“I am often asked if Deepak Chopra really believes the many controversial and provocative ideas he espouses in his many writings. Now that I have gotten to know him, I can answer unequivocally in the affirmative, and there is no better encapsulation of his scientific worldview than You Are the Universe, which he coauthored with the highly respected physicist Menas Kafatos, my colleague at Chapman University. If you want to understand the worldview in which human consciousness is primary, and how that perspective can be defended through science, this is the book to read. In my own journey to better understand Deepak and his worldview, this book was the most enlightening path I took.”

—MICHAEL SHERMER, PH.D., publisher of Skeptic magazine; monthly columnist of Scientific American; Presidential Fellow at Chapman University; author of The Moral Arc, The Believing Brain, and Why People Believe Weird Things

“As a teenager, I used to find it rather curious that people regard their thoughts and emotions as integral to who they are, but their perceptions as something totally beyond themselves. The world we perceive is, after all, part of our mental life just like our thoughts and emotions. In this book, Deepak and Menas take this seemingly innocent idea to cosmic heights, revealing its true force and significance. They do it intelligently, in a scientifically well-informed manner, and with good taste. The result is delightful.”

—BERNARDO KASTRUP, PH.D., author of Why Materialism Is Baloney, Brief Peeks Beyond, and More Than Allegory

“You Are the Universe could have been spelled Youniverse, for not only are ‘you’ in the universe, ‘you’ are at the start of it all. Chopra and Kafatos have put together a well-written and, as far as any scientist today knows, a completely accurate exploration of how the mystery of subjective consciousness provides the basis for material reality as it is presently understood. I highly recommend this for those who are curiously alive.”