How to Know God

[Guest guest]

I have been reading this book by Deepak Chopra and I find it

worth telling people about. In it, Dr. Chopra discusses being

beyond karma, good and bad. He discusses stages of spiritual

development and levels of awareness that occur in human

evolution. My sense of Dr. Chopra from this, and other works of

his, is that he does not buy into "the normalization of our worst

instincts," which is how he describes what the field of

psychology did with Sigmund Freud's work. In How to Know God,

Chopra explores Abraham Maslow's work, which uses as its

basis the starting place of it not being normal to be violent or evil

in any way.

 

If our basic needs aren't met, we get caught in patterns of

attempting to meet them that can be ultimately self-defeating.

The phrase: "Be careful what you wish for, you just may get it" is

mentioned as a sign of lack of faith in the Divine.

 

The book is full of interesting anecdotes, as well as Chopra's

usual tendency to make lists of qualities.

 

All in all, the book is a treasure and a treat!