Unconditional Life: Mastering the Forces That Shape Personal Reality

Chopra, Deepak

ISBN 10: 0553076094 ISBN 13: 9780553076097

Publisher: Bantam, 1991

Synopsis

Deepak Chopra, M.D., has emerged as one of the most powerful leaders in the revolutionary field of mind/body medicine. His extraordinary bestseller Quantum Healing explored the mind's connection to seemingly miraculous cures for cancer and other serious illnesses. Now, in Unconditional Life, he undertakes an even greater challenge: to explain how consciousness can lead the way to total freedom and perfect health. Unconditional Life brings together disciplines ranging from modern physics and neuroscience to the ancient traditions of Indian wisdom to show how our perceptions create our reality for good or ill--and how the outside world can be shaped by altering the world within. In a book filled with hope and inspiration, Dr. Chopra offers compelling proof of the power of consciousness and a daring new vision of our own unlimited potential.
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From Kirkus Reviews

Here, Chopra (Perfect Healing, 1990; Return of the Rishi, 1988) laments that ``our culture provides us with so little opportunity to confront the basic meaning of life that sickness and death have filled the void by becoming conversion experiences.'' Is there not a way, he asks, to find a transcendent meaning in life before a crisis, while there is still ample time to enjoy the life that suddenly seems so worthwhile? Chopra is an Indian-born-and-educated physician who emigrated to America as a young man and attained proficiency and respectability in Western medicine, then found himself drawn back to the ancient Ayurvedic healing arts of his native land. Drawing equally on the Indian sages of antiquity and the newest findings in biology and physics, he asserts that ``any aspect of reality can be changed...by manipulating the fundamental layer of awareness that ties all of nature together. By a simple but breathtaking stroke, if I can change my mind...then I can change the world.'' But changing the mind is not a matter of positive thinking or affirmations or the like: ``Thinking your way out of thought,'' as he puts it, ``is like trying to get out of quicksand by picking yourself up by the hair.'' A deeper process of mental transformation must occur, and the agent of transformation he recommends is daily meditation--specifically, the technique of Transcendental Meditation as introduced to the West by Maharishi Mahesh Yogi. Moving anecdotes of remarkable recoveries enliven the theoretical discussions, and a poetic sense infuse the language. Few writers in the crowded new field of mind/body healing can match Chopra's combination of erudition, wit, and warmth of heart. -- Copyright ©1991, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.

From Library Journal

Chopra, whose previous books have included the best sellers Quantum Healing (Bantam, 1989) and Perfect Health ( LJ 6/1/90), is a leader in New Age medicine. Here, he examines the power of human consciousness and the process of healing. Why, he asks, do patients with identical diagnoses react so differently? The answer, he believes, is in the way we confront and understand or fail to confront and understand the forces and experiences that have formed our view of reality. He feels that once we understand these forces, we can change our inner reality and thus alter outside events. Chopra shows, by way of case histories, medical research, and Eastern philosophy, how the interactions of mind and body affect consciousness. Pain, experiences of time and aging, addiction, and love are all discussed here. Public libraries should experience demand for this. Previewed in Prepub Alert, LJ 6/1/91.
- Jodith Janes, Cleveland Clinic Fdn.
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Edition details

• Publisher: Bantam
• Publication date: 1991
• ISBN 10: 0553076094
• ISBN 13: 9780553076097
• Binding: Unknown Binding
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 277