The Deepak Chopra Way to Bliss

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Deepak Chopra has become a new-age celebrity guru for physical, mental and

spiritual health, promoting a fuzzy philosophy with overtones of Ayurvedic

medicine of ancient India and remnants of his association with the Maharishi

Mahesh Yogi's Transcendental Meditation movement. The first link below

give you the adoring disciple's view of this man and his philosophy (peppered

with jargon like " Quantum Healing " meant to impress rather than elucidate),

the second is from a skeptical viewpoint.

1. <http://www.chopra.com/>

2. <http://www.trancenet.org/chopra/news/ncahf.shtml>

Typical of many such gurus, Chopra has woven a very compelling web of fact

and fiction, theory and law, relying on his genuine medical education, so

that even some very intelligent folk can easily be drawn into this wonderful

world of " practical mysticism " and " therapeutically applied quantum physics. "

In doing so, he often does little justice to Eastern healing arts or Western

medicine and science, although he does an admirable job of constructing some

very persuasive guruesque treatises that have made him commercially very

successful. As some of our previous letters have noted about many people in

certain Western countries who are rather willing to pay for their dreams,

" you can fool most of the people most of the time. "

Compare both of the sites above and judge for yourselves.

Dr Mel C Siff

Denver, USA

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