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Morten Tolboll

Deepak Chopra (The Matrix Dictionary)

In the following I will investigate the New Age guru Deepak Chopra, seen in relation

with American New Age propaganda.

Reviewing Susan Jacoby's book, The Age of American Unreason, Wendy

Kaminer sees Deepak Chopra's popular reception in the USA as being symptomatic

of many Americans' historical inability (as Jacoby puts it) "to distinguish between

real scientists and those who peddled theories in the guise of science".

This historical inability is the reason for the rise of New Age propaganda sites such as

Gaia.com, which influence is enormous, also outside the borders of America.

Gaia.com says in its introduction:

SEEKING TRUTH

Explore “Who are we?” and “Why are we here?” with specialists in metaphysics,

ancient wisdom, the unexplained and more only on Gaia.

Explore perspectives you won't find in the mainstream on some of life's biggest

mysteries.

Dare to Challenge the Status Quo

Explore Seeking Truth

Fact is that Gaia.com is a New Age propaganda site, or rather a propaganda site for

The Matrix Conspiracy as such. In that it is filled with Pseudo-scholarship.

Pseudo-scholarship is a work (e.g., publication, lecture) or body of work that is

presented as, but is not, the product of rigorous and objective study or research; the

act of producing such work; or the pretended learning upon which it is based.

It is clear that New Age and its obsession with science, and lack of scientific

knowledge or education, is filled with pseudo-scholarship.

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Examples of pseudo-scholarship include:

Pseudoarchaeology

Pseudohistory

Pseudolinguistics

Pseudomathematics

Pseudophilosophy

Pseudoscience

Gaia.com is an attempt to create an alternative history. Alternative history or alternate

history is a genre of fiction consisting of stories that are set in worlds in which history

has diverged from the actual history of the world. Since the 1950s this type of fiction

has to a large extent merged with science fictional tropes involving cross-time travel

between alternate histories or psychic awareness of the existence of “our” universe by

the people in another; or ordinary voyaging uptime (into the past) or downtime (into

the future) that results in history splitting into two or more time-lines.

It is also creating a so-called secret history. A secret history (or shadow history) is a

revisionist interpretation of either fictional or real (or known) history, which is

claimed to have been deliberately suppressed, forgotten, or ignored by established

scholars. Originally, secret histories were designed as non-fictional, revealing or

claiming to reveal the truth behind the “spin”. Today we see how secret history

sometimes is used in a long-running science fiction or fantasy universe to preserve

continuity with the present by reconciling paranormal, anachronistic, or otherwise

notable but unrecorded events with what actually happened in known history; for

instance in the fictional time travel theories.

For example, the New Age product The WingMakers Story (see my article Time

Travel and the Fascism of the WingMakers Project) combines this with the urban

legend and alternate history from the Ong´s Hat myth. Though the WingMakers

website tries to avoid critique by saying it is a modern mythology (where urban

legends are considered as a modern folklore) it also keeps on, precisely as in urban

legends, to insinuate that the story is true. It is therefore a piece of pseudohistory.

Pseudohistory is purported history such as Afrocentrism, creationism, holocaust

revisionism and the catastrophism of Immanuel Velikovsky (see Robert J.

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Schadewald). Pseudohistory should be distinguished from the ancient texts it is based

on. The sagas, legends, myths and histories, which have been passed on orally or in

written documents by ancient peoples are sometimes called pseudohistory. Some of it

is pseudohistory, some of it is flawed history and some of isn´ t history at all.

Pseudohistory should also be distinguished from historical fiction and fantasy.

Anyone who cites a work of historical fiction as if it were a historical text is a

practising pseudohistorian. There are also writers of historical fiction who

intentionally falsify and invent ancient history. A technique to do this is to claim to

find an ancient document and publishing it in order to express one´ s own ideas. An

example is The Celestine Prophecy. A variation on this theme is to claim that one is

channeling a book from some ancient being, e.g, The Urantia Book, Bringers of the

Dawn, and A Course in Miracles (see my article Paranormal Phenomena Seen In

Connection with Channeling).

Gaia.com is permeated with references to vibrations and energy, advices to avoid the

negative (you can tell good people by their eyes), stop doubting, follow your

intuitions and premonitions, flow with coincidences, believe in the purposiveness of

everything, join thousands of others on the quest, turn into your feelings and evolve

to a higher plane. Follow your intuitions and dreams as you go through your spiritual

evolution. Fact or fiction, it doesn´t matter. Truth is what you make it. Life´s too

short and too complicated to deal with reality. Make your own reality.

This New Age subjectivism and relativism encourage people to believe that reality is

whatever you want it to be. The line between fact and fiction gets blurry and

obscured. Subjectivism shuts down people´s critical faculties, making them

suggestible for any Ideology. It involves making people quit thinking critically in

order to open them up to thinking Magical about that Subjective validation and

Communal reinforcement lead to bliss. Hypnosis is in New Age directly used as a

means for inducing in people certain worldviews, or, actually, one ideology: The

Matrix Conspiracy (also see my article Hypnosis, hypnotherapy and the art of self-

deception).

Gaia.com writes:

YOU’RE HERE FOR A REASON

Your intuition tells you there’s more to our story, something you’re not finding in

your current paradigm. You can feel it in your bones. We are all connected, we’re

part of something greater, and there is something more meaningful in this life that’s

not present in our daily routines.

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Your intuition is right.

Gaia is here with some new ideas and the world’s largest resource of conscious

media to – well –empower the evolution of consciousness. That’s a rather massive

vision, but truthfully, it’s why we do what we do at Gaia.

We want to create a new reality, one of mindful people living in harmony with our

environment and each other. And with you, we can do it. Thank you for being here.

We promise to light the fire if you will carry the torch.

So, Gaia.com is prophesying a New World Order (New Age) to emerge: the world of

Alernative History, Alternative Physics, Alternative Medicine and, ultimately,

Alternative Reality.

How, given the recent and sorry story of ideologically motivated conceptions of

knowledge – Lysenkoism in Stalin´s Soviet Union, for example, or Nazi critiques of

“Jewish science” – could it again have become acceptable to behave in this way? But

the reason is American´s historical inability. They haven´t experienced being slaves

under totalitarian ideologies such as National socialism and Communism.

The Fake News exposing website Snopes.com has this to say about one of

Gaia.com´s articles on alien mummies: http://www.snopes.com/alien-mummy-peru/

Finally, Gaia.com (formerly known as Gaiam TV) web site has a long history of

providing a platform for false and spurious pseudo-science, conspiracy theories, and

paranormal claims. The company charges $95.40 per year for unlimited access to

videos about remote viewing, contact with angels, alien abduction, crop circles, and

the like.

Chopra's "nonsensical references to quantum physics" are placed in a similar lineage

of American religious pseudoscience, extending back

through Scientology to Christian Science.

Physics professor Chad Orzel has written that "to a physicist, Chopra's babble about

'energy fields' and 'congealing quantum soup' presents as utter gibberish", but that

Chopra makes enough references to technical terminology to convince non-scientists

that he understands physics.

Chopra has especially been criticized for his frequent references to the relationship

of quantum mechanics to healing processes, a connection that has drawn skepticism

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from physicists who say it can be considered as contributing to the general confusion

in the popular press regarding quantum measurement, decoherence and

the Heisenberg uncertainty principle. In 1998, Chopra was awarded the satirical Ig

Nobel Prize in physics for "his unique interpretation of quantum physics as it applies

to life, liberty, and the pursuit of economic happiness".

When interviewed by ethologist and evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins (whom

I will return to) in the Channel 4 (UK) documentary The Enemies of Reason, Chopra

said that he used the term "quantum physics" as "a metaphor" and that it had little to

do with quantum theory in physics.

Deepak Chopra is the man behind my concept of Postmodern Spirituality. In my

article Constructivism: The Postmodern Intellectualism behind New Age and the

Self-help Industry I have explained how New Age has linked spirituality to

postmodernism.

Today, after having passed 1984, we live in a so-called postmodernistic dystopia,

where eternal values such as goodness, truth and beauty fall more and more away –

and where we have been invaded by the ideology of relativism, which rulers, in

creeping ways, use the same phrases as the rulers in Orwell´s novel, as if they had

used it as inspiration (the nearest to an attempt of actually creating a new language,

which implies some rules about what is considered as “negative” and “positive”, is

probably the creating of the so-called Giraffe-language – see my article Nonviolent

Communication is an instrument of psychic terror).

This new language accepts the use of thought distortions (see my book A Dictionary

of Thought Distortions).

Often you hear postmodern intellectuals use the following bullying of scientists:

“that they are hewing to the ´objective´ procedures and epistemological structures

prescribed by the so-called scientific method.”

They typically assert that this “dogma” has already been thoroughly undermined by

the theories of general relativity and quantum mechanics and that physical reality has

been shown to be “at bottom a social and linguistic construct.”

This is used to term scientists as old-thinkers, for example that their critique is part of

a “patriarchal, racist, colonistic, eurocentric, cultural dominion discourse”

Relativists typically deride critics and scientists for continuing to cling to the “dogma

imposed by the long post-Enlightenment hegemony over the Western intellectual

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outlook, that there exists an external world whose properties are independent of

human beings, and that human beings can obtain reliable, if imperfect and tentative

knowledge of these properties by hewing to the `objective´ procedures and

epistemological structures prescribed by the so-called scientific method.”

And: “How can a self-perpetuting secular priesthood of credentialed ´scientists´

purport to maintain a monopoly on the production of scientific knowledge?”

Therefore they demand alternative sciences (and alternative views of human rights),

what I call the Illuminati-aspect of The Matrix Conspiracy, because science can´t be

mixed with spiritual or political concepts. If this happens, then it is not science

anymore. The same thing with relativistic and subjectivistic views of human rights;

then it is not human rights anymore.

Postmodern intellectualists are, through this use of language, often trying to get a

political agenda forced through. If you change the political terms with spiritual terms,

though, the same language is used in New Age circles. As an example is precisely

Deepak Chopra, who has invented the concept of quantum healing, which again is

based on the misunderstanding of quantum mechanics, that the mind can control

everything. Chopra is without hesitation going into discussions with experts, and is

precisely using the above-mentioned language.

On ABC's Nightline in March 2010 Deepak Chopra entered a week-long debate

against arch atheist Dr. Michael Shermer. The debate was organized as a part of

Nightline's "Face Off" event series, and was incited by a public challenge issued by

Chopra.

Joined by religious scholar Dr. Jean Houston and neuroscientist Sam Harris, the

group gathered at the California Institute of Technology to settle a long-time

argument regarding the ultimate question: Does God have a future?

The debate was heated from the get-go, with Chopra issuing a rousing appeal to his

audience of scientists and students: "One of the things we have to do is stop being the

Jihadists and Vatican of conservative, orthodox science, which is not relevant

anymore."

Shermer snapped back by claiming that Chopra's opening remarks were "the very

embodiment of woo woo," a term Shermer uses to describe what he considers

dangerous pseudoscience.

Initially, the debate centered around accusations of misrepresenting contemporary

theories of quantum physics to serve either religious or atheistic ends. Harris

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criticized Deepak's identification of God/Nature as "infinite potentiality," calling his

interpretation "unprincipled." Chopra made the claim that Harris' conception of

science was dogmatic and closed off to alternative interpretations.

In the final days, the debate gravitated around whether spiritual experiences should be

explained in material or immaterial terms. Eventually, the debaters could not agree on

the issue of whether such experiences originate within the body or outside of it (see

my article Quantum Mysticism and Its Web of Lies and the updates in Quantum

Mysticism).

Watch the debate on the playlist of my YouTube channel

In my article The Sokal Hoax you can read more about this development.

Susan Jacoby's new book The Age of American Unreason might be viewed as a kind

of sequel to Richard Hofstadter's 1963 classic, “Anti-Intellectualism in American

Life.” A cultural history of the last forty years, The Age of American

Unreason focuses on the convergence of social forces—usually treated as separate

entities—that has created a perfect storm of anti-rationalism. These include the

upsurge of religious fundamentalism, with more political power today than ever

before; the failure of public education to create an informed citizenry; and the

triumph of video over print culture. Sparing neither the right nor the left, Jacoby

asserts that Americans today have embraced a universe of “junk thought” that makes

almost no effort to separate fact from opinion.

Combining historical analysis with contemporary observation, Susan Jacoby dissects

a new American cultural phenomenon - one that is at odds with the American

heritage of Enlightenment reason and with modern, secular knowledge and science.

With mordant wit, she surveys an anti-rationalist landscape extending from pop

culture to a pseudo-intellectual universe of "junk thought." Disdain for logic and

evidence defines a pervasive malaise fostered by the mass media, triumphalist

religious fundamentalism, mediocre public education, a dearth of fair-minded public

intellectuals on the right and the left, and, above all, a lazy and credulous public.

Jacoby offers an unsparing indictment of the American addiction to infotainment--

from television to the Web--and cites this toxic dependency as the major element

distinguishing the current age of unreason from earlier outbreaks of American anti-

intellectualism and anti-rationalism. With reading on the decline and scientific and

historical illiteracy on the rise, an increasingly ignorant public square is dominated by

debased media-driven language and received opinion.

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At this critical political juncture, nothing could be more important than recognizing

the "overarching crisis of memory and knowledge" described in this impassioned,

tough-minded book, which challenges Americans to face the painful truth about what

the flights from reason has cost them as individuals and as a nation (see my entry on

Anti-intellectualism and Anti-science).

Jacobi is less successful, however, in explaining why, in the 21st century, Americans

remain so much more religious than the rest of the developed world, and why matters

like abortion, homosexual marriage, stem cell research and the teaching of evolution

— which are not particularly divisive in an increasingly secular Europe — have

become wedge issues in the United States. Still, educated Northerners were not

paragons of reason. Jacoby singles out their attraction to the pseudoscience of social

Darwinism in the post–Civil War period, noting that the popularity of this ideological

rationale for “untrammeled capitalism” demonstrated the susceptibility of

intellectuals to irrationalism, the confusion of sociology with hard science, and the

dangers of a little knowledge: “Many Americans possessed just enough education to

be fascinated by the late-19th-century advances in both science and technology, but

they had too little education to distinguish between real scientists and those who

peddled theories in the guise of science.” Jacoby rightly identifies pseudoscience and

religion as two “critical ingredients” of unreason since then. Indeed, they often work

in tandem: The “sciences” of mind cure and New Thought flourished, and Mary

Baker Eddy “discovered” Christian Science in the 1860s. Then came Scientology, the

“science” of positive thinking, and, more recently, New Age healer Deepak Chopra’s

nonsensical references to quantum physics.

Jacobi is a part of the Skeptic movement with Richard Dawkins as a front figure, and

she fails to see the pseudoscience of this movement, which is based on reductionism.

Reductionisms are philosophical, political, religious/occult theories, that seek

legitimacy by claiming, that they are scientific theories, while the fact is, that they

either not are testable/able to be falsified, or that they abuse the use of abductive

reasoning.

And towards this might be added that there are two versions of reductionism. This is

important since it seems that these two versions are in war with each other, as we saw

in the above-mentioned debate:

The first version for example claims that Man fully can be described and explained

with the methods of natural science. This happens in various forms of Naturalism,

Positivism and Behaviourism. It is clear that this first kind of reductionism (scientism

and pseudoskepticism) are more accepted than the second openly anti-scientific

version.

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The second version claims, that psychology, sociology or history can give the total

and superior understanding of, what a human being is. These viewpoints are

described respectively as Psychologism, Sociologism and Historism. It is particular

this version which openly claims to be a supporter of anti-science, and accuses the

other part of being reductionistic, and demand so-called alternative sciences. This is

what we see in the popular culture of New Age.

The first version is mostly the supporter of scientism and pseudoskepticism.

Scientism is a term generally used to describe the cosmetic application of science in

unwarranted situations not covered by the scientific method.

Pseudoskepticism (or pseudoscepticism) is a term referring to a philosophical or

scientific position which appears to be that of skepticism or scientific skepticism but

which in reality fails to be so.

But both sides are examples of reductionism and are therefore examples of

pseudoscience.

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".

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". 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".

More broadly, Chopra has attacked skepticism as a whole, writing in The Huffington

Post that "No skeptic, to my knowledge, ever made a major scientific discovery or

advanced the welfare of others." Astronomer Phil Plait said this statement trembled

"on the very edge of being a blatant and gross lie", listing Carl Sagan, Richard

Feynman, Stephen Jay Gould, and Edward Jenner among the "thousands of scientists

[who] are skeptics", who he said were counterexamples to Chopra's statement.

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By the way, which major scientific discoveries have Chopra himself made? Besides

claiming that he and his fellow Matrix Sophists have made such, and that they will be

proved in the future? He hasn´t discovered quantum physics. Quantum physics was

discovered by using the same objective scientific principles, which are behind all

other major scientific discoveries; the very same scientific principles which Chopra is

attacking as examples of “old thinking.” But Chopra doesn´t even understand this

simple contradiction.

Chopra calls his own alternative science for “speculative science.” In reality it is bad

philosophy. Bad philosophy is never going to be “proved”. It´s going to be debunked.

The ideas Chopra promotes have been regularly criticized by medical and scientific

professionals as pseudoscience. This criticism has been described as ranging "from

dismissive [to] damning". For example, Robert Carroll states Chopra attempts to

integrate Ayurveda with quantum mechanics to justify his teachings. Chopra argues

that what he calls "quantum healing" cures any manner of ailments, including cancer,

through effects that he claims are literally based on the same principles as quantum

mechanics. This has led physicists to object to his use of the term quantum in

reference to medical conditions and the human body. His treatments benefit from

the placebo response, and some argue that his claims for the effectiveness of

alternative medicine can lure sick people away from medical treatments. He is placed

by David Gorski among the "quacks", "cranks" and "purveyors of woo", and

described as "arrogantly obstinate". Richard Dawkins publicly exposed Chopra,

accusing him of using "quantum jargon as plausible-sounding hocus pocus".

But Richard Dawkins is himself a reductionist and therefore a pseudoscientist

advocating his atheistic version of Social Darwinism. In connection with The Matrix

Conspiracy Fascism I have used Richard Dawkins and Ken Wilber to show two

versions of social Darwinism, which I claim is two sides of the same Matrix Coin. I

use them because they are probably the most known and respected persons.

Dawkins is using the term Meme as a name of cultural evolution. In the skeptical

movement of New Atheism you will always find a focus on evolution as more less

identical with science, though an atheist view not necessarily have anything to do

with a worship of evolutionism.

Wilber is using 5 factors, factors which he claims are the essential elements or keys

to unlocking and facilitating human [cultural] evolution.

Ken Wilber calls these 5 elements quadrants, levels, lines, states and types; that is:

quadrants of development, levels or stages of development, states of consciousness,

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and a human personality typing system, a typology. All of these elements are, right

now available in your own awareness, he claims. These 5 elements are not merely

theoretical concepts he claims; they are aspects of your own experience, contours of

your own consciousness.

Both Dawkins and Wilber are, as Social Darwinists, ending up in reductionism. I

won´t go into an explanation here, but refer to my two articles on them: A Critique of

Richard Dawkins and the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry (CSI) and A Critique of

Ken Wilber and His Integral Method. Also see my entry The Matrix Conspiracy

Fascism.

A warning signal when you are getting close to The Matrix Conspiracy Fascism is

always the expression: “The Evolution of Consciousness.” If you hear that you can be

sure that you have to do with New Age. The main problem with this expression is

that the traditional wisdom traditions always have characterized spiritual growth with

the concept of awakening. Roughly speaking you can talk about three stages of

spiritual growth: sleep, dream and awake. It hasn´t anything at all to do with

“evolution.” It´s an utterly misplaced expression. And especially not that this can

happen in collective sense. It is purely individual, and very seldom. I have explained

this several places. But you can begin with the article on Ken Wilber.

Deepak Chopra is also an advocate of the “evolution of 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 (see my

The Matrix Conspiracy Updates about how philosophical idealism is the background

for the so-called Simulation theory).

In this view, consciousness is both subject and object. 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". 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". He has been quoted as saying "Charles

Darwin was wrong. Consciousness is key to evolution and we will soon prove that."

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. But as with other New Agers

he doesn´t understand reductionism, since he himself is a blatant reductionist. In his

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book Quantum Healing, Chopra stated the conclusion that quantum

entanglement links everything in the Universe, and therefore it must create

consciousness.

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 by means of 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." That is: a form of quantum biology, and therefore a

reductionism.

Chopra's claims of quantum healing have attracted controversy due to what has been

described as a "systematic misinterpretation" of modern physics. Chopra's

connections between quantum mechanics and alternative medicine are widely

regarded in the scientific community as being invalid. The main criticism revolves

around the fact that macroscopic objects are too large to exhibit inherently quantum

properties like interference and wave function collapse. Most literature on quantum

healing is almost entirely theosophical, omitting the rigorous mathematics that

makes quantum electrodynamics possible (see my article The Fascism of

Theosophy).

Chopra has been described as "America's most prominent spokesman for Ayurveda".

His treatments benefit from the placebo response (see my entry on Joe Dispenza).

Chopra states "The placebo effect is real medicine, because it triggers the body's

healing system."

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" 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".

He is placed by David Gorski among the "quacks", "cranks" and "purveyors of woo",

and described as "arrogantly obstinate". The New York Times in 2013 stated that

Deepak Chopra is "the controversial New Age guru and booster of alternative

medicine". The Time magazine stated that he is "the poet-prophet of alternative

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medicine.” He has become one of the best-known and wealthiest figures in the

holistic-health movement. The Times argued that his publishers have used his

medical degree on the covers of his books as a way to promote the books and buttress

their claims. In 1999 Time magazine included Chopra in its list of the 20th century's

heroes and icons. The following year Mikhail Gorbachev referred to him as "one of

the most lucid and inspired philosophers of our time". Cosmo Landesman wrote in

2005 that Chopra was "hardly a man now, more a lucrative new age brand –

the David Beckham of personal/spiritual growth". A 2008 Time magazine article

by Ptolemy Tompkins commented that for most of his career Chopra had been a

"magnet for criticism", and most of it was from the medical and scientific

professionals. Opinions ranged from the "dismissive" to the "outright damning".

Chopra's claims for the effectiveness of alternative medicine can, some have argued,

lure sick people away from medical treatments. Tompkins however considered

Chopra a "beloved" individual whose basic messages centered on "love, health and

happiness" had made him rich because of their popular appeal. English professor

George O'Hara argues that Chopra exemplifies the need of human beings for meaning

and spirit in their lives, and places what he calls Chopra's "sophistries" alongside the

emotivism of Oprah Winfrey.

It would be better to consult the traditional wisdom traditions, which maybe even are

free of charge.

Related in The Matrix Dictionary:

The Matrix Conspiracy Updates

The Matrix Conspiracy Fascism

Quantum Mysticism

Richard Dawkins

Anti-intellectualism and Anti-science

Bridge between Science and Spirituality

Related articles:

The Matrix Conspiracy

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The Fascism of Theosophy

A Critique of Ken Wilber and His Integral Method

A Critique of Richard Dawkins and the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry (CSI)

Time Travel and the Fascism of the WingMakers Project

A Critique of the Human Design System

The New Feminism and the Philosophy of Women´s Magazines

Related:

The Matrix Dictionary

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