How can we understand consciousness? - Deepak Chopra

In this conversation Deepak Chopra discusses how a spiritual seeker can get engaged in the understanding of consciousness.

Deepak Chopra, M.D is the author of more than 70 books, including numerous New York Times bestsellers. His medical training is in internal medicine and endocrinology, and he is a Fellow of the American College of Physicians, a member of the American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists, and an adjunct professor of Executive Programs at the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University Columbia Business School, adjunct professor at Columbia Business School, Columbia University, and a Senior Scientist at the Gallup organization. For more than a decade, he has participated as a lecturer at the Update in Internal Medicine, an annual event sponsored by Harvard Medical School’s Department of Continuing Education and the Department of Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center.

[phoenixstar]

Feb 2020. Namaste Deepak. Thank you for sharing your thoughts about understanding consciousness. "Where is consciousness? In every experience!" PEACE&LOVE

[honeys.kapoor]

The total number of minds in the universe is one; in fact, consciousness is a singularity phasing within all beings.
-- Erwin schrodinger
If you observe gravity carefully, you will find that you are behind gravity.
This observer, whose description is not possible, is consciousness.
Because; the real observer is without any control, there is no one behind who inspects him. -- Jiddu Krishnamurti
It means you are consciousness.
Because; we cannot get behind consciousness -- Max Planck
Silence is a state of observation of consciousness.
Silence ( consciousness ) means pure observer, no gravity, no thought, no control; only supreme force from there only all things can be seen arising -- Jiddu krishnamurti
You have a static image from the point of view of the experiences arising out of consciousness.
From the perspective of this static image, you have a mind and a soul.
Otherwise; you are not your mind -- Eckhart tolle
You are not your body -- Eckhart tolle
Nor are you -- not your mind -- Buddha
You Exists as an idea in your mind -- shunryu suzuki
The image is a dead thing -- Jiddu krishnamurti

Everything we call real is made of things that cannot be regarded as real.
If quantum mechanics hasn't profoundly shocked you, you haven't understood it yet.
-- Niels Bohr
Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one -- Albert Einstein

present moment is not possible without consciousness.
For example; the moment you realize you are not present, you are present.
-- Eckhart tolle
Otherwise when you are conscious of one subject, one image is conscious of another.
Because; the observer ( you are ) is total sum of past experience.
-- Jiddu krishnamurti
That's why the "carl Jung" said; synchronicity is an ever present reality for those who have eyes to see -- Carl Jung

If you have understood your pure state of consciousness then you will know.
Death is not the opposite of life. Life has no opposite. The opposite of death is birth. Life is eternal ~ Eckhart tolle

According to this principle; every being is a spark of the divine -- Eckhart tolle.
Our separation of each other is an optical illusion of consciousness
-- Albert Einstein

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[DavidMelchizedek]

Awareness/Consciousness/Self is ever-present, unchangeable, limitless, actionless, unborn and nondual. So it cannot be experienced(only reflected/projected experience). It can be understand through for instance means of knowledge(Self-Inquiry, analyzing, systematising etc). Traditional Vedanta - Sampradaya methodology that James Swartz (Shiningworld.com), Swami Dayananda etc follows is very good methods to understand Consciousness. Knowledge of Self is the key to understand Consciousness.

[creativity]

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