The Quantum Prophets Richard Dawkins Deepak Chopra and the Spooky Truth About Their Battle over God (Audible Audio Edition) Tom Roston Tom Pile Audible Studios Books
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Richard Dawkins and Deepak Chopra are two of the most famous Big Thinkers of our time. And yet their deeply acrimonious, decade-long battle over God, human consciousness and "quantum healing" has gone unchronicled until now. Dawkins, a best-selling author and evolutionary biologist who coined the term "meme", has staked his name on the cause of militant atheism. Chopra, a mind-body guru with a global following that has included the likes of Michael Jackson and Lady Gaga, has increasingly set his sites on the scientific status quo.
Author Tom Roston seeks to uncover what lies beneath their provocative war of ideas in this intimate story of his search to understand his own spirituality and science's hard questions. He travels from Toronto to California to the Quantock Hills in Somerset, England, to Puebla, Mexico, chasing these two alternately fascinating and infuriating men, wrestling with their ideas, and coming up with his own.
Tom Roston is a veteran journalist who began his career at The Nation and Vanity Fair magazines, before working at Premiere magazine as a senior editor. He is now a freelance writer and frequent contributor to The New York Times. He writes a regular blog about nonfiction filmmaking on PBS.org. He lives with his wife and their two daughters in New York City.
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The Quantum Prophets Richard Dawkins Deepak Chopra and the Spooky Truth About Their Battle over God (Audible Audio Edition) Tom Roston Tom Pile Audible Studios Books Reviews
HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!!! This is SUCH a great read. Forget what you thought you knew about existence, spirituality, atheism and the Big Man Upstairs & let yourself be challenged by the ideas that Roston deftly considers & dissects for you in this fascinating book. Ever wonder why you think what you think? Have ideas about the universe that are hard to put into words? By going deeply into the minds of guru cum entrepreneur Deepak Chopra and pugilistic British atheist Richard Dawkins, Roston is able to capture the most essential truths of their respective philosophies, and share them smartly, in a fun & engaging way. Personal reporting about his own grappling with the Big Questions is nicely balanced with in-depth analysis/depiction of religion, quantum physics, spiritual retreats, business meetings & even The Goldilocks Effect. Would make a great "Intro To Religion 101" reading pack supplement for college students.
It seemed to me that the author didn't take the time to understand either side of the debate, luckily , it is a quick read.
An engaging inquiry into the Consciousness/Materialist debate personified by Deepak Chopra & Richard Dawkins. Author Tom Roston delivers a surprisingly self-revelatory examination of pop philosophy's current conundrum. Highly recommended!
Entertaining and insightful read. I have read both gentleman's work and find both valid. By that I mean, I mostly agree and subscribe to their opinions. I had the (use multiple adjectives here) fortune to hear Chopra speak in person in Cape Town, South Africa more than a decade ago. It was, in my 53 years, the single most inspiring talk and delivered with unmatched eloquence. Yes, absolutely…There are gaps (and admittedly many of them) in their arguments. But for a South African born and raised in a fundamentalist society (to put it mildly), they represent a glimpse into the realm of infinite possibilities. Dawkins; for what we are capable of when we discard the oppression of reliance on, as Chopra calls it “... a dead white man in the sky” (quoted slightly out of context.) And Chopra for the endless probing into the possibilities of biology and consciousness. When he first spoke about intelligent cells (simply put) I could hear my synapses scream “Eureka”! Over the years I developed a distaste in anything radical – an army of Atheists – and Dawkins’s views are just too “in your face”. It’s ok dude, we agree with you but why go extreme? Nothing is set in stone. I prefer Chopra’s more fluid approach. His openness to possibilities. He acknowledges that some of his postulations are perhaps just that - hypothesis. But until fairly recently that is just what the Higgs Boson was. Both these gentlemen deserve to be financially rewarded for their efforts and I believe that indictments against either (from either of them) of making money of an unsuspecting public is needless. If anyone should be hanged, drawn and quartered for doing just that then Benny Hinn and TB Joshua and their multitude of cronies across the globe should be first on the list.
Not knowing much about these two men, except that Dawkins wrote 'The God Delusion' (which I haven't read), I found this an interesting read. The author's search for meaning is something that many will be able to identify with and I liked his objective approach and the conclusions he draws at the end of the book. Personally, I think the 'answer' is something the majority of us can find on our own, but for those that are looking for someone to guide them and who may be considering getting into the ideas of either of these two men more deeply, or if you're just interested in the ideas of others who are trying to understand our place in the universe, I'd say that this is well worth reading.
This is an interesting short book about the different philosophies of two men on opposite sides of the debate between science and religion. The author reveals how each man, Dawkins and Chopra, exhibit their own narrow-mindedness and unwillingness to see the others' side. Ultimately it shows that no matter ow intelligent or enlightened we are, we are all limited by our ability to expand our limits beyond what we want to believe.
I read this book because I wanted to read an account of the acrimonious feud between Dawkins and Chopra.
It did not disappoint. There are some who feel that the book is slanted to the side of Chopra, but he only comes off a little more sympathetic because he was willing to talk to the author as well as help him out with a grant.
But Roston is equally critical to both. Deepak is depicted as evasive and contradictory; mixing the language of science with his own version of mystical "woo". Dawkins and his supporters come off as arrogant, cocksure and well, kinda dickish. I don't think this book will sway anyone that has already taken sides, but it might provide some insight to those on the fence.
Compares the philosophies of Dawkins and Chopra.
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