{"product_id":"the-book-of-secrets-isbn-9781400098347","title":"The Book of Secrets","description":"\u003cb\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eThe Book of Secrets\u003c\/i\u003e is the finest   and most profound of Deepak  Chopra’s books to date. Want the answers to the secrets   of life? Let  me recommend that you start right here.\" —Ken Wilber, author of \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eA   Brief History of Everything\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003eWe all want to know how to find a soul mate, what career would be most fulfilling, how to live a life with meaning, and how to teach our children well. We are looking for a personal breakthrough, a turning point, a revelation that brings with it new meaning. \u003ci\u003eThe Book of Secrets\u003c\/i\u003e—a crystalline distillation of insights and wisdom accumulated over the lifetime of one of the great spiritual thinkers of our time—provides an exquisite new tool for achieving just that.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEvery life is a book of secrets, ready to be opened. The secret of perfect love is   found there, along with the secrets of healing, compassion, faith, and the most elusive   one of all: who we really are. We are still mysteries to ourselves, despite the proximity   of these answers, and what we most long to know remains lodged deep inside. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBecause answers to the questions at   the center of life are counterintuitive, they are often hidden from view, sequestered   from our everyday gaze. In his ongoing quest to elevate our experience, bestselling   author Deepak Chopra has isolated fifteen secrets that drive the narrative of this   inspiring book—and of our lives. From \"The World Is in You\" and \"What You Seek,   You Already Are\" to \"Evil Is Not Your Enemy\" and \"You Are Truly Free When You Are   Not a Person,\"\u003ci\u003e The Book of Secrets\u003c\/i\u003e is rich with insights. It is a priceless treasure that   can transport us beyond change to transformation, and from there to a sacred place   where we can savor the nectar of enlightenment.\u003cb\u003eDEEPAK CHOPRA MD, FACP,\u003c\/b\u003e is a world renowned pioneer in integrative medicine and personal transformation, the founder of the Chopra Foundation, and cofounder of  Jiyo.com and the Chopra Center for Wellbeing. TIME magazine has described Dr. Chopra as \"One of the top 100 heroes and icons of the century.” Dr. Chopra is Board Certified in Internal Medicine, Endocrinology and Metabolism, a Fellow of the American College of Physicians, Clinical Professor in Medicine at the University of California, San Diego, Researcher, Neurology and Psychiatry, at Massachusetts General Hospital, Adjunct Professor at Kellogg School of Executive Management at Northwestern, Adjunct Professor at Columbia Business School, Columbia University and Professor of Consciousness Studies at Sofia University. The World Post and The Huffington Post global internet survey ranked “Chopra #17 influential thinker in the world and #1 in Medicine.” In conjunction with his medical achievements, he is recognized as a prolific author of more than 85 books translated into over forty-three languages, with twenty-five \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e Bestsellers including \u003ci\u003eYou Are the Universe \u003c\/i\u003e (February 2017, Harmony).\u003cb\u003eIntroduction: Opening the Book of Secrets\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The greatest hunger in life is not for  food, money, success, status, security, sex, or even love from the opposite sex.  Time and again people have achieved all of these things and wound up still feeling   dissatisfied—indeed, often more dissatisfied than when they began. The deepest hunger  in life is a secret that is revealed only when a person is willing to unlock a hidden  part of the self. In the ancient traditions of wisdom, this quest has been likened  to diving for the most precious pearl in existence, a poetic way of saying that you  have to swim far out beyond shallow waters, plunge deep into yourself, and search  patiently until the pearl beyond price is found.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The pearl is also called essence,  the breath of God, the water of life, holy nectar—labels for what we, in our more  prosaic scientific age, would simply call transformation. Transformation means radical  change of form, the way a caterpillar transforms into a butterfly. In human terms,  it means turning fear, aggression, doubt, insecurity, hatred, and emptiness into  their opposites. Can this really be achieved? One thing we know for certain: The  secret hunger that gnaws at people’s souls has nothing to do with externals like  money, status, and security. It’s the inner person who craves meaning in life, the  end of suffering, and answers to the riddles of love, death, God, the soul, good  and evil. A life spent on the surface will never answer these questions or satisfy  the needs that drive us to ask them. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Finding the hidden dimensions in yourself  is the only way to fulfill your deepest hunger.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e After the rise of science, this  craving for knowledge should have faded, but it has only grown stronger. There are  no new “facts” to  discover about life’s hidden dimensions. Nobody needs to peer  at more CAT scans of patients undergoing a near-death experience or take more MRIs  of yogis sitting deep in meditation. That phase of experimentation has done its work:  We can be assured that wherever consciousness wants to go, the human brain will follow.  Our neurons are capable of  registering the highest spiritual experiences. In some  ways, however, you and I know less about the mystery of life than our ancestors.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e We live in the Age of the Higher Brain, the cerebral cortex that has grown enormously  over the last few millennia, overshadowing the ancient, instinctive lower brain.  The cortex is often called the new  brain, yet the old brain held sway in humans  for millions of years, as it does today in most living things. The old brain can’ t conjure up ideas or read. But it does possess the power to feel and, above all,  to  be. It was the old brain that caused our forebears to sense the closeness of  a mysterious presence everywhere in Nature.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e That presence, which is found in every  particle of creation, suffuses your life, too. You are a book of secrets waiting  to be opened, although you probably see yourself in totally different terms. On a   given day, you are a worker, a father or mother, husband or wife, a consumer combing  the mall stores for something new, an audience member waiting impatiently for the  next entertainment.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e When you are living the truth of one reality, every secret reveals  itself without effort or struggle.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e It comes down to the age-old choice of separation  or unity. Do you want to be fragmented, conflicted, torn between the eternal forces  of darkness and light? Or do you want to step out of separation into wholeness? You  are a creature who acts, thinks, and feels. Spirituality fuses these three into a  single reality. Thinking doesn’t lord it over feeling; feeling doesn’t stubbornly  resist the higher brain; doing occurs when both thought and feeling say, “This is  right.” The one reality can be recognized because once you are there, you experience  the flow of life without obstacles or resistance. In this flow, you encounter inspiration,  love, truth, beauty, and wisdom as natural  aspects of existence. The one reality  is spirit, and the surface of life is only a disguise with a thousand masks that  keeps us from discovering what is real. A thousand years ago, such a statement would  have met with no argument. Spirit was accepted everywhere as the true source of life.  Today, we have to look with new eyes at the mystery of existence, for as proud children  of science and reason, we have made ourselves the orphans of wisdom.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Therefore,  this book must work on two fronts. First, it must persuade you that there really  is a mystery lying in the hidden dimensions of life. Second, it must inspire you  to feel the passion and dedication required to get there. This isn’t a project to  postpone until you are ready. You have been ready since the day you forgot to keep  asking who you are and why you are here. Sadly, most of us keep shutting out thousands  of experiences that could make transformation a reality. If it weren’t for the enormous  effort we put into denial, repression, and doubt, each life would be a constant revelation.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Ultimately you have to believe that your life is worth investigating with total  passion and commitment. It took thousands of tiny decisions to keep the book of secrets  closed, but it takes only a single moment to open it again.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e I take it literally  when the New Testament says, “Ask and you will receive, knock and the door will be  opened.” It’s that simple. You will know every secret about life when you can truly  say I must know. I can’t wait a moment longer. Buddha sitting under the Bodhi tree  and Jesus wrestling with demons in the desert are symbolic of the same drama of the  soul that you were born to repeat. Never doubt this: You are the most significant  being in the world, because at the level of the soul you are the world. You don’t  have to earn the right to know. Your very next thought, feeling, or action can begin  to uncover the deepest spiritual wisdom, which flows as pure and free as mountain   waters in spring. It isn’t possible for the self to keep secrets from itself forever,  no matter how thoroughly we’ve been trained to believe otherwise.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eSecret #1: The  Mystery of Life Is Real\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The life you know is a thin layer of events covering a deeper  reality. In the deeper reality, you are part of every event that is happening now,  has ever happened, or ever will happen. In the deeper reality, you know absolutely  who you are and what your purpose is. There is no confusion or conflict with any  other person on earth. Your purpose in life is to help creation to expand and grow.  When you look at yourself, you see only love.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The mystery of life isn’t any of these  things, however. It’s how to bring them to the surface. If someone asked me how to  prove that there really is a mystery of life, the simplest proof would be just this  enormous separation between deep reality and everyday existence. Ever since you and  I were born, we’ve had a constant stream of clues hinting at another world inside  ourselves. Haven’t you ever fallen into a moment of wonder? Such moments may come  in the presence of beautiful  music, or in the sight of natural beauty that sends  a shiver up your spine. Or you may have looked out of the corner of your eye at something  familiar—morning sunlight, a tree swaying in the wind, the face of someone you love  as he or she sleeps—knowing in that moment that life was more than it appears to  be.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Countless clues have come your way, only to be overlooked because they didn’ t form a clear message. I have met an astonishing number of people whose spiritual  beginnings were nothing short of amazing: As children, they may have seen a grandmother’ s soul leave at the moment of her  death, witnessed beings of light surrounding on  a birthday, traveled beyond their physical bodies, or come home from school to see  a beloved family member standing in the hallway, even though the person had just  died in a terrible auto accident. (One man told me he was a “bubble boy” for the  first ten years of his life, journeying in his bubble high over the city and away  to unknown lands.) Millions of people—this is no exaggeration but testimony from  public polls—have seen themselves  bathed in a pearlescent white light at times.  Or they heard a voice they knew came from God. Or they had invisible guardians in  childhood, secret friends who protected them while they slept.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Eventually, it became  clear to me that more people have had such experiences—truly secret voyages into  a reality separated from this one by a flimsy veil of disbelief—than not. Parting  the veil means changing your own perception. This is a personal, totally subjective,  yet very real shift.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Where would you begin to solve a mystery that is everywhere,  yet somehow never forms a whole message? A great sleuth like Sherlock Holmes would  start his search from one elementary deduction: Something unknown wants to be known.  A mystery that doesn’t want to be known will just keep retreating the closer you  come to it. The mystery of life doesn’t behave that way: Its secrets are revealed  immediately if you know where to look. But where is that?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The body’s wisdom is a  good entry point into the hidden dimensions of life, because although completely  invisible, the body’s wisdom is undeniably real—a fact that medical researchers began  to accept in the mid-1980s. The former view was that the brain’s capacity for intelligence  was unique. But then signs of intelligence began to be discovered in the immune system,  and then in the digestive system. In  both these systems, special messenger molecules  could be observed  circulating through every organ, bringing information to and from  the brain, but also functioning on their own. A white cell that can distinguish between  invading enemy bacteria and harmless pollen is  making an intelligent decision, even  though it floats in the bloodstream apart from the brain.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Ten years ago, it would  have seemed absurd to speak of intestines being intelligent. The lining of the digestive  tract was known to possess thousands of nerve endings, but these were just remote  outposts of the nervous system—a way for it to keep in touch with the lowly business  of extracting nutrition from food. Now it turns out that the intestines are not so  lowly after all. Their scattered nerve cells form a finely tuned system for reacting  to outside events—an upsetting remark at work, the threat of danger, a death in the  family. The stomach’s reactions are just as reliable as the brain’s thoughts, and  just as intricate. Your colon, your liver, and your stomach cells also think, only  not in the brain’s verbal language. What people had been calling a “gut reaction”  turned out to be a mere hint of the complex intelligence at work in a hundred thousand  billion cells.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e In a sweeping medical revolution, scientists have stepped into a  hidden dimension that no one had ever suspected. Cells have been outthinking us for  millions of years. In fact, their wisdom, more ancient than cortical wisdom, could  be the best model for the only thing more ancient than they, which is the cosmos.  Perhaps the universe has been outthinking us, too. No matter where I look, I sense  what cosmic wisdom is trying to accomplish. It is much the same as what I myself  want to  accomplish—to grow, expand, and create—the main difference being that my  body is cooperating with the universe better than I manage to.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Cells have no problem  fully participating in the mystery of life. Theirs is a wisdom of total passion and  commitment. So let’s see if we can link the qualities of bodily wisdom with the hidden  dimensions we  want to uncover: the wisdom you are already living.","brand":"Harmony","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46301422485733,"sku":"NP9781400098347","price":17.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781400098347.jpg?v=1767738481","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/the-book-of-secrets-isbn-9781400098347","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}