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The Universe of Brain

posted by Deepak Chopra May 8, 2009 5:00 am
The Universe of Brain
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If it takes the whole brain to produce one thought, it also takes the whole universe to perform a single action. Like a neuron, electrons and atoms seem to be independent, yet a change of electron spin at one extreme of the universe will be mirrored, instantly and without sending signals, by a paired electron billions of light years away.

So the “binding effect” is cosmic as well as personal; it exists “in here” and “out there.” The net result is that you are an activity of the whole universe, an insight that sounds abstract, but just as a single thought requires your brain to perform a huge number of unseen calculations, so Karma performs unseen calculations to produce you.

As we now can prove, change and stability coexist in the brain; without both it couldn’t operate. When you remember an old birthday, you can call it “my” thought, but you feel no personal connection to synapses and dendrites or the firestorm of signals passing over them.

Brain cells work by totally predictable means involving exchanges of electrical charges between sodium and potassium atoms and simple oscillations between positive and negative electrical impulses. Somehow that mechanical stability produces free, creative, unpredictable thought forms.

The rishis asserted the same about Karma. It is infinitely flexible and infinitely inflexible depending on how you look at it. Unknown forces are free to reshape you without your knowledge. They do it all the time, since none of us has the slightest awareness of how our brains move from thought A to thought B.

This opens the question of how much choice we exercise over our next lifetime. The coexistence of opposites is a paradox, and unless we solve it we have no control over the afterlife; we are just caught in the meshes of a machine that can produce any outcome according to its own whims.

Adapted from Life After Death: The Burden of Proof, by Deepak Chopra (Harmony Books, 2006).

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Lyn J.
  • Lyn J. says
  • May 13, 2009 2:45 AM

Thank you for posting these beautiful words, after experiencing a monthly coma, I'm really interested in themes that involve the brain and karma issues!

Brenda Elliott

I think when someone stimulates our ability to think they have done us a great service. :) However, if we just "react" rather than think, we miss a great opportunity afforded us don't you think?

Uma you do a great job of thinking. :)

Uma Chernoff

Brenda that's very nice and SO well said. Dixon I believe she's right about what she said to you. You certainly do bring out my creative best and what you say has clarified for me what I think. Thanks for that.

Brenda Elliott

Next life? I am having enough challenge with this one right now. LOL!!! But seriously, what we do now this minute shapes our tomorrows and whether or not some of our "tomorrows" are in another life time or not no matter if that tomorrow is here or another life time if indeed there is one. I just have to do the best I can right now and let tomorrow take care of itself.

Dixon, you little rascal. You love playing the "Devil's Advocate" doen't you? Well, good for you. You aren't going to change other's beliefs but It probably helps others to think for themselves better and to clarify better what they DO believe whatever their beliefs are. And that's a good thing. Keep up the work. ;)

Meahwhile I am putting one foot in front of the other as prompted by the Universe (or God if you prefer) and watching things unfold with amazement. COOL!!!

Kim Neff

I agree with you Allison. The reason the bible doesn't change as often as science is because it's a history book. Stagnet. Science, on the otherhand, does change. Not because it was misinterpreted folklore, but because of great strides and advancement made but the most brilliant people the universe has to offer. And Dixon, is it really fair to surmise that someone is not familiar with these topics, simply because you do not agree with their point of view?

Dixon Murrah

Allison --- with all due respect your comment sounds like you are not really familiar with science or the Bible. The Bible is largely verifiable by science, history, psychology and archeology.
On the other hand, the science text books are usually changed about every ten years.
Choose what you will.

Uma Chernoff

Dixon trust in your god form will see you past the demons of fear and doubt which materialize once there is no body with the density to slow down the pop-ups, hallucinated by our emotional state,this trust will surely guide you. I trust in my own high self to seek incarnation in whatever form or dimension satisfies its plans. Having shifted my consciousness in various planes and noted that my view of life changed with these alterations, I know that sometimes I'm aware of larger patterns than others. Like climbing a hill and seeing further from the top; certain events like music, light flickering on water, inspiration, increases my vibratory rate opening grander vistas,I see further. This is something that everyone has experienced but without the concepts, the handles for different ideas,these experiences may lay fallow until just the right piece of information clicks it for the person and the whole perspective is altered.Thats the point when the intelligence, putting together cause and effect, steps back and starts experimenting;causing the increase in personal vibration, exploring the ramifications.When I was little I wanted to be Dr.Strange, side stepping through universes. These views have let me trust that my "high self" will choose my paths and incarnations and I don't have to worry about how to do it. All I must do is focus on the now, not be confused by the intensities, standing back and let my "high self" take care of the future.

Holly E.

Jesse, why do you have to insult everyone who has offered a comment by accusing us of having silly thoughts? Your comment says a lot more about your own need to insult people than it does say anything about the content of the comments already offered. Your comment certainly doesn't make me at all interested in offering any more comments.

Jesse W.

The comments section is always such a circus... :)

Holly E.

Dixon, what constitutes "a thought?" Does the word "and" or does the creation of a complete sentence about a specific subject using two "ands" inside its structure? I'm a person who has done an enormous amount of thinking about thinking in my adult life because I live with a neurological dysfunction. From my experience talking to neurologists trying to find some way of understanding my body, they claim to know almost nothing about where a thought originates in the brain or what parts of the brain are involved in a thought. When asked to engage in an intelligent conversation about the subject, they just throw up their hands and literally say, "We don't know!" They won't even engage in a mature dialogue about brain and body systems. Their irrepressible confusion lies in the fact that their paradigm doesn't allow them to recognize that the thought doesn't arrive from "a place," rather it is the product of a complex matrix of electrical/chemical signals stimulated by both body and mind. This means that people like me can impact their own neurological health through a miriad of pathways. Their unwillingness to reexamine their basic paradigm, leaves so many people suffering from neurological injury and disease with only the "chemical barrage" response to their illness. I can attest that this can be psychologically, emotionally and physically exhausting and demoralizing. Thought is many layered and does reach beyond the boundaries of "objective science" and the scapples an

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