![]() ![]() I met cool people and heard interesting talks on physics, biology and psychology. ![]() I enjoyed the meeting, in spite of the occasional whiff of hucksterism. In lectures, books, videos, online courses and programs at the Chopra Center for Well Being in Carlsbad, California, Chopra promotes “integrative health,” in which meditation, yoga and other spiritual practices supplement conventional medicine.Ĭhopra convened “ Sages & Scientists,” which took place September 9-11 in Beverley Hills, California, to explore the possibility that consciousness is “fundamental and not just something generated by the brain.” Chopra often cites this philosophical claim when touting the mind’s capacity to heal the body. That unsettling moment presaged my lingering ambivalence toward Chopra, whom I met shortly after that initial sighting. Then I realized I was seeing not Chopra himself, the spirituality and holistic-health mogul and host of the meeting, but an image of him projected onto a screen. My first morning at “Sages & Scientists,” I walked into a cavernous ballroom as Deepak Chopra, on a stage, brilliantly illuminated, assured the audience that “consciousness is reality.” ![]()
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