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...appeal of alternative healers and their uncommon cures is hardly new. Nationwide, health-care consumers spend nearly $14 billion a year for medical treatments rarely offered by the family doctor. Deepak Chopra, the India-born endocrinologist, spiritualist and publishing juggernaut, has enjoyed perennial best-seller status since the 1993 publication of Ageless Body, Timeless Mind. Other author-healers, from Dr. Bernie Siegel to Marianne Williamson, have enriched themselves and their publishers by offering a buffet of alternative approaches that range from meditation and visualization to the curative powers of love and positive thinking...
...Random, the in-house magazine of Random House, which is publishing his memoirs, Manny, as his co-perps call him, says he is familiar with "those all-important staples of American culture, the Wild Horse Saloon and line-dancing on TNN." His bedtime reading: the Bible and Deepak Chopra, as well as People and Men's Health...
...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...