Deepak Chopra failed to prove existence of God to atheists I watched two videos of Deepak dialoging with atheists.
In one case, the atheist was obviously aggressively angry from the start and Deepak kept his cool. But all Deepak did was condescend by displaying his brilliant mind of concepts from physics, medicine, spirituality which sound impressive but In the second case, it was Deepak himself who got angry and the atheist kept his cool neither being impressed by Deepak's tirade of brilliance, nor getting angry. In this case the atheist won my standard of spirituality by maintaining a more peaceful environment. I was not too surprised, as I saw a few times in the distant past, brilliant physicists with huge egos from Princeton U tear into each other with unnecessary ruthlessness at research seminars. Also, to me, it seems, that Deepak, like many others with TM backgrounds are stuck in a time-warp and refusing to move on perhaps to try something new that might work better relative to different situations to advaita dialog for instance or something new and novel after all, doesn't Deepak know that all concepts are relative and not absolute and if you want to influence the masses, simple talking points are best just watch politics So, just exploring here a bit; would it not be more impressive if Deepak could dialogue as follows: ATHEIST: Can you prove to me the existence of God? AWAKENED: Sure! Do you know that you exist right here right now? ATHEIST: Well, I think I exist, here is my body etc. AWAKENED: Forget about thinking, forget about body, just relax. My question is, do you know without thinking about it that you exist right here and right now? ATHEIST: [after some silence in presence of the awakened one] OK, I exist right here right now. AWAKENED: Obviously, it would be foolish to deny your own existence. ATHEIST: OK, so what about God? AWAKENED: Existence itself is God. It is on the substratum of existence itself that everything else exists. Existence itself is your own direct experience in the here and now. To deny it would be like saying "I have no tongue" with the tongue. ATHEIST: [dumfounded, speechless, mind stopped for a while] AWAKENED: Actually, the title of our debate should have been "What Is God?" rather than "What is the Future of God" which obviously refers to our conceptions of God rather than direct experience. Our conceptions, scientific, spiritual, political, economical etc will continue to change this way and that way, but without direct experience they are meaningless, just fodder for endless debates. AWAKENED: So, now we can sit here silently; or go home, and don't forget to take existence with you. thanks for listening, anatol
