Word: chopra
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...spirituality in healing [MEDICINE, June 24]! For thousands of years, mystics have been saying the mind and body are one. We can surgically remove a symptom or illness, but if it remains in the mind, it will return to the body. According to physician and spiritual healer Deepak Chopra, the whole system needs to be treated. I hope that more of the medical community will take the opportunity to bridge the mind-body connection, looking to Chopra as the leader, the spokesman helping to bring medicine and mysticism closer together. JAMES SMALLWOOD Santa Barbara, California...
...this anemic woman wrapped in feathers on your cover? Is this TIME's idea of faith? Surely this is not a healthy female. Why didn't you put Chopra on the cover? TORRE P. TAGGART Ojai, California...
...practicing physician and Buddhist, I find Chopra's metaphors to be flowery, vague and frothy. We have witnessed the phenomenon of Indian gurus many times before. It is just another scheme to tap into the thirst for spiritual values felt by the American middle and upper classes. It will be interesting to see how long Chopra and his disciples last. HUNG T. VU Fremont, California...
...prayers by family members and friends, have helped me cope with my chronic illness. I have been able to turn a lengthy medical treatment with severe side effects into a time of spiritual growth. My dream is for my health insurance to pay for a one-week stay at Chopra's new healing center in La Jolla, California. JOSEFINA RUIZ Sherman Oaks, California Via E-mail
...believe that if there is a God, such an entity does not intervene in daily events because of prayers. If I get sick, the Mayo Clinic or Massachusetts General Hospital is a better choice than Chopra's unprovable theories. THOMAS FILBIN Westwood, Massachusetts...