by Deepak Chopra C 2006
Harmony Books an Imprint of Crown
BRAIN VERSUS MIND
There is so very much to consider in Deepak Chopra's "Life Afer Death," that opens the wondrous realms of the afterlife to the reader, bridging science and spirituality. As for an excerpt I would like to report on communication, that is to say, the idea that through MIND which is beyond BRAIN itself, not only can humans reveal clairvoyant or other "psychic powers," but so can pets. The idea here is that MIND mysteriously links to all knowledge ever known.
Pages 216-219 tell the story of N'kisi an African Gray parrot with a 700 word vocabulary who seemed to be able to read his owner, Aimee's, mind. In order to experiment, the parrot and the owner were kept out of each other's visual fields and the owner watched television. Aimee had "astonishing stories" to tell researcher Sheldrake: "When she was watching a Jackie Chan movie on television, during one scene with Chan perilously perched on a girder, N'kisi said, "Don't fall down," even with no line of sight to the picture. When an automobile commercial came on next, N'kisi said, "That's my car." Another time Aimee was reading the lines, "The blacker the berry, the sweeter the juice," in a book when simultaneously from another room the bird said, "The color is black." (CT) So researcher Sheldrake decided to confirm for himself. Aimee looked a a picture of a girl in a magazine, and with remarkable clarity from the adjoining room the parrot said, "That's a girl."
And so it goes, convincingly.
The idea of MIND as something coexisting but separate from BRAIN isn't foreign to me but in this book it becomes tied in with the idea that if you can imagine something it can manifest.
The back section which reveals book resources the author used may fuel my reading through the fall; so very many books that hold promise to reveal great mysteries!
