dr. chopra a little bit of an edge in tonight's discussion. but i'm confident it'll be very even-handed at the end of the day. the building has gone through a number of iterations. it was originally the first -- second home of the real congregation for about 50 years, it was the home of the turner memorial ame church for about 40 years, and it's been a historic synagogue now going on seven years, and tonight's event is very typical of the type of events we try to do, great people, very interesting topics and things that people are interested in. and jackie leventhal who runs our cultural programming always wants me to announce when i do this upcoming events, and generally i've done, but i have to tell you this. i looked at the five next authors who are coming, plus tonight, six great things. but we have bill bryson coming, jeffrey -- [inaudible] jeff -- justice stephen breyer and diane keaton. so she does get some great stuff, and i have to thank jackie for that. [applause] tonight we're honored to have dr. deepak chopra who is the author of m

dr. chopra little bit of an edge in tonight's discussion, but i am confident it will be even-handed at the end of the day. the building has gone through a number of iterations. it was originally the second home of the congregation for 50 years. it with the home of the turner memorial ame church for like 40 years and it has been the sixth and i synagogue going on for seven years in tonight's event is very typical of the type events we try to do, great people, very interesting topics and things that people are interested in. always wants me to announce when i do this upcoming event and generally i don't. but i have to tell you this. i look 55 next august -- but we have bill bryson coming, justice stephen breyer, justice john paul stevens and diane keaton, so we really, she does give some great stuff and i have to thanked thank jackie for that. [applause] tonight, we are honored to have.or deepak chopra who is the author of more than 60 books including numerous "new york times" bestsellers and among his many distinctions he is a fellow of the american college of physicians. "time" magazine na

dr. chopra, mlodinow and tim shriver. thank you very much. [applause] >> good evening. i would like to ask [inaudible] i have been in many distinguished and fireman's in my life but i have never been as out of my league as i am tonight have any of you read the book? be honest. okay, good. so that means the fact that it took me three times reading it to understand it doesn't make me feel bad because none of you have anything over me at least i have tried. it's actually an extraordinary book and i hope he will all get copies of it tonight or in the near future. it is titled as you all know "war of the worlds" and my only gripe is the word war. and i don't think, frankly i to have a war or at least i hope not. i think we are going to have an extraordinarily rich discussion with two people who have arguably as good an insight into the scientific and spiritual world as any people in the world. so, you are in for an enormous tree and i very much looking forward to it. one of my credentials to might, and i think i praise a lot of the kids, i pray though i would be the short ta

dr. deepak chopra who is the author of more than 60 books including numerous "new york times" bestsellersnd among his many distinctions he'sfe