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Daily Breath with Deepak Chopra

The Secrets of the Self: Free Will vs. Determinism

Daily Breath with Deepak Chopra

Infinite Potential Media, LLC

Health & Fitness, Education, Self-improvement

4.61.8K Ratings

🗓️ 13 April 2020

⏱️ 5 minutes

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0:00.0

Welcome back to daily breath. This is Deepak Chopra. As we continue our journey into the

0:15.2

exploration of the south, let's turn to the 11th secret. The universe

0:22.2

thinks through you. the universe is alive and imbued with what we call subject.

0:27.0

The universe is alive and imbued with what we call subjectivity.

0:36.0

How do we say the universe is alive and thinking

0:45.0

experiencing subjectivity.

0:47.0

Well, the data point is you.

0:50.0

You're alive, you're thinking, you experience subjectivity and you are an activity of the universe

0:57.2

In fact you could even say that your brain is the universe using your brain as an observation deck to look at itself.

1:07.0

Think about this.

1:09.0

You are the universe looking at itself through a human brain and human consciousness because the human

1:15.7

brain and human consciousness are an aspect of universal consciousness and

1:21.2

universal knowing. Why do we say this? Well, we say this because we are part of the

1:27.8

universe. If you're not part of the universe and you're outside of it, then you would say that you and the universe are separate things.

1:36.0

But since you're inside the universe,

1:39.0

you're an activity of the universe,

1:41.0

and as that activity of the universe you're imbued with

1:45.4

subjectivity and feeling and thought and it is the universe

1:52.0

localizing itself through you experiencing itself.

1:57.0

Please find a logical flaw in this argument.

2:02.0

So when you understand this then you look at the

2:07.6

world and you say that's the universe looking at itself through me.

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