The Future of God: A Practical Approach to Spirituality for Our Times

The Future of God: A Practical Approach to Spirituality for Our Times

by Deepak Chopra
The Future of God: A Practical Approach to Spirituality for Our Times

The Future of God: A Practical Approach to Spirituality for Our Times

by Deepak Chopra

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Overview

From the New York Times Bestselling Author.
Can God be revived in a skeptical age? What would it take to give people a spiritual life more powerful than anything in the past? Deepak Chopra tackles these issues with eloquence and insight in this book.  He proposes that God lies at the source of human awareness. Therefore, any person can find the God within that transforms everyday life.
  
God is in trouble. The rise of the militant atheist movement spearheaded by Richard Dawkins signifies, to many, that the deity is an outmoded myth in the modern world. Deepak Chopra passionately disagrees, seeing the present moment as the perfect time for making spirituality what it really should be: reliable knowledge about higher reality. Outlining a path to God that turns unbelief into the first step of awakening, Deepak shows us that a crisis of faith is like the fire we must pass through on the way to power, truth, and love.  
 
“Faith must be saved for everyone’s sake,” he writes. “From faith springs a passion for the eternal, which is even stronger than love. Many of us have lost that passion or have never known it.” In any age, faith is a cry from the heart. God is the higher consciousness that responds to the cry. “By itself, faith can’t deliver God, but it does something more timely: It makes God possible.” 
 
For three decades, Deepak Chopra has inspired millions with his profound writing and teaching. With The Future of God, he invites us on a journey of the spirit, providing a practical path to understanding God and our own place in the universe. Now, is a moment of reinvigoration, he argues. Now is moment of renewal. Now is the future.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780307884992
Publisher: Harmony/Rodale
Publication date: 11/11/2014
Sold by: Random House
Format: eBook
Pages: 272
Sales rank: 826,567
File size: 2 MB

About the Author

About The Author
DEEPAK CHOPRA, a member of Oprah's SuperSoul 100, is the author of more than 80 books translated into over 43 languages, including numerous New York Times bestsellers. Visit him at DeepakChopra​.com.

Hometown:

La Jolla, California

Date of Birth:

October 22, 1946

Place of Birth:

New Delhi, India

Education:

All India Institute of Medical Sciences

Table of Contents

Contents

Prologue
Why God Has a Future
Against Militant Atheism
God Is a Verb, Not a Noun
 
The Path to God
Stage 1: Unbelief
  Dawkins and His Delusions
  Answering Militant Atheism 
  Proving the Platypus 
 
 
The Path to God
Stage 2: Faith
  Beyond the Zero Point
  Bad Faith
  The Wisdom Agenda
  Are Miracles Possible?
 
The Path to God
Stage 3: Knowledge
  God Without Borders
  Is There a Material World?
  The Subtle World
  Transcendence: God Appears
  The Toughest Question
 
Epilogue: God at a Glance
Acknowledgments 

What People are Saying About This

“A magnificient and masterfully argued presentation of why randomness can never explain the great mystery of life on earth.  This wonderfully accessible book is a must read for anyone who, much like Einstein and other pioneers of the new physics did, experiences a feeling of utter humility when contemplating the grandeur of the cosmos.” — P. Murali Doraiswamy, Professor of Psychiatry and Member, Duke Institute for Brain Sciences 

"The most transformative discoveries begin with delusion, are challenged by insight, driven by faith, pursued with science, and culminate in truth. Deepak Chopra beautifully makes the case that the biggest delusion is a universe without God or consciousness." — Rudy Tanzi, co-author of The New York Times Bestseller Super Brain

"Being a nuclear physicist dealing with basic quantum field theory I find my worldview agreeing with Deepak Chopra. The all-embracing holistic quantum field is a step forward from our classical reductionistic interpretation of a determined "reality". It suggests a dynamic, alive cosmos or "Wirklichkeit". Dr Chopra's work will be talked about for a long time to come.” — Hans Peter Duerr, Scientific Member and Director Emeritus Max Planck Institute for Physics and Astrophysics 

"At a time when the revolutions of the physical sciences are changing our understanding the human consciousness, Saving Faith is a book that needed to be written and no one could have written it better than Deepak Chopra. In this brilliant analysis, Chopra shows how God is evolving with our consciousness, and how both, the religious and atheistic fundamentalists are focused on an outdated God. This book is a treasure of deep insights which will not only touch your heart but will also lead you to understand how a God without illusions is a necessary condition for your physical well being." — Lothar Schäfer, distinguished professor of physical chemistry (emeritus) at the University of Arkansas and author of Infinite Potential

In Saving Faith, Deepak Chopra crisply dissects the militant atheist's assertion that there is no meaning or purpose to life, and no need for faith in an accidental universe. He lays bare the belief vs. disbelief controversy and provides sound reasons why it is both possible and necessary to mature beyond the simplistic dogmas that have sustained a timeworn and increasingly futile debate. – Dean Radin, Ph.D., author of The Conscious Universe and Supernormal

Deepak Chopra has successfully blended ancient Vedanta Philosophy with his unique perspective on modern science to provide a vast audience with solutions that meet many needs for our modern age. He is among the influential scholars, authors, and thinkers who have found truth in the Perennial Philosophy and developed ways to help people apply that truth to their daily lives. — Huston Smith, author of Why Religion Matters: The Faith of the Human Spirit in an Age of Disbelief

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