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 enlarge | Author: Deepak Chopra
Publisher: Harmony
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  78 reviews
Sales Rank: 2020
Media: Hardcover
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Pages: 256
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Dimensions (in): 9.6 x 6.6 x 1.2
ISBN: 0307338312
Dewey Decimal Number: 232
EAN: 9780307338310
ASIN: 0307338312
Publication Date: February 19, 2008
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 I am among you April 7, 2008
28 out of 28 found this review helpful
I have read this book and found it fascinating.It could be possible that what Mr.Chopra wrote is true,and yet we will never know for sure the truth about Jesus.
It is an inspiring book and very easy to read.
In my personal opinion I think that Jesus is indeed inside of us and we have to reach a certain level of consciousness to understand.
It has meditation and analytical examples for us to meditate and try to see the light so to speak.
I have had several experiences in my personal life that leads me to believe that things happen the way Mr.Chopra has written.Although hard for me to understand at the time,I seem to understand it better know after reading the book.You can reach the level of consciousness that Mr.Chopra suggests by following his meditation sequences.It does open your eyes,to who we could really be,what we could really accomplish and what we could really become.
Understanding my spiritual depth April 7, 2008
25 out of 25 found this review helpful
Deepak Chopra has hit it on the spiritual button for me. I always worried about how our different religions manipulated the bible for self gain and how they made Jesus, our other prophets and God fit in their self-centered plans. I love Jesus, the man, the spiritual leader and how hard he tried to bring us into God's love, which was already in us, but not recognized.
The awareness of our soul and how love flows through us would make this world so much better.
 3rd Jesus April 5, 2008
0 out of 29 found this review helpful
I enjoy Deepak Chopra's writing and other books but this one was too full of biblical quotes. His point however was well made and is reminisent of Budidism.
The Third Jesus by Deepak Chopra April 5, 2008
25 out of 25 found this review helpful
This book will give great insight to the one who is on a spiritual journey and truly wants to understand and live the message Jesus taught.
Deepak Chopra has a way with explaining the teachings of Jesus as they were intended and backs it up with many valid resources. Even if you totally disagree with Chopra, the book will certainly provide spiritual challenges that will have you thinking from another perspective. Isn't this exactly what Jesus was doing in his own time on this earth? Many people from his (Jesus's) own faith rejected him and his teachings because they were too rigid in their own beliefs, and made no room for further enlightenment. We are continually called to grow in spirit, faith, knowledge, and most of all, compassionate love towards one another. It is when we live according to the message Jesus declared, that we deepen our kinship with God. No one who calls themself a Christian can deny that we must be open to the spirit of God when it is speaking to us. This is truly a remarkable book.
 WHY IS CHOPRA SO CRUEL? April 5, 2008
19 out of 77 found this review helpful
Chopra dedicates his book to the Irish Christian brothers who taught him at school. Those men gave up their homes, gave up food they were used to, gave up their families and friends, gave up the chance to marry and have children, in order to go to another country and spend their lives helping and teaching others. It was a breathtaking act of love and selflessness.
And how has Chopra paid them back? By writing a book that mocks their religion. How can anyone be so cruel?
He writes: "The Catholic church has been adding to scripture since the beginning" (p 223). This is a lie. It was the Catholic church that decided the canon, the pope who approved it, and no Catholic has ever added a single extra word to the bible once the canon was decided upon.
"Jesus...was created by the church to fulfill its agenda" (p 8) he sneers.
Chopra feels free to write hurtful things about a religion he does not believe in, but he gives not one small shred of evidence to back these accusations up.
What proof is there that the earliest Christianity in any way changed or altered Jesus' words? Two of the most famous scholars of the last few decades, Larry Hurtado in "Lord Jesus Christ" and Martin Hengel, in "Paul Between Damascus and Antioch", have investigated the first three decades after Jesus' death and found overwhelming proof that there was no alternations at all.
On the other hand, Chopra is eager to heap praise on the Gnostics. Although there were many philosophical schools under the broad umbrella term of "Gnostics" most were highly anti-female, anti-earth, and pro-death. A memorable quote from the Gnostic Gospel of Thomas: "Women do not deserve to live".
Chopra says of the four Christian gospels, that, "The writers of the gospels set out not to tell the facts of a life but to convert nonbelievers ...they...exaggerated events, invented miracles, and put words into Jesus' mouth." More cruel and hurtful accusations with not a shred of evidence to try and back them up.
On the other hand, he goes on, "other (Gnostic) documents may be as old as the four gospels" (p 133). Untrue. As Preterment shows in "A Separate God", considered the definitive work on the Gnostics, every single one of the Gnostic gospels was written at least 100 years after Christ died. The Gospel of Thomas, which he mentions, has been proven to have been written in about 180 AD, as Nicholas Perrin showed.
Chopra's insists that, "Absolute truth is blind truth" (p 229). Apparently we can forget about anything being right or wrong now that Chopra has imperiously decided that everything is a shade of gray. Is it wrong that the communists slaughtered over 100 million people? Are there really no absolute truths? If that is what Chopra believes, then I wouldn't turn my back on him.
While Chopra feels free to throw hurtful and untrue accusations against Christians, he never mentions people like Mother Theresa of Calcutta gave her life to help the poorest of the poor. Thousands of nuns follow in her path all over the world. This is real love, real selflessness, as opposed to the self-worship Chopra prefers.
"Jesus spoke of the necessity to believe in him as the road to salvation, but those words were put into his mouth by followers writing decades later" (p 11), he states, with, again, nothing to back it up.
Suppose Chopra's wrong? Suppose your chance of everlasting life in heaven depends on what you do and believe here? How can Chopra be so uncaring, and so absolutely sure of himself, that he is willing to take heaven away from other people?
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