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

The Book of Secrets: Unlocking the Hidden Dimensions of Your Life review:
5 stars (Enlightenment / Liberation Made Easy) - Dr. Chopra has expressed, in a patient, loving way, how the mystic's path is becoming available to everyone ... through quantum physics, many ancient understandings of the sacredness of life are validated ... and it seems that here and now, for probably the first time in recorded history ... all of us can know ... all of us can become totally free of the fear of death ... all of us can become totally free of the negativities that entertain our mistaken identification with the mortal ego ... all of us can liberate the consciousness of our true identity ... that part of us who belongs totally to and lives totally in the timeless ... and, from time to time, manifests a life story for our learning and loving ...



I recommend this book highly to anyone like me who has had difficulty in understanding the true meaning of liberation or enlightenment ... or who, like me, has had a battle royal between the ego needs and the soul's wisdom ...



What Chopra has done could be called Enlightenment for Dummies but he has done this instead with patience, with love, and with gentle method.



Good reading and practice for the paradigms now becoming universal to all peoples.
5 stars (One of the Best Books Ever Written) - The author of more than 41 books, 100 tapes, CDs and videos, Dr. Chopra is one of the world's greatest leaders in the field of mind body medicine. Through his latest book, Dr. Chopra continues to challenge the perception of the meaning of the mindbody health in our society by offering new and more empowering tools to access our innate healing powers in all areas of life including the physical, emotional and spiritual. In the words of Ken Wilber, one of the endorsers of this book (back cover), "The Book of Secrets is the finest and most profound of Deepak Chopra's books to date. Want the answers to the secrets to life? Let me recommend that you start right here."

Formerly the Chief of Staff at Boston Regional Medical Center, Dr. Chopra built a successful endocrinology practice in Boston in the 1980's. He taught medicine at Tufts University and Boston University School of Medicine before he created a mindbody model that honors the fundamental principle that perfect health is more than just the absence of disease.

Dr. Chopra envisions a society based upon the premise that health is a lively state of balance and is based on the integration of body, mind and spirit. His latest book unifies these principles and is one of his most important books both to date but also to him personally as he revealed to me in a recent conversation. In this work, Dr. Chopra dives deeply into the meaning of life but especially death as he reflects upon the sudden and recent death of his own father, the famous personal physician of the latest governor of India, Lord Mountbatten.

In this book Dr. Chopra reminds us that our "greatest hunger in life is not for food, money, success, status, security, sex or even love". Chopra goes on to emphasize that we can all find the "hidden dimensions" of our lives including its secrets in the moment we decide to transform ourselves by "turning fear, doubt, insecurity, hatred, and emptiness into their opposites." In our world we seem to stress the importance of the Higher Brain and its ability to analyze and to create new ideas, while we disregard our feelings and emotions which reside in our old brain. The result is much suffering as well as a lack of fulfillment and happiness in life. Dr. Chopra shows how we can become whole again by acknowledging the fact that we are a "creature who acts, thinks, and feels" and that "spirituality fuses these three into a single reality." He says that we can connect with the source of the universe through "the one reality", which "can be recognized because once you are there, you experience the flow of life without obstacles or resistance". The reader learns that in that state everything in life becomes effortless and all of our desires can be fulfilled.

In the following 261 pages Dr. Chopra shares 15 secrets, which can help humanity achieve that unity with the ultimate reality of life. For instance, secret #1 is "the mystery if life is real". Deepak says that we always know who we are and what our meaning in life is. He shows us the way to our higher purpose by taking us through a series of exercises which enables our "body's wisdom" to "point the way.". Through secret #2 ("the world is in you") Dr. Chopra encourages us to "live like a cell" in a human body. In order to be in total harmony with life itself we need to realize, says he, that our world is a direct reflection of ourselves, that we are part of each other's lives and that there is no need to control anything for all is in total harmony. Dr. Chopra continues to take the reader deeper into the mysteries of life by disclosing that "the cause of suffering is unreality", that "every life is spiritual" and that "evil is not our enemy" but our savior. After sharing the last secret (#15) that "everything is pure essence" Dr. Chopra closes his extraordinary book by giving answers to ancient questions such as "Who am I?", "Where did I come from?" and "Why am I here?".

This book is very well written and easy to understand. The author addresses everybody who is interested in personal growth and reaching higher levels of consciousness. The text is accompanied by exercises which are well explained and easy to follow.

The Book of Secrets has been written by a true master. Dr. Chopra's interesting and inspiring style makes the reading of this book a delight and a "page turner". Each page contains several golden nuggets of wisdom which enables the reader to learn something every time he or she picks up the book to read. The only weakness of this book is that we have to do the exercises ourselves in order for them to work for us.

This work is a must for everyone who wants to learn how to live a life of meaning and to grow personally. Through this work Dr. Chopra has opened and shared with us his own book of secrets. These are the secrets of a sage who walks his talk.

For all those who are looking for a "fast track to enlightenment" - if there was one - this is one of the best books on this topic ever written.
1 stars (pernicious concepts from a spirtitual guide?) - I have read many of Mr.Chopras` works in the past and have generally been very much in accord with his ideas. There is a great sadness in me though when I read something so pervasive and pernicious as the idea that "love from the opposite sex" without the other side of the coin! This type of phrasing is unfortunate and inappropriate because it does not cover what is truly meant.(romantic love or love from another) would be better.Bad writing,bad editing. If it IS what was meant then it is SO limiting and caters to subtle homophobia,which in some ways is more damaging than outright bashing. The 21st century is now. Democracy cannot happen without a womans` right to vote any more than real,true freedom can found wthout being truly inclusive.