Deepak Chopra

You know, if I want to go from New York to Boston, I can take a train, I can take the road, I can take a steamship, I can take a helicopter, I can take an airplane. But those are all maps. You have to experience the territory.

You know, if I want to go from New York to Boston, I can take a train, I can take the road, I can take a steamship, I can take a helicopter, I can take an airplane. But those are all maps. You have to experience the territory.

There was a time, and it was very frustrating because... Also, what it does is, you know, in spiritual tradition, they talk about the dark night of the soul. So the dark night of the soul is basically everything that you thought about reality is untrue. But even worse than that, everything that you thought about who you are is also untrue.

There was a time, and it was very frustrating because... Also, what it does is, you know, in spiritual tradition, they talk about the dark night of the soul. So the dark night of the soul is basically everything that you thought about reality is untrue. But even worse than that, everything that you thought about who you are is also untrue.

There was a time, and it was very frustrating because... Also, what it does is, you know, in spiritual tradition, they talk about the dark night of the soul. So the dark night of the soul is basically everything that you thought about reality is untrue. But even worse than that, everything that you thought about who you are is also untrue.

So that is a trigger to losing your habitual certainties, number one. And those certainties were the anchor of your existence. I am a person. There's no such thing, okay? I have a body. No such thing. I have a mind. No such thing. I live in a universe. No such thing. That can give you the heebie-jeebies, as they say.

So that is a trigger to losing your habitual certainties, number one. And those certainties were the anchor of your existence. I am a person. There's no such thing, okay? I have a body. No such thing. I have a mind. No such thing. I live in a universe. No such thing. That can give you the heebie-jeebies, as they say.

So that is a trigger to losing your habitual certainties, number one. And those certainties were the anchor of your existence. I am a person. There's no such thing, okay? I have a body. No such thing. I have a mind. No such thing. I live in a universe. No such thing. That can give you the heebie-jeebies, as they say.

But if you stay with it, then once you jump off the abyss, it's like crossing the event horizon. You know, in modern cosmology, we talk about event horizon. So if I, you know, give you a metaphor, if you throw a coin or any object across the event horizon, which is, say, 12 kilometers away from the black hole, you throw it, and you're watching this from the outside.

But if you stay with it, then once you jump off the abyss, it's like crossing the event horizon. You know, in modern cosmology, we talk about event horizon. So if I, you know, give you a metaphor, if you throw a coin or any object across the event horizon, which is, say, 12 kilometers away from the black hole, you throw it, and you're watching this from the outside.

But if you stay with it, then once you jump off the abyss, it's like crossing the event horizon. You know, in modern cosmology, we talk about event horizon. So if I, you know, give you a metaphor, if you throw a coin or any object across the event horizon, which is, say, 12 kilometers away from the black hole, you throw it, and you're watching this from the outside.

then it takes eternity for that coin to travel the 12 kilometers from the event horizon to the black hole. eternity. But if you're watching it from the inside, it takes less than a microsecond. And if you are crossing over the event horizon, it's just normal. So then, you know, what is time then? In this side of the event horizon, eternity.

then it takes eternity for that coin to travel the 12 kilometers from the event horizon to the black hole. eternity. But if you're watching it from the inside, it takes less than a microsecond. And if you are crossing over the event horizon, it's just normal. So then, you know, what is time then? In this side of the event horizon, eternity.

then it takes eternity for that coin to travel the 12 kilometers from the event horizon to the black hole. eternity. But if you're watching it from the inside, it takes less than a microsecond. And if you are crossing over the event horizon, it's just normal. So then, you know, what is time then? In this side of the event horizon, eternity.

In this side of the horizon, faster than you can say Jack Robinson. And for you who's crossing over, normal. I mean, and then who is the you that's crossing over? So when you start to conceptualize these things, you literally go through the dark night of the soul.

In this side of the horizon, faster than you can say Jack Robinson. And for you who's crossing over, normal. I mean, and then who is the you that's crossing over? So when you start to conceptualize these things, you literally go through the dark night of the soul.

In this side of the horizon, faster than you can say Jack Robinson. And for you who's crossing over, normal. I mean, and then who is the you that's crossing over? So when you start to conceptualize these things, you literally go through the dark night of the soul.

You lose your identity because you thought you were like this entity, this skin encapsulated ego squeezed into the volume of a body and the span of a lifetime. When you realize that is an experience in you, rather than you are an experience in the body, the body is an experience in you. Rather than the fact that you are in the universe, the universe is in you, and that you is not a person.

You lose your identity because you thought you were like this entity, this skin encapsulated ego squeezed into the volume of a body and the span of a lifetime. When you realize that is an experience in you, rather than you are an experience in the body, the body is an experience in you. Rather than the fact that you are in the universe, the universe is in you, and that you is not a person.

You lose your identity because you thought you were like this entity, this skin encapsulated ego squeezed into the volume of a body and the span of a lifetime. When you realize that is an experience in you, rather than you are an experience in the body, the body is an experience in you. Rather than the fact that you are in the universe, the universe is in you, and that you is not a person.