The mindbodygreen Podcast 139: How to wake up to your true purpose with Deepak Chopra, M.D.
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Aug 16, 2019 
Deepak Chopra, M.D., a renowned spiritual teacher and best-selling author, shares profound insights about consciousness and its link to our well-being. He emphasizes the importance of ‘waking up’ to our shared humanity, critiquing how social media can deepen feelings of separation. Chopra explores anxiety as a modified state of consciousness and argues that true freedom comes from understanding our interconnectedness. He shares a universal higher purpose, challenges the contemporary wellness industry, and advocates for authentic community and love as pathways to enlightenment.
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Loneliness and the Separate Self
- Societal conditioning and conformity hypnotize individuals into prioritizing their separate selves.
- This reinforced sense of a separate self is a socially induced hallucination, contributing to loneliness.
Waking Up From the Lucid Dream
- We live in a lucid dream based on a misunderstanding of consciousness, believing in a real world independent of experience.
- Our perceived physical world is a human experience, a narrow band within infinite possibilities.
Accessing Higher Consciousness
- Recognize that awareness is separate from thoughts, emotions, and perceptions.
- Practice presence to access fundamental reality and realize the formless, infinite nature of awareness.
