Editorial Reviews  
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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 in 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 God." This hardwiring is deftly explored as Chopra lists the seven ways humans know God and how they correspond to the anatomy of our human brains. He devotes a chapter to each of the seven visions of God: "Protector," "Almighty," "God of Peace," "Redeemer," "Creator," "God of Miracles," and "Pure Being--I am." In every chapter he asks and answers the same questions for the readers: "Who am I?" "How do I fit in?" "How do I find God?" The format works well, helping to tame this broad discussion while also illuminating the different personality types that are attracted to these seven different visions. Fortunately, Chopra is a gifted narrator, able to make human anatomy and quantum physics understandable while also keeping spiritual and metaphysical discussions grounded. As he drifts through the cloudy realms of ESP, telepathy, clairvoyance, miracles, obedience, loyalty, evil, ego, addictions, and mentors, readers can trust that there is a competent pilot at the helm, deftly guiding this excellent book. Plan to take some time with this one. It is perhaps his best yet and as such deserves a slow and steady commitment. --Gail Hudson 

Book Description  
You don't have to believe in God in order to experience God. -- Deepak Chopra 
The best-selling author of Ageless Body, Timeless Mind and The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success has written his most ambitious and important work yet -- an exploration of the idea that everyone can have the direct experience of divinity. According to Chopra, the brain is hardwired to know God. The human nervous system has seven biological responses that correspond to seven levels of divine experience. These are shaped not by any one religion (they are shared by all), but by the brain's need to take an infinite, chaotic universe and find meaning in it. As we make sense of the swirling "quantum soup," we inevitably find the face of God. In this remarkable book Chopra shows us how. And along the way we delve into such mysteries as religious awakening, ecstasy, genius, telepathy, multiple personality, and clairvoyance -- all parts of the "mind field" that quantum physics discovered almost a hundred years ago. This invisible place, although it appears to be an empty void, is actuall! y the womb of creation. Here God is our co-creator in the constant process of self-creation that is life itself. As we come to know God better, we gain direct access to healing, love, and miracles. How to Know God is Deepak Chopra's writing at its very best, an internationally celebrated blend of philosophy and science applied to the greatest subject of all. This is the quest each of us is on, whether we realize it or not. For, as Chopra writes, "God is our highest instinct to know ourselves." This book makes a dramatic and enduring contribution to that knowledge. 

The author, Deepak Chopra , December 3, 1999 
How to Know God is the most important book I've written.  
Dear Reader: 
As a child growing up in India I saw signs of spirit all around me--in the faces of near-naked sadhus, or holy men, in the saffron-robed monks who begged for rice in the streets, and in the people rich and poor who thronged the Hindu, Muslim and Sikh temples. My parents sent me off to be educated by Catholic nuns who taught me to respect the God of Christianity. At an early age I understood that these expressions of divinity must have something in common, despite their obvious differences. After many years of study I have come to the conclusion that all human beings are actually hard-wired to know God. Our brains are structured to make sense of the world around us, and spirit is necessary to limited in our ability to know God by our minds, through which we filter experience. As I sat down to write my new book, HOW TO KNOW GOD, I concluded that there are seven stages of human experience--and therefore of God consciousness--beginning with survival, or "fight or flight," which yields the all-powerful, capricious God of the Old Testament, and ending with unity consciousness, through which we can truly experience God in all things, living and inert. (All of us can access the seventh stage briefly, whereas the truly enlightened such as Buddha, Christ, and Mohammed, could spend a lifetime there). While writing this book I became very excited by the notion that these seven sacred responses apply to everyone, regardless of religion. As importantly, they explain how even those who do not subscribe to a religion can have the direct experience of God. Also, once I placed them in the context of the sacred responses anomalies such as clairvoyance, telepathy, ESP, ecstasy, and genius suddenly made perfect sense, which supported my sense that I was working with a breakthrough concept. Einstein once said, "I want to know the face of God. Everything else is detail." My goal is to make the face of God available to all of us, and with it the power to make miracles in our lives. In addition, one of my goals is to know if you the reader or someone you know has ever had experiences with what are so called "anomalous". If you have, I would like to invite you to write an essay in 750 words or less and submit it to godmessage@ chopra.com. I and my team will personally review these essays, select 30-40 of them, and then make editorial comments from a scientific point of view. These essays will be published in a book entitled "Messages from God," which could be the beginning of a series. I, therefore, encourage you to participate and become one of our published authors. I thank you profusely in advance.* 
 With love, 
 Deepak Chopra 

*By submitting your essay, you agree to the use of your name and the publication and use of the essay (in complete form or as may be edited by Deepak) in all editions, versions and media throughout the world of a book (and its related advertising) tentatively entitled "Messages From God," which could be the beginning of a series. Essays will not be retained, so please keep a copy." 

About the Author  
Deepak Chopra has written twenty-five books, which have been translated into thirty-five languages. He is also the author of more than one hundred audio- and videotape series, including five critically acclaimed programs on public television. In 1999 Time magazine selected Dr. Chopra as one of the Top 100 Icons and Heroes of the Century, describing him as "the poet-prophet of alternative medicine." Dr. Chopra currently serves as CEO and founder of The Chopra Center for Well Being in La Jolla, California.