Deepak Chopra | |
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Born | New Delhi, India | October 22, 1946
Nationality | Indian |
Occupation(s) | Public speaker, Writer, philosopher |
Spouse | Rita |
Children | Mallika Chopra Gotham Chopra |
Parent | Dr. (Col) K. L. Chopra |
Deepak Chopra (Hindi: दीपक चोपड़ा; born October 22, 1946) is an Indian adept of alternative medicine and writer. He has written about spirituality and topics in mind-body connections. Chopra says that he has been influenced by the teachings of Vedanta and the Bhagavad Gita, as well as by Krishnamurti Jiddu,[1] and by the field of quantum physics. However,he has no knowledge of quantum physics. The ideas Chopra promotes have regularly been criticized by medical and scientific professionals as pseudoscience.