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Deepak Chopra (; Hindi: [d̪iːpək tʃoːpraː]; born October 22, 1946) is an Indian-born American author and alternative medicine advocate. A prominent figure in the New Age movement, his books and videos have made him one of the best-known and wealthiest figures in alternative medicine.

Chopra studied medicine in India before immigrating to the United States in 1970 where he completed residencies in internal medicine and endocrinology. As a licensed physician, he became chief of staff at the New England Memorial Hospital (NEMH) in 1980. He met Maharishi Mahesh Yogi in 1985 and became involved with the Transcendental Meditation movement (TM). He resigned his position at NEMH shortly thereafter to establish the Maharishi Ayurveda Health Center. Chopra gained a following in 1993 after he was interviewed on The Oprah Winfrey Show about his books. He then left the TM movement to become the executive director of Sharp HealthCare's Center for Mind-Body Medicine. In 1996 he co-founded the Chopra Center for Wellbeing.

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". Seeing the human body as being undergirded by a "quantum mechanical body" composed not of matter but of 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. He claims that his practices can also treat chronic disease.

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". Philosopher 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. Evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins has said that Chopra uses "quantum jargon as plausible-sounding hocus pocus". Chopra's treatments generally elicit nothing but a placebo response, and have drawn criticism that the unwarranted claims made for them may raise "false hope" and lure sick people away from legitimate medical treatments.

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De syv spirituelle love for succes

en praktisk vejledning til indfrielse af dine drømme

Kilden til al skabelse er ren bevidsthed ... ubegrænsede muligheder, som søger at udtrykke sig det umanifesterede til det manifesterede. Og når vi erkender, at vores sande Selv er ubegrænsede muligheder, bringer vi os i overensstemmelse med den kraft, som manifesterer alt i universet.DE SYV SPIRITUELLE LOVE FOR SUCCES er baseret på de naturlige love, som styrer al kreativitet og gør op med myten om, at succes udelukkende er resultatet af hårdt arbejde, planlægning og ambitioner. Chopra giver det at opnå succes et helt nyt perspektiv. Når vi først forstår vores sande natur og lærer at leve i harmoni med de naturlige love – med tilfredshed, sundhed, tilfredsstillende forhold til vores medmennesker, energi og entusiasme – vil materiel velstand komme helt af sig selv uden anstrengelse. Bogen har en trin-for-trin vejledning og er desuden en videreudvikling af hans tidligere bog RIGDOM På ALLE PLANER. Den indiske læage Deepak Chopra er en af de mest betydningsfulde pionerer inden for området sind-krop og menneskets potentiale. Hans banebrydende arbejde baserer sig på lægevidenskaben, filosofien, østens praktiske og spirituelle visdom samt den vestlige videnskabs resultater
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Udgivelsesdato22 feb. 2002
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