adjunct Professor at Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University, Adjunct Professor at Columbia Business School, Columbia University,  Senior Scientist with The Gallup Organization and board of directors, HESATime magazine has described Dr. Chopra as one of the top 100 heroes and icons of the century and credits him as “the poet-prophet of alternative medicine”.

A few of Deepak’s many books:

https://www.deepakchopra.com

Interview recorded 10/25/2013 at the Science and Non-Duality Conference in San Jose, California.

Transcript of this interview.

Video and audio below. Audio also available as a Podcast.

YouTube Video Chapters:

  • 00:00:00 – An Interview with Dr. Deepak Chopra
  • 00:01:49 – The Importance of Self-Awareness
  • 00:03:16 – The Rarity of Self-Knowledge
  • 00:05:11 – The Evolution of Human Society
  • 00:07:09 – The Cycle of Yugas and the Epidemic of Awakening
  • 00:08:30 – The Lord’s intervention in times of negativity
  • 00:10:01 – Transcending Duality and Improving Collective Being
  • 00:11:45 – Perception of the world as heaven or hell
  • 00:13:18 – Balancing Public Image and Medical Practice
  • 00:15:02 – Being Used in God’s Service
  • 00:17:00 – Slipping into witnessing awareness
  • 00:18:43 – The Experience of Existence
  • 00:20:13 – The Nature of Perceptual Reality
  • 00:22:00 – Perception as species-specific and culture-specific
  • 00:24:02 – Perceptual reality and the unknown
  • 00:25:36 – The Consistency of Perceived Reality
  • 00:27:32 – The Cosmic Dreamer
  • 00:29:11 – Conflicts between Dreams
  • 00:30:48 – Moving towards a more wholesome and loving environment
  • 00:33:05 – The Nature of Qualia
  • 00:34:43 – Living in a state of consciousness
  • 00:37:30 – The Inexplicability of Experience
  • 00:38:41 – Remembering Candice Pert
  • 00:40:23 – Naming Perceptions and Creating Reality
  • 00:41:57 – The Consciousness of Mathematics
  • 00:43:09 – The Fall from the Garden of Naming
  • 00:45:01 – The problem with naming and conceptualizing
  • 00:46:13 – The Illusion of Perception
  • 00:47:38 – Embracing the Paradox and Ambiguity
  • 00:48:35 – BATGAP.com