So how can a guy who is a regular on the Oprah Winfrey show and had a slot on Megham Markle’s famous podcast warrant an entry in my scientific Digital Human blog? Well Deepak Chopra is a genius physician, alternative medicine advocate and author who has managed to acquire, unusually for an author, a high popular media profile. He is also someone who has written over 90 books on these subjects something that really impresses me as a novice writer.
His book called “Living in the Light” being about the deeper philosophy
behind yoga which he co-authored with Sarah Platt-Finger. As someone who
practised yoga for several years as a way of counter balancing a very stressful
paid job it proved extremely effective and made me into a very positive “believer”
in yoga practices. It is difficult to narrate why it works to those not practising
yoga but take my word for it is extremely effective.
But the thing that appeals to me is that his fiercest critics
are Richard Dawkins an evolutionary biologist and Brian Cox a physicist. Deepak
Chopra as someone who sees the body as a “quantum mechanical object” whilst
able to discuss serotonin, oxytocin and dopamine is my kind of expert. With comments
like “creativity is a good use of imagination” and the “mind-body connection in
disease” there is much to gain from this guy beyond his original calling card
based him upon being a spiritual alternative medicine communicator. By the way I don’t
see yoga as being spiritual and certainly not religious it being more about
exerting an unusual physical real world control (using real chemicals) over your own consciousness and sub- consciousness to benefit you mentally and physically.
Deepak Chopra was also famous for “Quantum Healing” (1989)
reissued in 2015 with Rudolph Tanzi, Harvard Professor of Neurology writing the
Forward. Finally one of his latest books has evolved from the above Quantum
Healing undertaken with a physicist Jack Tuszynski from the University of
Alberta. He does regularly develop his ideas in these areas resulting in new book updates
on these concepts. An author working with a neurologist and a physicist has to
be a good candidate for the Digital Human blog.
To learn more about Deepak Chopra follow the links below
Times Newspaper Article using their PageSuite storage and
display capability.
Wikipedia entry for Deepak Chopra
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Deepak_Chopra&oldid=1148060054
Deepak Chopra's own website
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