Our Thoughts are Not Created by Our Brain

By on September 20, 2009 in Spirituality

 

About Deepak Chopra

Time Magazine heralded Deepak Chopra as one of the 100 heroes and icons of the century, and credited him as "the poet-prophet of alternative medicine." Entertainment Weekly described Deepak Chopra as "Hollywood's man of the moment, one of publishing's best-selling and most prolific self-help authors." He is the author of more than 50 books and more than 100 audio, video and CD-Rom titles. He has been published on every continent and in dozens of languages. Fifteen of his books have landed on the New York Times Best-seller list. Toastmaster International recognized him as one of the top five outstanding speakers in the world. Through his over two decades of work since leaving his medical practice, Deepak continues to revolutionize common wisdom about the crucial connection between body, mind, spirit, and healing. His mission of "bridging the technological miracles of the west with the wisdom of the east" remains his thrust and provides the basis for his recognition as one of India's historically greatest ambassadors to the west. Chopra has been a keynote speaker at several academic institutions including Harvard Medical School, Harvard Business School, Harvard Divinity School, Kellogg School of Management, Stanford Business School and Wharton.His latest book is "Reinventing the Body, Resurrecting the Soul."
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9 Responses to Our Thoughts are Not Created by Our Brain

  1. stuball56 September 20, 2009 at 10:33 am #

    Well said Deepak, as always. I think of the brain as a receiver like a radio receiver and it is tuned to our own soul's frequency. Sometimes we can bond to another person at the soul level and then our brain becomes tuned to their frequency as well. Falling in love also takes place at the soul level.

    The soul has three levels, nefesh , ruach, and neshamah. Nefesh is the body/nefesh, the soulfullness that makes the difference between a body being alive and dead. Nefesh dies with the body. Neshamah is the part of the soul which is also part of the Divine. I believe this is the level of soul you are talking about.

    There is another level that is very important called Ruach. This is the level that physical reality was created to induce. Ruach is the soulfullness that you create in your lifetime. It is made up of love, creativity, and doing the loving and compassionate action. This level of soulfulness stays with the Neshamah. Your body is finite and your Neshamah is part of the Divine but you get to create immortal soulfulness when you make Ruach, which is a lot like making love.

    Shanah Tovah, Happy New Year, a good year, a sweet year.

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    Stuart
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  2. Nomind September 20, 2009 at 7:14 pm #

    Moon minds thinks, Mind is real so the thought and brain. Brain is a mechanism, where thought process become possible, which moves horizontal exactly like waves. Normally we think that these waves moves because of sea but if we are able to observe , they moves only horizontally because of outer activities like wind, sun, moon and so on

  3. Noreen September 20, 2009 at 8:22 pm #

    Thank you Deepak, looking forward to that book!

  4. ardverk September 20, 2009 at 2:18 pm #

    I know, but surely they are one dynamic whole, constantly and instantaneously cross-referencing the choices we make and the choices made for us. Perhaps we should see the brain as holographic?

    If tis Soul or full potential Self speaking, there are no bad thoughts, only opportunities for growth.

    So, Deepak, for me, you seem to be establishing a better way to facilitate our potentialisation by leading us more directly to it, if only we can truly enter that expanded equation.

    ed

  5. dymty September 21, 2009 at 1:20 am #

    We are as synapses in the brain, a part of the whole. Just as science has figured out that the brain remains quite maliable, in that new synaptic pathways can be created as old ones fade away, so too do we make and break various connections in our lives. As isolated as we may be as individuals, we remain inter-connected in so many ways.

    We can disect the brain and separated one cell from the whole, but by itself it ceases to function meaningfully. In order for the cell to function meaningfully, it must be integrated into the whole. So, by itself, the cell gets no signal, no pulse, no electrons. So we can say that a single, disconnected cell has no thoughts. It requires being ‘wired into the grid’ in order for it to allow thoughts to come into and pass through it.

    As do we, albeit with less tangible ‘wiring’.

    And there’s the rub: We see ourselves first as physical beings, and the notion of energy and thought and spirit comes in a distant second (if that, even) for many. Once we see beyond the realm of the physical, our connections become more apparent.

    Phillip

  6. bianca isa zoie September 20, 2009 at 11:05 pm #

    Deepak,

    I am right there with you, on the same page,,,, or along the same brain waves.

    I see thoughts to be like invisible threads of various energy forms floating along breezes of the cosmos. They are like pieces of words or possibilities with bits of seed feelings attached to them. The Soul bubbles the energy and sends forth sparks and unite and create those thoughts and which they then compose just the right feelings for this life experience. Their Source, their Home is indeed the Soul.

    I also believe that as these thoughts- being connected with feelings come to us always in the right time and space as they are needed or called upon for a situation, inspiration. They come from past present time space to heal, to evolve and grow us forward. All-ways with our request and permission.

    Thank you for sharing this. It has become the perfect way of closing this weekend and placing some softness to some difficult nagging feelings I have had these past few days.

    And thank you for all the giving you have done for all of us- inspiring us with your knowledge and gifts of love.

    Peace

    Bianca Zoie

  7. ardverk September 21, 2009 at 9:50 am #

    Aye, Phillip, meaningfully…..it blows me away to think that it’s all a ‘matter’ of photons in huge symbiotic Dance. I wave at the particles and weave the perticular and take on a superposition!

    regards,
    ed

  8. Jerry Esnough September 21, 2009 at 3:27 pm #

    As I practice residing in the energy of love forgiveness and kindness, a thought like that is worth considering.

  9. Jasmina September 24, 2009 at 6:02 am #

    Thanks Deepak, what we choose to think makes a difference to the Universal Energy Field.
    Sometimes, when dealing with illness, or internal infirmity, we can ask ourselves …well funny you just said what I was going to write! Cool! it’s all here, thank you for that, that IS the universal field, what we choose to focus on. God Bless you as well, love Jas