Deepak Chopra#Reception

Chopra was born in New Delhi,{{cite news |url=http://www.timescolonist.com/entertainment/backstage-a-lesson-in-concentration-from-deepak-chopra-1.2082540|title=Backstage: A lesson in concentration from Deepak Chopra|last=Chamberlain|first=Adrian|date=October 10, 2015|work=Times Colonist}} British India to Krishan Lal Chopra (1919–2001) and Pushpa Chopra.{{sfn|Chopra|Chopra|2013|pp=5, 161}} His paternal grandfather was a sergeant in the British Indian Army. His father was a prominent cardiologist, head of the department of medicine and cardiology at New Delhi's Moolchand Khairati Ram Hospital for over 25 years, and was also a lieutenant in the British army, serving as an army doctor at the front at Burma and acting as a medical adviser to Lord Mountbatten, viceroy of India.{{harvnb|Chopra|2013|pp=5–6, 11–13}}; {{cite news|title=The Chopra Brothers|author=Michael Schulder|url=http://cnnradio.cnn.com/2013/05/24/the-chopra-brothers/|publisher=CNN|date=May 24, 2013|access-date=May 13, 2014|archive-date=June 28, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130628011050/http://cnnradio.cnn.com/2013/05/24/the-chopra-brothers/|url-status=dead}} {{as of |2014}}, Chopra's younger brother, Sanjiv Chopra, was a professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School and on staff at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center.[http://services.bidmc.org/Find_a_doc/doc_detail.asp?sid=41414643494642 "Chopra, Sanjiv, MD"] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081220044307/http://services.bidmc.org/Find_a_doc/doc_detail.asp?sid=41414643494642 |date=December 20, 2008 }}, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. Retrieved May 15, 2014.

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.Deepak Chopra, Return of the Rishi, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 1991, p. 1. 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.{{cite web|author=Carl Lindgren |url=http://www.streeteditors.com/2010/03/31/international-dreamer-deepak-chopra/ |title=International Dreamer{{Snd}} Deepak Chopra |work=Map Magazine's Street Editors |date=March 31, 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110716154106/http://www.streeteditors.com/2010/03/31/international-dreamer-deepak-chopra/ |archive-date=July 16, 2011 }}

He married in India in 1970 before emigrating, with his wife, to the United States that same year. The Indian government had banned its doctors from sitting for the exam needed to practice in the United States. Consequently, Chopra had to travel to Sri Lanka to take it. After passing, he arrived in the United States to take up a clinical internship at Muhlenberg Hospital in Plainfield, New Jersey, where doctors from overseas were being recruited to replace those serving in Vietnam.Chopra 1991, p. 57{{incomplete short citation|date=June 2023|reason=Which Chopra 1991?}}; Deepak Chopra, [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o-ijyqWzDrY "Special Keynote with Dr. Deepak Chopra"], November 2013, from 2:50 mins; Richard Knox, [https://secure.pqarchiver.com/boston/doc/747826331.html "Foreign doctors: a US dilemma"], The Boston Globe, June 30, 1974.

Between 1971 and 1977, he completed residencies in internal medicine at the Lahey Clinic in Burlington, Massachusetts, the VA Medical Center, St Elizabeth's Medical Center, and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston.[http://health.usnews.com/doctors/deepak-chopra-707300 "Dr. Deepak K Chopra"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140529084707/http://health.usnews.com/doctors/deepak-chopra-707300 |date=May 29, 2014 }}, U.S. News & World Report. He earned his license to practice medicine in the state of Massachusetts in 1973, becoming board certified in internal medicine, specializing in endocrinology.[http://profiles.ehs.state.ma.us/Profiles/Pages/PhysicianProfile.aspx?PhysicianID=6568 "Deepak K. Chopra, M.D."] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140521032513/http://profiles.ehs.state.ma.us/Profiles/Pages/PhysicianProfile.aspx?PhysicianID=6568 |date=May 21, 2014 }}, Commonwealth of Massachusetts Board of Registration in Medicine; [http://www.abim.org/services/verify-a-physician.aspx "Verify a Physician's Certification"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131213180934/http://www.abim.org/services/verify-a-physician.aspx |date=December 13, 2013}}, American Board of Internal Medicine.

Chopra taught at the medical schools of Tufts University, Boston University, and Harvard University,{{Cite journal|last=Lambert|first=Craig A.|date=July 1989|title=Quantum Healing: An Interview with Deepak Chopra, M.D.|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=u-sDAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA47|journal=Yoga Journal|issue=87|pages=47–53}}{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Yv30AgAAQBAJ&pg=PA59|title=Prophets, Gurus, and Pundits: Rhetorical Styles and Public Engagement|last=Young|first=Anna M.|publisher=SIU Press|year=2014|isbn=978-0809332953|pages=59–68|language=en|oclc=871781118}}{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_MRdDQAAQBAJ&q=Deepak+Chopra&pg=PT162|title=The Emerging Sensitive: A Guide for Finding Your Place in the World|last=Hill|first=Maria|publisher=BookBaby|year=2016|isbn=978-1682224755|language=en|oclc=953493840}} 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.{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XGA3rfJt2iMC&pg=PA121|title=Toward an Integrative Medicine|page=121|access-date=April 25, 2016|isbn=978-0759103023|last=Baer|first=Hans A.|year=2004|publisher=Rowman Altamira }}

File:Maharishi Mahesh Yogi with NandkishoreC.jpg was an influence on Chopra in the 1980s.]]

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.Chopra 1991, p. 105ff.{{incomplete short citation|date=June 2023|reason=Which Chopra 1991?}} Chopra was "drinking black coffee by the hour and smoking at least a pack of cigarettes a day".Chopra 1991, p. 125.{{incomplete short citation|date=June 2023|reason=Which Chopra 1991?}} He took up Transcendental Meditation to help him stop, and {{as of|lc=y|2006}}, he continued to meditate for two hours every morning and half an hour in the evening.{{cite web|author=Rosamund Burton |title=Peace Seeker |url=http://www.novamagazine.com.au/article_archive/2006/06_04_Peace%20seeker.htm |work=Nova Magazine |date=June 4, 2006 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131105164338/http://www.novamagazine.com.au/article_archive/2006/06_04_Peace%20seeker.htm |archive-date=November 5, 2013 }}

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.{{harvnb|Baer|2003|p=237}}Chopra 1991, p. 139ff{{incomplete short citation|date=June 2023|reason=Which Chopra 1991?}} 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."Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed, [http://world.mediamonitors.net/content/view/full/50186/ "The Crisis of Perception"], Media Monitors Network, February 29, 2008.

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.{{cite magazine|first=Elise|last=Pettus|title=The Mind–Body Problems|magazine=New York|date=August 14, 1995|pages=[https://books.google.com/books?id=Q-MCAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA28 28–31], [https://books.google.com/books?id=Q-MCAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA95 95], 30}} Also see Deepak Chopra, "Letters: Deepak responds", New York, September 25, 1995, [https://books.google.com/books?id=7eQCAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA16 p. 16]. 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).{{cite book|last=Humes|first=Cynthia Ann|author-link=Cynthia Ann Humes|chapter=Schisms within Hindu guru groups: the Transcendental Meditation movement in North America|editor1=James R. Lewis|editor2=Sarah M. Lewis|title=Sacred Schisms: How Religions Divide|publisher=Cambridge University Press|year=2009|page=297}}. Also see {{cite book|last=Humes|first=Cynthia Ann|chapter=Maharishi Mahesh Yogi: Beyond the TM Technique|editor1=Thomas A. Forsthoefel|editor2=Cynthia Ann Humes|title=Gurus in America|publisher=State University of New York Press|year=2005|pages=68–69}} 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).

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.{{harvnb|Pettus|1995|p=[https://books.google.com/books?id=Q-MCAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA31 31]}} 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".[https://www.huffpost.com/entry/a-tribute-to-my-friend-mi_b_221268 "A Tribute to My Friend, Michael Jackson"] by Deepak Chopra, The Huffington Post, June 26, 2009Gerald Posner, [http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2009-07-02/chopra-michael-jackson-could-have-been-saved/ "Deepak Chopra: How Michael Jackson Could Have Been Saved"], The Daily Beast, July 2, 2009, p. 4.

Chopra left the Transcendental Meditation movement around the time he moved to California in January 1993.{{sfn|Pettus|1995|p=[https://books.google.com/books?id=Q-MCAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA31 31]}}{{sfn|Baer|2004|p=[https://books.google.com/books?id=XGA3rfJt2iMC&pg=PA129 129]}} Mahesh Yogi claimed that Chopra had competed for the Maharishi's position as guru,Deepak Chopra, [https://www.huffpost.com/entry/the-maharishi-years-the-u_b_86412 "The Maharishi Years – The Untold Story: Recollections of a Former Disciple"], The Huffington Post, February 13, 2008. although Chopra rejected this.{{cite news|url=http://articles.economictimes.indiatimes.com/2004-06-22/news/27378174_1_alternative-medicine-loyalty-employee|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140607010716/http://articles.economictimes.indiatimes.com/2004-06-22/news/27378174_1_alternative-medicine-loyalty-employee|url-status=dead|archive-date=June 7, 2014|title='Employee loyalty comes first, the rest will follow'{{Snd}} Economic Times|last=Nilanjana Bhaduri Jha|date=June 22, 2004|work=The Times of India|access-date=June 4, 2014}} According to Robert Todd Carroll, Chopra left the TM organization when it "became too stressful" and was a "hindrance to his success".{{cite book|first=Robert Todd|last=Carroll|title=The Skeptic's Dictionary: A Collection of Strange Beliefs, Amusing Deceptions, and Dangerous Delusions|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6FPqDFx40vYC&pg=PA48|year= 2011|publisher=John Wiley & Sons|isbn=978-1-118-04563-3|page=48}} 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.{{harvnb|Humes|2005|p=69}}; {{harvnb|Humes|2009|pp=299, 302}} 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.{{cite book|last=Humes|first=Cynthia Ann|author-link=Cynthia Ann Humes|chapter=Maharishi Ayur-Veda: Perfect Health through Enlightened Marketing in America|editor1=Frederick M. Smith|editor2=Dagmar Wujastyk|title=Modern and Global Ayurveda: Pluralism and Paradigms|publisher=State University of New York Press|year=2008|page=324}} He also stated that he had become uncomfortable with what seemed like a "cultish atmosphere around Maharishi".{{cite news |work=The New York Times| first = Claire | last = Hoffman|author-link=Claire Hoffman| date = February 22, 2013 | url = https://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/24/magazine/david-lynch-transcendental-meditation.html | title = David Lynch Is Back ... as a Guru of Transcendental Meditation}}

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. In 2004, he received his California medical license, and {{as of|lc=y|2014}} was affiliated with Scripps Memorial Hospital in La Jolla, California.[https://www.breeze.ca.gov/datamart/detailsCADCA.do?selector=false&selectorType=&selectorReturnUrl=&anchor=726a20a.0.0 "Chopra, Deepak"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140521033720/https://www.breeze.ca.gov/datamart/detailsCADCA.do?selector=false&selectorType=&selectorReturnUrl=&anchor=726a20a.0.0 |date=May 21, 2014 }}, California Department of Consumer Affairs. Retrieved March 23, 2016.[http://health.usnews.com/doctors/deepak-chopra-707300 "Dr. Deepak K Chopra"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140529084707/http://health.usnews.com/doctors/deepak-chopra-707300 |date=May 29, 2014 }}, U.S. News & World Report. Retrieved March 23, 2016.[http://health.usnews.com/best-hospitals/area/ca/scripps-la-jolla-hospitals-and-clinics-6931130/doctors/endocrinologists "Endocrinologists, Scripps La Jolla Hospitals and Clinics"], U.S. News & World Report. {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140529090535/http://health.usnews.com/best-hospitals/area/ca/scripps-la-jolla-hospitals-and-clinics-6931130/doctors/endocrinologists |date=May 29, 2014 }} Chopra is the owner and supervisor of the Mind-Body Medical Group within the Chopra Center, which in addition to standard medical treatment offers personalized advice about nutrition, sleep-wake cycles, and stress management based on mainstream medicine and Ayurveda.[http://www.chopra.com/our-services/medical-consultations/overview "Mind–Body Medical Group"] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140529085401/http://www.chopra.com/our-services/medical-consultations/overview |date=May 29, 2014 }}, Chopra Center; Deepak Chopra, [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ElAuKQx5_5w "The Mind–Body Medical Group at the Chopra Center"], The Chopra Well, May 26, 2014. He is a fellow of the American College of Physicians and member of the American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists.[http://www.chopra.com/about-us/deepak-chopra-md "Deepak Chopra, M.D."] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140515082423/http://www.chopra.com/about-us/deepak-chopra-md |date=May 15, 2014 }}, The Chopra Center.

Chopra's book Ageless Body, Timeless Mind: The Quantum Alternative to Growing Old was published in 1993.{{cite news|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1997-sep-07-tm-29576-story.html|title=So Rich, So Restless|last=Perry|first=Tony|date=September 7, 1997|newspaper=Los Angeles Times|access-date=November 10, 2013}} 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.Paul A. Offit, Do You Believe in Magic? The Sense and Nonsense of Alternative Medicine, HarperCollins, 2013, p. 39; [http://www.ndtv.com/article/india/full-transcript-your-call-with-dr-deepak-chopra-169389 "Full Transcript: Your Call with Dr Deepak Chopra"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140521033251/http://www.ndtv.com/article/india/full-transcript-your-call-with-dr-deepak-chopra-169389 |date=May 21, 2014 }}, NDTV, January 23, 2012; also see Craig Bromberg, "Doc of Ages", People, November 15, 1993. 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.For the National Council's letter, {{harvnb|Humes|2005|p=68}}; {{harvnb|Humes|2009|p=297}}; for the rest, {{harvnb|Pettus|1995|p=[https://books.google.com/books?id=Q-MCAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA31 31]}} Neuroscientist Tony Nader became the movement's new "Dhanvantari of Heaven and Earth".{{sfn|Humes|2008|p=326}}

Sharp HealthCare changed ownership in 1996 and Chopra left to set up the Chopra Center for Wellbeing with neurologist David Simon, now located at Omni La Costa Resort & Spa in Carlsbad, California.{{cite news |title=David Simon, 61, mind-body medicine pioneer, opened Chopra Center for Wellbeing |date=February 9, 2012 |newspaper=U-T San Diego |url=http://www.utsandiego.com/news/2012/Feb/09/david-simon-61-mind-body-medicine-pioneer-opened |author=David Ogul |page=1 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://archive.today/20140520033604/http://www.utsandiego.com/news/2012/Feb/09/david-simon-61-mind-body-medicine-pioneer-opened |archive-date=May 20, 2014 }} In his 2013 book, Do You Believe in Magic?, Paul Offit writes that Chopra's business grosses approximately $20 million annually, and is built on the sale of various alternative medicine products such as herbal supplements, massage oils, books, videos and courses. A year's worth of products for "anti-ageing" can cost up to $10,000, Offit wrote.{{cite book |title=Do You Believe in Magic? The Sense and Nonsense of Alternative Medicine |first=Paul|last=Offit|author-link=Paul Offit|publisher=HarperCollins |year=2013 |isbn=978-0-06-222296-1 |pages=245–246}} Chopra himself is estimated to be worth over $80 million {{as of|lc=y|2014}}.Rowe 2014, [http://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/news/2014/may/03/truly-madly-deepak-chopra/ Truly, madly, deeply Deepak Chopra]. {{As of|2005}}, according to Srinivas Aravamudan, he was able to charge $25,000 to $30,000 per lecture five or six times a month.Srinivas Aravamudan, Guru English: South Asian Religion in a Cosmopolitan Language, Princeton University Press, 2005, [https://books.google.com/books?id=tusUlz2jb00C&pg=PA257 p. 257]. Medical anthropologist Hans Baer said Chopra was an example of a successful entrepreneur, but that he focused too much on serving the upper-class through an alternative to medical hegemony, rather than a truly holistic approach to health.{{cite journal|last1=Baer|first1=Hans A.|s2cid=28219719|title=The work of Andrew Weil and Deepak Chopra—two holistic health/New Age gurus: a critique of the holistic health/New Age movements|journal=Medical Anthropology Quarterly|date=June 2003|volume=17|issue=2|pages=240–241|pmid=12846118|jstor=3655336|doi=10.1525/maq.2003.17.2.233}}

Chopra serves as an adjunct professor in the marketing division at Columbia Business School.{{cite web |title=Deepak Chopra |url=http://www8.gsb.columbia.edu/cbs-directory/detail/dc2839 |website=Columbia Business School, Columbia University in the City of New York |access-date=December 12, 2015 |archive-date=December 22, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151222101736/http://www8.gsb.columbia.edu/cbs-directory/detail/dc2839 |url-status=dead }} He serves as adjunct professor of executive programs at the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University.{{cite web |title=Deepak Chopra{{Snd}} Faculty |url=http://www.kellogg.northwestern.edu/faculty/directory/chopra_deepak.aspx |website=Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University |access-date=March 18, 2016 |archive-date=March 26, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160326120442/http://www.kellogg.northwestern.edu/faculty/directory/chopra_deepak.aspx |url-status=dead }} 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.{{cite web|title=Update in Internal Medicine|url=http://www.updateinternalmedicine.com/faculty/|work=updateinternalmedicine.com/faculty|publisher=updateinternalmedicine.com|access-date=April 25, 2016}} In 2016, Chopra was promoted from voluntary assistant clinical professor to voluntary full clinical professor at the University of California, San Diego in their Department of Family Medicine and Public Health.{{cite news |url=http://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/news/2016/mar/15/UCSD-Deepak-Chopra/|title=UCSD deepens ties with Deepak Chopra|last=Robbins|first=Gary|date=March 15, 2016|work=U-T San Diego}} Robert Carroll writes of Chopra charging $25,000 per lecture, "giving spiritual advice while warning against the ill effects of materialism".{{cite book|author=Robert Todd Carroll|chapter=Auyrvedic medicine|title=The Skeptic's Dictionary|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6FPqDFx40vYC&pg=PA48|date=2011|publisher=John Wiley & Sons|isbn=978-1-118-04563-3|page=48}}

Chopra founded the American Association for Ayurvedic Medicine (AAAM) and Maharishi AyurVeda Products International, though he later distanced himself from these organizations.{{cite book|first=J. Thomas|last=Butler|title=Consumer Health: Making Informed Decisions|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=mjWc2CiAJYsC&pg=PA117|year= 2011|publisher=Jones & Bartlett Publishers|isbn=978-1-4496-7543-1|pages=117–}} Since 2004, he has been a board member of Men's Wearhouse, a men's clothing distributor.{{cite news|last=Belton|first=Beth|title=Men's Wearhouse fires back at George Zimmer|url=https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/business/2013/06/24/mens-wearhouse-zimmer/2454305/|access-date=July 10, 2013|newspaper=USA Today|date=June 25, 2013}} In 2005, Chopra was appointed as a senior scientist at The Gallup Organization.{{cite web|url=http://www.gallup.com/corporate/19318/Gallup-Senior-Scientists.aspx |title=Gallup Senior Scientists |publisher=Gallup.com |access-date=February 18, 2011 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110216111128/http://www.gallup.com/corporate/19318/Gallup-Senior-Scientists.aspx |archive-date=February 16, 2011 }} In 2006, he launched Virgin Comics with his son Gotham Chopra and entrepreneur Richard Branson.David Segal, [https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/03/02/AR2007030201862.html "Deepak Chopra And a New Age Of Comic Books"], The Washington Post, March 3, 2007.

In 2009, Chopra founded the {{vanchor|Chopra Foundation}}, a tax-exempt 501(c) organization that raises funds to promote and research alternative health.{{cite news|url=https://news.virginia.edu/content/chopra-and-huffington-hold-public-meditation-lawn-oct-15|title=Chopra and Huffington to Hold a Public Meditation on the Lawn Oct. 15|work=UVAToday|date=October 9, 2013|author=Jane Kelly}} The Foundation sponsors annual Sages and Scientists conferences.{{cite news|url=http://www.zapaday.com/event/362159/2/Sages+and+Scientists+Symposium.html|title=Sages and Scientists Symposium 2014 |publisher=Zapaday|date=January 22, 2014|author=Anne Cukier}} He sits on the board of advisors of the National Ayurvedic Medical Association, an organization based in the United States.[http://www.ayurvedanama.org/?page=Board_Advisors "NAMA's Board of Advisors"]. In July 2023, Chopra and the Foundation co-hosted an event entitled "We the Future" alongside Kenneth Cole.[https://peaceinnovationinitiative.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/WeTheFuture_PR_FINAL.docx.pdf "Peace Innovation: Bridging Futures & Minds at AI Forum, a collaboration by Chopra Foundation, We The Planet, the Peace Innovation Initiative, & Kenneth Cole,"] Peace Innovation Initiative. It explored the future of AI, and supported guiding AI from the outset to create positive disruption and to on a worldwide basis establish peace as the cornerstone of innovation. It featured as speakers real estate investor Craig Hatkoff on AI's application to innovation, disability rights activist Eddie Ndopu on AI and accessibility, astronaut Sian Proctor on AI and space, record producer Jerry Wonda on AI and music, and model and actress Gabriella Wright on AI and well-being.[https://www.sadrmedia.com/single-post/ai-for-peace-the-peace-innovation-initiative-a-collaboration-between-chopra-and-kenneth-cole ""AI for Peace" The Peace Innovation Initiative a collaboration between Chopra and Kenneth Cole,"] Society & Diplomatic Review.

In 2012, Chopra joined the board of advisors for tech startup State.com, creating a browsable network of structured opinions.{{cite web | title = State.com/about | url = https://state.com/about/people | access-date = September 9, 2013 | url-status = dead | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20160303192300/https://state.com/about/people | archive-date = March 3, 2016 | df = mdy-all }} In 2014, Chopra founded ISHAR (Integrative Studies Historical Archive and Repository).{{cite news|url=http://www.huffingtonpost.com/maureen-seaberg/lets-raise-ishar_b_5824760.html|title=Let's Raise ISHAR! |work=The Huffington Post|author=Maureen Seaberg|access-date=April 25, 2016}} In 2015, Chopra partnered with businessman Paul Tudor Jones II to found JUST Capital, a non-profit firm which ranks companies in terms of just business practices in an effort to promote economic justice.{{cite news|last=Stanley|first=Alessandra|author-link=Alessandra Stanley|title=A Plan to Rank 'Just' Companies Aims to Close the Wealth Gap|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/21/business/a-plan-to-rank-just-companies-aims-to-close-the-wealth-gap.html|newspaper=The New York Times|access-date=June 11, 2023|date=December 20, 2015}}

Chopra and his wife have, {{as of|lc=y|2013}}, two adult children (Gotham Chopra and Mallika Chopra) and three grandchildren.Chopra 1991, pp. 54–57{{incomplete short citation|date=June 2023|reason=Which Chopra 1991?}}; Joanne Kaufman, "[https://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/20/realestate/deepak-chopra-an-inner-stillness-even-on-the-subway.html?smid=fb-share&_r=2& Deepak Chopra – An 'Inner Stillness,' Even on the Subway]", The New York Times, October 17, 2013. {{As of|2019}}, Chopra lives in a "health-centric" condominium in Manhattan.{{cite news|url=https://www.architecturaldigest.com/story/leonardo-dicaprio-and-deepak-chopra-wellness-focused-manhattan-building|title=Live Like Leonardo DiCaprio and Deepak Chopra in this Wellness-Focused Manhattan Building|author=Jordi Lippe-Mcgraw|newspaper=Architectural Digest|date=July 16, 2019|access-date=August 9, 2020}} He is a member of the inaugural class of the Great Immigrants Award named by Carnegie Corporation of New York (July 2006){{Cite web |title=2006 Great Immigrants: Deepak Chopra |url=https://www.carnegie.org/awards/honoree/deepak-chopra/ |access-date=February 21, 2024 |website=Carnegie Corporation of New York}}

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" 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. He claims that his practices can also treat chronic disease.

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{{Snd}} that mind, or "dynamically active consciousness", is a fundamental feature of the universe.Deepak Chopra, [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=scI9ZFImN8o "What Is Consciousness & Where Is It?"], discussion with Rudolph Tanzi, Menas Kafatos and Lothar Schäfer, Science and Nonduality Conference, 2013, 08:12 mins.

• Attila Grandpierre, Deepak Chopra, P. Murali Doraiswamy, Rudolph Tanzi, Menas C. Kafatos, [http://www.neuroquantology.com/index.php/journal/article/view/703/627 "A Multidisciplinary Approach to Mind and Consciousness"], NeuroQuantology, 11(4), December 2013 (pp. 607–617), p. 609.

In this view, consciousness is both subject and object.Deepak Chopra, Stuart Hameroff, "The 'Quantum Soul': A Scientific Hypothesis", in Alexander Moreira-Almeida, Franklin Santana Santos (eds.), Exploring Frontiers of the Mind-Brain Relationship, Springer, 2011 (pp. 79–93), p. 85. 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".Deepak Chopra, [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f4c_CrQzUGw "Dangerous Ideas: Deepak Chopra & Richard Dawkins"], {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140522014546/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f4c_CrQzUGw |date=May 22, 2014 }} University of Puebla, November 9, 2013, 26:23 mins.

• Also see Deepak Chopra, Menas Kafatos, Rudolph E. Tanzi, [http://www.huffingtonpost.com/deepak-chopra/from-quanta-to-qualia_b_1948416.html "From Quanta to Qualia: The Mystery of Reality (Part 1)"], [http://www.huffingtonpost.com/deepak-chopra/from-quanta-to-qualia-wha_b_1966954.html "(Part 2)"], [http://www.huffingtonpost.com/deepak-chopra/from-quanta-to-qualia-the_b_2038207.html "(Part 3)"], [http://www.huffingtonpost.com/deepak-chopra/from-quanta-to-qualia-the-mystery-of-reality_b_2118820.html "(Part 4)"], The Huffington Post, October 8, 15, 29 and November 12, 2012. He has been quoted as saying: "Charles Darwin was wrong. Consciousness is key to evolution and we will soon prove that."{{cite web|url=http://indiatoday.intoday.in/story/india-today-conclave-2015-deepak-chopra-motivation-guru-author-darwin/1/423746.html|title=India Today Conclave 2015: Darwin was wrong, says Deepak Chopra|date=March 13, 2015|work=India Today}}
  As quoted by {{cite web|url=http://ncse.com/blog/2015/04/why-does-deepak-chopra-hate-me-0016257|title=Why Does Deepak Chopra Hate Me?|date=April 8, 2015|author=Steve Newton|work=NCSE blog}}
  As quoted by {{cite web|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/answer-sheet/wp/2015/05/20/deepak-chopra-blasts-scientist-who-criticized-his-view-of-evolution-the-scientist-fires-back/|title=Deepak Chopra blasts scientist who criticized his view of evolution. The scientist fires back.|date=May 20, 2015|author=Valerie Strauss|work=The Washington Post (blog)}} 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.Deepak Chopra and Leonard Mlodinow, War of the Worldviews, Random House, 2011, p. 123. In his book Quantum Healing, Chopra stated the conclusion that quantum entanglement links everything in the universe, and therefore it must create consciousness.{{cite news|last1=O'Neill|first1=Ian|title=Does Quantum Theory Explain Consciousness?|url=http://news.discovery.com/space/does-quantum-theory-explain-consciousness-110526.htm|access-date=August 11, 2014|work=Discovery News|publisher=Discovery Communications, LLC|date=May 26, 2011|archive-date=August 13, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140813085440/http://news.discovery.com/space/does-quantum-theory-explain-consciousness-110526.htm|url-status=dead}} 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).{{Cite book|last=Stenger|first=Victor|author-link=Victor J. Stenger|title=The Unconscious Quantum|publisher=Prometheus Books|year=1995|isbn=978-1-57392-022-3|location=|pages=}}{{Cite book|last=Shermer|first=Michael|author-link=Michael Shermer|title=The Believing Brain: From Ghosts and Gods to Politics and Conspiracies – How We Construct Beliefs and Reinforce Them as Truths|publisher=Macmillan|year=2011|isbn=978-0-8050-9125-0|pages=177–178}}

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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{{Snd}} which is your spirit{{Snd}} 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."Deepak Chopra, [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n0IOf08pTRc "Deepak Chopra Meditation"], YouTube, December 10, 2012.

Chopra and physicians at the Chopra Center practice integrative medicine, combining the medical model of conventional Western medicine with alternative therapies such as yoga, mindfulness meditation, and Ayurveda.{{cite web|title=Deepak Chopra and the Chopra Center|url=http://www.religionfacts.com/a-z-religion-index/deepak_chopra.htm|publisher=ReligionFacts.com|access-date=July 22, 2014}}{{cite web|title=Oprah Winfrey & Deepak Chopra Launch All-New Meditation Experience 'Expanding Your Happiness'|url=http://www.broadwayworld.com/bwwtv/article/Oprah-Winfrey-Deepak-Chopra-Launch-All-New-Meditation-Experience-Expanding-Your-Happiness-20140714|website=Broadway World|access-date=July 22, 2014}} According to Ayurveda, illness is caused by an imbalance in the patient's doshas, or humors, and is treated with diet, exercise, and meditative practicesFor imbalance, see {{harvnb|Baer|2004|p=128}}; for the rest, Chopra 2009 [1989], pp. 222–224, 234ff.{{Snd}} based on the medical evidence there is, however, nothing in Ayurvedic medicine is known to be effective at treating disease, and some preparations may be actively harmful, although meditation may be useful in promoting general well-being.{{cite web |title=Ayurvedic medicine |publisher=Cancer Research UK |url=http://www.cancerresearchuk.org/cancer-help/about-cancer/treatment/complementary-alternative/therapies/ayurvedic-medicine |quote=There is no scientific evidence to prove that Ayurvedic medicine can treat or cure cancer or any other disease.|date=August 30, 2017 }}

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)".Chopra 2009 [1989], pp. 15, 241; Deepak Chopra, [https://www.chopra.com/ccl/healing-wisdom "Healing wisdom"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140521041812/https://www.chopra.com/ccl/healing-wisdom |date=May 21, 2014 }}, The Chopra Center, June 12, 2013.

• That he uses the term "quantum healing" as a metaphor, see Richard Dawkins, [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qsH1U7zSp7k "Interview with Chopra"], The Enemies of Reason, [http://www.channel4.com/programmes/the-enemies-of-reason Channel 4 (UK)] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170108064020/http://www.channel4.com/programmes/the-enemies-of-reason |date=January 8, 2017 }}, 2007, 01:16 mins. 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".Suzanne Newcombe, "Ayurvedic Medicine in Britain and the Epistemology of Practicing Medicine in Good Faith", in Smith and Wujastyk 2008, pp. 263–264; Kenneth Zysk, "New Age Ayurveda or what happens to Indian medicine when it comes to America", Traditional South Asian Medicine, 6, 2001, pp. 10–26. Also see Francoise Jeannotat, "Maharishi Ayur-veda", in Smith and Wujastyk 2008, p. 285ff. The book introduces Chopra's view that a person's thoughts and feelings give rise to all cellular processes.{{Cite journal | doi=10.1056/NEJM198912143212426|title = Book Review Quantum Healing: Exploring the frontiers of mind/body medicine| journal=New England Journal of Medicine| volume=321| issue=24| pages=1688|year = 1989|last1 = Zamarra|first1 = John W.}}

Chopra coined the term quantum healing to invoke the idea of a process whereby a person's health "imbalance" is corrected by quantum mechanical means. Chopra said that quantum phenomena are responsible for health and well-being. He has attempted to integrate Ayurveda, a traditional Indian system of medicine, with quantum mechanics to justify his teachings. According to Robert Carroll, he "charges $25,000 per lecture performance, where he spouts a few platitudes and gives spiritual advice while warning against the ill effects of materialism". While early editions of Chopra's book Quantum Healing acknowledged the influence of Maharishi and recommended his books, later editions expunged any mention of Maharishi.

Chopra has equated spontaneous remission in cancer to a change in a quantum state, corresponding to a jump to "a new level of consciousness that prohibits the existence of cancer". Physics professor Robert L. Park has written that physicists "wince" at the "New Age quackery" in Chopra's cancer theories and characterizes them as a cruel fiction, since adopting them in place of effective treatment risks compounding the ill effects of the disease with guilt and might rule out the prospect of getting a genuine cure.{{cite book|editor1-first=Keith|editor1-last=Ashman|editor1-link=Keith M. Ashman|editor2-first=Phillip|editor2-last=Barringer|title=After the Science Wars: Science and the Study of Science|chapter=Chapter 9: Voodoo medicine in a scientific world|first=Robert L.|last=Park|author-link=Robert L. Park|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XImEAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA137|year=2005|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-1-134-61618-3|pages=137–}}

Chopra's claims of quantum healing have attracted controversy due to what has been described as a "systematic misinterpretation" of modern physics.{{cite web|last=Cox |first=Brian|author-link=Brian Cox (physicist)|url=https://blogs.wsj.com/speakeasy/2012/02/20/why-quantum-theory-is-so-misunderstood/ |title=Why Quantum Theory Is So Misunderstood{{Snd}} Speakeasy |work=The Wall Street Journal|date=February 20, 2012 |access-date=December 15, 2012}} 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.{{cite web |url=http://www.aske-skeptics.org.uk/magic_of_quantum_physics.html |title='Magic' of Quantum Physics |publisher=Aske-skeptics.org.uk |access-date=December 15, 2012 |archive-date=April 2, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200402081735/http://www.aske-skeptics.org.uk/magic_of_quantum_physics.html |url-status=dead }}

Physicists have objected to Chopra's use of terms from quantum physics. For example, he was awarded the satirical Ig Nobel Prize in physics in 1998 for "his unique interpretation of quantum physics as it applies to life, liberty, and the pursuit of economic happiness".{{sfn|Park|2005|p=[https://books.google.com/books?id=XImEAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA137 137]}}{{cite journal | author=Victor J. Stenger | author-link=Victor J. Stenger | title=Quantum Quackery | url=http://www.csicop.org/si/show/quantum_quackery | journal=Skeptical Inquirer| year=2007 | volume=27 | issue=1 | page=37 | bibcode=2005SciAm.292a..34S | doi=10.1038/scientificamerican0105-34 | url-access=subscription }}{{cite web | title=Winners of the Ig Nobel Prize | url=http://improbable.com/ig/ig-pastwinners.html#ig1998 | work=Improbable Research | access-date=December 1, 2008 | archive-date=August 30, 2009 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090830181439/http://improbable.com/ig/ig-pastwinners.html#ig1998 | url-status=dead }}

• Brian Cox says that "for some scientists, the unfortunate distortion and misappropriation of scientific ideas that often accompanies their integration into popular culture is an unacceptable price to pay". See {{harvnb|Cox|2012}}
• 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 {{cite web|url=http://www.aske-skeptics.org.uk/magic_of_quantum_physics.html|author=Doug Bramwell|title='Magic' of Quantum Physics|publisher=Association for Skeptical Enquiry|access-date=December 15, 2012|archive-date=April 2, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200402081735/http://www.aske-skeptics.org.uk/magic_of_quantum_physics.html|url-status=dead|ref=none}} When Chopra and Jean Houston debated Sam Harris and Michael Shermer in 2010 on the question "Does God Have a Future?", Harris argued that Chopra's use of "spooky physics" merges two language games in a "completely unprincipled way". Interviewed in 2007 by Richard Dawkins, Chopra said that he used the term quantum as a metaphor when discussing healing and that it had little to do with quantum theory in physics.Richard Dawkins, [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qsH1U7zSp7k "Interview with Chopra"], {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140509123910/http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qsH1U7zSp7k |date=May 9, 2014 }} The Enemies of Reason, Channel 4 (UK). {{Cite web |url=http://www.channel4.com/programmes/the-enemies-of-reason |title=The Enemies of Reason - All 4 |access-date=September 3, 2013 |archive-date=January 8, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170108064020/http://www.channel4.com/programmes/the-enemies-of-reason |url-status=dead }}, 2007

Chopra wrote in 2000 that his AIDS patients were combining mainstream medicine with activities based on Ayurveda, including taking herbs, meditation, and yoga.Dann Dulin, [http://www.danndulin.com/deepakchopra.html "The Medicine Man"], interview with Deepak Chopra, A&U magazine, 2000. He acknowledges that AIDS is caused by the HIV virus but says that "'hearing' the virus in its vicinity, the DNA mistakes it for a friendly or compatible sound". Ayurveda uses vibrations that are said to correct this supposed sound distortion.Chopra 2009 [1989], pp. 37, 237, 239–241. Medical professor Lawrence Schneiderman writes that Chopra's treatment has "to put it mildly...no supporting empirical data".{{cite journal|pmid=12964263|year=2003|author=Lawrence J. Schneiderman|s2cid=43786245|title=The (Alternative) Medicalization of Life|volume=31|issue=2|pages=191–7|journal=Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics |doi=10.1111/j.1748-720X.2003.tb00080.x}}

In 2001, ABC News aired a show segment on the topic of distance healing and prayer. In it, Chopra said, "There is a realm of reality that goes beyond the physical where in fact we can influence each other from a distance." Chopra was shown using his claimed mental powers in an attempt to relax a person in another room, whose vital signs were recorded in charts that were said to show a correspondence between Chopra's periods of concentration and the subject's periods of relaxation. After the show, a poll of its viewers found that 90% of them believed in distance healing.{{cite journal |last=Posner |first=Gary P |year=2001 |title=Hardly a Prayer on ABC's 20/20 Downtown |url=https://www.gpposner.com/downtown.html |url-status=live |journal=Skeptical Inquirer |volume=25 |issue=6 |pages=9 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231106053801/https://www.gpposner.com/downtown.html |archive-date=November 6, 2023}} Health and science journalist Christopher Wanjek has criticized the experiment, saying that any correspondence evident from the charts would prove nothing but that even so, freezing the frame of the video shows the correspondences are not so close as claimed. Wanjek characterized the broadcast as "an instructive example of how bad medicine is presented as exciting news" that has "a dependence on unusual or sensational science results that others in the scientific community renounce as unsound".{{cite book|first=Christopher |last=Wanjek |title=Bad Medicine: Misconceptions and Misuses Revealed, from Distance Healing to Vitamin O |series=Wiley Bad Science Series |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=oIJ5TKh7mPgC&pg=PA224|year=2003 |publisher=John Wiley & Sons |isbn=978-0-471-46315-3 |pages=224– |author-link=Christopher Wanjek |access-date=April 25, 2016}}

{{See also|Maharishi Vedic Approach to Health}}

File:Deepak Chopra at SXSW London June 2025.jpg in June 2025.]]

Chopra has been described as "America's most prominent spokesman for Ayurveda". His treatments benefit from the placebo response. Chopra states, "The placebo effect is real medicine, because it triggers the body's healing system."{{cite news |url=http://www.sfgate.com/opinion/chopra/article/I-Will-Not-Be-Pleased-Your-Health-and-the-3798901.php|title=I Will Not Be Pleased{{Snd}} Your Health and the Nocebo Effect|last=Deepak|first=Deepak|date=October 17, 2012 |work=San Francisco Chronicle}} Physician and former U.S. Air Force flight surgeon Harriet Hall has criticized Chopra for his promotion of Ayurveda, stating, "It can be dangerous," referring to studies showing that 64% of Ayurvedic remedies sold in India are contaminated with significant amounts of heavy metals like mercury, arsenic, and cadmium and a 2015 study of users in the United States who found elevated blood lead levels in 40% of those tested.{{cite web|last1=Hall|first1=Harriet|title=Ayurveda: Ancient Superstition, Not Ancient Wisdom|url=https://www.csicop.org/specialarticles/show/ayurveda_ancient_superstition_not_ancient_wisdom|website=Skeptical Inquirer|access-date=February 1, 2018|date=December 14, 2017}}

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".{{cite journal|pmid=12964263|year=2003|last1=Schneiderman|first1=LJ|s2cid=43786245|title=The (alternative) medicalization of life|volume=31|issue=2|pages=191–7|journal=Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics |doi=10.1111/j.1748-720X.2003.tb00080.x}}

He is placed by David Gorski among the "quacks", "cranks", and "purveyors of woo" and described as "arrogantly obstinate".{{cite web |title=Deepak Chopra tries his hand at a clinical trial. Woo ensues |author=David Gorski|url=http://scienceblogs.com/insolence/2014/09/16/deepak-chopra-tries-his-hand-at-a-clinical-trial-woo-ensues/ |access-date=December 20, 2016}} In 2013, The New York Times stated that Deepak Chopra is "the controversial New Age guru and booster of alternative medicine". Time magazine stated that he is "the poet-prophet of alternative medicine".{{cite news |url=http://www.metrojacksonville.com/article/2016-mar-stephen-dare-interviews-deepak-chopra|title=Stephen Dare Interviews Deepak Chopra|last=Dare|first=Stephen|date=March 15, 2016|work=Metro Jacksonville}} He has become one of the best-known and wealthiest figures in the holistic-health movement.{{cite journal|last=Gamel|first=John W.|url=https://www.jwgamel.com/hokum-on-the-rise-the-seventy-percent-solution|title=Hokum on the Rise: The 70-Percent Solution|journal=The Antioch Review|volume=66|issue=1|year=2008|page=130|quote=It seems appropriate that Chopra and legions of his ilk should now populate the halls of academic medicine, since they carry on the placebo-dominated traditions long ago established in those very halls by their progenitors|access-date=June 14, 2023|archive-date=March 5, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160305120014/http://jwgamel.com/p8.html|url-status=live}} The New York 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.{{cite magazine|title=The Mind–Body Problems|magazine=New York|author=Elise Pettus|url=https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_Q-MCAAAAMBAJ|access-date=December 16, 2014|date=August 14, 1995|pages=[https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_Q-MCAAAAMBAJ/page/n92 95ff]|via=Internet Archive}} In 1999, Time magazine included Chopra on its list of the 20th century's heroes and icons.For Time, Peter Rowe, "Truly, madly, deeply Deepak Chopra", U-T San Diego, May 3, 2014, [http://www.utsandiego.com/news/2014/May/03/truly-madly-deepak-chopra p. 1] {{Webarchive|url=https://archive.today/20140527182719/http://www.utsandiego.com/news/2014/May/03/truly-madly-deepak-chopra |date=May 27, 2014 }} Cosmo Landesman wrote in 2005 that Chopra was "hardly a man now, more a lucrative new age brand{{Snd}} the David Beckham of personal/spiritual growth".{{cite news|last=Landesman|first=Cosmo|author-link=Cosmo Landesman|url=https://www.thetimes.com/life-style/celebrity/article/theres-an-easy-way-to-save-the-world-xq6mdc0wqs5|title=There's an easy way to save the world|work=The Sunday Times|location=London|date=May 8, 2005|access-date=November 10, 2017}} {{subscription required}} For Timothy Caulfield, Chopra is an example of someone using scientific language to promote treatments that are not grounded in science: "[Chopra] legitimizes these ideas that have no scientific basis at all, and makes them sound scientific. He really is a fountain of meaningless jargon."{{Cite news|url=http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/deepak-chopra-timothy-caulfield-twitter-1.3953538|title=Deepak Chopra, Timothy Caulfield end Twitter feud|date=January 26, 2017|work=CBC News|access-date=November 14, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171114220802/http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/deepak-chopra-timothy-caulfield-twitter-1.3953538|archive-date=November 14, 2017}} A 2008 Time magazine article by Ptolemy Tompkins commented that Chopra was a "magnet for criticism" for most of his career, 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 treatment. 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.{{cite magazine |last=Tompkins |first=Ptolemy |author-link=Ptolemy Tompkins |url=http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,402038,00.html |title=New Age Supersage |date=November 14, 2008 |magazine=Time|quote=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. |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090412104650/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0%2C9171%2C402038%2C00.html |archive-date=April 12, 2009 }} English professor George O'Har 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.{{cite journal |doi=10.1353/tech.2000.0174 |title=Magic in the Machine Age |year=2000 |author=George M. O'Har|s2cid=110355126 |journal=Technology and Culture|volume=41 |issue=4 |page=864|jstor=25147641}} Paul Kurtz writes that Chopra's "regnant spirituality" is reinforced by postmodern criticism of the notion of objectivity in science, while Wendy Kaminer equates Chopra's views with irrational belief systems such as New Thought, Christian Science, and Scientology.Paul Kurtz, Skepticism and Humanism: The New Paradigm, Transaction Publishers, 2001, [https://books.google.com/books?id=q34zdaoq0xIC&pg=PA110 p. 110]{{cite journal| title=The Corrosion of the American Mind| author=Wendy Kaminer| author-link=Wendy Kaminer| journal=The Wilson Quarterly| volume=32| issue=2|date=Spring 2008|page=92 (91–94)|jstor=40262377|quote=Then came Scientology, the 'science' of positive thinking, and, more recently, New Age healer Deepak Chopra's nonsensical references to quantum physics.}} [https://wilsonquarterly.com/quarterly/spring-2008-backbone-infrastructure-for-americas-future/the-corrosion-of-the-american-mind/ Text at Wilson Quarterly]

Chopra believes that "ageing is simply learned behaviour" that can be slowed or prevented.{{cite news |title=Junk medicine; The triumph of mumbo jumbo |type=Book review |first=Mark |last=Henderson |newspaper=The Times |date=February 7, 2004 |page=4}} Chopra has said that he expects "to live way beyond 100".{{cite book|author=Francis Wheen|title=How Mumbo-Jumbo Conquered the World: A Short History of Modern Delusions|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zFjebcPiBdwC&pg=PA46|year= 2005|publisher=PublicAffairs|isbn=978-0-7867-2352-2|pages=46–}} He states that "by consciously using our awareness, we can influence the way we age biologically...You can tell your body not to age."Schwarcz, Joe (2009) Science, Sense & Nonsense, Doubleday Canada. {{ISBN|978-0307374646}}. p153. Conversely, Chopra also says that aging can be accelerated, for example by a person engaging in "cynical mistrust".{{cite journal |journal=Forbes |title=Lord of immortality |type=Book review |year=1994 |last=Moukheiber |first=Zina |volume=153 |issue=8 |page=132}} 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".{{citation |url=http://www.skepdic.com/chopra.html |work=The Skeptic's Dictionary |first=Robert Todd |last=Carroll |author-link=Robert Todd Carroll |title=Deepak Chopra |date=May 19, 2013 }}

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 human nervous system mirror divine experience.{{cite journal |title=God as best seller: Deepak Chopra, Neal Walsch and New Age theology |author=Lois Malcolm |journal=The Christian Century |volume=120 |issue=19 |year=2003 |page=31}} commenting on {{cite book|author=Deepak Chopra|title=How To Know God|year= 2008|publisher=Ebury Publishing|isbn=978-1-4090-2220-6}} Chopra has written that his thinking has been inspired by Jiddu Krishnamurti, a 20th-century speaker and writer on philosophical and spiritual subjects.{{cite book | title=Krishnamurti: 100 Years | last=Blau | first=Evelyne | page=[https://archive.org/details/krishnamurti100y00blau/page/233 233] | publisher=Stewart, Tabori, & Chang | year= 1995 | isbn=978-1-55670-407-9 | url=https://archive.org/details/krishnamurti100y00blau/page/233 }}

In 2012, reviewing War of the Worldviews{{snds}}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.{{cite journal|title=Is science the antidote to Deepak Chopra's spirituality? |first=Mark |last=Alford |journal=Skeptical Inquirer |volume=36 |issue=3 |year=2012 |page=54 |url=http://alford.fastmail.us/Chopra_Mlodinow_SI.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121105184137/http://alford.fastmail.us/Chopra_Mlodinow_SI.html |archive-date=November 5, 2012 }}

In August 2005, Chopra wrote a series of articles on the creation–evolution controversy and Intelligent design, which were criticized by science writer Michael Shermer, founder of The Skeptics Society.{{cite news | last=Chopra | first=Deepak | url=http://www.huffingtonpost.com/deepak-chopra/intelligent-design-withou_b_6105.html | title=Intelligent Design Without the Bible |work=The Huffington Post| date=August 23, 2005|access-date=April 25, 2016}}{{cite news | last= Shermer | first= Michael|author-link=Michael Shermer| url= http://www.huffingtonpost.com/michael-shermer/skyhooks-and-cranes-deep_b_6179.html | title=Skyhooks and Cranes: Deepak Chopra, George W. Bush, and Intelligent Design |work=The Huffington Post|access-date=November 30, 2008|date=March 28, 2008}}{{cite news | last=Chopra|first=Deepak|url=http://www.huffingtonpost.com/deepak-chopra/rescuing-intelligent-desi_b_6164.html|title=Rescuing Intelligent Design{{Snd}} But from Whom?|work=The Huffington Post|date=August 24, 2005|access-date=April 25, 2016}} In 2010, Shermer said that Chopra is "the very definition of what we mean by 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".{{cite book|author=Paul Kurtz|title=Skepticism and Humanism: The New Paradigm|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=q34zdaoq0xIC&pg=PA110|year=2001|publisher=Transaction Publishers|isbn=978-1-4128-3411-7|page=110|author-link=Paul Kurtz|access-date=April 25, 2016}}

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".{{cite magazine|first=Jerry A|last=Coyne|author-link=Jerry Coyne|title=Pseudoscientist Rupert Sheldrake Is Not Being Persecuted, And Is Not Like Galileo|magazine=The New Republic|date=November 8, 2013|url=https://newrepublic.com/article/115533/rupert-sheldrake-fools-bbc-deepak-chopra}} 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."{{cite web |work=The Huffington Post |first=Deepak |last=Chopra |title=The Perils of Skepticism |date=November 30, 2009|url=http://www.huffingtonpost.com/deepak-chopra/the-perils-of-skepticism_b_373788.html |access-date=April 25, 2016}} 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.{{cite journal |title=Deepak Chopra: redefining 'wrong' |author-link=Phil Plait |first=Phil |last=Plait |date=December 1, 2009 |url=http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2009/12/01/deepak-chopra-redefining-wrong/ |journal=Discover |access-date=April 16, 2014 |archive-date=March 3, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170303180324/http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2009/12/01/deepak-chopra-redefining-wrong/ |url-status=dead }}

{{See also|Quantum mysticism}}

Physicist Sadri Hassani writes that "few people have distorted and defaced quantum physics more" than Chopra. Hassani recounts how Chopra co-opts the language of quantum mechanics and uses nonsensical diagrams to advance absurd propositions about the relation between science and Ayurvedic medicine.{{cite book |vauthors=Hassani S |year=2024 |chapter=The 'Quantum' Healer |title=Quanta in Distress |publisher=Springer |doi=10.1007/978-3-031-65259-2_8}}

Reviewing Susan Jacoby's book The Age of American Unreason, Wendy Kaminer sees Chopra's popular reception in the US as 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". Chopra's "nonsensical references to quantum physics" are placed in a 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.{{cite web|url=http://scienceblogs.com/principles/2013/10/11/malcolm-gladwell-is-deepak-chopra|title=Malcolm Gladwell Is Deepak Chopra|last=Orzel|first=Chad|date=October 11, 2013|publisher=ScienceBlogs|access-date=October 13, 2013}} English professor George O'Har writes that Chopra is an exemplification of the fact that human beings need "magic" in their lives, and places "the sophistries of Chopra" alongside the emotivism of Oprah Winfrey, the special effects and logic of Star Trek, and the magic of Harry Potter.{{cite journal |doi=10.1353/tech.2000.0174 |title=Magic in the Machine Age |year=2000 |last1=O'Har |first1=George M |s2cid=110355126 |journal=Technology and Culture |volume=41 |issue=4 |pages=862–864}}

Chopra has been criticized for his frequent references to the relationship of quantum mechanics to healing processes, a connection that has drawn skepticism 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".{{cite web | title=Winners of the Ig Nobel Prize | url=http://improbable.com/ig/ig-pastwinners.html#ig1998 | work=Improbable Research | access-date=December 1, 2008 | archive-date=August 30, 2009 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090830181439/http://improbable.com/ig/ig-pastwinners.html#ig1998 | url-status=dead }} When interviewed by ethologist and evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins 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.{{cite web |title=The Enemies of Reason |url=http://www.channel4.com/programmes/the-enemies-of-reason |publisher=Channel 4 |access-date=September 2, 2013 |archive-date=January 8, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170108064020/http://www.channel4.com/programmes/the-enemies-of-reason |url-status=dead }} In March 2010, Chopra and Jean Houston debated Sam Harris and Michael Shermer at the California Institute of Technology on the question "Does God Have a Future?" Shermer and Harris criticized Chopra's use of scientific terminology to expound unrelated spiritual concepts.{{cite episode|url=https://abcnews.go.com/Nightline/FaceOff/nightline-face-off-god-future/story?id=10170505 |title=Face-Off: Does God Have a Future|network=ABC|air-date=March 23, 2010|access-date=July 9, 2010|series=Nightline|season=30|number=58|transcript=Transcript from the Internet Archive|transcript-url=https://archive.org/details/WMAR_20100324_033500_Nightline}} A 2015 paper examining "the reception and detection of pseudo-profound bullshit" used Chopra's Twitter feed as the canonical example, and compared this with fake Chopra quotes generated by a spoof website.{{cite news | url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/scientists-find-a-link-between-low-intelligence-and-acceptance-of-pseudo-profound-bulls-a6757731.html | title=Scientists find a link between low intelligence and acceptance of 'pseudo-profound bulls***' |work=The Independent| date=December 4, 2015 | access-date=December 11, 2015}}{{cite news | url=http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/pseudo-intellectual-profound-bullshit-study_5661acb4e4b079b2818e4020 | title=Study Finds People Who Fall For Nonsense Inspirational Quotes Are Less Intelligent |work=The Huffington Post| date=December 4, 2015 | access-date=December 11, 2015}}{{cite journal |last=Pennycook |first=Gordon |author-link=Gordon Pennycook |display-authors=et al. |date=November 2015 |title=On the reception and detection of pseudo-profound bullshit |url=http://journal.sjdm.org/15/15923a/jdm15923a.html |journal=Judgment and Decision Making |location=Pennsylvania |publisher=Society for Judgment and Decision Making (SJDM) and the European Association for Decision Making (EADM) |volume=10 |issue=6 |pages=549–563 |doi=10.1017/S1930297500006999 |s2cid=16505606 |access-date=December 3, 2015|doi-access=free }}

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.{{cite news|last=Shukla|first=Aseem|author-link=Aseem Shukla|url=http://newsweek.washingtonpost.com/onfaith/panelists/aseem_shukla/2010/04/dr_chopra_honor_thy_heritage.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100430212518/http://newsweek.washingtonpost.com/onfaith/panelists/aseem_shukla/2010/04/dr_chopra_honor_thy_heritage.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=April 30, 2010|title=Dr. Chopra: Honor thy heritage|date=April 28, 2010|newspaper=The Washington Post|access-date=February 18, 2011}} 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.{{cite news|last=Shukla |first=Aseem|author-link=Aseem Shukla|url=http://newsweek.washingtonpost.com/onfaith/panelists/aseem_shukla/2010/04/hinduism_and_sanatana_dharma_one_and_the_same.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100503214936/http://newsweek.washingtonpost.com/onfaith/panelists/aseem_shukla/2010/04/hinduism_and_sanatana_dharma_one_and_the_same.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=May 3, 2010 |title=On Faith Panelists Blog: Hinduism and Sanatana Dharma: One and the same |newspaper=The Washington Post|access-date=July 9, 2010}}

In May 1991, the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) published an article by Chopra and two others on Ayurvedic medicine and TM.{{cite journal |pmid=1817464 |doi= 10.1001/jama.265.20.2633 | title=Maharishi Ayur-Veda: Modern insights into ancient medicine |date=May 22, 1991 |author=Hari M. Sharma | author2 = B. D. Triguna | author3 = Deepak Chopra |journal=Journal of the American Medical Association |volume=265 |issue=20 |pages=2633–4, 2637}} JAMA subsequently published an erratum stating that the lead author, Hari M. Sharma, had undisclosed financial interests, followed by an article by JAMA associate editor Andrew A. Skolnick which was highly critical of Chopra and the other authors for failing to disclose their financial connections to the article subject.{{cite journal |title=Financial Disclosure|journal=JAMA|volume=266 |issue=6 |page=798 |doi=10.1001/jama.1991.03470060060025 |date=August 14, 1991 }}; {{cite journal |pmid=1817475 |url=http://www.aaskolnick.com/mav.htm |date=October 2, 1991 |author=Andrew A. Skolnick|title=Maharishi Ayur-Veda: Guru's marketing scheme promises the world eternal 'perfect health' |volume=266 |issue=13 |pages=1741–1750 |journal=JAMA|doi=10.1001/jama.1991.03470130017003 |access-date=August 10, 2013 |archive-date=May 25, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130525074455/http://www.aaskolnick.com/mav.htm |url-status=usurped |url-access=subscription }}.

• Also see {{cite journal |author=Andrew A. Skolnick|title=The Maharhish Caper: Or How to Hoodwink Top Medical Journals |url=http://www.aaskolnick.com/naswmav.htm |journal=ScienceWriters|date=Fall 1991 |access-date=December 15, 2005|ref=none|archive-date=July 16, 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080716041551/http://www.aaskolnick.com/naswmav.htm |url-status=usurped }} Several experts on meditation and traditional Indian medicine criticized JAMA for accepting the "shoddy science" of the original article.{{cite journal|pmid=1925571|date=October 11, 1991|author1=Robert Barnett |author2=Cathy Sears |title=JAMA gets into an Indian herbal jam|volume=254|issue=5029|pages=188–189|journal=Science|doi=10.1126/science.1925571|jstor=2885745|bibcode=1991Sci...254..188B}} Chopra and two TM groups sued Skolnick and JAMA for defamation, asking for $194 million in damages, but the case was dismissed in March 1993.{{harvnb|Pettus|1995|p=[https://books.google.com/books?id=Q-MCAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA31 31]}}; {{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1996/08/18/magazine/deepak-s-days-in-court.html |title=Deepak's Days in Court |newspaper=The New York Times|date=August 18, 1996}}

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.{{cite news|last=Kazak |first=Don |url=http://www.paloaltoonline.com/weekly/morgue/monthly/1997_Mar_5.book_talk.html |title=matDon Kazak, "Book Talk", Time (March 5, 1997) |publisher=paloaltoonline.com |date=March 5, 1997|access-date=August 1, 2012}} An out-of-court settlement resulted in Chopra correctly attributing material that was researched by Sapolsky.{{cite news|author=TNN |url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/the-mind-body/articleshow/37759314.cms|title=The Mind-Body|work=The Times of India|date=April 15, 2001|access-date=June 11, 2023}}

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.{{cite web|url=https://www.harpercollins.com/blogs/authors/deepak-chopra|title=Deepak Chopra|publisher=HarperCollins|access-date=11 June 2023}} His book The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success was on The New York Times Best Seller list{{cite news|last=Presley Noble|first=Barbara|title=Spending it: off the Shelf; Habits of Highly Effective Authors|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1995/04/02/business/spending-it-off-the-shelf-habits-of-highly-effective-authors.html|access-date=December 15, 2014|work=The New York Times|date=April 2, 1995}} for 72 weeks.{{cite book|last=McGee|first=Micki|title=Self-Help, Inc.: Makeover Culture in American Life|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=SntPAwAAQBAJ&pg=PA71|access-date=December 15, 2014|year= 2005|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=978-0-19-988368-4|pages=71–}}

Books

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• {{cite book|last=Chopra|first=Deepak|author-mask=0|title=Creating Health|year=1987|url=https://archive.org/details/creatinghealthbe00chop|url-access=registration|place=New York|publisher=Houghton Mifflin Harcourt|isbn=978-0-395-42953-2|ref=none}}
• {{cite book|last=Chopra|first=Deepak|author-mask=0|title=Quantum Healing|year=1989|place=New York|publisher=Bantam Books|isbn=978-0-553-05368-5|url=https://archive.org/details/quantumhealingex00chop_0|ref=none}}
• {{cite book|last=Chopra|first=Deepak|author-mask=0|title=Perfect Health|place=New York|publisher=Harmony Books|isbn=0517571951|year=1990|ref=none}}
• {{cite book|last=Chopra|first=Deepak|author-mask=0|title=Return of the Rishi: A Doctor's Story of Spiritual Transformation and Ayurvedic Healing|place=Boston|publisher=Houghton Mifflin Harcourt|isbn=978-0-395-57420-1|year=1991|url=https://archive.org/details/returnofrishidoc00chop|ref=none}}
• {{cite book|last=Chopra|first=Deepak|author-mask=0|title=Ageless Body Timeless Mind|place=New York|publisher=Harmony Books|isbn=978-0-517-59257-1|year=1993|url=https://archive.org/details/agelessboel00chop|ref=none}}
• {{cite book|last=Chopra|first=Deepak|author-mask=0|title=The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success|url=https://archive.org/details/sevenspiritualla00choprich|url-access=registration|place=San Rafael|publisher=Amber Allen Publishing and New World Library|isbn=978-1-878424-11-2|year=1994|ref=none}}
• {{cite book|last=Chopra|first=Deepak|author-mask=0|title=The Return of Merlin|place=New York|publisher=Harmony Books|isbn=978-0-517-59849-8|year=1995|ref=none}}
• {{cite book|last=Chopra|first=Deepak|author-mask=0|title=The Way of the Wizard|place=New York|publisher=Random House|isbn=978-0-517-70434-9|year=1995|ref=none}}
• {{cite book|last=Chopra|first=Deepak|author-mask=0|title=The Path to Love|year=1997|place=New York|publisher=Harmony Books|isbn=978-0-517-70622-0|url-access=registration|url=https://archive.org/details/pathtoloverenewi0000chop|ref=none}}
• {{cite book|last1=Chopra|first1=Deepak|author1-mask=with|last2=Simon|first2=David|author2-link=David Simon|title=The Chopra Center Herbal Handbook|place=New York|publisher=Random House|isbn=978-0-609-80390-5|year=2000|url=https://archive.org/details/chopracenterherb00davi|ref=none}}
• {{cite book|last=Chopra|first=Deepak|author-mask=0|title=The Book of Secrets|year=2004|place=New York|publisher=Harmony|isbn=978-0-517-70624-4|url=https://archive.org/details/bookofsecrets00deep|ref=none}}
• {{cite book|last=Chopra|first=Deepak|author-mask=0|title=The Third Jesus|place=New York|publisher=Harmony Books|isbn=978-0-307-33831-0|year=2008|ref=none}}
• {{cite book|last=Chopra|first=Deepak|author-mask=0|title=Reinventing the Body, Resurrecting the Soul|place=New York|publisher=Harmony Books|isbn=978-0-307-45233-7|year=2009|url=https://archive.org/details/isbn_9780307452337|ref=none}}
• {{cite book|last=Chopra|first=Deepak|author-mask=0|title=The Soul of Leadership|place=New York|publisher=Harmony Books|isbn=978-0-307-40806-8|year=2010|url=https://archive.org/details/soulofleadership0000chop|ref=none}}
• {{cite book|last1=Chopra|first1=Deepak|author1-mask=with|last2=Mlodinow|first2=Leonard|author2-link=Leonard Mlodinow|title=War of the Worldviews|place=New York|publisher=Harmony Books|isbn=978-0-307-88688-0|year=2011|url=https://archive.org/details/warofworldviewss00deep|ref=none}}
• {{cite book|last1=Chopra|first1=Deepak|author1-mask=with|last2=Chopra|first2=Gotham|author2-link=Gotham Chopra|title=The Seven Spiritual Laws of Superheroes: Harnessing Our Power to Change the World|publisher=HarperOne|isbn=978-0-06-205966-6|title-link=The Seven Spiritual Laws of Superheroes|date=May 31, 2011|ref=none}}
• {{cite book|last=Chopra|first=Deepak|author-mask=0|title=God: A Story of Revelation|place=New York|publisher=HarperOne|isbn=978-0-06-202069-7|date=October 8, 2013|ref=none}}
• {{cite book|last1=Chopra|first1=Deepak|author1-mask=with|last2=Tanzi|first2=Rudolph E.|author2-link=Rudolph E. Tanzi|title=Super Brain|place=New York|publisher=Harmony Books|isbn=978-0-307-95682-8|year=2012|ref=none}}
• {{cite book|last1=Chopra|first1=Deepak|author1-mask=with|last2=Chopra|first2=Sanjiv|author2-link=Sanjiv Chopra|title=Brotherhood: Dharma, Destiny, and the American Dream|place=New York|publisher=New Harvest|isbn=978-0-544-03210-1|year=2013|url=https://archive.org/details/brotherhooddharm0000chop}}
• {{cite book|last=Chopra|first=Deepak|author-mask=0|title=What Are You Hungry For?|place=New York|publisher=Harmony Books|isbn=978-0-7704-3721-3|year=2013}}
• {{cite book|last1=Chopra|first1=Deepak|author1-mask=with|last2=Tanzi|first2=Rudolph E.|author2-link=Rudolph E. Tanzi|title=Super Genes|place=New York|publisher=Harmony Books|isbn=978-0-8041-4013-3|year=2015|ref=none}}
• {{cite book|last1=Chopra|first1=Deepak|author1-mask=with|last2=Kafatos|first2=Menas|author2-link=Menas Kafatos|title=You Are the Universe|place=New York|publisher=Harmony Books|isbn=978-0307889164|title-link=You Are the Universe (book)|year=2017|ref=none}}
• {{Cite book|last=Chopra|first=Deepak|author-mask=0|title=Metahuman|publisher=Harmony|year=2019|isbn=978-0307338334|location=New York|ref=none}}
• {{Cite book|last1=Chopra|first1=Deepak|author1-mask=0|title=Total Meditation|publisher=Harmony|year=2020|isbn=9781984825315|ref=none}}
• {{cite book|last1=Chopra|first1=Deepak|author1-mask=with|last2=Tanzi|first2=Rudolph E.|author2-link=Rudolph E. Tanzi|title=The Healing Self|publisher=Harmony|year=2020|isbn=9780451495549|ref=none}}
• {{cite book|last1=Chopra|first1=Deepak|author1-mask=with|last2=Platt-Finger|first2=Sarah|year=2023|title=Living in the Light: Yoga for Self-Realization|publisher=Random House|isbn= 9780593235423|ref=none}}

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{{cite book |first1=Deepak |last1=Chopra |title=Perfect Health—Revised and Updated: The Complete Mind Body Guide |publisher=Three Rivers Press |location=New York City|date=December 2007 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hk8sFvZv-1oC |page=7|isbn=9780307421432 }}

{{cite book |first1=Deepak |last1=Chopra |title=Ageless Body, Timeless Mind: The Quantum Alternative to Growing Old |publisher=Random House |url=https://archive.org/details/agelessbodytimel0000chop |url-access=registration |page=[https://archive.org/details/agelessbodytimel0000chop/page/6 6] |date=1997|isbn=9780679774495 }}

{{cite book |first1=Deepak |last1=Chopra |title=Quantum Healing: Exploring the Frontiers of Mind Body Medicine |publisher=Random House |year=2009 |orig-date=1989 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0SPiUOU_fIQC |pages=71–72, 74|isbn=9780307569950 }}

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• Butler, J. Thomas. "Ayurveda," in Consumer Health: Making Informed Decisions, Jones & Bartlett Publishers, 2011, [https://books.google.com/books?id=mjWc2CiAJYsC&pg=PA117 pp. 117–118].
• Butler, Kurt and Barrett, Stephen (1992). A Consumer's Guide to "Alternative Medicine": A Close Look at Homeopathy, Acupuncture, Faith-healing, and Other Unconventional Treatments. Prometheus Books, pp. 110–116. {{ISBN|978-0-87975-733-5}}.
• {{cite journal |author=Kaeser, Eduard |s2cid=206607585 |title=Science kitsch and pop science: A reconnaissance |journal=Public Understanding of Science|volume=22 |issue=5 |pages=559–69 |date=July 2013 |pmid=23833170 |doi=10.1177/0963662513489390 |author-link=:de:Eduard Kaeser|ref=none}}
• Kafatos, Menas, Nadeau, Robert. The Conscious Universe: Parts and Wholes in Physical Reality, Springer, 2013.
• {{Cite book|title=Deepak Chopra: How to Live in a World of Infinite Possibilities|first=Leon|last=Nacson|publisher=Random House|year=1998|isbn=978-0-09-183673-3|ref=none}}
• 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.

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