Congrats to Jeffrey C. Walker

CF-board-WalkerJeffThe Chopra Foundation is pleased to share that fellow board member, Jeffrey C. Walker, is the recipient of the 2016 John C. Whitehead Social Enterprise Award ​ from the Harvard Business School Club of New York​​.   Jeff is a Harvard MBA ’81 Alumnus and one of five leaders to be honored at HBSCNY’s 49th Leadership Dinner on May 18th at the Museum of Natural History.  

Please click  this link to view Jeff Walker’s Reflections on Career and Leadership.

Congratulations Jeff for your continued commitment to help to create a more peaceful, just, sustainable, healthy and happier world.

Taking Personal Reality Seriously (Including Yours)

 

By Deepak Chopra, MD

 

In college, a time-honored theme for assigning term papers is to discuss appearance versus reality, which can be applied to questions as diverse as “Is the ghost of Hamlet’s father real?” and “What was actually at stake in the Cold War?” But this intriguing topic doesn’t usually stick, and when students graduate into a world of hard realities, they accept appearances without questioning them. In this way the mystery of appearance versus reality doesn’t get past the classroom.

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Why Gravitational Waves Are Red Herrings

By Deepak Chopra, MD, Menas C. Kafatos, PhD, Rudolph E. Tanzi, Ph.D.

When big science gets a major boost, the news goes around the world with an air of celebration. The latest such event was the confirmation of gravitational waves, which were predicted by Einstein in his General Theory of Relativity. As enthusiastically explained by MIT physicist Allan Adams in a recent TED talk , gravitational waves were considered impossible to detect because of their weakness even 25 years ago. But a project named Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) aimed to build a 5 kilometer measuring device calibrated to within 1/1000 of the radius of the nucleus of an atom in order to capture the signals of gravitational waves from cosmic sources using laser technology.

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Why Science Is Ultimately Spiritual, and Vice Versa

Screen Shot 2016-02-21 at 2.11.57 PMBy Deepak Chopra, MD

 

Despite attempts to reconcile science with the long history of spirituality, a gulf still exists between them–a totally unnecessary one. There is only one reality, and science differs from spirituality only in its style of describing what is real. If this is true, then it’s not simply an option to merge science with spirituality. They must be compatible. If not, then reality has eluded both camps.

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