Did you know that Deepak Chopra has written 90 books, at least 21 of them have been bestsellers and have been translated into 43 languages? His photo should be included in the definition of #PROLIFIC in the dictionary. [Knowing Deepak, maybe it is! ] I’m reading his latest book MetaHuman: Unleashing Your Infinite Potential and whoa. If you’re interested in quantum physics and next level thinking, get this book. He mentions the epiphany he told me about— it’s the *revelation* that set his whole trajectory as a major thought leader in motion. His epiphany came simply too—during a walking meditation he did every morning. I talk about it in my TEDx talk: Epiphanies and The Ripple Effect and you can read his interview from the book below.
I bought MetaHuman right after I heard him recently on the lovely Linda Sivertsen’s Beautiful Writers Podcast. If you are a writer or reader and just love books and are interested in authors in general — this is an AMAZING podcast with unique interviews of top authors from every field and genre. Linda does a fantastic interview. Deepak’s interview is called Deepak Chopra: Metahuman & Infinite Creativity and is found on all the podcast platforms in case you’re a podcast junky like me and are interested in what captivated me about his latest work.
Please always feel free to comment/send suggestions of your favorite podcasts or recent books, movies, tv shows, art exhibits, etc—and find out what others are finding inspiring and eye-opening–these can be some of the strongest tools to help us spark epiphanies!
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* DEEPAK CHOPRA’S EPIPHANY INTERVIEW, AS TOLD TO ELISE BALLARD *
“People have the power to heal themselves—
a shift in consciousness can cause a shift in biology.”
In 1980 I was practicing medicine in Boston, Massachusetts. It is a habit of mine to take a walk after meditation. One day, at about ten o’clock in the morning, I was taking my morning walk in the Fenway Park area, pondering why some of my patients were heal- ing and others weren’t.
Suddenly it hit me. People have the power to heal themselves. I had been observing over my years of practice the rare patients who had done so, who had recovered from their illnesses, and it occurred to me at this moment that there was a common factor—they moved from a place of fear to a place of extreme joy and what I would call the intoxication of love. It hit me that they all had the same kind of shift in consciousness. You know, it sounds simplistic when I say it, but actually the shift is very profound and deep. For forty years people had been studying the effects of stress. But nobody had actually studied the biology of joy or love. So it occurred to me that that’s where we need to move.
After this initial realization, several epiphanies which I con- sider part of this overriding epiphany occurred. One part of it that was very important for me was that there was the return of the memory of wholeness. The words whole, health, and holy are the same word. Health, healing, wholeness, holy.
My entire practice and life focus changed after this realization that a shift in consciousness can cause a shift in biology. I started researching it, and I started writing and speaking about it. My whole life is now about establishing a scientific basis for consciousness influencing biology, and it all goes back to this original epiphany and this original premise.
