God: A Story of Revelation [9780062020697]

Overview

Deepak Chopra, whose extraordinary Enlightenment series includes the phenomenal New York Times bestsellers Buddha and Jesus, delivers the most powerful installment yet: God. In this beautiful and thought-provoking teaching novel—a Story of Revelation—one of the Western World’s acknowledged master teachers of Eastern philosophy and preeminent influencers in the realm of spirituality and religion reveals the evolving nature of God.

God keeps speaking, but the message changes. This story of revelation explores the divine through the lives of:

• The Prophets of the Book: From Job’s trials in the Old Testament to St. Paul’s transformative vision in the New, discover how God spoke to the founders of Western faith.
• The Philosophers of East and West: Journey with Socrates to "know thyself" and with the Indian sage Shankara to see that life is a dream, revealing two different paths to higher reality.
• The Ecstatic Mystics: Experience the rapturous love of the Sufi poet Rumi and the profound comfort of Julian of Norwich, who declared that in God's eyes, "All shall be well."
• The Heretics and Rebels: Stand with Giordano Bruno against the Inquisition, Anne Hutchinson against the Puritans, and the Baal Shem Tov against rigid dogma to see how revelation often comes to those who challenge the status quo.
• The Modern Visionary: In a final revelation, see through the eyes of poet Rabindranath Tagore how the divine expresses itself as an endless mystery in the modern world.