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Deepak Chopra (born 1947 in New Delhi, India) is a popular contemporary writer in the United States on spirituality, alternative medicine and Ayurveda. He claims Hinduism as his main influence, specifically a teachings of Vedanta and the Bhagavad Gita.

Background

Chopra occurs as trained physician and was board-certified around internal medicine and endocrinology. He graduated from either a All India Institute of Medical Sciences in 1968, and when interning at the New Jersey hospital, trained for several other years at a Lahey Clinic in Burlington, Massachusetts and at the University of Virginia Hospital. He taught at Tufts & Boston University Schools of Medicine, became the chief of staff at a Just released Engl& Memorial Hospital and established a big personal practice. He later on became associated using a transcendental meditation movement, but in the future branched off in his have.

Around 2004, Chopra was recruited to provide script advice to Indian film director Shekhar Kapur on a proposed film to be processed just about a life of Siddhartha Gautama, the Buddha.

Inside June, 2005, Choprthe and Kapur launched a discussion blog [http://www.intentblog.com] with a select class action of their friends & personal. the declared purpose of a web log seems to exist as the promotion of a pro-Indian version of multi-culturalism, though the actual posts discuss the kind of topics.

Writings

He write of holistically caring for a immune system & promotes Ayurveda, the traditional Indian models of medicine.

Criticism
Of particular concern to his critics come his frequent information to the relationship of quantum mechanics to healing processes, which they assume section of the pattern of general confusion in the popular click on quantum measurement, decoherence and the Heisenberg uncertainty principle.

Deepak Choprthe is as well criticized for to a fault mystifying Hinduism & Ayurveda (a technique of medicine). His qualifications around Ayurveda come questioned & by shrouding it within elusive language, he is accused of alienating it from either a mainstream & de-legitimizing it.

Within March 2003, shortly prior to a America-led Invasion of Iraq, Choprthe on existence invite originative ideas, suggested that a newly Disney World theme park inside the Middle East would help to reduce fear & anger in kids & that residents of Iraq should become provided loose access to CNN, MTV and Nickelodeon [http://www.wisdomseekers.org.nz/avoidwar.HTML] to expose them to the rest of the globe. Chopra's proposals were widely ridiculed.

Deepak Chopra Home Page
Official site from this best-selling author. Read excerpts of his works, or ask him questions, find out where he is speaking, or read about the upcoming events at the Chopra Center.

Random House: Deepak Chopra
"Deepak Chopra web site dedicated to the work and wisdom of the best-selling author."

Deepak Chopra, M.D.
An interview.

Deepak Chopra - Exclusive Interview
MyPrimeTime's interview: "Spirituality's New-Age Prophet: Deepak Chopra. The biology of spirit."

Deepak Chopra Interview
Antonella Gambotto's interview with Dr. Deepak Chopra.


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