« A Billion Dollar Thought »

One of the most paradigm-shifting, pattern-breaking thoughts I have come across in a long time is this: aging is a function of social programming. This is a billion dollar thought, no less, this mostly unnoticed gero-ontological* thought will one day change everything we know.

This thought by Deepak Chopra stunned me for the first time in 2003. I revisited it a few times over the years. This thought took guts. Chopra is a true paradigm shifter. A rascal sage extraordinaire.

[*my hyphenation of the word gerontology is to emphasize the ontological aspect of Chopra's gerontological insight (which is that consciousness is primary)]