The future of God : a practical approach to spirituality for our times
By: Deepak Chopra
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: Harmony
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9780307884978
Copyright date: 2014
Subjects: Atheism; God; Philosophy; Controversial literature; Religion
Description: "Can God be revived in a skeptical age? What would it take to give people a spiritual life more powerful than anything in the past? Deepak Chopra tackles these issues with eloquence and insight in this book. He proposes that God lies at the source of human awareness. Therefore, any person can find the God within that transforms everyday life. God is in trouble. The rise of the militant atheist movement spearheaded by Richard Dawkins signifies, to many, that the deity is an outmoded myth in the modern world. Deepak Chopra passionately disagrees, seeing the present moment as the perfect time for making spirituality what it really should be: reliable knowledge about higher reality. Outlining a path to God that turns unbelief into the first step of awakening, Deepak shows us that a crisis of faith is like the fire we must pass through on the way to power, truth, and love. "Faith must be saved for everyone's sake," he writes. "From faith springs a passion for the eternal, which is even stronger than love. Many of us have lost that passion or have never known it." In any age, faith is a cry from the heart. God is the higher consciousness that responds to the cry. "By itself, faith can't deliver God, but it does something more timely: It makes God possible." For three decades, Deepak Chopra has inspired millions with his profound writing and teaching. With The Future of God, he invites us on a journey of the spirit, providing a practical path to understanding God and our own place in the universe. Now, is a moment of reinvigoration, he argues. Now is moment of renewal. Now is the future" --
Table of contents: title: Prologue; title: Why God has a future --; title: Against militant atheism --; title: God is a verb, not a noun --; title: The path to God --; title: Stage 1: unbelief --; title: Dawkins and his delusions --; title: Answering militant atheism --; title: Proving the platypus --; title: Stage 2: faith --; title: Beyond the zero point --; title: Bad faith --; title: The wisdom agenda --; title: Are miracles possible? --; title: Stage 3: knowledge --; title: God without borders --; title: Is there a material world? --; title: The subtle world --; title: Transcendence: God appears --; title: The toughest question --; title: Epilogue: God at a glance.