This is so cool. very funny, especially at the end when he owned Colbert. Cobert's shtick can be annoying sometimes, but it worked out very well in this video.
I don't understand why everyone is angry about an interview. The show is a comedy show, there's going to be laughter and comedy. It's not overboard. Life should have laughter as well as spirituality. If your concern over Deepak Chopra then you should be noticing that he is also joking, scripted or not. It's called spirituality not being a fanatic. Take his own humble attitude as an example.. anger has no place.
@zenhaltija I agree. Chopra got the last laugh, for sure. He's pretty funny and thick skinned. Spirituality makes you humble, but not weak. It's called being armed with truth for a good reason. Merry Christmas
WOW have I LOST MAD RESPECT for CONEHEAD. Deepak is doing POSITIVE and ProActive things. Anchor is doing negative things. Deepak is one of the Wisest MEN in the WORLD today. WHATS THE MATTER WITH EVOLUTION? Orbit around my UNiVERSE CONEHEAD! R U contradicting the (higher power) look whos laughing now; its a reflection of you laughing at others. P 4 a BRAIN, blame that on EVOLUTION or KARMA!!
@aburling7 Itz so damn obvious dat v knw whu d anchor is, Its STEPHEN COLBERT btw, ...i nevr commented on whether his interrupting behaviour was good or bad, he was behaving dat way, as a part of his duty, and i just MADE AN OBVIOUS OBSERVATION DAT HE WAS BEING INTERRUPTING!! duh-uh!
The anchor is just so interrutpitng and deepak chopra is just such an amazing manager-he managed all the questions with such a great calm! He has surely learnt in depth !
@coolgalshagun Just so you guys know, the interviewer is Steven Cobert and he plays the faux-quintssential republican. His job as a "Republican" IS to be a consummate, annoying asshole who interrupts all the time with pointless and meaningless bullshit!
The anchor here thinks that Dr.Chopra has come to entertain the crowd and not to share is wisdom. The anchor is bullshitting without having any knowledge or wisdom about what Dr.chopra has to say. He probably thinks its a reality show. The anchor is no doubt a joker.
I'm so sorry for Deepok the other guy is an ego driven ass.if he would just shut up and onep his mind.he would not be full of fear the ego is full of noting but fear!!
Most of these comments reflect the shallowness of the comment contributer rather than the character of the target. Chopra was obviously having some fun here because he knew that there could not be a serious and meanigfull exchange with the interviewer. BTW, the fact that people have paid millions for his writings is not evidence that he is bilking gullible people out of their money. It is evidence that people need more than the shallow materiality of that most of our culture offers.
Deepak is very wise, we can get teachings from a hole in the ground if we are ready for them, Deepak just says it better :P It all depends where you are at, to hear their teachings!
I can get spiritual teachings from a hole in the ground, I can also get them from a dog, or the Pope. Deepak probably has more wisdom than the Pope. That doesnt mean he knows everything
I only drink green tea ! This reminds me of a old friend of mine once said to me "Wow,you should see Las Vegas, it's a getaway for adults,you'll love it" Naw I said 'we no longer have fresh water dolphins,because of Las Vegas', you see although most people enjoy this show (I usually do) this particular clown (guest) is destroying hope in a lot of people with his baloney,he's a charlatan,enough said !
tribal peoples native to the north and south american continents, as well as other areas of the world, held or do hold similar beliefs to those of many indians. (indians as in the people of india). who's to say they're wrong? may be life is an eternal thing. we won't know until we die, and even then we'll only know if there is in deed some thing after death.
like all spiritual people chopra talks complete bollocks & calls it is wisdom, still, by talking shit he manages to con gullible housewife's out of millions of dollars every year
but I don’t exist so you must have made up this comment
colbert is a fuckin idiot. hes not funny and hes not intelligent, he just sounds like a little boy. ignorant and arrogant. whats the point in inviting someone on a show to talk if hes not even going to listen?
deepak chopra is more on point than people think. the audience sounds like a bunch of dumbed down, brainwashed monkeys. bill hicks said it best - "we are all one conciousness experiencing itself subjectively". its sad that the masses are too dense to understand this & resort to ridicule
@ILLER121 That's what I used to think, until I started learning about quantum physics and realized that the REAL quantum physics isn't what he says it is and doesn't support what he says. Kinda like how creationists misrepresent evolution.
Colbert is just intentionally being an ass, but he's not misrepresenting science.
coppens, flayktheone, and subconciousGatherer. What's the matter? It appears the true nature of reality scares you, because fear is obvious in your comments. This man is an accomplished physician, and has written several best-selling books and has a huge following for good reasons. Insulting him is due to fear and jealousy. And none of you back up your insults. It appears you are the charlatans, the BS and gibberish purveyors.
@GeoCoppens You're trapped in the mechanistic paradigm and have blinders on, that's all. Enjoy your version of reality. I don't believe you're a scientist, though. High school bio-chem doesn't qualify. lol
@Divinity23 You call yourself "Divinity"... You poor sod! Deepak is an unadulterated charlatan talking gibberish who thinks he's deep. He's not even shallow!
@SubconsciousGatherer something that can not be proven false is neither logical or illogical, it is simply a belief. if people can get away with Scientology, how can you even get mad at a guy like deepak?
@iRoxorzUrSoxorz People "get away with Scientology" for as long as their delusions (or bank accounts) hold up. I'm not mad at Deepak personally, but I do see that he's a con man. To anyone not on guard for such deceivers, you only have your own naivety to blame. Be careful who you give your "trust of the invisible" to.
@SubconsciousGatherer liking someones ideology and giving them money for it are two different things. i see where your coming from but i dont think selling your ideas in a book is a con. if he convinced you that you would suffer eternally for not purchasing his book, then id agree
I am a yin yang balance of both and lean to Deepak. It is true what he says on being young and experienced too. Check out amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Dstripbooks&field-keywords=patsis+louiza&x=0&y=0
It's true.All of this is a projection of our consciousness. I agree with what he said about the kill or be killed mentality being theold paradigm and that wisdom will be the new. We must go from violence to an understanding that we are all a part of each other. Everything we do affects everything. We are discovering this more and more. It is not us and them. IT is just us.
Actually it just goes to show... in years gone by the most evolutionarily successful world views were the religions that survive today. Now, today, "spiritualists" who allow room in their ideas for the known science of this "information age" are able to attract a sizeable following - their ideas are appealing to those who consider themselves logical people. So preachers of world view have found a new niche. Their approach isn't entirely rigorous but it's considered rigorous enough by many.
The point that Deepak Chopra makes about heaven is actually an impressive insight: If one defines heaven as the absence of anything even remotely displeasing then you remove the incentive for creative thinking and problem-solving. As he puts it, "if you were in heaven you would be doomed to eternal senility" - a reasonable deduction given the defined absence of problems for thousands or millions of years or more. So I'd have to carefully redefine my concept of "heaven".
To truly understand Chopra you need to uncover the quantum world we live in. Colors, vivid illusions, both of these generate for us our own personal world. Discovering your place in your own world lets you change it freely. For $32.95 I'll give you the tools you need to reach spiritual, emotional, and eternal happiness. I do not accept American Express.
@cdoftx Quantum = quantity. Quantum Physics deals with quantity of light. Light is Energy. In Pre Quantum Physics Energy & Matter were considered separate, Gluon, the sub atomic particle, theoretically, joins Photons turning them into Matter. LHC's 2012 experiment of colliding the nucleus at 14 v 14 TeV is expected to provide evidence of this phenomenon. Quantum Leap is a stupid term for very long jump coined by idiots. It shows how ignorant people are? The B&$T@RD is using it to beguile people
it's like plato when he was in athens no one believed a wooord he'd say, except for a few. Most great men in this world in ancient history have been mocked, and dismissed and later through research were proven right or taken into consideration at least. I am not saying Chopra is 100% right, but do not dismiss his message, but take some in and think about it. Don't just take the easy way out. "I don't get it, so it must be wrong"
@dmperu11 99.99% of people that are called fools ARE fools. It is true that some people who are called fools are geniuses... I think Chopra belongs to the 99.99% sadly.
@mikeyo1234 they may be fools by your standards but like i said people who are not understood are just simply called fools, but are they? well sometimes only time will tell as you may i ask are you an atheist? or do you have a religion?
@dmperu11 Based on your theory only time will tell if pixies or fairies exist too. My previous comment stands and I can't explain better than that.
The other thing is that Galileo was originally disbelieved, however he did have evidence for his ideas. These days the world is scientifically literate enough to look for evidence when people come up with a theory. However there is no evidence for God... so that idea is foolish and not 'genius'.
@dmperu11 the thing is, most of us completely understand Chopra's position. People have presented excellent challenges to his position with which he responds "yeah well it's magic and besides truth is all relative, reality is just a subjective projection blah blah blah" You know a charlatan by his/ her lack of willingness to test their ideas, making claims based on what data MIGHT suggest if you distort it and when they are selling a cure all.
@XuRuiHai721 When you make up quotes that he never said and add blah blah at the end it doesn't help your point it hinders it. He does not focus on quantum physics nor does he sell any interpretation of it. He lightly brushes on it or mentions it but it is in no way near his major focus. He never claims to be a physicist and he only uses small quotes of it. Quantum Physics in general is a bunch of hypothesis/untestable/unprovable material. Real scientists don't even agree with each other on it.
@bizzyb0ne017 I was summarizing his position not quoting him. Duh...
Anyway explain to me why the title of one of his books is "Quantum Healing" and just what that's all about and then tell me he doesn't focus on quantum physics or sell an interpretation. Quantum physics is highly testable, as provable as any other science and in fact one of the most accurate. Scientist don't agree with each other but that doesn't give Chopra equal standing with people who actually understand it.
@bizzyb0ne017 Chopra is abusing problems in science to rake in money and followers. Quantum Physics is mysterious and complex enough to leave room for plenty of distorted interpretations but it's hard enough of a science to make whatever he says seem true. I'll give you the fact that quantum physics isn't his primary focus but it is part of the foundation of his ideas. Besides, one shouldn't expect him to write extensively on it since he doesn't know very much about it.
@XuRuiHai721 Nope: the ignorant stupid Americans who believe & the insolent Media that promotes him. They are born ignorant like the rest but they remain. Coca cola, celeb worship, Soaps are their limits. Media uses Pavlovian tactics: bombarding repetitive messages to condition them. Chopra, Jackson, Madonna & thriving pseudo science are the results. They seem to have the LCD of intelligence among developed nations. They spend $166bn/yr for brain washing & $38bn on Primary/Secondary Education.
@dmperu11 his talk about the quantum physics of healing and such does have a possibility of being true in the strict sense of possible but no more than the possibility that say umbrellas are the cause of all major world wars. He sells his interpretation of physics and medicine as if it is true or no more research is needed. The kind of people who would be interested in his help usually aren't very discerning in the first place,. That's taking advantage of people in need.
@dmperu11 How do you know he is 100% right? For me he could be 100% wrong. In Plato's time, there must have been thousands of other people who were charlatans. It's very suspicios to me when someone makes an enterprise and becomes a millionaire out of selling confusing thoughts. Einstain said “If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough”.
@JohnnyPeacemaker Colbert is completely joking. He is making fun of outlandish pundits like Bill O'Reilly and is doing a damn good job. I'm sure him and Chopra are friends and had a very friendly conversation with Chopra off camera.
HaHa... they both have a great sense of humor. Deepak uses a language that most people don't understand so they dismiss him. The info is out there for those who are ready for it. Deepak is not the only purveyor.
You would punch him in the face and continue to create hell on earth, while people like Deepak transcend lower forms of existence.
If you need to punch someone in the face, why not pick someone your own size who is also a believer in higher ideals, equality, peace and understanding?
You can punch me if you want, but of course it might turn out really bad
@JohnnyPeacemaker i would also punch the pope too, people who spin bull shit for profit giving people what they want to hear so they can make money is sick. this guy is a false "profit". But remember punching his arrogant fat face would only exist in my reality not his. so really I have not punched him or have I? there is no need to cull the sheep, kill the Shepard and the Sheeple ( half person half sheep) and the flock go free thus punching you would be ultimately pointless, have a nice day
In Judaism Satan is literally ignorance of thought
You can see this in the way the apostle 'Pa'ul became one who professed rather after losing his blindness/scales over his eyes when he was 'SA'ul.
Judaism sees the infinite principle as the source of creation/the creator. You should look into this before slagging a good person and follower of Jesus
Yeah, that's why understanding enables a person to guide the idiotic fundamentalists towards a philosophical key that is a common thread in all the old religions including Islam....that being to always seek knowledge and understanding...which creates peace, kinship, kindness, and respect.
When people tell you God is this or the way to salvation or peace is this or that absolutely, they are taxing you while feeding their need to be elevated above others...while the institutions make $
Judaism is steeped in science including philosophy and mathematics, just as Sufism which was the basis for Islam. Buddhism is all philosophy and psychology with no mention of God or a creator.
The concept of always seeking knowledge, infinite principle brings people towards a scientific analysis rather than regional sentiments and perceptions of what God is...these regional differences are the cause of war, and excuse for genocide through history
@JohnnyPeacemaker You don't know what you are talking about!!! Philosophy is not science! Get yourself some education before engaging in serious discussion!
Some people prefer to create tension while communicating in order to culture a scenario which they could try and win. It is very natural to fall into this desire for competition.
Philosophy and psychology are indeed sciences, I hope you can learn to grow out of the desire to feed your ego, and seek to feed your consciousness instead. Good luck :)
@coppens If you are a narrow minded person...which you clearly are..than it is gibberish. the problem with people like you is that you don't understand...you fear it...therefore you deny it.
seems, the only reason this is "funny", because an arrogant fool and his ignorant audience are trying to bully a man, who should be awarded respect. on the day colbert nation faces his own death, he will probably be very afraid
WARNING APPARENT CONTRADICTION: If Hell is so much more interesting and useful to us, why don't we just stay living in the dark ages? Why progress? Why be healthy or happy if it is so boring? Of course that idea is bullshit, being happy sounds good to me.
And why does he call his own reality an illusion? Doesn't that require proof of a "more real" reality, and where is his proof for that? He might as well call life a cheeseburger, though of course he uses certain words for a reason.
"if you want you can upgrade the illusion!" hahahaha xDDD that's genious! that's a knockout of the church, the protestant ethic, the american capitalsim , and the atheists with one single hit! hahahahaha I am enjoying right now! xD Don't you?!
I have studied buddhist and hindu cosmological theories on the universe, "god" and consciousness.. I definitely agree that the importance of human consciousness is ignored by western science which is fixed on totally material-based explanations of reality.. But Buddhism, Jainism, Vedic texts are the most comprehensive investigations of reality through consciousness.. Some western physicists are beginning to recognize this.. But Deepak Chopra is full of babble for his own profit. He's full of it.
@pixusbubblejet I agree with you about chopra but as for the rest... I completely disagree. Western scientists are VERY interested in consciousness, however they are waiting until they have something concrete to go off of. Who is to say that consciousness isn't material anyway,? The thinkers in the east jumped the gun before they sorted out all of their data-for that I don't blame them. They have a lot of wisdom/ advice to give that's extremely useful but the attached narrative is questionable.
@XuRuiHai721 ..No, cognition and consciousness are not identical.. Western scientists are usually Eurocentric and/or are unfamiliar with the literature on consciousness that has existed for more than 2000 years in Asia. They dismiss it. Only until they have consciousness explained on their own terms will they legitimize any research on it. Meanwhile continuing to ignore whats been discovered 3000 years ago. Its intellectual arrogance and ignorance. Western science is not as neutral as they say.
@pixusbubblejet I never mentioned cognition, I was talking about consciousness. Research is definitely being conducted on it. I don't understand how can you expect scientists to adopt a theory of reality based on consciousness when they've only just begun research. Furthermore how on earth to you expect a scientists to use easter texts? Just read it and go "OH! so that's how the mind works, all done here." They have to test things, that's what they do.
@XuRuiHai721.. Great example of science with a closed mind. So much for liberal thought. Despite the claims to scientific neutrality, there is in fact no deductive method. You forcefully set the parameters for what you want to find. Nothing neutral there. And scientific materialism as a standpoint of explanation already existed 3000 years ago, but they had insufficient technology to sustain it. The texts explaining consciousness already exist, you simply cannot understand it, so you dismiss it.
"The texts explaining consciousness already exist, you simply cannot understand it, so you dismiss it." Says who... Why should I assume that those texts accurately explain consciousness? How can you assume that everyone who rejects eastern texts just "didn't understand". THAT is intellectual arrogance and ignorance. Science isn't always done right, I agree with that but it is ideally neutral. If there is something useful to science in your texts then give some examples.
"The texts explaining consciousness already exist, you simply cannot understand it, so you dismiss it." Says who... Why should I assume that those texts accurately explain consciousness? How can you assume that everyone who rejects eastern texts just "didn't understand". THAT is intellectual arrogance and ignorance. Science isn't always done right, I agree with that but it is ideally neutral. If there is something useful to science in your texts then give some examples.
@pixusbubblejet "The texts explaining consciousness already exist, you simply cannot understand it, so you dismiss it." Says who... Why should I assume that those texts accurately explain consciousness? How can you assume that everyone who rejects eastern texts just "didn't understand". THAT is intellectual arrogance and ignorance. Science isn't always done right, I agree with that but it is ideally neutral. If there is something useful to science in your texts then give some examples.
It doesn't matter if the literature has existed for 10,000 years or 5, being old doesn't make it correct. What you should be talking about is what about those texts make them good explanations of reality. Then a scientist could test those explanations. "the most comprehensive investigations of reality through consciousness." That's very debatable. I've meditated, lucid dreamt and all that, it's crazy but at the end of it you have to keep asking questions.
@XuRuiHai721. You are simply advocating your own exclusive and reified monopoly on explanations of reality according to your own unilaterally fixed parameters. If it cant be explained empirically you would throw it out. Your problem is obsession over empiricism as the one and only way to explain something. Why bother meditating. Dont waste your time by wasting someone elses time.
@pixusbubblejet Relax dude, no need to get all upset. I think you are confusing my point. I never said eastern texts were wrong, or that empiricism is the only way to explain things. You criticized western science for overlooking consciousness. My point is that they aren't overlooking it, they are researching it and only just recently so don't expect it to be the foundation of their explanation of reality YET.
@XuRuiHai721.. I was merely pointing out modern Western science's position, which very much is based on the singular importance of the empirical to rationally explain everything.. This is what scientific evidence is all about.. If it cant be empirically tested and verified, it cannot be taken seriously as evidence.. But what Im trying to say is that rationalism is not exclusively connected to empiricism..
@pixusbubblejet I agree entirely, at their core rationalism and empiricism are a bit at odds. The issue I have is that there seems to be very little actual *work* being put into legitimizing these texts/ practices as valid explanations in almost any philosophical perspective. Most of the books are written for people who already believe in it, I hear very few arguments supporting these ideas. You can't expect the mountain to come to you, the validity of eastern explanations is yours to prove.
@XuRuiHai721.. Those people who believe in it concepts of these texts dont do it blindly. This is totally different from Christian's blind faith beliefs. The rational reason why they believe is because they have studied and put it into practice. It is by deductive rationality. That fact that you admit to some strange need to have so called "Eastern explanations" proved to you is the nature of your problem. Nobody needs to prove anything to you. You are the one who needs to prove it to yourself.
@pixusbubblejet Please don't put words in my mouth. I don't think it's about blind faith. When you ask a philosophy which is about objectivity to include such a provocative framework, it needs more than personal testimony. I have put some of their techniques into practice but that doesn't make everything in these eastern texts true, just the same as everything that science puts forward isn't necessarily true because of a few successes.
@XuRuiHai721.. The fact that you require some outside source to confirm something for you, instead of confirming it by and through your own effort is indication of a Judeochristian thought structure. The ontological dependence on some external authority of confirmation, whether a god or data. This is the ironic origin of post-Renaissance empiricism, which although outwardly rejects a christian god, has a metaphysics that reveals clear Judeochristian roots even in its claimed atheist empiricism.
@pixusbubblejet I find nothing wrong with confirming something on your own but to say that your conclusion/ beliefs are a good explanation beyond your personal bubble is preposterous. The whole point of a scientific explanation is that is both accurate and universal, it can be translated in a way so that others can understand what it posits to explain. I'm neither judeo nor christian, I have never had a religion yet I have explored Buddhist, Daoist and Hindu practices.
@XuRuiHai721.. If science depends only on empirical evidence how can it be absolutely universal when it cannot go beyond empirical data? Shall the world hold its breath until data for everything is found?? That is whats truly preposterous. You keep chasing your tail around in the same circle, but your dependence on an authoritative other remains. You claim you have a personal bubble, then you say you "explored" buddhist daoist hindu? How? Seems more like commercialised new age fad you explored.
@pixusbubblejet I never mentioned anything about absolutes, and if you knew anything about science you would know that scientists/ science do not deal in them. You really can't let up on the whole "asshole" attitude can you? Anyway if you must know, I attended a local Buddhist monastery at six years old, I participated in most activities but it was never a foundation for my beliefs and I refused to "worship". later on I got into chinese martial arts and learned a lot about the dao and zen....
@XuRuiHai721 then in highschool I took yoga, liked it alot but wanted to learn more about where it came from. I didn't get to spend as much time as I would have liked atteneding the local temple but i managed to my hands on some good books explaining it
@XuRuiHai721. Some humble scientists may claim science is not universal, but universal explaination is in fact the unspoken raison d'etre of science. To establish empirical authority to explain all phenomenon by data, methodical analysis and evidence.. Despite claims to otherwise, it is in fact is a universalistic ethos expandible by technology. So then, are we then to hold our breath indefinitely until there is a plausible empirical explanation for some phenomenon or belief we have in mind? lol
@pixusbubblejet universal explanation to the extent that it is not absolute is the raison d'etre of science. Science could not function if it ever held anything as %100 unquestionable. Science itself does not have an ethos, scientists might but science is void of moral doctrine. The same reason blueprints don't suggest that one SHOULD build a house they only direct HOW.
@XuRuiHai721. There are universally accepted laws in science, otherwise there can be no way of common understanding of phenomena. Physics is a good example. For example it is universally accepted that water is 2 part hydrogen and 1 part oxygen. This is 100% unquestioned.. Another is the universal forces, such as gravity etc, no one questions their existence 100% because the evidence is overwhelming. Another is celestial spherical cohesion And yes there is an ethos of science. Its called respect.
@pixusbubblejet It wouldn't be scientific to declare something as unquestionable. Go talk to a scientist nothing is %100 unquestioned. There is always room for error even .000000000000000000000000000000001. Like the mystics always say "perhaps it is all just an illusion", scientists must take that possibility into account. Our model of hydrogen and theory of gravity are the best pictures we have with CURRENT data/ evidence/ analysis- tomorrow we might be proven wrong, it's a process.
@XuRuiHai721.. You are splitting hairs in order to sustain your idea, but thats not very convincing.. Science does in fact deal in certainty. The flat earth theory is now 100% certainly rejected by science. Today no scientists would allow for its possibility. Any who does would be ridiculous. So you are incorrect. No legitimate scientists today would even say the rejection of flat earth theory is questionable by ,0000 whatever degree. LOL! There is no process to initiate a return to flat earth.
@pixusbubblejet yes there is, new evidence and rejection of old. Flat earth is currently rejected but to say it is an absolute falsehood is not something science or scientist
Colberts a knob
FluffyDivine 1 week ago
This is so cool. very funny, especially at the end when he owned Colbert. Cobert's shtick can be annoying sometimes, but it worked out very well in this video.
celestian1111 1 month ago
great!
smallpotatoes989 1 month ago
Laugh is the best of life and spirit*_*
mgdstar 1 month ago
I don't understand why everyone is angry about an interview. The show is a comedy show, there's going to be laughter and comedy. It's not overboard. Life should have laughter as well as spirituality. If your concern over Deepak Chopra then you should be noticing that he is also joking, scripted or not. It's called spirituality not being a fanatic. Take his own humble attitude as an example.. anger has no place.
zenhaltija 1 month ago
@zenhaltija I agree. Chopra got the last laugh, for sure. He's pretty funny and thick skinned. Spirituality makes you humble, but not weak. It's called being armed with truth for a good reason. Merry Christmas
celestian1111 1 month ago
This has been flagged as spam show
He profits off morons who can't think for themselves.
feuchster 2 months ago
its stephen colbert it is an act chill out..........
wowismycrack144 2 months ago
I know that Mr. Chopra is trying to promote his book, but at what price?
How could you have this conversation with a comedian?
Peace be with you;
ER~
eroozdar 2 months ago
What an idiot interviewer. Deepak is casting pearls before swine.
IndiaforHindus 2 months ago
WOW have I LOST MAD RESPECT for CONEHEAD. Deepak is doing POSITIVE and ProActive things. Anchor is doing negative things. Deepak is one of the Wisest MEN in the WORLD today. WHATS THE MATTER WITH EVOLUTION? Orbit around my UNiVERSE CONEHEAD! R U contradicting the (higher power) look whos laughing now; its a reflection of you laughing at others. P 4 a BRAIN, blame that on EVOLUTION or KARMA!!
diamondgirl313 3 months ago
@diamondgirl313 It's time to put that pipe down.
celestian1111 1 month ago
CorkHEAD ForkHEAD StoneHEAD ConeHEAD u r still a F&*%ING IDIOT!!!
diamondgirl313 3 months ago
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diamondgirl313 3 months ago
Has the interviewer lost his head?
lovereachable 3 months ago
Has the interviewer lost his head?
lovereachable 3 months ago
Geniuses always end up in convos with savage ass idiots whos whole goal is not to listen... these peoples egos are too big to learn
BricePayneOfficial 3 months ago
@aburling7 Itz so damn obvious dat v knw whu d anchor is, Its STEPHEN COLBERT btw, ...i nevr commented on whether his interrupting behaviour was good or bad, he was behaving dat way, as a part of his duty, and i just MADE AN OBVIOUS OBSERVATION DAT HE WAS BEING INTERRUPTING!! duh-uh!
coolgalshagun 3 months ago
The anchor is just so interrutpitng and deepak chopra is just such an amazing manager-he managed all the questions with such a great calm! He has surely learnt in depth !
coolgalshagun 3 months ago
@coolgalshagun Just so you guys know, the interviewer is Steven Cobert and he plays the faux-quintssential republican. His job as a "Republican" IS to be a consummate, annoying asshole who interrupts all the time with pointless and meaningless bullshit!
aburling7 3 months ago
The anchor is such an arrogent ass
LoveIsCruel15 4 months ago 2
Deepak is a pseudo-scientist who seems to have won his degree in lottery.
What a failure!
baseballplayer1251 4 months ago 2
@baseballplayer1251 he is doing well. he is a multimilionare!
smallpotatoes989 3 months ago
The anchor here thinks that Dr.Chopra has come to entertain the crowd and not to share is wisdom. The anchor is bullshitting without having any knowledge or wisdom about what Dr.chopra has to say. He probably thinks its a reality show. The anchor is no doubt a joker.
nacnaveen 4 months ago
deepak is getting more laughs than the interviewer... good on you!
ilsy74 4 months ago
Listening to Deepak is hurting my brain.
baseballplayer1251 4 months ago
@baseballplayer1251 Think of it as the gym... It does you a whole lot of good!
ilsy74 4 months ago
@baseballplayer1251 ....Oh you have a brain...then continue your baseless ball.
nacnaveen 4 months ago
@nacnaveen what do you care? If deepak's right, i'm just your projection and so you don't have a brain!
baseballplayer1251 4 months ago
I'm so sorry for Deepok the other guy is an ego driven ass.if he would just shut up and onep his mind.he would not be full of fear the ego is full of noting but fear!!
Yogilatino 5 months ago
@Yogilatino it's a comedy show dipshit.
BillKiernan 5 months ago
Most of these comments reflect the shallowness of the comment contributer rather than the character of the target. Chopra was obviously having some fun here because he knew that there could not be a serious and meanigfull exchange with the interviewer. BTW, the fact that people have paid millions for his writings is not evidence that he is bilking gullible people out of their money. It is evidence that people need more than the shallow materiality of that most of our culture offers.
benfranklin1044 5 months ago
Deepak is very wise, we can get teachings from a hole in the ground if we are ready for them, Deepak just says it better :P It all depends where you are at, to hear their teachings!
humanoid144 6 months ago
I can get spiritual teachings from a hole in the ground, I can also get them from a dog, or the Pope. Deepak probably has more wisdom than the Pope. That doesnt mean he knows everything
humanoid144 6 months ago
I only drink green tea ! This reminds me of a old friend of mine once said to me "Wow,you should see Las Vegas, it's a getaway for adults,you'll love it" Naw I said 'we no longer have fresh water dolphins,because of Las Vegas', you see although most people enjoy this show (I usually do) this particular clown (guest) is destroying hope in a lot of people with his baloney,he's a charlatan,enough said !
k9a2g6 6 months ago
"wisdom will become the new criterion for revolution, if we are to survive." -Deepak!
expandingvoid 6 months ago
@expandingvoid You mean "evolution" not "revolution".
P.S. Deepak is a turd.
iz2sicc 5 months ago in playlist AcccccC
tribal peoples native to the north and south american continents, as well as other areas of the world, held or do hold similar beliefs to those of many indians. (indians as in the people of india). who's to say they're wrong? may be life is an eternal thing. we won't know until we die, and even then we'll only know if there is in deed some thing after death.
qwyzl 7 months ago
Wrong! Reality is real,no matter if you exist or not, this guy is ridiculous, and yet he has a lot of people that believe this Bull crap.
k9a2g6 7 months ago
@k9a2g6 calm down and drink some green tea
rollinghills22 6 months ago
Gee, yoU aRe yoU! TM
themooddisorders 8 months ago
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What is eternity like - you got 10 seconds!
gunuin 8 months ago
What is eternity like - you got 10 seconds!
gunuin 8 months ago
like all spiritual people chopra talks complete bollocks & calls it is wisdom, still, by talking shit he manages to con gullible housewife's out of millions of dollars every year
but I don’t exist so you must have made up this comment
hawkertruffelsnout 8 months ago
Still yet I didnt lose any hope that the West will understand the subtle concepts of Spirituality.
It is definitely impossible when you are surrounded by a clown and a frustrated aimless skeptic.
But still there is hope.
Rigvedification 8 months ago
In fact Chopra admits that he is a charlatan when he mentions that he is after profit, not a prophet!
So he is an official crook!
48acar19 8 months ago
It's a must read for anyone that's going to die :-)
marcwa74 8 months ago
Talks a lot of rot, doesn't he?
drumrnva 9 months ago
colbert is a fuckin idiot. hes not funny and hes not intelligent, he just sounds like a little boy. ignorant and arrogant. whats the point in inviting someone on a show to talk if hes not even going to listen?
deepak chopra is more on point than people think. the audience sounds like a bunch of dumbed down, brainwashed monkeys. bill hicks said it best - "we are all one conciousness experiencing itself subjectively". its sad that the masses are too dense to understand this & resort to ridicule
ILLER121 9 months ago
@ILLER121 That's what I used to think, until I started learning about quantum physics and realized that the REAL quantum physics isn't what he says it is and doesn't support what he says. Kinda like how creationists misrepresent evolution.
Colbert is just intentionally being an ass, but he's not misrepresenting science.
DoctorNociceptor 9 months ago
coppens, flayktheone, and subconciousGatherer. What's the matter? It appears the true nature of reality scares you, because fear is obvious in your comments. This man is an accomplished physician, and has written several best-selling books and has a huge following for good reasons. Insulting him is due to fear and jealousy. And none of you back up your insults. It appears you are the charlatans, the BS and gibberish purveyors.
jsrdc1 9 months ago
@jsrdc1 You are ridiculous. I am a scientist and Deepak is a charlatan and denounced as such over and over again.!
GeoCoppens 8 months ago
@GeoCoppens You're trapped in the mechanistic paradigm and have blinders on, that's all. Enjoy your version of reality. I don't believe you're a scientist, though. High school bio-chem doesn't qualify. lol
Divinity23 8 months ago
@Divinity23 You call yourself "Divinity"... You poor sod! Deepak is an unadulterated charlatan talking gibberish who thinks he's deep. He's not even shallow!
Look through some of the comments here.
GeoCoppens 8 months ago
Whenever Chopra starts talking, the room I'm in suddenly starts to fill with the smell of something akin to horse shit.
SubconsciousGatherer 9 months ago
@SubconsciousGatherer thats the smell of your brain overheating as it fails to comprehend logic
iRoxorzUrSoxorz 8 months ago
@iRoxorzUrSoxorz If you're suggesting Chopra is spouting anything even remotely *near* logic, then gawd save us from the likes of you.
SubconsciousGatherer 8 months ago
@SubconsciousGatherer something that can not be proven false is neither logical or illogical, it is simply a belief. if people can get away with Scientology, how can you even get mad at a guy like deepak?
iRoxorzUrSoxorz 8 months ago
@iRoxorzUrSoxorz People "get away with Scientology" for as long as their delusions (or bank accounts) hold up. I'm not mad at Deepak personally, but I do see that he's a con man. To anyone not on guard for such deceivers, you only have your own naivety to blame. Be careful who you give your "trust of the invisible" to.
SubconsciousGatherer 8 months ago
@SubconsciousGatherer liking someones ideology and giving them money for it are two different things. i see where your coming from but i dont think selling your ideas in a book is a con. if he convinced you that you would suffer eternally for not purchasing his book, then id agree
iRoxorzUrSoxorz 8 months ago
@iRoxorzUrSoxorz Right on, no arguments there.
SubconsciousGatherer 8 months ago
Deepockets Chopra HAHAHA
stokey72 9 months ago
I am a yin yang balance of both and lean to Deepak. It is true what he says on being young and experienced too. Check out amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Dstripbooks&field-keywords=patsis+louiza&x=0&y=0
Louizabiza 10 months ago
It's true.All of this is a projection of our consciousness. I agree with what he said about the kill or be killed mentality being theold paradigm and that wisdom will be the new. We must go from violence to an understanding that we are all a part of each other. Everything we do affects everything. We are discovering this more and more. It is not us and them. IT is just us.
synchrodestined 10 months ago
It's true.All of this is a projection of our consciousness.
synchrodestined 10 months ago
@synchrodestined Do you believe the rest of Deepak Chopra's bullshit?
SanzB 9 months ago
Im really suprised at the hostility of so many of these responses. What is so so threatening about someone elses ideas that causes you to attack him?
Grant43202 10 months ago
"Must read for anyone who is going to die" hahahhaa, oh deepak :)
koulaiyed 10 months ago
Smack him in the face and ask him if your hand was just an illusion. Dumb ass!
hypr0040 10 months ago
May be a charlatan ,but smart answers Deepak !
zzgani1978 10 months ago
Deepak Chopra serves two purposes. Heeler to the intellectually challenged and as a clown to the intellectuals!
vikramrao2002 10 months ago
this is some real funny shit...stephen got owned i think...lol
brundle20 10 months ago
"All snakes in a pit together"... ROFL where do they dig up these idiots.
"Survival of the wise".... You rock Deepak.
Valthepixie 10 months ago
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insulting to Deppek Chopra.
beniamino16 10 months ago
insulting to Deppek Chopra
beniamino16 10 months ago
lame.....................................
42lake 11 months ago
ridiculing charlatans is the best way to expose them
Mr7bello 11 months ago
hope you sued him!!!!
21chittu 11 months ago
who is this idiot who's not even let chopra to finish his sentence.???
deepack is fenomenal.
ravencrow72 11 months ago
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quintessential37 11 months ago
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@ravencrow72 'Deepak' 'Phenominal; but thanks for playing.
quintessential37 11 months ago
@ravencrow72 'Deepak', 'Phenomenal'. Thanks for playing!
quintessential37 11 months ago
@ravencrow72
An idiot indeed ...
sveto100 11 months ago
Actually it just goes to show... in years gone by the most evolutionarily successful world views were the religions that survive today. Now, today, "spiritualists" who allow room in their ideas for the known science of this "information age" are able to attract a sizeable following - their ideas are appealing to those who consider themselves logical people. So preachers of world view have found a new niche. Their approach isn't entirely rigorous but it's considered rigorous enough by many.
dex208 1 year ago
The point that Deepak Chopra makes about heaven is actually an impressive insight: If one defines heaven as the absence of anything even remotely displeasing then you remove the incentive for creative thinking and problem-solving. As he puts it, "if you were in heaven you would be doomed to eternal senility" - a reasonable deduction given the defined absence of problems for thousands or millions of years or more. So I'd have to carefully redefine my concept of "heaven".
dex208 1 year ago
What an arrogant interviewer...
DavidsonBrothers 1 year ago 4
@DavidsonBrothers
I guess you're trying to be funny?
DasKrabbe 11 months ago
Who the fuck gave him an MD?
djk102391 1 year ago
"What happens after we die? What is eternity like?....You've got 10 seconds" LOL!!!
buitrami 1 year ago 2
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cdoftx 1 year ago
@cdoftx Quantum = quantity. Quantum Physics deals with quantity of light. Light is Energy. In Pre Quantum Physics Energy & Matter were considered separate, Gluon, the sub atomic particle, theoretically, joins Photons turning them into Matter. LHC's 2012 experiment of colliding the nucleus at 14 v 14 TeV is expected to provide evidence of this phenomenon. Quantum Leap is a stupid term for very long jump coined by idiots. It shows how ignorant people are? The B&$T@RD is using it to beguile people
amoralis123 1 year ago
Deepak Chopra = Deep Shit.
eraldb12 1 year ago
it's like plato when he was in athens no one believed a wooord he'd say, except for a few. Most great men in this world in ancient history have been mocked, and dismissed and later through research were proven right or taken into consideration at least. I am not saying Chopra is 100% right, but do not dismiss his message, but take some in and think about it. Don't just take the easy way out. "I don't get it, so it must be wrong"
dmperu11 1 year ago
@dmperu11 99.99% of people that are called fools ARE fools. It is true that some people who are called fools are geniuses... I think Chopra belongs to the 99.99% sadly.
mikeyo1234 1 year ago
@mikeyo1234 they may be fools by your standards but like i said people who are not understood are just simply called fools, but are they? well sometimes only time will tell as you may i ask are you an atheist? or do you have a religion?
dmperu11 1 year ago
@dmperu11 Based on your theory only time will tell if pixies or fairies exist too. My previous comment stands and I can't explain better than that.
The other thing is that Galileo was originally disbelieved, however he did have evidence for his ideas. These days the world is scientifically literate enough to look for evidence when people come up with a theory. However there is no evidence for God... so that idea is foolish and not 'genius'.
mikeyo1234 1 year ago
@dmperu11 the thing is, most of us completely understand Chopra's position. People have presented excellent challenges to his position with which he responds "yeah well it's magic and besides truth is all relative, reality is just a subjective projection blah blah blah" You know a charlatan by his/ her lack of willingness to test their ideas, making claims based on what data MIGHT suggest if you distort it and when they are selling a cure all.
XuRuiHai721 1 year ago
@XuRuiHai721 When you make up quotes that he never said and add blah blah at the end it doesn't help your point it hinders it. He does not focus on quantum physics nor does he sell any interpretation of it. He lightly brushes on it or mentions it but it is in no way near his major focus. He never claims to be a physicist and he only uses small quotes of it. Quantum Physics in general is a bunch of hypothesis/untestable/unprovable material. Real scientists don't even agree with each other on it.
bizzyb0ne017 1 year ago
@bizzyb0ne017 I was summarizing his position not quoting him. Duh...
Anyway explain to me why the title of one of his books is "Quantum Healing" and just what that's all about and then tell me he doesn't focus on quantum physics or sell an interpretation. Quantum physics is highly testable, as provable as any other science and in fact one of the most accurate. Scientist don't agree with each other but that doesn't give Chopra equal standing with people who actually understand it.
XuRuiHai721 1 year ago
@bizzyb0ne017 Chopra is abusing problems in science to rake in money and followers. Quantum Physics is mysterious and complex enough to leave room for plenty of distorted interpretations but it's hard enough of a science to make whatever he says seem true. I'll give you the fact that quantum physics isn't his primary focus but it is part of the foundation of his ideas. Besides, one shouldn't expect him to write extensively on it since he doesn't know very much about it.
XuRuiHai721 1 year ago
@XuRuiHai721 Nope: the ignorant stupid Americans who believe & the insolent Media that promotes him. They are born ignorant like the rest but they remain. Coca cola, celeb worship, Soaps are their limits. Media uses Pavlovian tactics: bombarding repetitive messages to condition them. Chopra, Jackson, Madonna & thriving pseudo science are the results. They seem to have the LCD of intelligence among developed nations. They spend $166bn/yr for brain washing & $38bn on Primary/Secondary Education.
amoralis123 1 year ago
@dmperu11 his talk about the quantum physics of healing and such does have a possibility of being true in the strict sense of possible but no more than the possibility that say umbrellas are the cause of all major world wars. He sells his interpretation of physics and medicine as if it is true or no more research is needed. The kind of people who would be interested in his help usually aren't very discerning in the first place,. That's taking advantage of people in need.
XuRuiHai721 1 year ago
@dmperu11 How do you know he is 100% right? For me he could be 100% wrong. In Plato's time, there must have been thousands of other people who were charlatans. It's very suspicios to me when someone makes an enterprise and becomes a millionaire out of selling confusing thoughts. Einstain said “If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough”.
elchino37 1 year ago
@elchino37 He does explain it very simply and what he says is not confusing at all. lol
bizzyb0ne017 1 year ago
@elchino37 He does explain it very simply and what he says is not confusing at all actually lol
bizzyb0ne017 1 year ago
Most of what he says sounds cranky...but its still interesting....!!
The host was pathetic in his attempts mock him....
TheAshmaku 1 year ago
lol Deepak. It's all about me I am wise I am enlightened. No Deepak your confidence in your own wisdom has made you as dumb as a dodo.
redmattuk 1 year ago
Colbert needs to learn to breathe
I've never seen someone try so hard to be something they can never be
Colbert is the most aggressive man on TV because.....?
JohnnyPeacemaker 1 year ago
@JohnnyPeacemaker Colbert is completely joking. He is making fun of outlandish pundits like Bill O'Reilly and is doing a damn good job. I'm sure him and Chopra are friends and had a very friendly conversation with Chopra off camera.
bizzyb0ne017 1 year ago
Deepak is the man. His insights are remarkably clear
spaceghost996 1 year ago
Deepak tells the truth he talks the truth
Gngbgnbu 1 year ago
Deepak Chopra really answered this well
natashalatiff 1 year ago
HaHa... they both have a great sense of humor. Deepak uses a language that most people don't understand so they dismiss him. The info is out there for those who are ready for it. Deepak is not the only purveyor.
ibbumpn 1 year ago
So sad these hatefull comments. Ignorance is the real enemy
moeandcharley 1 year ago
you guys are all dumbasses dont you see he is just playing along with Colbert
fucking retards
AgentWolf94 1 year ago
colbert nation si an ignorant prick. pretentious he is
amannvig 1 year ago
chopra is such a fraud, for fuck sake, he is a joke. if i punch him in the face is that a projection of his deeper self or mine.
RAMSEY1987 1 year ago
@RAMSEY1987
You would punch him in the face and continue to create hell on earth, while people like Deepak transcend lower forms of existence.
If you need to punch someone in the face, why not pick someone your own size who is also a believer in higher ideals, equality, peace and understanding?
You can punch me if you want, but of course it might turn out really bad
JohnnyPeacemaker 1 year ago
@JohnnyPeacemaker i would also punch the pope too, people who spin bull shit for profit giving people what they want to hear so they can make money is sick. this guy is a false "profit". But remember punching his arrogant fat face would only exist in my reality not his. so really I have not punched him or have I? there is no need to cull the sheep, kill the Shepard and the Sheeple ( half person half sheep) and the flock go free thus punching you would be ultimately pointless, have a nice day
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Gaaminator 1 year ago
@Gaaminator He's an idiot.
SethHesio 1 year ago
brilliant responses from deepak! Everyone goes silent
magpie7death 1 year ago
@magpie7death lol his ending response was priceless
111iAm111 1 year ago
Chopra is the ultimate charlatan. Gibberish unlimited!
coppens 1 year ago 37
@coppens
Deepak is a follower of Jesus
When are you gonna join him?
Jesus knew that ignorance is blindness
In Judaism Satan is literally ignorance of thought
You can see this in the way the apostle 'Pa'ul became one who professed rather after losing his blindness/scales over his eyes when he was 'SA'ul.
Judaism sees the infinite principle as the source of creation/the creator. You should look into this before slagging a good person and follower of Jesus
JohnnyPeacemaker 1 year ago
@JohnnyPeacemaker: Religion is THE source of idiocy!
coppens 1 year ago
@coppens
Yeah, that's why understanding enables a person to guide the idiotic fundamentalists towards a philosophical key that is a common thread in all the old religions including Islam....that being to always seek knowledge and understanding...which creates peace, kinship, kindness, and respect.
When people tell you God is this or the way to salvation or peace is this or that absolutely, they are taxing you while feeding their need to be elevated above others...while the institutions make $
JohnnyPeacemaker 1 year ago
@JohnnyPeacemaker: What are you talking about? You want understanding and knowledge? Practice science! The whole world runs on science!
coppens 1 year ago
@coppens
Philosophy is science
Judaism is steeped in science including philosophy and mathematics, just as Sufism which was the basis for Islam. Buddhism is all philosophy and psychology with no mention of God or a creator.
The concept of always seeking knowledge, infinite principle brings people towards a scientific analysis rather than regional sentiments and perceptions of what God is...these regional differences are the cause of war, and excuse for genocide through history
JohnnyPeacemaker 1 year ago
@JohnnyPeacemaker You don't know what you are talking about!!! Philosophy is not science! Get yourself some education before engaging in serious discussion!
coppens 1 year ago
@coppens
Some people prefer to create tension while communicating in order to culture a scenario which they could try and win. It is very natural to fall into this desire for competition.
Philosophy and psychology are indeed sciences, I hope you can learn to grow out of the desire to feed your ego, and seek to feed your consciousness instead. Good luck :)
JohnnyPeacemaker 1 year ago
@coppens if you are narrow minded..yes..it's gibberish!!
enikoottlakan 8 months ago
@coppens If you are a narrow minded person...which you clearly are..than it is gibberish. the problem with people like you is that you don't understand...you fear it...therefore you deny it.
enikoottlakan 8 months ago
This interview is full of gibberish and it's sad that only one of them is being satirical.
flayktheone 1 year ago 23
seems, the only reason this is "funny", because an arrogant fool and his ignorant audience are trying to bully a man, who should be awarded respect. on the day colbert nation faces his own death, he will probably be very afraid
ghike30 1 year ago
colbert is an arrogant fool.
ruanz3 1 year ago
@ruanz3 Colbert is in character... if you're taking him seriously here I think its you who has a questionable intellect.
XuRuiHai721 1 year ago 2
I wonder if his dinner tonight and sex with his wife is just a projection of his deeper self? Metaphysical bullshit.
2degucitas 1 year ago
such arrogant interviewer...
cheuee2002 1 year ago
WARNING APPARENT CONTRADICTION: If Hell is so much more interesting and useful to us, why don't we just stay living in the dark ages? Why progress? Why be healthy or happy if it is so boring? Of course that idea is bullshit, being happy sounds good to me.
And why does he call his own reality an illusion? Doesn't that require proof of a "more real" reality, and where is his proof for that? He might as well call life a cheeseburger, though of course he uses certain words for a reason.
HairLikeCottonCandy 1 year ago
i like steven colbert but he kinda comes off as an asshole here. though it is pretty funny
lifterdude4392 1 year ago
@lifterdude4392 hey ALWAYS comes off as an asshole....
ExDeeXD 1 year ago
"if you want you can upgrade the illusion!" hahahaha xDDD that's genious! that's a knockout of the church, the protestant ethic, the american capitalsim , and the atheists with one single hit! hahahahaha I am enjoying right now! xD Don't you?!
everyoneSalegend 1 year ago
either colbert is trolling chopra, with this questions, or he is mentally inferior to this great man! every answer he gave was fenomenal
deepak chopra, greg braden, david icke, michio kaku list goes on!
everyoneSalegend 1 year ago
awesome...fun to listen to DC's replies
JS5538 1 year ago
wow hes giving back exactly what colbert is putting out
cheytown41187 1 year ago
Colbert is over his head
chayalyn 1 year ago
Colbert is over his head
chayalyn 1 year ago
I have studied buddhist and hindu cosmological theories on the universe, "god" and consciousness.. I definitely agree that the importance of human consciousness is ignored by western science which is fixed on totally material-based explanations of reality.. But Buddhism, Jainism, Vedic texts are the most comprehensive investigations of reality through consciousness.. Some western physicists are beginning to recognize this.. But Deepak Chopra is full of babble for his own profit. He's full of it.
pixusbubblejet 1 year ago
@pixusbubblejet I agree with you about chopra but as for the rest... I completely disagree. Western scientists are VERY interested in consciousness, however they are waiting until they have something concrete to go off of. Who is to say that consciousness isn't material anyway,? The thinkers in the east jumped the gun before they sorted out all of their data-for that I don't blame them. They have a lot of wisdom/ advice to give that's extremely useful but the attached narrative is questionable.
XuRuiHai721 1 year ago
@XuRuiHai721 ..No, cognition and consciousness are not identical.. Western scientists are usually Eurocentric and/or are unfamiliar with the literature on consciousness that has existed for more than 2000 years in Asia. They dismiss it. Only until they have consciousness explained on their own terms will they legitimize any research on it. Meanwhile continuing to ignore whats been discovered 3000 years ago. Its intellectual arrogance and ignorance. Western science is not as neutral as they say.
pixusbubblejet 1 year ago
@pixusbubblejet I never mentioned cognition, I was talking about consciousness. Research is definitely being conducted on it. I don't understand how can you expect scientists to adopt a theory of reality based on consciousness when they've only just begun research. Furthermore how on earth to you expect a scientists to use easter texts? Just read it and go "OH! so that's how the mind works, all done here." They have to test things, that's what they do.
XuRuiHai721 1 year ago
@XuRuiHai721.. Great example of science with a closed mind. So much for liberal thought. Despite the claims to scientific neutrality, there is in fact no deductive method. You forcefully set the parameters for what you want to find. Nothing neutral there. And scientific materialism as a standpoint of explanation already existed 3000 years ago, but they had insufficient technology to sustain it. The texts explaining consciousness already exist, you simply cannot understand it, so you dismiss it.
pixusbubblejet 1 year ago
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"The texts explaining consciousness already exist, you simply cannot understand it, so you dismiss it." Says who... Why should I assume that those texts accurately explain consciousness? How can you assume that everyone who rejects eastern texts just "didn't understand". THAT is intellectual arrogance and ignorance. Science isn't always done right, I agree with that but it is ideally neutral. If there is something useful to science in your texts then give some examples.
XuRuiHai721 1 year ago
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"The texts explaining consciousness already exist, you simply cannot understand it, so you dismiss it." Says who... Why should I assume that those texts accurately explain consciousness? How can you assume that everyone who rejects eastern texts just "didn't understand". THAT is intellectual arrogance and ignorance. Science isn't always done right, I agree with that but it is ideally neutral. If there is something useful to science in your texts then give some examples.
XuRuiHai721 1 year ago
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@pixusbubblejet "The texts explaining consciousness already exist, you simply cannot understand it, so you dismiss it." Says who... Why should I assume that those texts accurately explain consciousness? How can you assume that everyone who rejects eastern texts just "didn't understand". THAT is intellectual arrogance and ignorance. Science isn't always done right, I agree with that but it is ideally neutral. If there is something useful to science in your texts then give some examples.
XuRuiHai721 1 year ago
It doesn't matter if the literature has existed for 10,000 years or 5, being old doesn't make it correct. What you should be talking about is what about those texts make them good explanations of reality. Then a scientist could test those explanations. "the most comprehensive investigations of reality through consciousness." That's very debatable. I've meditated, lucid dreamt and all that, it's crazy but at the end of it you have to keep asking questions.
XuRuiHai721 1 year ago
@XuRuiHai721. You are simply advocating your own exclusive and reified monopoly on explanations of reality according to your own unilaterally fixed parameters. If it cant be explained empirically you would throw it out. Your problem is obsession over empiricism as the one and only way to explain something. Why bother meditating. Dont waste your time by wasting someone elses time.
pixusbubblejet 1 year ago
@pixusbubblejet Relax dude, no need to get all upset. I think you are confusing my point. I never said eastern texts were wrong, or that empiricism is the only way to explain things. You criticized western science for overlooking consciousness. My point is that they aren't overlooking it, they are researching it and only just recently so don't expect it to be the foundation of their explanation of reality YET.
XuRuiHai721 1 year ago
@XuRuiHai721.. I was merely pointing out modern Western science's position, which very much is based on the singular importance of the empirical to rationally explain everything.. This is what scientific evidence is all about.. If it cant be empirically tested and verified, it cannot be taken seriously as evidence.. But what Im trying to say is that rationalism is not exclusively connected to empiricism..
pixusbubblejet 1 year ago
@pixusbubblejet I agree entirely, at their core rationalism and empiricism are a bit at odds. The issue I have is that there seems to be very little actual *work* being put into legitimizing these texts/ practices as valid explanations in almost any philosophical perspective. Most of the books are written for people who already believe in it, I hear very few arguments supporting these ideas. You can't expect the mountain to come to you, the validity of eastern explanations is yours to prove.
XuRuiHai721 1 year ago
@XuRuiHai721.. Those people who believe in it concepts of these texts dont do it blindly. This is totally different from Christian's blind faith beliefs. The rational reason why they believe is because they have studied and put it into practice. It is by deductive rationality. That fact that you admit to some strange need to have so called "Eastern explanations" proved to you is the nature of your problem. Nobody needs to prove anything to you. You are the one who needs to prove it to yourself.
pixusbubblejet 1 year ago
@pixusbubblejet Please don't put words in my mouth. I don't think it's about blind faith. When you ask a philosophy which is about objectivity to include such a provocative framework, it needs more than personal testimony. I have put some of their techniques into practice but that doesn't make everything in these eastern texts true, just the same as everything that science puts forward isn't necessarily true because of a few successes.
XuRuiHai721 1 year ago
@XuRuiHai721.. The fact that you require some outside source to confirm something for you, instead of confirming it by and through your own effort is indication of a Judeochristian thought structure. The ontological dependence on some external authority of confirmation, whether a god or data. This is the ironic origin of post-Renaissance empiricism, which although outwardly rejects a christian god, has a metaphysics that reveals clear Judeochristian roots even in its claimed atheist empiricism.
pixusbubblejet 1 year ago
@pixusbubblejet I find nothing wrong with confirming something on your own but to say that your conclusion/ beliefs are a good explanation beyond your personal bubble is preposterous. The whole point of a scientific explanation is that is both accurate and universal, it can be translated in a way so that others can understand what it posits to explain. I'm neither judeo nor christian, I have never had a religion yet I have explored Buddhist, Daoist and Hindu practices.
XuRuiHai721 1 year ago
@XuRuiHai721.. If science depends only on empirical evidence how can it be absolutely universal when it cannot go beyond empirical data? Shall the world hold its breath until data for everything is found?? That is whats truly preposterous. You keep chasing your tail around in the same circle, but your dependence on an authoritative other remains. You claim you have a personal bubble, then you say you "explored" buddhist daoist hindu? How? Seems more like commercialised new age fad you explored.
pixusbubblejet 1 year ago
@pixusbubblejet I never mentioned anything about absolutes, and if you knew anything about science you would know that scientists/ science do not deal in them. You really can't let up on the whole "asshole" attitude can you? Anyway if you must know, I attended a local Buddhist monastery at six years old, I participated in most activities but it was never a foundation for my beliefs and I refused to "worship". later on I got into chinese martial arts and learned a lot about the dao and zen....
XuRuiHai721 1 year ago
@XuRuiHai721 then in highschool I took yoga, liked it alot but wanted to learn more about where it came from. I didn't get to spend as much time as I would have liked atteneding the local temple but i managed to my hands on some good books explaining it
XuRuiHai721 1 year ago
@XuRuiHai721. Some humble scientists may claim science is not universal, but universal explaination is in fact the unspoken raison d'etre of science. To establish empirical authority to explain all phenomenon by data, methodical analysis and evidence.. Despite claims to otherwise, it is in fact is a universalistic ethos expandible by technology. So then, are we then to hold our breath indefinitely until there is a plausible empirical explanation for some phenomenon or belief we have in mind? lol
pixusbubblejet 1 year ago
@pixusbubblejet universal explanation to the extent that it is not absolute is the raison d'etre of science. Science could not function if it ever held anything as %100 unquestionable. Science itself does not have an ethos, scientists might but science is void of moral doctrine. The same reason blueprints don't suggest that one SHOULD build a house they only direct HOW.
XuRuiHai721 1 year ago
@XuRuiHai721. There are universally accepted laws in science, otherwise there can be no way of common understanding of phenomena. Physics is a good example. For example it is universally accepted that water is 2 part hydrogen and 1 part oxygen. This is 100% unquestioned.. Another is the universal forces, such as gravity etc, no one questions their existence 100% because the evidence is overwhelming. Another is celestial spherical cohesion And yes there is an ethos of science. Its called respect.
pixusbubblejet 1 year ago
@pixusbubblejet It wouldn't be scientific to declare something as unquestionable. Go talk to a scientist nothing is %100 unquestioned. There is always room for error even .000000000000000000000000000000001. Like the mystics always say "perhaps it is all just an illusion", scientists must take that possibility into account. Our model of hydrogen and theory of gravity are the best pictures we have with CURRENT data/ evidence/ analysis- tomorrow we might be proven wrong, it's a process.
XuRuiHai721 1 year ago
@XuRuiHai721.. You are splitting hairs in order to sustain your idea, but thats not very convincing.. Science does in fact deal in certainty. The flat earth theory is now 100% certainly rejected by science. Today no scientists would allow for its possibility. Any who does would be ridiculous. So you are incorrect. No legitimate scientists today would even say the rejection of flat earth theory is questionable by ,0000 whatever degree. LOL! There is no process to initiate a return to flat earth.
pixusbubblejet 1 year ago
@pixusbubblejet yes there is, new evidence and rejection of old. Flat earth is currently rejected but to say it is an absolute falsehood is not something science or scientist