201. Deepak Chopra

Deepak 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, HESA. Time 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: Super Brain: Unleashing the Explosive Power of Your Mind to Maximize Health, Happiness, and Spiritual Well-Being The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success: A Practical Guide to the Fulfillment of Your Dreams The Book of Secrets: Unlocking the Hidden Dimensions of Your Life Perfect Health: The Complete Mind/Body Guide, Revised and Updated Edition https://www.deepakchopra.com Interview recorded 10/25/2013 at the Science and Non-Duality Conference in San Jose, California. Transcript of this interview. 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