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We are on a mission to inspire, heal, pass down wisdom, and bring the world closer together. This is the Commune podcast,

where each week we explore the ideas and practices that help us live this healthy, connected,

and purpose-filled life. You can learn more about our courses, our community, and everything we do

at OneCommune.com. Okay, so I am experimenting with peppering in some excerpts from

commune courses here on the podcast. And we have built such an incredible library of teachers and

programs that it seems only logical to leverage this platform as a means to further spread these valuable ideas.

Of course, I will continue to feature new interviews and musings as well.

So today's episode is an excerpt from Deepak Chopra's Commune course, The Nature of Reality,

and you can enjoy that program for free for six days at one commune.com slash reality.

In this lesson, Deepak asks one of the most fundamental questions of them all,

Who am I? As we attempt to comprehend that we are infinite formless beings creating our own

experiences, we can begin to fathom the way we can impact

our perceived world. So I hope you enjoy this lesson from Deepak Chopra. My name is Jeff Krasno,

and welcome to Kamiu. Every form is a phenomenon.

Every phenomenon is the arising and subsiding of perceptual activity, which is a modified form of consciousness,

and the interpretation of that perceptual activity, which is also a modified form of consciousness,

because the interpretation is consciousness.

So that which we call the mind, body, and the world, are nothing but consciousness

modifying itself into these experiences, which appear as forms and phenomena,

but when you trace them down to their source, you end up with consciousness.

And since consciousness doesn't have a form, it doesn't have a form. Having no form, it has no location.

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