This has the potential for being controversial so i placed it where it best fit.

Ok I Deepak Chopra was on Lary King live a few nights ago. And what he was talking about was there being life after death. So let me give a little bit of preface first.

In 1 years time 98.2% of your body is different. You skin cells die and regerate at a certain rate as does your liver and heart and everything else. Your body will completely replace itself in the span of a year. As in all those cells had died and you are anew. So if you think about it that right there is enough to say there is life after death but lets go further.

There was a neuroligist doing some brain surgery and the patient was awake (although the brain process all the nerve endings and pain it itself is devoid of any nerver endings) So while he is working on a persons brain they are awake and he begins to electo probe an area of the brain and the guys arm begins to move. He asks the patient if he is moving his arm and he says no my brain is but I'm not. Ok.... I want you to resist it then. He begins to move but this time the arm is resiting then goes in a different direction....who is controling the brain?

He stimulates another area and the guy begins to remember a vivid memory and all the details. Where is that memory stored?

Then deepak begins to talk about the on off of things and how we see the world is a matter of perception. Do you think we look anything like we do to a bumble bee? Do you think we look like ourselves to a gecko?

So that brings me to the phrase "seeing is believing" if you wear glasses you see things blury - let me ask - are those things realy blury or is that your perception. Then who is interpeting these perceptions - who is making these decisions?

As you are reading this you are percieving certain images and word which mean different things to different people. For a moment notice the observer. Notice who it is that is observing all these perceptions.

To understand this in in much better detail than I can ever hpe to give check out www.choprablog.com

Once upon a time, twin boys were conceived. Weeks passed and the twins developed.
As their awareness grew, they laughed for joy: “Isn’t it great that we were conceived? Isn’t it great to be alive? “

Together the twins explored their worlds. When they found their mother’s cord that gave them life, they sang for joy! “How great our mother’s love is, that she shares her own life with us!”

As weeks stretched into months, the twins noticed how much each was changing.

“What does it mean?” one asked.

“It means our stay in this world is drawing to an end.” said the other.

“But I don’t want to go,” said one. “I want to stay here always.”

“We have no choice,” said the other. “But maybe there is life after birth.”

“But how can there be?” responded one. “We will shed our life cord and how can life be possible without it? Besides, we have seen evidence that others were here before us, and none of them has returned to tell us there is life after birth. No, this is the end. Maybe there is no mother after all.”

“But there has to be,” protested the other. “How else did we get here? How do we remain alive?” “Have you ever seen our mother?” said one. “Maybe she only lives in our minds. Maybe we made her up because the idea made us feel good.“ So the last days in the womb were filled with deep questioning and fear.

Finally, the moment of birth arrived. When the twins had passed from their world, they opened their eyes and cried for joy - for what they saw exceeded their fondest dreams.

So is birth … and so is death.

and so it goes .....

Hi Billie

I dont find any of it controversial!

Of course you body can react without us thinking/using our brain. If you for instance are attacked then your body reacts instantly.

Your body store memory, thats not new! This has been known for a long time. People working within the therapy industri can tell you how blocked memory can surface if you unblock energy in a safe invorement.

When you meditate deeply, then you let go of all your thoughts and brain activity, but you are still here! So you are NOT your brain!

What are your own thoughts and experiences, Billie?

Flower

I summarized a two hr deep discussion in like 15 sentences. no way i could have gotten into the deep stuff. I am hopping people check out what chopra has to say himself for the deep stuff.