How to Know God: The Soul's Journey Into the Mystery of Mysteries

by Deepak Chopra

Book Overview

You don't have to believe in God in order to experience God.
--- Deepak Chopra

The celebrated author of Ageless Body, Timeless Mind and The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success has written his most ambitious and important work yet, a runaway international bestseller that has inspired hundreds of thousands of readers to rethink their concept of God.

According to Chopra, the brain is hardwired to know God. The human nervous...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0609805231
• ISBN13: 9780609805237
• Release Date: February 2001
• Publisher: Harmony/Rodale/Convergent
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 0.98 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.1" x 8.0"

Customer Reviews

very good

I am very happy reading this book, I love this, it is a new vew of God, and recomend it to every body .

A deep insight in hidden reality

Whoever wants to know more about the most spoken -but not necessarily understood- word in the world, has to read this book with an open heart and quiet mind, in order to absorb what D. Chopra is willing to pass to us all.

Una maravillosa obra para intelectuales de la fe

Quienes leemos este tipo de contenidos, obviamente, estamos buscando a Dios, anhelamos respuestas a tantos interrogantes que nuestra mente (no sólo nuestra necesidad de fe) nos plantea. Yo personalmente leo mucho a Chopra y a otros tantos autores que permiten profundizar en el conocimiento teológico más allá de la perspectiva de X ó Y religión. Al leer otros comentarios aquí expuestos, una vez más me parece curioso como todo fanatismo siempre se hace tan obvio, como todo fundamentalismo niega la verdad del otro sin más ni más. Muchos de esos que se dicen seguidores de la Biblia, son tan estrechos de mente y de conciencia religiosa, que ven en todo aquel que cuestione su fe, un enemigo; su paranoia no les deja más que pensar sino que todos los que no comparten su culto están errados y que los que hablan en términos espirituales sin ser Jesucristo, son falsos profetas y enviados de Satanás. Me pregunto, y les pregunto: es que acaso los que tienen la Biblia como su libro sagrado pueden demostrar que su Dios es EL DIOS? Nadie lo puede hacer. Hay muchas interpretaciones de Dios, y todas válidas en cuanto pertenecientes a la tradición cultural de los diferentes pueblos. Cada etnia y civilización en el mundo y a través de los tiempos ha demostrado que no existe una única verdad y que la mente humana no asume una única verdad, y menos, la religiosa. Entonces por qué el fundamentalismo? Tanto el que cree en Jesús, como el que cree en Buda, o en Alá... tienen una conciencia de Dios, de un Ser Supremo, de la moralidad y la espiritualidad. Y al final, pueden todos hasta estar alabando al mismo Dios, ¿quién lo sabe? Volviendo al libro, considero que es una obra maravillosa y apta sobre todo para intelectuales en busca de horizontes de fe. Hay conmigo muchos que se cuestionan las supuestas "verdades" que nos han vendido a través de libros y ritos sagrados. Para aquellos librepensadores ávidos de otras miradas sobre esa esencia vital que llamamos Dios, para ellos es este libro. Que la intolerancia, la resignada aceptación y la rigidez mental siga pasando las páginas de la Biblia. Los demás, continuemos nuestra búsqueda, que por aquí empieza, con plumas sabias, que no tienen que ser de origen "divino" para captar nuestra inteligencia.

Take it slowly and only if you're ready for it.

... I'm now part of a group which is actively studying the book a bit at a time and I can't believe all that there is here. The first thing to realize is that Chopra doesn't claim that he's going to present some great Truth to you. You don't get the Truth from a book or another person. You get it from yourself. All that Chopra can do and hopes to do is to so stimulate you to find it yourself. The next thing to realize is that the seven stages that he presents are not necessarily progressive, but merely stages to identify with, presented so that you will recognize what stage you are at so that you will be in a better position to realize how to relate with God at that stage. And then, opening yourself up to what is presented rather than just reading this is important. ... Krishnamurti is one of several writers Chopra suggests that you read, as well as Hawking, Zukav, Yogananda, the Maharishi, Ken Wilber, among others (This is in the notes at the end of the book. Another says there's too much Biblical reference. Most western readers are more familiar with the Bible than with any other writing considered by many to be "sacred". You'll also find many Vedic references here. ... This isn't a book on physics, but on spirituality, so if his physics don't seem right to you, little is missed unless you center on points of disagreement. ... One's mind can accept only a certain amount at a time, and if you overdo what you're taking in, you'll fall asleep or just lose attention. ...It's not necessary to agree on each point Chopra brings up to gain from this book. Heck, it's not even necessary to agree with most of what he says. It is necessary, if you truly wish to gain something useful from this book, to keep your mind open and let him state his case, because there are bound to be elements useful to you among those not so. The bottom line is that the non-resistant reader who takes this book slowly, re-reading when you miss a point, will be stimulated into his own personal search, and this is what Chopra intends. Not to brainwash you. But to get you to search within.If you buy this book and are disappointed in your first reading, then put it aside, but where you'll notice it sometimes, then come back in a week, or a month, or a year, and let the person you've become in that period of time read it.

Conocer a Dios

I have being searching for spiritual answers to everyday common questions for a long time. I finally found a book that shows me where to look!!I really like the scientific explanation that D. Chopra offers in this book. In a quite simple way he manages to guide his readers through their own personal knowledge of God. The fascinating thing is that it is not a religious journey but rather an amazing, spiritual one.This is a book to be read more than once and to keep as a reference and as a reminder of the divinity inside each human being.I strongly recommend this book to anyone in search of spirituality. You must keep an open mind to be able to capture the essence of D. Chopra's words even though they might shake your most deepest beliefs.