Deepak Chopra
Deepak Chopra | |
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Born | [1] New Delhi, British India[2] | October 22, 1946
Citizenship | United States[3] |
Alma mater | All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi |
Occupations |
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Spouse |
Rita Chopra (m. 1970) |
Children | |
Relatives | Sanjiv Chopra (brother) |
Website | Official website |
Deepak Chopra (
Chopra studied medicine in India before emigrating in 1970 to the United States, where he completed a residency in internal medicine and a fellowship in endocrinology. As a licensed physician, in 1980 he became chief of staff at the
Chopra claims that a person may attain "perfect health", a condition "that is free from disease, that never feels pain", and "that cannot age or die".[15][16] Seeing the human body as undergirded by a "quantum mechanical body" composed not of matter but energy and information, he believes that "human aging is fluid and changeable; it can speed up, slow down, stop for a time, and even reverse itself", as determined by one's state of mind.[15][17] He claims that his practices can also treat chronic disease.[18][19]
The ideas Chopra promotes have regularly been criticized by medical and scientific professionals as
Biography
Early life and education
Chopra was born in
Chopra completed his primary education at St. Columba's School in New Delhi and graduated from the All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi in 1969. He spent his first months as a doctor working in rural India, including, he writes, six months in a village where the lights went out whenever it rained.[30] It was during his early career that he was drawn to study endocrinology, particularly neuroendocrinology, to find a biological basis for the influence of thoughts and emotions.[31]
He married in India in 1970 before emigrating, with his wife, to the United States that same year.
Between 1971 and 1977, he completed residencies in
East Coast years
Chopra taught at the medical schools of Tufts University, Boston University, and Harvard University,[35][36][37] and became Chief of Staff at the New England Memorial Hospital (NEMH) (later known as the Boston Regional Medical Center) in Stoneham, Massachusetts before establishing a private practice in Boston in endocrinology.[38]
While visiting New Delhi in 1981, he met the Ayurvedic physician Brihaspati Dev Triguna, head of the Indian Council for Ayurvedic Medicine, whose advice prompted him to begin investigating Ayurvedic practices.[39] Chopra was "drinking black coffee by the hour and smoking at least a pack of cigarettes a day".[40] He took up Transcendental Meditation to help him stop, and as of 2006[update], he continued to meditate for two hours every morning and half an hour in the evening.[41]
Chopra's involvement with TM led to a meeting in 1985 with the leader of the TM movement, Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, who asked him to establish an Ayurvedic health center.[12][42] He left his position at the NEMH. Chopra said that one of the reasons he left was his disenchantment at having to prescribe too many drugs: "[W]hen all you do is prescribe medication, you start to feel like a legalized drug pusher. That doesn't mean that all prescriptions are useless, but it is true that 80 percent of all drugs prescribed today are of optional or marginal benefit."[43]
He became the founding president of the American Association of Ayurvedic Medicine, one of the founders of Maharishi Ayur-Veda Products International, and medical director of the Maharishi Ayur-Veda Health Center in Lancaster, Massachusetts. The center charged between $2,850 and $3,950 per week for Ayurvedic cleansing rituals such as massages, enemas, and oil baths, and TM lessons cost an additional $1,000. Celebrity patients included Elizabeth Taylor.[44] Chopra also became one of the TM movement's spokespeople. In 1989, the Maharishi awarded him the title "Dhanvantari of Heaven and Earth" (Dhanvantari was the Hindu physician to the gods).[45] That year Chopra's Quantum Healing: Exploring the Frontiers of Mind/Body Medicine was published, followed by Perfect Health: The Complete Mind/Body Guide (1990).[11]
West Coast years
In June 1993, he moved to California as executive director of Sharp HealthCare's Institute for Human Potential and Mind/Body Medicine, and head of their Center for Mind/Body Medicine, a clinic in an exclusive resort in Del Mar, California, that charged $4,000 per week and included Michael Jackson's family among its clients.[46] Chopra and Jackson first met in 1988 and remained friends for 20 years. When Jackson died in 2009 after being administered prescription drugs, Chopra said he hoped it would be a call to action against the "cult of drug-pushing doctors, with their co-dependent relationships with addicted celebrities".[47][48]
Chopra left the Transcendental Meditation movement around the time he moved to California in January 1993.[49][50] Mahesh Yogi claimed that Chopra had competed for the Maharishi's position as guru,[51] although Chopra rejected this.[52] According to Robert Todd Carroll, Chopra left the TM organization when it "became too stressful" and was a "hindrance to his success".[53] Cynthia Ann Humes writes that the Maharishi was concerned, and not only with regard to Chopra, that rival systems were being taught at lower prices.[54] Chopra, for his part, was worried that his close association with the TM movement might prevent Ayurvedic medicine from being accepted as legitimate, particularly after the problems with the JAMA article.[55] He also stated that he had become uncomfortable with what seemed like a "cultish atmosphere around Maharishi".[56]
In 1995, Chopra was not licensed to practice medicine in California where he had a clinic. However, he did not see patients at this clinic "as a doctor" during this time.
Alternative medicine business
Chopra's book Ageless Body, Timeless Mind: The Quantum Alternative to Growing Old was published in 1993.[11] The book and his friendship with Michael Jackson gained him an interview on July 12 that year on Oprah. Paul Offit writes that within 24 hours Chopra had sold 137,000 copies of his book and 400,000 by the end of the week.[63] Four days after the interview, the Maharishi National Council of the Age of Enlightenment wrote to TM centers in the United States, instructing them not to promote Chopra, and his name and books were removed from the movement's literature and health centers.[64] Neuroscientist Tony Nader became the movement's new "Dhanvantari of Heaven and Earth".[65]
Sharp HealthCare changed ownership in 1996 and Chopra left to set up the Chopra Center for Wellbeing with
Teaching and other roles
Chopra serves as an adjunct professor in the marketing division at Columbia Business School.[70] He serves as adjunct professor of executive programs at the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University.[71] He participates annually as a lecturer at the Update in Internal Medicine event sponsored by Harvard Medical School and the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center.[72] Robert Carroll writes of Chopra charging $25,000 per lecture, "giving spiritual advice while warning against the ill effects of materialism".[73]
In 2015, Chopra partnered with businessman
Personal life
Chopra and his wife have, as of 2013[update], two adult children (Gotham Chopra and Mallika Chopra) and three grandchildren.[5] As of 2019[update], Chopra lives in a "health-centric" condominium in Manhattan.[85] Member of the inaugural class of the Great Immigrants Award named by Carnegie Corporation of New York (July 2006)[86]
Ideas and reception
Chopra believes that a person may attain "perfect health", a condition "that is free from disease, that never feels pain", and "that cannot age or die".[15][16] Seeing the human body as being undergirded by a "quantum mechanical body" comprised not of matter but energy and information, he believes that "human aging is fluid and changeable; it can speed up, slow down, stop for a time, and even reverse itself", as determined by one's state of mind.[15][17] He claims that his practices can also treat chronic disease.[18][19]
Consciousness
Chopra speaks and writes regularly about metaphysics, including the study of consciousness and Vedanta philosophy. He is a philosophical idealist, arguing for the primacy of consciousness over matter and for teleology and intelligence in nature – that mind, or "dynamically active consciousness", is a fundamental feature of the universe.[87]
In this view, consciousness is both subject and object.[88] It is consciousness, he writes, that creates reality; we are not "physical machines that have somehow learned to think...[but] thoughts that have learned to create a physical machine".[89] He argues that the evolution of species is the evolution of consciousness seeking to express itself as multiple observers; the universe experiences itself through our brains: "We are the eyes of the universe looking at itself".[90] He has been quoted as saying: "Charles Darwin was wrong. Consciousness is key to evolution and we will soon prove that."[91] He opposes reductionist thinking in science and medicine, arguing that we can trace the physical structure of the body down to the molecular level and still have no explanation for beliefs, desires, memory and creativity.[92] In his book Quantum Healing, Chopra stated the conclusion that quantum entanglement links everything in the universe, and therefore it must create consciousness.[93] Claims of quantum consciousness are, however, disputed by scientists arguing that quantum effects have no effect in systems on the macro-level systems (i.e., the brain).[94][95]
Approach to health care
Chopra argues that everything that happens in the mind and brain is physically represented elsewhere in the body, with mental states (thoughts, feelings, perceptions, and memories) directly influencing physiology through neurotransmitters such as dopamine, oxytocin, and serotonin. He has stated, "Your mind, your body and your consciousness – which is your spirit – and your social interactions, your personal relationships, your environment, how you deal with the environment, and your biology are all inextricably woven into a single process ... By influencing one, you influence everything."[96]
Chopra and physicians at the Chopra Center practice
In discussing health care, Chopra has used the term "quantum healing", which he defined in Quantum Healing (1989) as the "ability of one mode of consciousness (the mind) to spontaneously correct the mistakes in another mode of consciousness (the body)".[101] This attempted to wed the Maharishi's version of Ayurvedic medicine with concepts from physics, an example of what cultural historian Kenneth Zysk called "New Age Ayurveda".[102] The book introduced Chopra's view that a person's thoughts and feelings give rise to all cellular processes.[103]
Chopra coined the term quantum healing to invoke the idea of a process whereby a person's health "imbalance" is corrected by
Chopra has equated
Chopra's claims of quantum healing have attracted controversy due to what has been described as a "systematic misinterpretation" of modern
Physicists have objected to Chopra's use of terms from quantum physics. For example, he was awarded the satirical
Chopra wrote in 2000 that his
In 2001,
Alternative medicine
Chopra has been described as "America's most prominent spokesman for Ayurveda".
Chopra has metaphorically described the AIDS virus as emitting "a sound that lures the DNA to its destruction". The condition can be treated, according to Chopra, with "Ayurveda's primordial sound".[18] Taking issue with this view, medical professor Lawrence Schneiderman has said that ethical issues are raised when alternative medicine is not based on empirical evidence and that, "to put it mildly, Dr. Chopra proposes a treatment and prevention program for AIDS that has no supporting empirical data".[18]
He is placed by
Aging
Chopra believes that "ageing is simply learned behaviour" that can be slowed or prevented.[124] Chopra has said that he expects "to live way beyond 100".[125] He states that "by consciously using our awareness, we can influence the way we age biologically...You can tell your body not to age."[126] Conversely, Chopra also says that aging can be accelerated, for example by a person engaging in "cynical mistrust".[127] Robert Todd Carroll has characterized Chopra's promotion of lengthened life as a selling of "hope" that seems to be "a false hope based on an unscientific imagination steeped in mysticism and cheerily dispensed gibberish".[24]
Spirituality and religion
Chopra has likened the universe to a "reality sandwich" which has three layers: the "material" world, a "quantum" zone of matter and energy, and a "virtual" zone outside of time and space, which is the domain of God, and from which God can direct the other layers. Chopra has written that human beings' brains are "hardwired to know God" and that the functions of the
In 2012, reviewing War of the Worldviews – a book co-authored by Chopra and Leonard Mlodinow – physics professor Mark Alford says that the work is set out as a debate between the two authors, "[covering] all the big questions: cosmology, life and evolution, the mind and brain, and God". Alford considers the two sides of the debate a false opposition and says that "the counterpoint to Chopra's speculations is not science, with its complicated structure of facts, theories, and hypotheses", but rather Occam's razor.[130]
In August 2005, Chopra wrote a series of articles on the
Position on skepticism
Paul Kurtz, an American skeptic and secular humanist, has written that the popularity of Chopra's views is associated with increasing anti-scientific attitudes in society, and such popularity represents an assault on the objectivity of science itself by seeking new, alternative forms of validation for ideas. Kurtz says that medical claims must always be submitted to open-minded but proper scrutiny, and that skepticism "has its work cut out for it".[134]
In 2013, Chopra published an article on what he saw as "skepticism" at work in Wikipedia, arguing that a "stubborn band of militant skeptics" were editing articles to prevent what he believes would be a fair representation of the views of such figures as Rupert Sheldrake, an author, lecturer, and researcher in parapsychology. The result, Chopra argued, was that the encyclopedia's readers were denied the opportunity to read of attempts to "expand science beyond its conventional boundaries".[135] The biologist Jerry Coyne responded, saying that it was instead Chopra who was losing out as his views were being "exposed as a lot of scientifically-sounding psychobabble".[135]
More broadly, Chopra has attacked skepticism as a whole, writing in
Misuse of scientific terminology
Reviewing
Chopra has been criticized for his frequent references to the relationship of
Yoga
In April 2010, Aseem Shukla, co-founder of the Hindu American Foundation, criticized Chopra for suggesting that yoga did not have its origins in Hinduism but in an older Indian spiritual tradition.[144] Chopra later said that yoga was rooted in "consciousness alone" expounded by Vedic rishis long before historic Hinduism ever arose. He said that Shukla had a "fundamentalist agenda". Shukla responded by saying Chopra was an exponent of the art of "How to Deconstruct, Repackage and Sell Hindu Philosophy Without Calling it Hindu!", and he said Chopra's mentioning of fundamentalism was an attempt to divert the debate.[144][145]
Legal actions
In May 1991, the
After Chopra published his book, Ageless Body, Timeless Mind (1993), he was sued for copyright infringement by Robert Sapolsky for having used, without proper attribution, "five passages of text and one table" displaying information on the endocrinology of stress.[150] An out-of-court settlement resulted in Chopra correctly attributing material that was researched by Sapolsky.[151]
Select bibliography
According to publishers HarperCollins, Chopra has written more than 80 books which have been translated into more than 43 languages, including numerous New York Times bestsellers in both fiction and nonfiction categories.[152] His book The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success was on The New York Times Best Seller list[153] for 72 weeks.[154]
Books
- Creating Health. New York: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. 1987. ISBN 978-0-395-42953-2.
- Quantum Healing. New York: Bantam Books. 1989. ISBN 978-0-553-05368-5.
- Perfect Health. New York: Harmony Books. 1990. ISBN 0517571951.
- Return of the Rishi: A Doctor's Story of Spiritual Transformation and Ayurvedic Healing. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. 1991. ISBN 978-0-395-57420-1.
- Ageless Body Timeless Mind. New York: Harmony Books. 1993. ISBN 978-0-517-59257-1.
- The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success. San Rafael: Amber Allen Publishing and New World Library. 1994. ISBN 978-1-878424-11-2.
- The Return of Merlin. New York: Harmony Books. 1995. ISBN 978-0-517-59849-8.
- The Way of the Wizard. New York: Random House. 1995. ISBN 978-0-517-70434-9.
- The Path to Love. New York: Harmony Books. 1997. ISBN 978-0-517-70622-0.
- with ISBN 978-0-609-80390-5.
- The Book of Secrets. New York: Harmony. 2004. ISBN 978-0-517-70624-4.
- The Third Jesus. New York: Harmony Books. 2008. ISBN 978-0-307-33831-0.
- Reinventing the Body, Resurrecting the Soul. New York: Harmony Books. 2009. ISBN 978-0-307-45233-7.
- The Soul of Leadership. New York: Harmony Books. 2010. ISBN 978-0-307-40806-8.
- with ISBN 978-0-307-88688-0.
- with ISBN 978-0-06-205966-6.
- God: A Story of Revelation. New York: HarperOne. October 8, 2013. ISBN 978-0-06-202069-7.
- with ISBN 978-0-307-95682-8.
- with ISBN 978-0-544-03210-1.
- What Are You Hungry For?. New York: Harmony Books. 2013. ISBN 978-0-7704-3721-3.
- with ISBN 978-0-8041-4013-3.
- with ISBN 978-0307889164.
- Metahuman. New York: Harmony. 2019. ISBN 978-0307338334.
- Total Meditation. Harmony. 2020. ISBN 9781984825315.
- with ISBN 9780451495549.
- with Platt-Finger, Sarah (2023). Living in the Light: Yoga for Self-Realization. Random House. ISBN 9780593235423.
See also
- Celebrity doctor
- Hard problem of consciousness
- Indian Americans
- Indians in the New York City metropolitan area
- List of people in alternative medicine
- Panpsychism
- Spiritual naturalism
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Ever since his early days as an advocate of alternative healing and nutrition, Chopra has been a magnet for criticism—most of it from the medical and scientific communities. Accusations have ranged from the dismissive—Chopra is just another huckster purveying watered-down Eastern wisdom mixed with pseudo science and pop psychology—to the outright damning.
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Then came Scientology, the 'science' of positive thinking, and, more recently, New Age healer Deepak Chopra's nonsensical references to quantum physics.
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Further reading
- Butler, J. Thomas. "Ayurveda," in Consumer Health: Making Informed Decisions, Jones & Bartlett Publishers, 2011, pp. 117–118.
- Butler, Kurt and ISBN 978-0-87975-733-5.
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- Kafatos, Menas, Nadeau, Robert. The Conscious Universe: Parts and Wholes in Physical Reality, Springer, 2013.
- Nacson, Leon (1998). Deepak Chopra: How to Live in a World of Infinite Possibilities. Random House. ISBN 978-0-09-183673-3.
- Scherer, Jochen. "The 'scientific' presentation and legitimation of the teaching of synchronicity in New Age literature", in James R. Lewis, Olav Hammer (eds.), Handbook of Religion and the Authority of Science, Brill Academic Publishers, 2010.