Chopra...explained.

[cleanhippie]

[Silent3]

1. That's going straight to my FaceBook page. :) n/t

[cleanhippie]

2. That's where I found it.

[Silent3]

3. The irony is...

...that the first person to "like" it was my born-again fundy sister. No sense of irony, I guess.

[ZombieHorde]

4. I have been curious about him.

I see his name often, but I know almost nothing about him.

Does he belong to a religion, or is he a philosopher, or what? What is his "thing?" How would his fans label him?

I asked nicely in one of the woo forums, but no one replied.

[cleanhippie]

5. Just the fact that you asked in the woo forum and got no response speaks volumes.

Here is a start.

http://www.quackwatch.com/04ConsumerEducation/chopra.html

Enjoy.

On edit, here is some more...

http://forthesakeofscience.com/2010/04/15/deepak-chopra-is-not-an-intelligent-person/

http://www.deeshaa.org/2010/03/19/the-secrets-of-dee-quack-chopra/

PRIME GOBBLEDYGOOK FROM DEEPAK

Reader Larry Thornton has sent us a transcript of a CBC/Canada interview with the well-known quack Deepak Chopra. One sequence rather caught my amused attention:

Q: What happens when you die, Deepak?

Chopra: What happens when you die, is you return to where you always are. If you realize right now that there's no such thing as a person, you'll be all set.

Q: What do you mean, I'll be all set?

Chopra: Then if you shift your identity to that consciousness that is differentiating as observer and observant, you'll know there's nothing to fear.

Q: You have no fear of death.

Chopra: No Sir! Why? Because I don't exist in the first place!

Q: Can you get reincarnated as a soul?

Chopra: [Sighs] Wisps of memory and threads of desire, which are specks of information, latch onto specks of consciousness and show up as recycled human beings. But in the bigger picture, the observer, the observed, the process of observation, is a single reality.

Q: So... Deepak Chopra, as I know him [questioner taps the sitting Chopra solidly on the knee for effect] my friend Chopra... doesn't exist?

Chopra: A transient behavior of... the total universe.

http://www.randi.org/jr/2007-02/020207geller.html

[ZombieHorde]

6. From your fist link...

"by consciously using our awareness, we can influence the way we age biologically. . . . You can tell your body not to age."

How disappointing. I was hoping he would be more interesting.

Thanks for the info!

[mr blur]

7. ...

(actual quotes - except, of course, the last bit.

[MarkCharles]

8. Just another link to add to this

http://notinmyname2050.blogspot.com/2012/02/quantum-quackery-of-deepak-chopra.html?spref=fb

The Quantum Quackery of Deepak Chopra


“If you think you understand quantum mechanics, you don't understand quantum mechanics.”
Richard Feynman


This guy's blog, and Youtube channel (not Feynman) is worth a look. Lots of funny stuff there!