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Deepak Chopra (born 1947 in New Delhi, India) is a
popular contemporary writer in the United States
on spirituality, alternative medicine and
Ayurveda. He claims as his main influence his
native religion of Hinduism, specifically the
teachings of Vedanta and the Bhagavad Gita. 

Chopra is a trained physician and was
board-certified in internal medicine and
endocrinology. According to Stephen Barrett, an
outspoken critic of Chopra, he graduated from the
All India Institute of Medical Sciences in 1968,
and after interning at a New Jersey hospital,
trained for several more years at the Lahey Clinic
in Burlington, Massachusetts and at the University
of Virginia Hospital. He later became chief of
staff at New England Memorial Hospital. He
subsequently became associated with the
transcendental meditation movement, but later
branched off on his own.

Chopra has both a community of supporters and
numerous critics. Of particular concern to his
critics are his frequent references to the
relationship of quantum mechanics to healing
processes, which they consider part of a pattern
of general confusion in the popular press
regarding quantum measurement, decoherence and the
Werner Heisenberg|Heisenberg uncertainty
principle. 

In March 2003, shortly before the US-led Invasion
of Iraq, Chopra wrote an essay that suggested that
a new Disney World theme park in the Middle East
would help to lower tensions and that residents of
Iraq should be provided free access to CNN, MTV
and Nickelodeon (TV Channel)|Nickelodeon
http://www.wisdomseekers.org.nz/avoidwar.HTML
Chopra's proposals were widely ridiculed.

In 2004, Chopra was recruited to script advice to
Indian film director Shekhar Kapur on a Untitled
Shekhar Kapur Buddha film project|proposed film to
be made about the life of Siddhartha Gautama, the
Buddha.

==References==
* Chopra, Deepak (2001). The Seven Spiritual Laws
of Success: A Practical Guide to the Fulfillment
of Your Dreams (paperback ed.). Crown Publishing.
ISBN 0609802194.

* Stenger, V. J. (1995). The Unconscious Quantum:
Metaphysics in Modern Physics and Cosmology.
Prometheus Books.

== External links ==
* http://www.chopra.com/ The Chopra Center
Official website.
*
http://www.big-picture.tv/index.php?id=53&cat=&a=1
19/ Big Picture TV Free video clips of Deepak
Chopra
* http://www.skepdic.com/chopra.html Skepdic The
Skeptic's Dictionary entry for Deepak Chopra
*
http://www.quackwatch.org/04ConsumerEducation/chop
ra.html A critical essay by Barrett.
*
http://www.csicop.org/si/9701/quantum-quackery.htm
l Article discussing quantum mechanics and new age
medicine by Stenger in Skeptical Inquirer
magazine.