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EMBED for wordpress. Want more? Chopra and physicians at the Chopra Center practise integrative medicine, combining the medical model of conventional Western medicine with alternative therapies such as yoga, mindfulness meditation, and Ayurveda. In discussing health care, Chopra has used the term 'quantum healing', which he defined in Quantum Healing as the 'ability of one mode of consciousness the mind to spontaneously correct the mistakes in another mode of consciousness the body '.
Chopra coined the term quantum healing to invoke the idea of a process whereby a person's health 'imbalance' is corrected by quantum mechanical means.
Chopra said that quantum phenomena are responsible for health and wellbeing. He has attempted to integrate Ayurveda, a traditional Indian system of medicine, with quantum mechanics, in order to justify his teachings.
Chopra has equated spontaneous remission in cancer to a change in quantum state, corresponding to a jump to 'a new level of consciousness that prohibits the existence of cancer'. Physics professor Robert L. Park has written that physicists 'wince' at the 'New Age quackery' in Chopra's cancer theories, and characterizes them as a cruel fiction, since adopting them in place of effective treatment risks compounding the ill effects of the disease with guilt, and might rule out the prospect of getting a genuine cure.
Chopra's claims of quantum healing have attracted controversy due to what has been described as a 'systematic misinterpretation' of modern physics. The main criticism revolves around the fact that macroscopic objects are too large to exhibit inherently quantum properties like interference and wave function collapse.
Most literature on quantum healing is almost entirely theosophical, omitting the rigorous mathematics that makes quantum electrodynamics possible. Physicists have objected to Chopra's use of terms from quantum physics; he was awarded the satirical Ig Nobel Prize in physics in for 'his unique interpretation of quantum physics as it applies to life, liberty, and the pursuit of economic happiness'.
Chopra wrote in that his AIDS patients were combining mainstream medicine with activities based on Ayurveda, including taking herbs, meditation and yoga. Ayurveda uses vibrations which are said to correct this supposed sound distortion.
In , ABC News aired a show segment on the topic of distance healing and prayer. Wanjek characterized the broadcast as 'an instructive example of how bad medicine is presented as exciting news' which had 'a dependence on unusual or sensational science results that others in the scientific community renounce as unsound'.
Chopra has been described as 'America's most prominent spokesman for Ayurveda'. The condition can be treated, according to Chopra, with 'Ayurveda's primordial sound'. Chopra proposes a treatment and prevention program for AIDS that has no supporting empirical data'. He is placed by David Gorski among the 'quacks', 'cranks' and 'purveyors of woo', and described as 'arrogantly obstinate'.
He really is a fountain of meaningless jargon. Chopra believes that 'ageing is simply learned behaviour' that can be slowed or prevented. You can tell your body not to age. Chopra has likened the universe to a 'reality sandwich' which has three layers: the 'material' world, a 'quantum' zone of matter and energy, and a 'virtual' zone outside of time and space, which is the domain of God, and from which God can direct the other layers. Chopra has written that human beings' brains are 'hardwired to know God' and that the functions of the human nervous system mirror divine experience.
In , reviewing War of the Worldviews — a book co-authored by Chopra and Leonard Mlodinow — physics professor Mark Alford says that the work is set out as a debate between the two authors, '[covering] all the big questions: cosmology, life and evolution, the mind and brain, and God'.
Alford considers the two sides of the debate a false opposition, and says that 'the counterpoint to Chopra's speculations is not science, with its complicated structure of facts, theories, and hypotheses,' but rather Occam's razor.
In August , Chopra wrote a series of articles on the creation-evolution controversy and Intelligent design, which were criticized by science writer Michael Shermer, founder of The Skeptics Society. Paul Kurtz, an American skeptic and secular humanist, has written that the popularity of Chopra's views is associated with increasing anti-scientific attitudes in society, and such popularity represents an assault on the objectivity of science itself by seeking new, alternative forms of validation for ideas.
Kurtz says that medical claims must always be submitted to open-minded but proper scrutiny, and that skepticism 'has its work cut out for it'. In , Chopra published an article on what he saw as 'skepticism' at work in Wikipedia, arguing that a 'stubborn band of militant skeptics' were editing articles to prevent what he believes would be a fair representation of the views of such figures as Rupert Sheldrake, an author, lecturer, and researcher in parapsychology.
The result, Chopra argued, was that the encyclopedia's readers were denied the opportunity to read of attempts to 'expand science beyond its conventional boundaries'. More broadly, Chopra has attacked skepticism as a whole, writing in The Huffington Post that 'No skeptic, to my knowledge, ever made a major scientific discovery or advanced the welfare of others. Reviewing Susan Jacoby's book, The Age of American Unreason , Wendy Kaminer sees Chopra's popular reception in the USA as being symptomatic of many Americans' historical inability as Jacoby puts it 'to distinguish between real scientists and those who peddled theories in the guise of science'.
Chopra's 'nonsensical references to quantum physics' are placed in a lineage of American religious pseudoscience, extending back through Scientology to Christian Science. Chopra has been criticized for his frequent references to the relationship of quantum mechanics to healing processes, a connection that has drawn skepticism from physicists who say it can be considered as contributing to the general confusion in the popular press regarding quantum measurement, decoherence and the Heisenberguncertainty principle.
In April , Aseem Shukla, co-founder of the Hindu American Foundation, criticized Chopra for suggesting that yoga did not have its origins in Hinduism but in an older Indian spiritual tradition. He said that Shukla had a 'fundamentalist agenda'.
Skolnick which was highly critical of Chopra and the other authors for failing to disclose their financial connections to the article subject. As of , Chopra has written 80 books, 21 of them New York Times bestsellers, which have been translated into 43 languages. Average rating 4. Butler, J. Butler, Kurt and Barrett, Stephen Prometheus Books, pp. Kaeser, Eduard July
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