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Deepak Chopra: How to Create a New Self

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anchorbuildings
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Posted: 11.18.09, 12:25 AM
Wow, surprised to hear so many negative comments. I like his schtick, though. Just don't swallow it all wholesale. If you examine quantum mechanics though and the potential of particles existing in multiple states, a lot of what he says holds up.

However, I don't buy the treatise that just because you can't locate your consciousness in one specific part of your brain or in your chest or your knee or whatever, that this follows that we have a 'non-local soul'. ***hack*** ***hack** non sequitur, mr chopra.

also Kendall... Please don't tell me that the western world is an especially forward looking society. There's massive poverty, crime and inequality in western societies, disregarding the fact that the US and UK are inflicting totally unnecessary pre-emptive wars on multiple fronts. Not sure who's supposed to be the enlightened society.
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Linux
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Posted: 11.11.09, 12:54 AM
this man is a dangerous quack
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Ketchum
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Posted: 11.05.09, 12:59 PM
Since Deepak has an M.D. he blurs the line between his convoluted dogma and science. Richard Dawkins interviewed (confronted) Chopra about this very topic. You can view it here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z-FaXD_igv4
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ThrOnlySolipsist
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Posted: 11.05.09, 08:08 AM
Not Science - More superstition and wishful thinking. Sorry FORA TV, you've got it wrong this time. this should be in the fairy story section.
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BRIAN HAIGHT
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Posted: 11.05.09, 12:40 AM
There is always a group like yourselves that are supercharged or sciencecharged with the ignorence of narcissism! My professors didnt teach me this shit kind of shit! These sort of reflections of the reality of the human mind trying understand its place in the multiverse are as important as any other "science" yes "science". The complexities of systems whether they be inword "the human system" or outword "the solar system" or our current theories surrounding brain theory suggest that we "THE VIEWER" are as important to the process, or system as any of the other equations. Quatum theory has if anything tought us to throw away our old paradigms and look at the human experience in ways that in the past only shamens and mystics looked at it. To try to explain "spooky action at a distance" as Einstein called quatum physics to a scientist of 19th century woud result in the kind of criticism Im sure this commentary will generate. Look we are humans haveing a human experience to remove that fact from the equation makes for bad science!
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frankielee77
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Posted: 11.02.09, 12:15 AM
He doesn't have any information other than imagination.Personality never changes.His words are deceptive.
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mszlazak
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Posted: 11.01.09, 08:20 PM
Exactly! Why is this in the science section?

This isn't science but pure speculation and pressed to it's logical extreme becomes irrational under Chopra's philosophy.

So the "mystery of consciousness" by definition stays a mystery by Chopra's approach.

BTW do not believe Chopra that the more we know about neurology the more the mystery of subjective experience becomes. This is pure bunk. Neuroscientists, cognitive scientists and many philosophers of mind have good reasons to think that mind is nothing but brain. Also, for an non-mystical purely natural explanation to Chopra's questions like "where is the blue" or "where is the commander" then read anything that Daniel Dennett writes on this subject.
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Narwe
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Posted: 11.01.09, 06:41 PM
Why is Deepak Chopra in the science section?
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Kendall
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Posted: 11.01.09, 02:52 AM
Deepak Chopra, the stealth Hindu, is at it again with his usual silliness from the East. The kind of philosophy that made them such forward-looking, egalitarian societies.
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