Gopalakrishnan Chandrasekaran
PhD
Inner Awareness & Mental Peace Expert
Gopalakrishnan Chandrasekaran Quick Facts
- Main areas
- Spiritual Growth, Counseling on Mental Peace, Computer Modelling
- Best sellers
- The book "In Quest of the Deeper Self"
- Career focus
- Author, Speaker
- Affiliation
- International Association for Near Death Studies, Durham, NC, USA. (website: iands.org)
Gopalakrishnan TC received his doctoral degree in Coastal Engineering from the North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, USA in 1978. He served on the research and teaching faculty of the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, India, the North Carolina State University and the Kuwait Institute for Scientific Research, Kuwait.
Aside from his professional involvements, he was interested in the philosophic issues of life for the last forty years or so. This led him to the messages of Ramana Maharishi, Lao Tzu, J Krishnamurthy, UG Krishnamurthy, Nisargadatta Maharaj, Eckhart Tolle, Marcus Aurelius and similar Masters. Based on the above reflections, he brought out a book entitled “In Quest of the Deeper Self” published by the Outskirts Press Inc., Colorado. This book can serve as a way-side companion to those that would like to look at the deeper aspects of life.
Gopalakrishnan is a member of the International Association for Near Death Studies, Durham, NC, USA. He presented a paper in their annual conference of 2011, Sept. 2-4, 2012. The paper was entitled "On the Spiritual Content of Near Death Experiences". He has published a number of articles on spirituality and mental peace in magazines and article sites. He lives with his wife in Kodaikanal, a hill town in south India.
Email: (1) gkrish2005@yahoo.co.in (2) gopal.tc@gmail.com
Website: http://spirituality.yolasite.com
Blog: http://nde-thedeeperself.blogspot.com
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The Implications of NDE Messages to People of Different Vocations in Life
Contrary to some skeptics’ assessment, the near death experiences carry profound spiritual messages to humanity that can transform the individual and the collective. In this article, we see their implications to people who have different dispositions in life. General
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Pious Egoism and Its Tricky Ways – A Serious Block to Inner Freedom
Wanting to impress people with their assumed humility, human beings may take on a posture of freedom from their ego. This is pious egoism. Its tricky ways can keep us arrested in its deception. Those who wish to expand their spiritual vision understand this deceptive tendency in the human psychology. Self-awareness can help us dissolve that tendency.
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Effervescence to Natural Spirituality and Freedom – Anita Moorjani’s NDE.
People fall prey to conditioned responses unknowingly. As a result, their reactions to others become robotic. They can release themselves from this sad state of affairs through transcendence brought about by simple self-awareness towards inner freedom. That would lead to discovering natural spirituality.
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Supporting the Planetary Evolution – A Sacred Task in the Realm of Our Consciousness
After the biological evolution on our Earth, there has been a consciousness evolution. Part of this is reflected in the way human beings have been able to harness nature’s forces to their advantage. It can now go into the spiritual realm. Planetary consciousness evolution opens us to a grand vision of human development and meaning. We recognize the possibility of embarking on a new path of human journey- more creative, caring and vibrant than anything that has gone on in the past.
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Effortless Detachment – the Puzzle of Spiritual Awakening
True detachment results from understanding how we gather a lot of unnecessary mental accretion that hangs heavy on us preventing us from discovering higher dimensions of our spiritual existence. Dropping off the accretion takes place when we understand what it means to embark on an inward journey, with effortless detachment as its content.
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Wonderment and the Eage ess to Understand – The Stepping Stones to Inner Transformation
Inner transformation of our minds is necessary to step out of the self-created prison caused by the habitual thought. Self-awareness and the associated wonderment bring about an inward journey that augments inner transformation. It helps us understand the near death experience (NDE) and integrate its messages with our inner evolution, leading to wholesome life.
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The Sorrow at Bereavement – It Can Help Us Understand Our Life and the After-life
Many issues of life can function as our teachers if we adopt an attitude of looking into them with the eage ess to understand what lies beyond the apparent. Reflection on the sorrow at losing a near and dear one can lead to a life of compassion.
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Waking up to the Deeper Meaning of Life – Help from Near Death Experiences
To lead a meaningful life requires the understanding of its lofty purpose and our little place in the vast scheme of things. The messages from near death experiences (NDEs) go a long way in helping us perceive the sacredness of life – and the sacredness of death too!
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Slavery to Psychological Systems – An Obstruction to Natural Spirituality
Human beings have a tendency to cling to comforting and satisfying conclusions rather than be bold enough to acknowledge the truth. This attitude thwarts the journey of discovery in any field and, especially, in the realm of spirituality. A good historical example of this may be called the Cope ican Paradigm. This is the item in connection with the discovery of the solar system’s heliocentric characteristic. The Polish astronomer Nicholas Cope icus is usually credited with providing a systematic proof of the heliocentricity based on the retrograde motion of the outer planets.
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Can There be Free Will While Functioning from the Conditioned Mind?
The conventional concept is that human beings have free will and that they can make any decision by it unhindered by other things. This is true only within a limited sphere of awareness. When the perspective expands, we see a totally different actuality.
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A Bunch of Wholesome Advice ‘Desiderata’ - and Its Spoof ‘Deteriorata’!
It is always rewarding to go through an intelligent bunch of worldly advice. Here we see one such bunch. It is followed by a hilarious spoof of the same. Both seem to have an input for those who wish to lead a cheerful life governed by wisdom.
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Studies on Awareness Prior to Being Born – the Pre-birth Experience
It is usually assumed that our consciousness begins with birth and that matters get recorded from then on. In reality, consciousness exists even while the child is in the womb and a kind of ‘knowingness’ seems to operate then.
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Deeper Self
The website deals with what may be called 'Natural Spirituality'. It is not related to any particular belief system. This site has many blurbs on freeing the mind from its conditioning and moving towards inner peace through self-awareness. It also gives details of a book published by the owner of the site.
October 22, 2012
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Natural Spirituality
Deals with spirituality from a non-sectarian point of view. Includes write-up and articles on self-awareness and reflections about deeper issues of life, body and mind.
July 27, 2012
Favorite Quotes & Thoughts from Gopalakrishnan Chandrasekaran
We should all work towards a unified world of harmony and peace through attention to the esoteric aspects of life. The sectarian belief approach divides people and creates tension. Further, such an approach prevents pure self-awareness because it expects slavery to a system from its adherents. What is needed is a boldness to question and proceed as an explorer towards the truth. As an English poet said, "They are slaves who dare not be in the right of two or three." It should be noted here that group psychology is different from mob psychology only in degree, not in kind. Therefore, when people do not fall into groups of believers or non-believers (atheists, agnostics etc), then there is a possibility that they can remain open-minded and discover the truth. each one in one's own way. They create no enemies. My wish is to share with people whatever I have found meaningful in the deeper realms of life, body and mind.
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