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Whatever label you ascribe to it doesn't matter much, it's the essence of the term which captures the imagination(mine anyway). Who is God? Where is He? Is He even real? These are questions I have asked myself since I can remember and in this lens you will find some of the answers I have come up with.
Is It Possible To Know God?
My answer is yes and no. God can't be known on an intellectual level but He can be experienced. While there is infinite paths to God I have to say one of my favorites is the path given by Deepak Chopra in his book How To Know God. This ground breaking book outlines seven steps to God, a soul's journey into the mystery of mysteries.The author of the best-selling Ageless Body, Timeless Mind brings us a truly daring and important work. How To Know God is not a religious book, but rather about finding that little voice inside that gently invites us to discover who we really are. To me finding God has always been a personal journey.
As a youngster I was made to go to church as my stepfather was a minister. The church and religion was never something that made a whole lot of sense to me though. Telling me that God was someone to be feared was never something that resonated with my inner voice. How can God be love, yet had to be feared?
Questions like these eventually make me lose interest in the church, never to regain it again. You see it never made much sense to me to accept other people's truth as my own truth. Who said they knew the truth, and who gave them the authority to decide what truth is? Far as I knew God gave me a brain to think and decide for myself what is truth!
My own truth was what led me to reading countless books about God, starting with Neale Donald Walsch's Conversations With God. In his books Neale has a real conversation with God. Is it real? I'll leave that up to you to decide :-) So I have read many books about God, but the one that does the best job for me is Chopra's How To Know God.
You get a feeling that there is a very real path that leads to God, and the path is laid out in very clear steps. It's starts in the first stage where our flight-or-fight response leads us to an all powerful and sometimes unpredictable parent, to the seventh stage where the brain experiences God as pure being, beyond thought, a sacred presence.
In this book Chopra explores mysticism, religious ecstacy, genius, telepathy, multiple personality and clairvoyance, drawing insights from psychology, neurology and physics, as well as from great religions. The result is vintage Chopra, applied to the greatest subject of all.
How To Know God by Deepak Chopra
Flower
The Seven Stages To God
God the protector
In the first stage humans are primitive. Danger is more...0 points
God the almighty
In the second stage man gains more control, but is more...0 points
God the redeemer
Stage four is a stage of insight and self discover more...0 points
God the creator
In this stage man gains unlimited creative powers, more...0 points
God of miracles
Stage six is the stage of love and grace. In this more...0 points
God of pure being-"I am"
Stage seven is beyond all descriptions, it's just more...0 points
The God Poll
What Kind Of World Did God Create?
Source: How to know God by Deepak Chopra
Satge 3: Restful awareness response
World of inner solitude, self-sufficiency.0 points
Sun
What Is The Nature Of Good And Evil?
Source: How to know God by Deepak Chopra
Stage 1: Fight-or flight response
Good is safety, comfort, food, shelter and family. more...0 points
Stage 2: Reactive response
Good is getting what you want.
Evil is any obstacl more...0 points
Satge 3: Restful awareness response
Good is clarity, inner calm, and contact with the more...0 points
Stage 4: Intuitive response
Good is clarity, seeing the truth.
Evil is blindne more...0 points
Stage 5: Creative response
Good is higher consciousness.
Evil is lower consci more...0 points
Stage 6: Visionary response
Good is a csmic force.
Evil is another aspect of t more...0 points
Stage 7: Sacred response
Good is the union of all opposites.
Evil no longer more...0 points
News About God
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Mountain
Other Books By Deepak Chopra
Duel
Is it possible to know God?
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UrbanSoulWarrior says:
Yes, what we call God permeates every space, exists in every 'thing', completely within us, and radiated out (consciously or not).
Posted March 07, 2009
chriskelley says:
The Bahagvad Gita says: However men try to reach me, I return their love; whatever path they may travel, it leads to me in the end.
So yes, one can, and will eventually know God.
And I believe it was St Francis of Assisi who said "The one you are looking for is also looking for you."
I think it is inevitable that we will know God. I think, in fact it is impossible to hide from him, as all the seen world is simply a manifestaion of that one consciousness.
Posted January 19, 2009
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God On Wikipedia
God is a deity in theistic and deistic religions and other belief systems, representing either the sole deity in monotheism, or a principal deity in polytheism.Swinburne, R.G. "God" in Honderich, Ted. (ed)The Oxford Companion to Philosophy, Oxford University Press, 1995.
God is most often conceived of as the supernatural creator and overseer of the universe. Theologians have ascribed a variety of attributes to the many different conceptions of God. The most common among these include omniscience, omnipotence, omnipresence, omnibenevolence (perfect goodness), divine simplicity, and eternal and necessary existence. God has also been conceived as being incorporeal, a personal being, the source of all moral obligation, and the "greatest conceivable existent". These attributes were all supported to varying degrees by the early Jewish, Christian and Muslim theologian philosophers, including Maimonides, Augustine of Hippo,Edwards, Paul. "God and the philosophers" in Honderich, Ted. (ed)The Oxford Companion to Philosophy, Oxford University Press, 1995. and Al-Ghazali,Platinga, Alvin. "God, Arguments for the Existence of," Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Routledge, 2000. respectively. Many notable medieval philosophers developed arguments for the existence of God. Many notable philosophers and intellectuals have, by contrast, developed arguments against the existence of God.
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In Conclusion...
In my mind there has never really been a doubt that God exists. This is just what my inner voice told me if you will. Reading Chopra and other authors like Eckhart Tolle just made me realize that even more, as well as my own experience of course. Chopra has an uncanny ability to explain the supernatural so that it can make sense to the most hardened pessimist. That doesn't mean that it will though.We are all at different stages in the evolution of our awareness and many people will deny the existence of God. Discovering God is a personal journey, no one perceives reality in exactly the same way. And therefor not everyone experience God is the same way. The fact that I have found God doesn't mean that I doubt his existence at times.
Discovering God is as much a decision as anything else. Modern quantum physics have confirmed that the way we perceive things actually influence the way they appear. Therefor if you keep perceiving that life is meaningless and God does not exist, that is exactly what you will get. Most wisdom traditions tell us that in essence we are all one, there is no seperation between us and God.
Therefor we are creators, made in the image of God. If what we choose to create is a world without God and meaning, that is what we will have. We can have it any way we want and thus far we have believed ourselves to be inferior and unworthy. It's time for humanity to step up and claim it's rightful place on this earth, creating the most beautiful and magnificent world it's own infinite nature is capable of.
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- HomeTowne_Market HomeTowne_Market Jan 16, 2009 @ 7:19 am
- Very insightful lens. I need to grab a copy of that book though.
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- clouda9 clouda9 Jan 15, 2009 @ 8:42 pm
- Bringing up the subject of God can oft times be controversial and spark heated debates, I believe the way that you have presented this lens is more about giving us an opportunity for thought and to contribute in a very positive way! Excellent!
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- Jewelsofawe Jewelsofawe Jan 15, 2009 @ 7:50 pm
- I saw Neal Donald Walsh speak back in the late nineties. It sounds like you have read alot of the same books as me. I don't believe in fearing God. My God is a loving God.
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- Jewelsofawe Jewelsofawe Jan 15, 2009 @ 7:48 pm
- I think I have this book or had it, but I did not read it. Maybe someone I know had it.
Nice lens though. I believe there is no separation bewteen us and God.
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