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How to Know God: The Soul's Journey Into Mystery of Mysteries God is not a person or a thing but rather a process, according to world-renowned author and spiritual leader Deepak Chopra. The purpose of this ambitious book is to assure readers that anyone can engage this process--it isn't a matter of faith, religious teaching, innate goodness, luck or some other mysterious factor, Chopra explains. Our brains are hardwired to find From Publishers Weekly Prolific author Chopra (The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success, Creating Health, etc.) explores different ways people apprehend God. Chopra contends that there are seven responses to God and that the brain cannot register a deity outside list of seven responses. Chopra's seven include: or (a God who can save us from danger), reactive (a rule-giving God), restful awareness (a God who brings tranquility out of chaos), intuitive (a good and forgiving God), creative (God as Creator), visionary (God as exalted) and sacred (God as source of everything). Different personalities envision God differently, says Chopra; a go-getter determined to shape his own destiny will imagine a creative God, whereas someone who feels she is just barely getting through day will have stage-one fight or flight response, envisioning a God who can rescue her. For Chopra, these seven ascending stages are normative; someone who has reached seven is more tune with God than someone stuck at one. (Readers from law-based religions may feel dismayed that Chopra so devalues their stage two conception of God.) To help spiritual pilgrims reach seventh stage, Chopra recommends that they see themselves and others in light, forgive themselves when they err and seek out sacred and unknown. Like most theories that claim to be all-encompassing, Chopra's scheme is often reductive, but this will nonetheless be a worthwhile addition to spiritual seeker's library. (Feb.) Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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