deepak chopra

It's time to change kleptocracy to democracy

But as income gaps open up wider and wider, there is evidence of a serious rift in American democracy, and in that rift one finds untold greed, corruption and cronyism.

Since it is based on the Greek word for stealing, the term "kleptocracy" sounds inflammatory. But as income gaps open up wider and wider, there is evidence of a serious rift in American democracy, and in that rift one finds untold greed, corruption and cronyism. Since the Reagan era middle-class families have seen their income rise a paltry 20% while the richest have increased their wealth tenfold. In the current downturn, the economy has officially recovered. As of this fall, the gross national product is higher than before the downturn, as is consumer spending.

Winning Back the Future: Here's How! Part 2

We shut out the unknown - a vast, one might say infinite domain - and we even shut out the parts of ourselves we don't want to look at.

In the first post, the question was raised whether a better future can be imagined out of the dire situation we find ourselves in. At the present moment we rely on science to answer our deepest questions. But science isn’t the only way to ask who we are and what we want from life. It's part of the human design to want freedom, and yet freedom cannot exist when you must waste energy on fear, anger, tension, insecurity, and stress - all the natural ingredients of living behind fences.

Real Recovery Means "Just Capitalism"

There are two bottom lines to recover, not just one.

Winning back the future: Here's how! (Part 1)

Everyone, I think, wants a better future, even when troubled times arise and a better future seems far away.

What's the Best Outcome for Occupy Wall Street?s

If you clear out the distractions, what the Occupy movement stands for is economic inequality.

I find it personally very hard to understand how anyone could fail to sympathize with the Occupy movement, but I also understand why doubt and uncertainty hang in the air. As one pundit pithily remarked, "Everyone's waiting to see if this is a movement or just a moment."  Movements fit a pattern that so far isn't the Occupy pattern. It has no leaders, no demands, no coherent vision, and no legislation to propose. Nobody is running for Congress on an Occupy platform. 
 

Why Do Bad Things Happen? (Part 3)

If the good parts of your life are to have meaning, the same must be true of the bad parts.

 

Why Do Bad Things Happen? (Part 2)

In the first post of this series we began with the opposite of religion, however. The modern tendency, deeply influenced by science, is to explain the bad things in life as random and accidental.

Why Do Bad Things Happen? (Part 1)

You can't figure out how to fix bad tings until you know why they happened.

More Asthma Than Ever, But Why?

Asthma is one of the most common diseases in the world.

War of the Worldviews: Let's talk brain and mind

A shift always happens at the moment of greatest uncertainty.

People are surprised and often offended to discover that the truth is shifting, and yet a shift always happens at the moment of greatest certainty. If you canvassed a hundred neuroscientists about where the mind comes from, it would be a good bet that 99 would say the brain. There's a solid wall of certainty there, which would automatically indicate that a new answer is ready to emerge, toppling all conventional wisdom.

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