Deepak Chopra on Cosmology and Consciousness

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Russell Brand

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🗓️ 13 September 2023

⏱️ 54 minutes

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In this week’s episode, part 1 of 2, Deepak and I chatted about the nature of consciousness, He unloaded his extensive knowledge of the cosmos, described what it means to be embodied, shared his understanding of what a belief in God is or means, and listed some of the reasons people suffer from existential crises. It was a wonderful exchange. Enjoy. (Originally published September, 2019)

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to Under the Skin from Lumery Media with me Russell Brandt this week,
0:04.7	I spoke with Deepak Chopra and it was so loaded with information that we are doing it over two
0:11.9	weeks. The first 45-50 minutes that you'll be listening today talks about some cosmological,
0:17.5	physical, spiritual principles and the second part is built around a meditation exercise which
0:23.1	you're going to love. It's also available on YouTube about meditation so getting on there and
0:27.8	pulsed it about a bit. Thanks for all your comments on Damien Bradford's excellent interviews
0:34.8	last week. Some people were driven to comment and here's what some of those people said,
0:40.2	just using typing really. James Gage said, technology should be only used to benefit humanity,
0:45.6	anything other than anything that has a negative effect should be destroyed. James, I like your style
0:51.1	so like, yeah, nuclear reactors, weapons, then they could benefit you. I suppose James,
0:57.6	given that your name is James Gage, we would have to gauge who benefits. That's the thing isn't
1:04.6	it, it's difficult isn't it, because in post-structural philosophy there are no universals,
1:09.2	there's no good and bad, I mean it's tricky really. That's not something I necessarily agree with.
1:14.1	Capodonna, she says, I spent 40 hours on my phone the other day, I need to break through,
1:19.5	yeah it's terrible, but don't beat yourself up for the amount of time when you're using maps,
1:23.6	meditation apps, or maybe even once in a while watching a little film, I saw that three hours
1:28.0	every day, I thought, come on most of that was using a map, bit of game of friends, don't do me for it.
1:33.9	Dallas Boring News, tech companies have more power than governments, ironically,
1:38.2	Facebook, Amazon and Google are all government intertwined, it's time to tear down the government.
1:44.0	Dallas Boring News, he's just proposing a revolution, which I can only agree with,
1:50.2	I can only agree with it, it's time to tear down the government, but let's have a few ideas
1:54.2	about how to replace it in smaller, decentralized, democratic communities based on a quality
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