I enjoyed the Chopra book on Buddha so much that when I saw The Book of Secrets at the used bookstore for a couple of dollars, I had to get it. There is a lot to think about in this book. It isn't a quick read through like Identity was. Here are some things that have really struck me so far:
"To read this sentence, several million neurons in your cerebral cortex had to form an instantaneous pattern that is completely original and never appeared before in your life."
I keep talking about this period of my life being one of transformation or metamorphosis, so this passage made me smile. I have obviously thought about metamorphosis before, but until reading this, I had never really thought about metamorphosis.
"What goes on invisibly inside the chrysalis remains deeply mysterious. The caterpillar's organs and tissues dissolve into an amorphous, souplike state, only to reconstitute into the structure of a butterfly's body that bears no resemblance to a caterpillar at all.
Science has no idea why metamorphosis evolved. It is almost impossible to imagine that insects hit on it by chance--the chemical complexity of turning into a butterfly is incredible; thousands of steps are all minutely interconnected. (It's as if you dropped off a bicycle at the shop to be repaired, and when you came back the parts had become a Gulfstream jet.)"
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