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Deepak Chopra

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Indian-born American author and alternative-medicine advocate, physician and public speaker

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Deepak Chopra is an American author, New Age guru, 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.

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Deepak Chopra
said · Nov 7, 2008
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Reagan was on the rise, the anti-war movement had sunk to a low ebb, and the New Age was barely christened when The Aquarian Conspiracy appeared in 1980.

Quoted in Marilyn Ferguson: An Appreciation, Huffington Post, (7 November 2008)

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Deepak Chopra
said · Nov 8, 2007
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Laughter is Humanity's mechanism to escape suffering.

"Iconoclasts" Sundance Channel Original Series episode 3.03 (Original Air Date: 8 November 2007)

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Deepak Chopra
said · Aug 23, 2005
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It’s time to rescue "intelligent design" from the politics of religion.

"Intelligent Design Without the Bible" in The Huffington Post (23 August 2005)

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Awards 3

2012Canada India Foundation ("CIF") Chanchlani Global Indian Award
2006Great Immigrants Award
Ig Nobel Prize

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Deepak Chopra is an American author, New Age guru, 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. In the 1990s, Chopra, a physician by education, became a popular proponent of a pseudoscientific approach to well-being that includes yoga, meditation, and nutrition, among other New Age therapies.

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Born 1946 · age 79
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