Intent - June 06, 2008
WHY IS GOD LAUGHING?
The Path to Joy and Spiritual Optimism
In WHY IS GOD LAUGHING? Bestselling author Deepak Chopra uses a fictional tale of a comedian and his unlikely mentor to show us a path back to hope, joy, and even enlightenment – with a lot of laughter along optimistic, even in our challenging world, and shows us why laughter from the heart is the healthiest response to life.
Meet Mickey Fellows. A successful L.A. comedian, he’s just a regular guy, with his fair share of fears, egocentricities, and addictions. After his father’s death, Mickey meets a mysterious stranger named Francisco, who changes his life forever. The two begin an ongoing discussion about the true nature of being. Reluctantly at first, Mickey accepts the stranger’s help and starts to explore his own life in an effort to answer the riddles Francisco poses. Mickey starts to look at those aspects of himself that he has hidden behind a wall of wisecracks all his life. Eventually Mickey realizes that authentic humor opens him up to the power of spirit—allowing him to finally make real connections with people.
After taking the reader on a journey with Mickey, Chopra then spells out the lessons that Mickey’s story imparts to us: ten reasons to be optimistic, even in the midst of chaos and uncertainty. Chopra believes that the healthiest response to life is laughter from the heart, and even in the face of global turmoil, we can cultivate an internal sense of optimism. Rich with humor and practical advice, Why Is God Laughing? shows us without a doubt that there is always a reason to be grateful, that every possibility holds the promise of abundance, and that obstacles happiness lies within each of us, just waiting to be unleashed. And Mickey Fellows’s journey shows us the way.
“Why is God laughing? Good question. Deepak takes us halfway to an answer, to a line in the sand. Then, after we’ve contemplated the parable of Mikey Fellows, we cross that line and arrive at the liberating answer on our own. What is it? I ain’t telling. Read the book yourself!” –Dan Akroyd
“If you’re skimming these quotes to see whether you’re going to buy this book, don’t bother. Just read a bit of chapter five!” –John Cleese
“Why is God Laughing deserves a standing ovation; I couldn’t put it down. Deepak Chopra has written another life-changing book that I will definitely recommend to everyone.” –Mike Robles, Emmy Award-winning comedian
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Posted by Intent at June 6, 2008 12:00 PM
Hi Richard,
Thanks for a good story on the tangible and the intangible.
In my "days" (when I was a bit younger) we had the "Suffering" God. Now it is the "Laughing God".
Don't you think that we can only experience anything because of the Paradox?
Something can be intangible because it can also be tangible.
We seem to move in our world because we can also stand still.
I am always in the middle of everything and in order to experience myself I reach out and want to "look" in every direction. And so I go around and around, just like our earth does and all the celestial bodies. And end up in the middle again.
The fact that there are particles can lead someone to the fact that there are no particles.
If there is life then there is death. But even when I am death I only know this if I experience life again.
I wonder if this paradise really does exist?
Because if it does then there is a hell too, for sure :)
And this computational grid is our next evolution towards the recognition of the field?
Well I suppose that it will end then into another Big Bang. Scientists are already trying to find out what was before that (Skep gave a link on OT)Big Bang.
We all know the truth already but we will have to find ways to experience ourselves in a whole new way I guess. Only really new way in my view would be to leave this earth and go find out what it is like to live on a planet without gravity.
Flying......
Just a few mumblings and imaginations my fantasy keeps itself busy with.
Mieke
I really enjoyed this book by Deepak and finished it over the weekend. So now, I have the answer to all 3 clues. The first 25 people to solve the mystery gets a prise. I even found a 4th clue :-).
I loved your book Deepak! "Why is God Laughing?" Thanks! Now I have nothing to read until you next book comes out :-)
Love, Char
BTW: The 4th clue I made up from the 3 clues from Deepak, but I cannot say, as that would be unfair because you've got to read the book.
Hey Mieki,
I think I got a sign. Someone said in the local city paper Troy Times was an Article about Obama coming here, and that there were some photos, so I wondered if I was in them, not that I really care. I don't normally take the time to read this paper that is not subscribed to. I looked at the front page the story about Obama. Right below it on the front page was the article.
"Labyrinth offers space for reflection" which reported on a local labyrinth sponsored by the Troy interfaith group".
Amazing coincidence? I can't help to wonder that someone at the paper was reading here with all your comments and decided to do a story. The only other alternative, the esoteric one, is the divine put the impulse to write this article in their mind so I would see it and write this comment I am writing now. Maybe it was all for you. Of course it did serve as reinforcement in my mind that something divine is orchestrating behind the scenes.
The paradise exists as a potential we simply need to actualize it with self realization.
God probably isn't doing much more then chuckling now and then right now; I think God is mostly perturbed. If we sum all the individual experience and emotion to get the collective feeling at the moment. If I only had more support with the real solutions.
In Deepak's book, the answer to his first clue (one word) also includes his 2nd & 3rd clues with space for a 4th clue (a word & its nickname) that is spelled out both vertically and horizontally beginning and yet ending at the last letter of the first clue. I actually played around with some ideals or parables like Deepak's to hint at the answer for the 4th clue, but I cannot post it because it gives the answers to all three of Deepak's clues, which is not my place to do, as it is a contest with a prize to the first 25 people who solve all three clues. Yep, I think I was very bored, as I had just finished the book and wanted more, while trying to prolong the fun of a good mystery, even if Deepak made it easy to solve the clues per his own words.
Love, Char
That's how I think it works Richard ... lots of connections.
Love, Char
Interesting concept ... Let us all hear God Laughing with joy and good will to all mankind.
Love, Char
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That's how I think it works Richard ... lots of
In Deepak's book, the answer to his first clue
God probably isn't doing much more then chuckli
Hey Mieki,
I think I got a sign. Someon
Because God Infinite Being is behind everything that is happening, most finite being does not yet have a clue, that it is all One Being.
The memes are moving fast, an advantage to being both noun and verb, the source allows for their tracking, and they are reaching the desired thresholds for the next wave of dissemination and evolution of thought preparing everyOne for the disturbing yet liberating revelation.
Of course there is the search for the God Particle which is about come to the forefront of our attention with the cranking up of the Large Hadron Collider. godparticle.net Which is funny since the thing we are searching for is doing the searching a bit of a divine comedy.
What is funny is that the whole purpose of this search for the God Particle from the divine perspective is actually the transformation of the Internet from a communications network to an extremely powerful computational grid as a result of Large Hadron Collider Grid (LCG). Something necessary to support the systems requirements for 6.5 billion people. THE NEW SYSTEMS BORN OF THE NEW CONSCIOUNESS.
That and the revelation of an understanding, the scientific basis for One Being.
godparticle.net is starting to explains it all...
God is laughing because the drama taken so seriously is an illusion, and he knows the truth is coming, because he set it in motion, he sets all things into motion, including you.
And you thought you were doing it, you are all simply the audience.
Click my name and check out the God Particle…..
and they awakened from a nightmare into paradise...