The Body, The Soul and The Earth
This week I went to see Deepak Chopra speak about his forthcoming book ‘Reinventing the Body, Resurrecting the Soul’, at the Friends Meeting House in Euston. It was an enjoyable evening, mainly because the audience was made up of excitable Chopra fans and he is a likeable kind of guy. No wonder he hangs out with pop stars and tycoons. 
His talk included amusing stories about arriving in America from India in the 1960’s, with nothing in his pocket except his Medical qualifications.
He later bamboozled most of the audience with his theories of quantum physics. Essentially Chopra explains that because we are all just made up of tiny cells of pure light, and the whole universe is made up of pure light, pure energy - then we are all connected on a deep level.
This means that our physical bodies and physical environment can only be affected by our consciousness, by our individual perception. So if we all start thinking more positively and treating ourselves and each other with more compassion, we can have a quantum effect on the whole world. We could change everything from world poverty (just 4% of the US budget spent on Defence could end poverty in Africa) to climate change. We need a global shift in consciousness to change the world. Deepak is the President and Founder of the Alliance For A New Humanity, you can pledge to take a vow against non-violence.
I bought Deepak’s book on Ayurvedic healing techniques Perfect Health and he very kindly signed it for me, and we had a short chat. You can follow Deepak on Twitter.
The same week I found myself in the Brighton Friends Meeting House, to hear Alistair McIntosh, author of Soil and Soul speak about climate change and the collapse of society as we know it.
We still need to continue to make efforts to contain climate change but we can not reverse it, according to Alistair. This means the world will inevitably change out of all recognition.
The only way to survive is to return to a sense of community and reconnect with our neighbours and with the land. We are already seeing enormous changes, economically, culturally and to the environment. Clearly the old ways are dying and we can take this opportunity to reevaluate our values and embrace the changes by adapting to a more authentic way of living.
Both speakers were basically giving the same message, the message of a universal way of thinking, a message of hope and enlightenment if we are up to the challenge.
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October 1, 2009 2:08 pm
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By Paola, October 2, 2009 @ 5:40 pm
Very interesting! I’m currently reading a book that was recommended to me, ‘Ask and it is given’ by Esther and Jerry Hicks about manifesting. I’m still struggling with the plausibility of the whole thing but their theory is in a way similar to Deepak Chopra’s, i.e. that we are all energy, and that when our vibrational energy is misaligned, that’s when we experience pain. The idea of a shared consciousness is also present.
My own jury is still out and I’m only 1/3 into the book so I’ll let you know but it’s certainly giving me food for thought.
By rifa, October 2, 2009 @ 7:48 pm
It’s the Rei-ki way of thinking too, the universal energy that connects and heals us all. Keep practicing and you will experience this yourself in time.