Hello my friends welcome back to daily breath. I'm De Park Chopra.

Our new series is called Total Meditation. If you'd like to learn more

about what we'll be discussing you can pick up my new book Total Meditation,

Practices in Living the Awaken Life.

Extraordinary as any spiritual experiences might be,

they are still physical reactions in the nervous system.

To see meditation as just something mental

is to misunderstand how total meditation really works.

The mind body connection merges physical and mental activity.

The mind responds to the body at the same instant the body

responds to the mind. Does the brain create the mind? If so, are we just robots at the back and call of the brain?

Is the pursuit of expanded or higher awareness of fantasy?

Can the mind really override the brain? We live solely in a material world these

days and most people are convinced of this idea.

Consciousness could be independent of the brain. Few people fully support this possibility.

Consciousness creates the brain.

Even less do people accept this proposition,

and that's what I'm proposing here,

that consciousness creates the brain.

Most people ask, how can a non-physical entity go about

building neurons in the first place? The mystery is solved once you realize that we are not separated into mind and body.

We are one thing, the body mind which unites the two. So, Thanks once again for listening and let's continue our conversation tomorrow. You're going to.

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