Essential How to Know God: The Essence of the Soul's Journey into the How to Know God : The Soul's Journey Into the Mystery of Mysteries How to Know God: The Soul's Journey Into the Mystery of Mysteries Books Around the Corner added a Books Around the Corner. The bestselling author of Ageless Body, Timeless Mind has written his most ambitious and important work yet an exploration of the seven ways we experience God. These are shaped, not by any one religion, but by an instinct that is hardwired into the brain. In this remarkable book, Chopra takes us step by step from the first stage, where the brain's 'fight or flight' response leads us to a God who is an all powerful and sometimes unpredictable parent, to the seventh stage, where the brain experiences God as pure being, beyond thought, a sacred presence. It is at this seventh stage that we attain a true, life changing spiritual understanding of the world and our place in it; it is the level at which saints and sages dwell. All seven stages are available to each of us, all the time. Deepak Chopra explores mysticism, religious ecstasy, genius, telepathy, multiple personality and clairvoyance, drawing insights from psychology, neurology and physics, as well as from the great religions. The result is vintage Chopra applied to the ultimate quest.