Digital Dharma: How AI Can Elevate Spiritual Intelligence and Personal Well-Being

by Deepak Chopra

New York Times bestselling author Deepak Chopra delivers a visionary and unprecedented exploration of how artificial intelligence can revolutionize well-being and open new horizons for personal development.

“AI has the potential to help us create a more peaceful, just, sustainable, healthy, and joyful world. Digital Dharma shows you a path.”—Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI

In a world captivated yet bewildered by artificial intelligence, spiritual icon Deepak Chopra, MD, illuminates AI’s untapped potential to unravel the enigma of consciousness, positioning AI not as a threat but as a catalyst for personal and collective growth. In Digital Dharma, Chopra navigates the balance between technology and expanded awareness, explaining that while AI cannot duplicate human intelligence, it can vastly enhance personal and spiritual growth.

Chopra shows readers how the most popular, freely available chatbots can serve as guides through every level of human potential—survival and safety, emotional connection, self-worth, abundance, creativity, wisdom, and the infinite possibilities of cosmic consciousness. AI chatbots offer information, advice, and exploratory avenues of untapped potential about any aspect of human awareness.

In practical terms, making AI your ally and guide depends on the art of the prompt, the questions a user poses to a chatbot. As Chopra shows in detail, by asking the right questions, you can bring AI into your inner world, which is where personal growth happens. Chopra provides a personal assessment for you to better understand yourself and exercises to help you expand your awareness in any part of your life.

Digital Dharma masterfully helps readers to harness AI, not merely as a technological tool but as a partner in crafting a future where human potential solves the urgent problems facing the planet and each of us as individuals. Deepak Chopra invites us to transcend our limitations and explore a relationship with AI that elevates collective consciousness and personal evolution at the same time.

Genres: Self Help, Nonfiction, Spirituality, Health

240 pages, Hardcover

Published September 17, 2024

About the author

Deepak Chopra, MD serves as the Founder and Chairman of The Chopra Foundation, and Co-Founder of the Chopra Center for Wellbeing.

As a global leader and pioneer in the field of mind-body medicine, Chopra transforms the way the world views physical, mental, emotional, spiritual, and social wellness. Known as a prolific author of eighty books books with twenty-two New York Times best sellers in both fiction and non-fiction, his works have been published in more than forty-three languages.

Chopra’s medical training is in internal medicine and endocrinology. He is a Fellow of the American College of Physicians and a member of the American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists. Dr. Chopra serves as Co-Founder and Chairman of The Chopra Center for Wellbeing, Founder of The Chopra Well on YouTube, Adjunct Professor of Executive Programs at Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University, Adjunct Professor at Columbia Business School, Columbia University, Assistant Clinical Professor, in the Family and Preventive Medicine Department at the University of California, San Diego, Health Sciences, Faculty at Walt Disney Imagineering, and Senior Scientist with The Gallup Organization.

GlobeIn acknowledges Chopra as "one of top ten most influential spiritual leaders around the world." TIME magazine has described Dr. Chopra as "one of the top 100 heroes and icons of the century and credits him as "the poet-prophet of alternative medicine."

Reviews

[Lisa · Rating 2 out of 5]

Chopra has come at this from an angle that could have been enlightening (he ostensibly wanted to explore how AI can be a guru to improve your EQ, through things like daily affirmations, personalised motivation and specific visualisations and meditations).

However the entire books reads like “I asked ChatGPT this, and here’s what it said”. While I appreciate transparency in the use of GenAI, this felt like he was cribbing on his homework.

Hopefully someone else will build on this theme to make it more impactful.

[D Brothers · Rating 2 out of 5]

Moving this to the abandoned shelf. The premise is that you can use AI as a way to prompt self reflection, but the execution of the book is literally just Deepak Chopra entering search terms into ChatGPT and then reciting the answers back verbatim.

The content wasn't terrible, but it was a slog to read as a book. It felt lazy.

[Brandi Edinger · Rating 2 out of 5]

I respect Deepak Chopra’s perspective, but this book felt like it could have been an essay rather than a full-length work. While it may help someone very new to personal growth or AI, this is a tedious book that won’t age well.

[Antonio Gallo · Rating 4 out of 5]

Digital Dharma: Un ponte tra spiritualità e intelligenza artificiale. Deepak Chopra, noto per i suoi contributi nel campo della medicina olistica e della spiritualità, ha recentemente pubblicato Digital Dharma. Questo libro rappresenta un tentativo audace e affascinante di collegare due mondi apparentemente distanti: quello della spiritualità e quello dell'intelligenza artificiale.

Di cosa parla Digital Dharma?

In un'epoca dominata dalla tecnologia e dall'innovazione, Chopra ci invita a riflettere sul potenziale dell'intelligenza artificiale di non solo trasformare il nostro modo di vivere, ma anche di elevarci spiritualmente. L'autore esplora come l'AI, spesso vista come una minaccia, possa diventare un potente strumento per la crescita personale e collettiva.

Alcune delle tematiche chiave affrontate nel libro includono:

L'intelligenza artificiale come specchio dell'anima: Chopra sostiene che l'AI, riflesso della nostra creatività e dei nostri desideri più profondi, possa aiutarci a comprendere meglio noi stessi e la nostra coscienza.

L'AI come guida spirituale: L'autore propone l'idea di utilizzare gli assistenti virtuali come mentori spirituali, offrendo supporto e guida nella pratica della meditazione e dello sviluppo personale.

L'AI al servizio dell'umanità: Chopra esplora come l'AI possa essere utilizzata per risolvere alcuni dei problemi più urgenti del nostro tempo, come la povertà, la malattia e il cambiamento climatico.

Perché leggere Digital Dharma?

Una prospettiva innovativa: Chopra offre una visione unica e provocatoria dell'interazione tra tecnologia e spiritualità.

Un invito alla riflessione: Il libro ci stimola a riflettere sul nostro rapporto con la tecnologia e sul suo impatto sulla nostra vita.

Un percorso di crescita personale: Le pratiche e gli esercizi proposti da Chopra possono aiutarci a sviluppare una maggiore consapevolezza di noi stessi e del mondo che ci circonda.

Digital Dharma è un libro che invita a guardare oltre le paure e le incertezze legate all'intelligenza artificiale, per coglierne le opportunità e utilizzarle per il bene dell'umanità. È una lettura stimolante e coinvolgente, che si rivolge a chiunque sia interessato a esplorare le intersezioni tra scienza, tecnologia e spiritualità.

[Silvia Gabriela · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book is a truly complete guide on how to use AI for our development and improvement. The author takes the rhythm with a good vibe and leads you to your deep consciousness without taking your feet off the earth. It is very interesting the way the old knowledge about self-awareness and the spiritual side of the human is now mixed with AI as a mentor on the path.
Also, it is a very active book because it causes the effect of asking similar things to the AI, adapted to your own environment, which results in a personal experience with the book and with the AI. I think that is the purpose of the author, and it is a very good effort to put a strong tool in the reader's hands.
If you only see conversations with AI, you have to read it again.

[Rangarajan L · Rating 5 out of 5]

How can the most popular chatbots teach us to live more intentionally, embrace the present moment, and stabilize our emotions to focus on what truly aligns with our authentic selves? Deepak explores this compelling question, using chatbots as a unique lens to guide us in reflecting on our priorities and uncovering what truly matters in life. Unlike countless other books that merely examine how technology shapes and influences our way of living, this one takes a refreshing approach—highlighting how technology can be harnessed to foster more meaningful, intentional, and purposeful ways of life.

[shreeya]

just found this on my bookshelf and decided to give it a read and dnf but from the first few chapters it's incredibly clear that deepak chopra has no idea how ai works or even bothered to do any research on it, which seems like a prerequisite of writing a book like this... it also comes off like he's doing promo for google and openai. the book is just his personal ai logs with some commentary

to say nothing of the qualms i have with his actual argument about ai aiding with "personal wellbeing"

[Liza Schwartz · Rating 4 out of 5]

Got this book as a preview to seeing Deepak Chopra “Awakened Life” in person at Kripalu in the Berkshires. The 3 day event was enlightening. His presence alone brings awareness for those of us fortunate to have this experience. The book is packed with inspiration and a good read on a spiritual journey. AI as a new tool is interesting as it represents our collective thoughts which is what reaching true awareness and consciousness is all about.

[Michael Smith · Rating 5 out of 5]

written by chatGPT

Thank you Deepak another marvelous work filled with incredible information and real life application for how to interact with AI. I have not read all of his books but I started off with Quantum Healing in 1989. This book contains the latest tools for transformation personally and globally.

[Lori Pulichino · Rating 3 out of 5]

I love Deepak Chopra. Digital Dharma is a book that suggestions and many examples of how you can use ChatGPT or AI to assist you in your spiritual journey. Although this is an interesting idea, I found this book to be a lot of ChatGPT prompts and Deepak’s reaction to the results.

This book wasn’t the most eye opening to me. I will stick to Chopra’s meditation app instead.

[judy-b. judy-b. · Rating 4 out of 5]

My first Deepak Chopra and AI read. I like how he approaches the idea of using technology, specifically large language model chat agents to look within. Also enjoyed hearing his musings on the nature of consciousness.

[Donna Brown · Rating 5 out of 5]

I love the prompts that are in this book for using AI and creating personal well being. I am not an AI expert so this definitely will work for those who are not great with technology.
Love the prompts to ChatGPT

[James Krueger · Rating 5 out of 5]

A fresh perspective on how we can utilize AI to explore any area of thought. This book really inspired me to start asking questions I never thought to ask.

[Lisa Cantor · Rating 2 out of 5]

Dnf

[Laëtitia · Rating 5 out of 5]

En quelques mots: comment se sentir en paix et complet grâce à la connaissance profonde de soi avec l'IA comme guide. Je recommande vivement

[Laurel · Rating 4 out of 5]

I found this really fun and inspiring to read. ChatGPT, Gemini, and other LLMs are so much wiser than we may realize :)

[Chelsea Triano · Rating 3 out of 5]

I didn’t anticipate how much of the book would be ghost written literally by AI, but expanding the idea of our connection to cosmos and intertwined energy through leaning into AI was interesting.

[Crystal · Rating 4 out of 5]

I thought this book had lots of great ideas to use AI to help deepen your own spiritual practices.

[cthia · Rating 5 out of 5]

I have been a fan of Deepak Chopra's books since the 90s. I love his enthusiasm for AI and the numerous examples of AI prompts in his latest book.

[Ryan Coleman · Rating 3 out of 5]

Great information and intentions but no great for a audio book more suitable for a physical read

[Denise · Rating 5 out of 5]

What a cool way to calm down, reflect, and have some hope for the future.

[Lils · Rating 4 out of 5]

personally found this a good blend of dharma & AI. definitely dharma keeping up with the times.

[Cathy · Rating 4 out of 5]

Mind opening! So glad I read this by such a respected mind!

[Jane Lee · Rating 4 out of 5]

As always, lovely, helpful and too much. Just what I need. Thank you.