Welcome to Commune, where each week we explore the ideas and practices that bring us together

and help us live healthy and purpose-filled lives. I'm your host, Jeff Krasno. In addition to being a podcast,

Commune is also an online course platform hosting some of the world's greatest teachers,

like today's featured voice, Deepak Chopra. Deepak is a pioneer in integrative medicine and

personal transformation, who has authored more than 85 books, translated into over 43 languages.

He is also the co-founder of the Chopra Center for Well-Being and Board Certified in Internal

Medicine, Endocrinology, and Metabolism. In Deepak's mind-bending, spirit-uplifting,

six-day course on commune, he teaches you how matter, energy,

information, and everything we consider reality from your next thought to the most distant star

is simply a modified form of yourself. When you understand that you are the universe,

you unlock the spontaneous fulfillment of all your desires.

Today we're excited to share with you his lecture from day one of his commune course,

The Nature of Reality. This is Deepak Chopra and I'm delighted and honored and privileged to share this course with you.

The course is called The nature of reality and the

spontaneous fulfillment of desire. I have to, I have to in a sense warn you that some

of this material is very abstract if you're not used to it and that you will have to maybe go

through this material several times but if you're not willing to go all the way then you

probably shouldn't waste your time doing this course., so I already started by saying that the course is called the nature of reality

and the spontaneous fulfillment of desire.

So we should look at both those components of this course.

What is real?

How do we know it's real?

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