Deepak Chopra, MD, serves as the Founder and Chairman of the Board for The Chopra Foundation.

As a global leader and pioneer in the field of mind-body medicine, Deepak Chopra transforms the way the world views physical, mental, emotional, spiritual, and social wellness. Known as a prolific author of more than seventy-five books with twenty-one New York Times best sellers in both fiction and non-fiction, his works have been published in more than thirty-five languages.

Chopra’s medical training is in internal medicine and endocrinology and he is a Fellow of the American College of Physicians, and a member of the American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists. He serves as the Co-Founder and Chairman of the Board of The Chopra Center for Wellbeing, Founder of The Chopra Well on YouTube, Adjunct Professor at Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University, Adjunct Professor at Columbia Business School, Columbia University,  Senior Scientist with The Gallup Organization and board of directors, HESA. Time magazine has described Dr. Chopra as one of the top 100 heroes and icons of the century and credits him as “the poet-prophet of alternative medicine".

A few of Deepak's many books:

Super Brain: Unleashing the Explosive Power of Your Mind to Maximize Health, Happiness, and Spiritual Well-Being

The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success: A Practical Guide to the Fulfillment of Your Dreams

The Book of Secrets: Unlocking the Hidden Dimensions of Your Life

Perfect Health: The Complete Mind/Body Guide, Revised and Updated Edition

https://www.deepakchopra.com

Interview recorded 10/25/2013 at the Science and Non-Duality Conference in San Jose, California.

Transcript of this interview.

YouTube Video Chapters:

00:00:00 - An Interview with Dr. Deepak Chopra

00:01:49 - The Importance of Self-Awareness

00:03:16 - The Rarity of Self-Knowledge

00:05:11 - The Evolution of Human Society

00:07:09 - The Cycle of Yugas and the Epidemic of Awakening

00:08:30 - The Lord's intervention in times of negativity

00:10:01 - Transcending Duality and Improving Collective Being

00:11:45 - Perception of the world as heaven or hell

00:13:18 - Balancing Public Image and Medical Practice

00:15:02 - Being Used in God's Service

00:17:00 - Slipping into witnessing awareness

00:18:43 - The Experience of Existence

00:20:13 - The Nature of Perceptual Reality

00:22:00 - Perception as species-specific and culture-specific

00:24:02 - Perceptual reality and the unknown

00:25:36 - The Consistency of Perceived Reality

00:27:32 - The Cosmic Dreamer

00:29:11 - Conflicts between Dreams

00:30:48 - Moving towards a more wholesome and loving environment

00:33:05 - The Nature of Qualia

00:34:43 - Living in a state of consciousness

00:37:30 - The Inexplicability of Experience

00:38:41 - Remembering Candice Pert

00:40:23 - Naming Perceptions and Creating Reality

00:41:57 - The Consciousness of Mathematics

00:43:09 - The Fall from the Garden of Naming

00:45:01 - The problem with naming and conceptualizing

00:46:13 - The Illusion of Perception

00:47:38 - Embracing the Paradox and Ambiguity

00:48:35 - BATGAP.com