What do you think of Deepak Chopra?

Question

Is he a sincere person with spiritual and/or philosophical insight or is he a fake trying to make money off of other people?

Answer 1

DEEPAK CHOPRA - YES he is very sincere and has high spritual and philosophical insight and his writing are really good.
Deepak Chopra was born in India and studied medicine at the All India Institute of Medical Science. He left his home for the United States in 1970 and completed residencies in internal medicine and endocrinology. He went on to teaching posts at major medical institutions—Tufts University and Boston University schools of medicine—while establishing a very successful private practice. By the time he was thirty-five, Chopra had become chief of staff at New England Memorial Hospital.

Disturbed by Western medicine's reliance on medication, he began a search for alternatives and discovered one in the teachings of the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, an Indian spiritualist who had gained a cult following in the late sixties teaching Transcendental Meditation (TM). Chopra began practicing TM fervently and eventually met the Maharishi. In 1985 Chopra established the Ayurvedic Health Center for Stress Management and Behavioral Medicine in Lancaster, Massachusetts, where he began his practice of integrating the best aspects of Eastern and Western medicine.

In 1993, he published Creating Affluence: Wealth Consciousness in the Field of All Possibilities, and the enormously successful best seller, Ageless Body, Timeless Mind. In the latter he presents his most radical thesis: that aging is not the inevitable deterioration of organs and mind that we have been traditionally taught to think of it as. It is a process that can be influenced, slowed down, and even reversed with the correct kinds of therapies, almost all of which are self-administered or self-taught. He teaches that applying a regimen of nutritional balance, meditation, and emotional clarity characterized by such factors as learning to easily and quickly express anger, for instance, can lead to increased lifespans of up to 120 years.-

Answer 2

The Catholic Religion is a church organization with a sincere spiritual and philosophical mission on earth. The money they have at this time including all the assets and the historical value they possessed around the world cannot be easily counted; did you by any chance ever thought that they may have also been fake that successfully made money from people? If ever, Deepak Chopra is not different from the Mormons, Church Of Christ, the Baptist, the Evengelists who have lavish Temples, expensive cars, palatial homes and other big time priveleges. Why do you have to pick on him?

Answer 3

I try not to.

There are problems inherent in any religious person who spends all of his or her time as a spiritual leader. S/he has to eat, sleep, wear clothes, not to mention reach the masses somehow. How do they do that? Salesmanship. Every religious leader does that. Some simply sell themselves to the congregation, others sell to television audiences.

Does the movement of money for spiritual work impact the religious personage's message, sincerity, or religious wisdom/insight? For some, yes. For others, no. Generally, I think people judge "fakeness" based on whether or not they agree with the ideology or whether or not the religious person has been caught with a hooker.

Deepak Chopra is to New Age what Billy Graham is to Christianity. I don't think he's a fake. That doesn't mean I think he's right, nor do I think he's wrong. I haven't read his material.

Answer 4

Also check out this Deepak Chopra vids http://www.timeless-u.com

Answer 5

I've never heard of him, does he ask for money and accept more than he needs? Does he realize that all power comes from God and all power that is not of God will fail?

Answer 6

Amusing fiction writer.

Answer 7

I think he is very knowledgable on spirituallity. I see him in the same light as I see Dr. Wayne Dyer.

Answer 8

he's sincere and the money is just a side effect.

Answer 9

He knows how to tell people what they want to hear, and to make money from it.

Answer 10

Great cookbook.

Edit:
Thumbs down? Have you even read his cookbook?????