Deepak Chopra - July 12, 2005
Question:
I have been meditating for a year now, and meditation has helped me out alot in numerous ways. I am attending university in September. I am taking the criminal justice program, and there is a lot of psychology involved. (CON'T)
Someday, I would like to teach meditation and help people through the use of psychology and meditation, rather than prescribing people with medication because I believe in natural ways of healing. I also don't like to label people. Is there any advice you could give me? It would greatly be appreciated. I have seen your lecture about the 7 spiritual laws of being successful, and other seminars of yours given to me by my meditation instructor, which helped a lot.
Answer:
You will be learning a lot about mental pathology in your studies. I would just suggest that with your spiritual interest, that you balance the pathology with the understanding that inherently we are all whole spiritual beings. Also that healing involves much more than an analysis of the old traumas and conditioning of the past. It is even more important to actively encourage the unfoldment of one’s spiritual potential so that proper developmental progress can be reengaged.
Love,
Deepak
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Posted by Deepak Chopra at July 12, 2005 01:45 AM
Question (s): I have been struggling with type I diabetes since I went onset in September of 1988. This last six months it exploded in a rampage through my system with type II developing as well.
A representative of you Wellness Center, Samara Tricarico, has been most helpful in assisting me in discerning which of your Center's programs to take. I think there was a concern that I was looking for a "healing" guarantee as a basis for learning from your Center.
Absolutely "No Worries" in that department. I simply want to make the most of time and resources, your Center's and mine, in order to acheive the most. I am at that point where I want to go as far with it as possible--or quite literally, get out of the "deathbed" I have wreaked on myself and be of use and learn how to heal it. This illness is increasingly rampaging in America as well as many parts of the rest of the world.
It is time for me to become "an example" for others--of what can be done to overcome this disease without waiting for the stem-cell work to make it's way through the forces-that-be which have vested interests in preventing, and/or at least controlling, such healing and cures for the "incurables."
Which of your programs would you and Dr. Simon consider most applicable for someone like me to pursue--particularly beginning this September? Thanks so much for the opportunity to put a harness on such a direction with this Intentblog. Dave
Dear Deepak :
Thank you for the opportunity to meet you by e mail , and to say that I agreed 100% with your opinion about the children in poverty . Is only when our level of conciousness allows us to see this hideous crime against poor children, allowing them to die of malnutrition etc , that we can lift the veil of hipocrisy and realize that this is the worst holocaust commited by the world society , no holocaust can come near the assasination of millions of children by starvation, but somehow these crimes don't receive the attention of the press . We consider ourselves religious and of higher moral standards, but we have aloow these crimes to happens , there is no excuse , nobody , not even the higher religious leaders can say :" I din't know " and that is sad ... but may be we can make enough noise to call the attention of the world leaders to act and find a permanent solution to the problems of poor childrens around the world .
Dear Deepak :
Thank you for the opportunity to meet you by e mail , and to say that I agreed 100% with your opinion about the children in poverty . Is only when our level of conciousness allows us to see this hideous crime against poor children, allowing them to die of malnutrition etc , that we can lift the veil of hipocrisy and realize that this is the worst holocaust commited by the world society , no holocaust can come near the assasination of millions of children by starvation, but somehow these crimes don't receive the attention of the press . We consider ourselves religious and of higher moral standards, but we have allow these crimes to happens , there is no excuse , nobody , not even the higher religious leaders can say :" I din't know " and that is sad ... but may be we can make enough noise to call the attention of the world leaders to act and find a permanent solution to the problems of poor childrens around the world .
And is it not, therefore, also true that: When you write about the physical basis for consciousness, [you] are forgetting that everything non-physical is at the most fundamental quantum :-) mechanical level really physical? Love to hear your thoughts, Alicia
The question is. Is a sex a spiritual act like
prayer,kindness,meditation, compassion, love,being with nature, etc.?
If Allmighty is Omnipresent,Omnicient,omnipotent,
then Sex is God just like everything else.
So if we in deepest level have identified sex as a spirit. Then why is it so tabu in society and
even in scriptures?
If all human beings and divine creations are one why are we confined to enjoy blissful act of sex to any one sentient being?
Do you think it's ok to surrender the act of sex to divine allmighty like karmayogi would surrender all it's action to allmighty and not
be confronted by karma?
Do you think it's morally acceptable to see sex as
a divine act?
Is modern experiential[intuitive] knowledge on sex differ on this subject vs ancient wisdom?
Why do so many people shy away from this subject?
Is A sexual Act by former president Clinton with Monica such a[morally] bad thing, other then being careless and jeopardizing national security?
Deepak,
There are many forms of mediation, and to truly meditate in any Prison, one must actually be incarcerated in such a place first.
Western Novels and such are quite popular in Prison. Have you ever read one? i was once a City of Miami Police Officer, and was once a Prison Inmate...so to speak about actually knowing what "criminal justice" is about.
Try meditation in a "9 by 7" (finished measurement will be closer to about 8-foot and 6-inches by 6-foot and 6-inches) Prison Cell. Try that with some 4-6 other Inmates sharing that Prison Cell with you.
Anyway, Western books work great in Prison, for me anyway. ;)
Karmi
Gustavo: Add to your thoughts the notion that the five big fast-food companies in America through away 20% of their food produce a day!! Most won't "give" the food to homeless shelters etc. because of the effort and the insurance liabilities! (I. E.--they'll get sued if one of the homeless people gets sick from their toxic food!)
Many of these same food conglomerates are also the ones cutting down the rain-forests so we can have cattle on the land. It is estimated that 98% of the medical cures for many of the worlds plagues may be locked up in these exotic and irreplaceable forests. They are also oxygen machines--ever realize that cancer cells are anarobic and that healthy cells are aerobic (breath oxygen).
Karmi--It sounds like your soul used the experience of "something" to force you to learn meditation like Ghandi and Mandela did--in prison! Also, you garnered understanding from both sides through law enforcement and breaking the law. Interesting "his"-story! Dave
David :
Thank you for your information .I am 60 years old and I consider myself a poet , what I have experienced coming frm the darkness of ignorance to the light . I know we lived in a visible and invisible world . And the mistery is that with all this knowledge accumulated the human race can't overcome the egoism, the selfishness ; this is enough to make you believe in Good and Evil ... why we allowed so many lies to be accepted as truism ? why we have accepted the holocaust of the poor childrens dying of malnutriton as something normal , there is no doubt that we have the capacity to tolerate this evil and we have tolerated ; and this is at the core of the mistery . 2000 years have passed since the teaching of Jesus of peace and love your neighbor and childrens . We don't know this mistery , but we continue exploring the universe and scientist researching new methods , what a paradigm ... To me the proof that we are Evil is what we have done to the poor childrens in this world , that is Evil at his best . Quantum theory ? I hope we can put some conciousness in the brain of the world leaders and those in power to put an end to this evil . If we can solve this problem , that will be a discovery and a blessing to those childrens suffering these hideous crime.
Gustavo: Would you mind if I try and 'tap' into your energies. I have very much liked the initial impressions I've received about what I would call this powerful vibration of the soul called intergrity. Were you born in, or have you lived in, both Europe and south and east in the Asian lands?
The reason I ask that is your energy reminds me of a man I have described on this blogsite as St. Johnny--a Rumanian Holocaust survivor whom Spirit materialized out of thin air--into my life--to quite literally "save my carcass" from quick separation from my soul!
He is 70 now--but at 58 he took on an entire power structure to protect me and hid me out for 3 1/2 months. His life was a truly unbelievable story, not only of the will to survive, but his incredible journey to the success he had a acheived by that age.
The one thing he couldn't let go of was his inability to forgive a God who could allow such atrocities. Many Holocaust survivors have learned to forgive almost anything--but not their God!
I intuitively knew that I had to learn to one day go all the way with that trap--I just never knew that it is why we come to this world--to learn to experience that forgiveness--for him, as payback (or better--Pay It Forward) for what he did for me--the "wretched soul" of Amazing Grace.
So Gustavo---I want you to "look" at your words: "this is enough to make you 'believe' in Godd and Evil." What all our earthly experiences are truly reflecting back to us in the total exactness of the energy reflecting off the house-of-mirrors that is this world's "reflection of light."
It is perfectly reflecting our light back to us. Our bodies are like "lampshades" that dull, but do not stop our light from shining through. Ever see "the light" that is coming out of another's eyes? The ones with that sparkle that is so attractive, or why, it is said, "the eyes never lie and are 'windows' to the soul?"
That is the meaning of all these teachers showing us that "our belief structures" are the key to changing everything.
We don't change just by acknoledging this may be true, we start to change when we no longer judge and/or resist what our minds are actually doing (projecting)--rather, we begin to "detach and observe" that this world reveals to us what we actually do believe (the difference between actaullity and reality--i.e., do you know with absolute certainty the differeence between a vision and a dream?) it is, etc. etc.
Wayne Dyer, Deepak, etc. teach maybe that we are moved by that which is supposed to pull us toward that which we most need to interact with.
Sooo...this deep compassion you have for finding and recognizing (or allowing this to be guided through you) ways to help these children IS the justification for their souls even incarnating just to go through this horrific experience--so the rest of us will wake!
Hope this helps you ponder the duality of Good and Evil--so we can learn together to be re-unified in our perception of the Unified Field--a most extrordianry Playground that we are in. Dave
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David :
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Gustavo: Add to your thoughts the notion that
Deepak,
There are many forms of mediati
The question is. Is a sex a spiritual act like<
Dear Deepak,
It's great to finally meet you and be able to solidify my relationship with you through this e-mail facility. I am most grateful although still I find myself resisting a little. But I always eventually trust.
Love Gary.
p.s I did get one of your books signed at Dimmocks in the city on George st at Sydney , Aust.I still have it of course.