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This is Deepak Chopra's magnum opus, the book that points the way to enlightenment, now available in paperback.

About the Author

Deepak Chopra, MD, founder of the Chopra Foundation and Chopra Global, is a world-renowned pioneer in integrative medicine and personal transformation. He is also the founder behind DigitalDeepak.ai, a groundbreaking initiative utilising advanced AI technology to communicate his timeless wisdom worldwide, helping and guiding individuals on their path to well-being and personal growth. Chopra is the author of more than ninety books, including numerous New York Times bestsellers. Time magazine has described Dr Chopra as 'one of the top 100 heroes and icons of the century.'

Reviews

The poet-prophet of alternative medicine
*Time Magazine*

I congratulate Dr Deepak Chopra for this wonderful book
*His Holiness the Dalai Lama*

With astonishing insight and breathtaking clarity, Deepak Chopra has here answered the only question that has ever really mattered. The human race will remember this time in our history as the moment when the final veil was lifted from the face of God.
*Neale Donald Walsch, Author of Conversations with God*

Profound and accessible...fascinating and uplifting
*Andrew Weil, author of A Spontaneous Healing*

A renowned physician and author, Deepak Chopra is undoubtedly one of the most lucid and inspired philosophers of our times.
*Mikhail Gorbachev*

Just when I think he can't go any deeper, he does. With How to Know God, Deepak Chopra makes it clear: we have in our midst a spiritual genius.
*Marianne Williamson, Author of Return to Love and Enchanted Love*

The ultimate how-to book! Brilliant!
*Dean Ornish, M.D., Founder and President, Author of Love & Survival*

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 Cahners Business Information.

The poet-prophet of alternative medicine * Time Magazine *
I congratulate Dr Deepak Chopra for this wonderful book * His Holiness the Dalai Lama *
With astonishing insight and breathtaking clarity, Deepak Chopra has here answered the only question that has ever really mattered. The human race will remember this time in our history as the moment when the final veil was lifted from the face of God. -- Neale Donald Walsch, Author of Conversations with God
Profound and accessible...fascinating and uplifting * Andrew Weil, author of A Spontaneous Healing *
A renowned physician and author, Deepak Chopra is undoubtedly one of the most lucid and inspired philosophers of our times. -- Mikhail Gorbachev