Deepak Chopra - February 15, 2008
Dear Friends,
Here is a recent short interview segment I did with TIME magazine.
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Posted by Deepak Chopra at February 15, 2008 11:09 AM
How exciting to hear you speak like this, that is to say, not using the yogic tradition. It's pure magic!
Cool interview Dr. Chopra.
Love the idea of an Iraqui-American Durga-- why not vision movies next?-- we need to see a divinely compassionate action star setting the world right. Can imagine a few actresses who would love to embody that role.
Well, this video that doesn't play from this site for me. If anyone else is having problems, I have found that videos on the deepakchopra.com site do work for my system, so I'm off to check.
is God a woman?
WTF!?
Hi Deepak,
Great interview. You look tired though! Bob D (columbia, md) would say to slow down....don't think about tomorrows tasks, be kind to yourself and have a blessed day!
Joanie
Sometimes I feel like an Iroqouis brave, out counting coup on the English Red Coats, and then running back to the chief to tell him I'm sorry for insulting the Red Coats in such a playful manner. The Chief looks me in the eye and says someday you will be a Warrior. And some day it will be a good a good day to die. So go out and count coup without shame.
I watched the movie Hotel Rwanda last night. I wish our capacity for lovingkindness equaled our propensity for violence and hatred. When I said I'm glad you do what you do, I mean it, whatever the cost. :)
....and true loves kiss the spell shall break....
Great interview. Several good ideas here:
1. The next phase in human evolution has to be marked by the development of wisdom, which is a step up from the ability to survive.
2. The video got all garbled on my machine when you gave your definition of God, but I think it was something like "a projection of our highest aspirations" or similar. I like that definition.
3. The need for balance of male and female energies in our world religions.
4. The effects of toxic thinking, toxic emotions, as well as toxic substances on the aging process. Along with this the recognition that the aging process is not mandated by biology to progress at an exact rate - that proper living can keep a person looking and feeling younger longer.
5. In times of worry or stress, using the technique of bringing yourself to the present moment. I think it was the old Seth books that first introduced me to the idea that "the present is the point power". It is crucial concept for people who want to lead a full and rewarding life.
You managed to get all these good points into a four minute segment. Nice work, Deepak!
I came across this by accident a moment ago and thought it pertinent.
In this famous passage from The Descent of Man, published in 1871, Charles Darwin perceived a fundamental problem of social life, and a possible solution. The problem is that for a society to function, its members must perform services for each other. Yet members who behave "for the good of the group" often put themselves at a disadvantage compared with more selfish members of the same group. If so, then how can altruism and other prosocial behaviours evolve?
The solution, according to Darwin, is that groups containing mostly altruists have a decisive advantage over groups containing mostly selfish individuals, even if selfish individuals have ...
Deepak, your Maharishi Years post lead to an interesting sequence of events yesterday, I posted the story under that thread.
One suspects that One posted this before.
THE POWER of ONE
Is to speak as One
Is to remove, I, you, me, they and them from vocabulary and thought. Replace the words of duality with the word “one”. To speak in this way it to apply divine alchemy, to embrace and transform the elements of being.
Speak this way in the world and see the magic unfold.
~Infinite Play the Movie
The Book of Love; concise edition; for today’s short attention spans.
Someone will love you for seeing the divine in them, their God like qualities and positive traits. For if you love them this is all you will see. When you mirror the divine inside someone else back to them, those divine traits, they love you for it. They then reflect the same traits back. What is love? To see your Self in another. If you stop loving someone then that was not love, and if you don’t love someone you don’t love your self. Love is all about creating a beautiful experience for all of your self.
Love thy self
Infinite Play
Not a long enough book to get published, oh well.
Here is the same spoken as One.
The One Version of The Book of Love
The Book of Love; concise edition; for today’s short attention spans.
Someone will love one for seeing the divine in them, one’s God like qualities and positive traits. For if one loves one this is all one will see. When one mirrors the divine inside someone back to that one, those divine traits, one loves one for it. One then reflects the same traits back. What is love? To see one’s Self in another one. If one stops loving someone then that was not love, and if one doesn’t love anyone one does not love one’s self. Love is all about creating a beautiful experience for all of one’s self.
I missed one, see how hard it is?
A worthy challenge for a God to be as one.
"Someone will love one for seeing the divine in one, one’s God like qualities and positive traits."
Time magazine should check out my video streaming services flash just doesn't always cut it.
I agree Deepak, people accumulate free radical damage at varying rates often a question of where their attention is at, the environment lived in and the number of electron loaded molecules consumed (anti-oxidants). Can you imagine if one stopped free radical damage including that of the mitochondrial DNA, we may only age chronologically then.
When there is damage to cells there is division to repair and things are produced to fix it as well as waste in the fixing process, some of which can accumulate if the resources are not provided to remove it.
I have a theory that cell division of many types slow down as the amount of free radical damage is reduced. Which results in less telomere loss over a period of time, when the telomeres run out there is death. However there is a nano machine in the body that can add telomeres back this is why cancer cells are considered immortal. I have always referred to cancer as being killed by immortality. There does seem to be this other genetic switch that is triggered when the body reaches a certain percentage of free radical damage, producing a death for the body hormone, because the machine should not be used to replicate other machines at this point.
I have always wondered if cancer is some sort of impaired immune response, and attempt at repair, maybe an attempt by the body to produce stem cells, which I would really like to call Smart Cells. There are these certain tumors that produce tumor suppression factors preventing other tumors from growing. You know what the doctors do? They cut these tumors out and then the other ones grow like crazy killing the person. Doesn’t make sense maybe they should leave that one in. Or develop some tumor suppressor compound. I think they already exist in nature though. The last thing one might do is try to flood the body with carcinogens to kill the cancer? Isn’t that increasing the odds of creating a bunch of cancer. Most Chemo agents are cancer causing that is how they kill cancer cells. Chemotherapy and radiation are both cancer causing as is an oxygen deprived environment created by killing red blood cells with the cancer, and with the wrong body PH are we creating more cancer with the treatment?
There is no proof that Chemo and radiation extend life, and if they did at what cost to quality?
There is some proof in animals that they last a long time with cancer, I guess it depends on the type though.
If I had cancer, most people do but never know it, because those few cells are destroyed by the immune system. I would take 20 – 30 grams of Vitamin C a day to enable the body to do things it can’t normally do. Linus Pauling’s research shows when given large doses of vitamin C the body begins to produce an extra volume of very good things like certain enzymes, some that prevent free radical damage.
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All that being said if one were to choose the option of Chemo or Radiation there are things to be done that can eliminate the damage they do to good cells, speed repair, and eliminate all the waste produced as a result of the death of cells.
There is one thing that can save your life and that is to stop the wasting affect with vitamin E and other antioxidants. What follows is a major break through.
Department of Veterans Affairs researchers and colleagues discovered the biochemical mechanism that explains wasting syndrome, a condition that causes severe weight loss and weakness in patients with chronic inflammatory diseases and often hastens their death.
Dr. Chojkier and lead author Martina Buck, Ph.D., of VA, UCSD and the Salk Institute for Biological Studies, have described the steps by which tumor necrosis factor (TNF) alpha, an immune-system protein, prevents the production of albumin. Low levels of albumin, a critical protein made in the liver, is a keynote of wasting.
What happens is the liver stops producing albumin which is what allows the cells to retain fluid, and the body starts to bloat up as all the fluid spills out of the cells which begin to die.
TNF-alpha and low albumin had for years been implicated in wasting, but the connection between the two was a mystery. Drs. Buck and Chojkier showed that TNF alpha causes oxidative stress in the liver cell and boosts the production of the free-radical gas nitric oxide. It also causes the addition of a phosphorous molecule to a protein called C/EBP beta, which normally joins DNA in the nucleus of the cell to make other proteins, such as albumin. Central to the researchers' finding was that this extra phosphorous causes the C/EBP beta to shuttle out of the nucleus into the cytoplasm (the cell's external membrane), where transcription from the albumin gene can no longer take place.
The researchers found several ways of stopping the downward spiral caused by TNF- alpha. One way was to treat TNF-alpha-enhanced mice with vitamin E and other antioxidants. This blocked the chain of events leading to the "nuclear export" of C/EBP beta.
According to Dr. Chojkier, a gastroenterologist and liver specialist, antioxidants such as vitamin E might halt wasting in humans if these supplements were delivered in very high amounts-or even better, if they were targeted to the liver.
"One solution will be to find a liver-specific antioxidant," he said. "With the technology we have today, this is very feasible. We believe this will provide an exciting avenue for intervention."
Catabolic wasting, or cachexia (ka-kek'-sia), breaks down body tissue, regardless of how much nutrition the patient absorbs. "It's like a car that burns too much fuel," said Dr. Chojkier. The condition affects about half of all patients with cancer and AIDS and also affects patients with bacterial and parasitic diseases, rheumatoid arthritis, and chronic diseases of the bowel, liver, lungs and heart. Infusions of albumin are occasionally used to treat the condition, but the treatment is expensive, complicated, and only suitable for certain patients.
In addition there is a problem with the loss of appetite. Now not eating can be a good thing sometimes because the body will then eat unhealthy cells. On the other hand nutrition is needed for the body. I don’t know how much cancer has to do with it, and even chemo other than it can affect your taste bids, but I do know pain killers especially oxycontin kill they appetite and this is not a good thing as well as cause the patient to lose their mental acuity. The last thing you want to do is feed cancer sugar, it makes it grow, hospital diets are notorious for excessive sugar by the way.
Pain killers can contribute to your death. In fact by covering up the pain signals you could be stopping a natural response to them.
The best compound for eliminating the loss of appetite cause by pain killers is Marijuana; it can also have a positive affect on mood.
Don’t confuse oxycontin with Oxytocin which when injected into the cerebrospinal fluid causes spontaneous erections in rats. The love hormone or love machine carries the divine resonance. Oxytocin is involved in social recognition and bonding another word for unity that is why it is the biological manifestation of the divine.
Quite often doctors give a diagnosis of terminal cancer, but there is no such thing until you are dead. I think they do this to protect themselves so they can say well they were going to die anyway plus they can convince you to endure some harsh treatments.
In which case if you are terminal, they should not object to any alternative treatment you would like to try. Since you’re going to die anyway what type of person or group would ever deprive you of cannabis to help you feel better, and perhaps save your life by increasing your appetite?
Just remember when choosing an oncologists their beliefs have an affect on your success, so ask them abut them first. A good one would not have any beliefs they would talk simply about possibility and probability and their knowing and if they know about adjuvant treatments the probability of your success is higher. Remember there is no actual medical authority, it is an opinion based industry which really is another way of saying they don’t know how the body really works, and some of it is pseudo science resulting from a desire for profit, exceptions noted.
I know it is cynical but sometimes we might wonder if it is designed they keep you alive long enough to drain your bank account or insurance company with treatments.
Of course if we used the natural, alternative, low profit, most effective approaches we wouldn’t need insurance because we could afford our own health care.
Anyway I wanted to be sure the use of vitamin E and other antioxidants can keep your liver producing albumin so you don’t die from wasting disease.
I have also pointed out before that the cancer statistics are wrong, most don’t ever get a chance to die from cancer, they die from the treatment. Yet the death certificate will list cancer because that was what you were being treated for, yet that is an illusion and is totally erroneous because the death certificate should list complications from the treatment to not do so is falsifying a document.
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Some great questions beaming into your e-motional/logical space, Deepak, and great answers beaming back to fill a circular space with information and inspiration! Uplifting and renewing. Is that not the true meaning of education -- to draw forth?
Thanks, Deepak, for being a voice for the Now moment, for the Feminine and for Myth. I cheer for this team: another ball through the goal posts, into the net, out of the ball park! One team, one game -- one Field -- victorious!
Trish~~
Um yeah, do you know any single young Iraqs that I would like?
I'll have his love child..hey why not.. if we have all of eternity, we had better get busy then... give him my #... but tell him my father is VERY protective and he had better be extra nice, or he'll NEVER get through
Oh and tell my new iraq BF not to be wearin a turban or anything like that the first time we meet...scary!
Today was a great day
Will you please spell those two goddesses names, the hebrew one and the other one
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