Excellent interview Dr. Chopra!

There is that "epiphenomenon" word again! Just be liking that word for some reason!

peace

I don't know if it's just my PC set-up, but these videos will not play from the intentblog for me, but they do on the deepakchopra site....just in case anyone else is having problems. Love, Char

Well Deepak you know, you just rock !

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Mieke

I would like to see the video from Ann Arbor Deepak did remarkably well answering some of the hardest questions that arise from understanding and embracing the divine principles and concepts related to infinite being. Those things that finite being does not easily embrace. The hardest being why and how is it that God manifests both the benevolent and the diabolical.

Which requires understanding the mechanisms of consciousness expansion and evolution. Knowing that when we do not resist evolution and embrace unity, the need and existence for a negative impetus declines and is simply not manifested as it is with separation consciousness.

I would be nice if we could get the Catholic Church to put his Third Jesus book on the banned book list, bringing more attention to it, and even better if they were to embrace it.

Can you imagine what would happen to the world if the churches starting communicating all this wisdom and insight tearing down the old classic fictions in their weekly events and sermons?

A world of abundance and love and the ability to adapt evolve and overcome the tribulation and challenges presented to humanity.

Well if they were wise they would realize a shift such as this would fill their pews and celebrate their divine purpose as institutions of spirit and wisdom and provide a remedy for Self suffering from amnesia.

Hi Richard and Deepak,

"...why and how is it that God manifests both the benevolent and the diabolical..."

I am thinking about that right now and I preferred to think out loud this time...

Please tell me what you think. Here I goes...

A self-and-mass living is "good" when it reaches the flexibility of spirit-intelligence... (the mental is the receptacle of thoughts coming from spirit-intelligence).

Life manifests itself in many ways in constant movements and changes... (there are no 2 days in our lives that are the same).

Spirit is the normal platform of living. From this self-mass-centered, thoughts manifest themselves in shape of images and feelings inside the body and guide-interpret our life, truly.

With accumulation of time and manifested-experiences, something appends. Like a reverse-shift. It comes easy and automatic to respond to a situation from our personal limited-packages of accumulated thoughts. So the referral-point is moving away from spirit-wide-flexibility.

At that point personal-thoughts are shadowed with a second thought-reality... black and white dualistic thought.

So, from my point-of-view... Evil is when we use the mental-receptacle as a home-living platform. Life cannot be achieved alone from dualistic mental-conceptual-interpretations. This bring the feeling of separation in life too.

Evil exists because of the thought-shadow possibility and its force-influence (fixation), ignorance of subtle-spirit as living-platform. The mental-alone cannot "know" how to act-react good all the time.

The shadow-thought can hold powerful destructive and disturbing realities. I see it today as the immune system of human life (at mental level). A mental good-thought cannot hold the same "good" position for a long time. Life changes. What is considered good today could be "inappropriate-good" the year after. A though cannot be classified as always good or bad. It must flow.

Coming back to spirit, the mind bring back present-experience into a non-shadow-confusion. The subtle-flow of thoughts find all their fresh meanings into the body. The shadows-part finish to loose theirs powers, theirs illusionary-charm-grips.

God does not manifest Evil. Evil comes from men, with our limited-mental-possibilities to react good in different situations.

Jean, I think you provide some interesting thought. There are many levels of perspective as it relates to evil. Evil is a label assigned to certain phenomena. Often we use it to classify the intent behind certain action that which would be in contrast to loving intention.

We might agree Love does not produce the things we might classify as evil.

We might also agree that the hero role and other challenges depend on the villains playing their part especially since natural phenomena may not produce the necessary volume of this type of experience.

Of course the things we label as evil are mechanisms of evolution and once we have evolved past a certain point we won’t create these things anymore.

Lastly God can’t kill himself, but he sure can create bad experience for himself.

Rather than “bad" experience I should say undesired. An undesired experience creates an impetus for evolution, which would make it a good thing, which is to say it is all good when viewed from a point further along in our evolution.