Deepak Chopra: ‘I owe a lot to my Irish teachers’

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Deepak Chopra: ‘I owe a lot to my Irish teachers’
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Indian-born guru says he doesn’t have much time for politicians – exceptions being Bertie Ahern and Jacinda Ardern

Chopra grew up in New Delhi. His father was a British army doctor and later an Indian doctor. “My father gave free clinics at the weekends and my mother cooked for [his patients] and prayed for them, making sure they had enough money for the bus or train home. She was almost as good at diagnosing conditions as he was,” he says. His father later became a physician in the Royal Hospital in London and Chopra studied to become a medical doctor in India.

Yet, sceptics might argue that Chopra is peddling home truths that have been central to religious teaching for centuries. “I don’t believe in religious dogma, ideology or institutions, but I believe in the religious experience,” he says. He goes on to reference more concrete initiatives he has been involved with – digiceuticals and electroceuticals . Yet, he says, “there is no mental solution to depression, fear, anxiety, anger and hostility. The mind is always vacillating between different emotional states. Only spiritual wellbeing which transcends the mind will bring us beyond conflict.

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