Deepak Chopra is a Moron

[Binarydrone]

@QuickSilver

I believe you first require spiritual cleansing before you can achieve this state. To the enema station with you!

When do we pound the drums and reject our mothers?

[Diogenes_the_Cynic]

@Stranger On A Train

Judging by what (little) I’ve seen of daytime television, keeping “housewives entranced” isn’t much of a challenge. But I believe his audience ranges beyond the blithly fatuous and intractibly bored (qualities stereotypically, if perhaps not always accurately, associated with the demographic of housewives). I’ve known several PhDs–even a few with degrees in the hard sciences–who take internalize his “philosophy” into some kind of working method for dealing with life. I think this probably has more to do with the diuturnal dissatisfaction with life and the increasing gulf between traditional Western religious antiphons (in the Judeo-Christian-Islamic mold) and daily life in modern society. A more nebulous, but seemingly more applicable (read: mallable) philosophy, even one that is a Church of All Worlds-type kludge of beliefs, is a ripe opportunity for those who have no scruples about peddling semantic vapid emotional liberation.

Personally, I find Eckhart Tolle even creepier than Chopra. Chopra is more of a USA Today school of existential philosophy. Tolle is about as close as you can come to being a cultist without drinking the almond-flavored Kool-Aid. For instance:
Wait up! What does that even mean? :rolleyes:

Stranger

It’s hypnotic suggestion. It’s a fairly common technique among these kinds of charlatans. “What I’m actually saying doesn’t matter. My ver presence will make you feel still and blissful. Do you feel that stillness? That’s because of my presence. And whenever you are in my presence you will feel peaceful and still and content…”

Etc.

It works on the marks on a subconscious level so that they feel good whenever the guy is yapping at him. The actual words of the lectures don’t even matter. The idea is for the “teacher” to get them to bliss out on his voice or his “presence” or whatever so that they will want to keep showing up and giving him money.

[tdn]

@Stranger On A Train

Wait up! What does that even mean? :rolleyes:

Hypnosis. Wrapped up in a healthy layer of woo.

[MaxTheVool]

Quick, everyone, run and hide before Lekatt finds this thread!

[Stranger_On_A_Train]

@QuickSilver

I believe you first require spiritual cleansing before you can achieve this state. To the enema station with you!

You know, the same people that are into this kind of stuff are also the ones telling me how great colonics are.

I wonder about their gastrointestional perrogatives at both ends.

Stranger

[Punoqllads]

@Binarydrone

When do we pound the drums and reject our mothers?

Third day, after the firewalking.

[Binarydrone]

@Punoqllads

Third day, after the firewalking.

OK, is that before or after the bee-sting therapy seminar?

[tdn]

@Binarydrone

OK, is that before or after the bee-sting therapy seminar?

It’s after your check clears.

[Shodan]

@tdn

As I understand it (and I’ll try to find a cite later) the sun accounts for about 1/3 of the tidal effect. Sometimes this partially cancels the tide (neap tide), and sometimes it magnifies it (spring tide).

Thanks!

Regards,
Shodan

[tdn]

Glad to help.

[Ponder_Stibbons]

@Eve

Some of us also have . . . BROADWAY RHYTHM!!!

I Love Corny Posts

[QuickSilver]

@Eve

Some of us also have . . . BROADWAY RHYTHM!!!

And still others have rhythm thrust within them!

[Gangster_Octopus]

Chopra is really crazy, the truth is entirely different. I close my eyes. Only for a moment, but the moment’s gone. My dreams pass before my eyes in curiosity. But they are just dust in the wind. All they are is dust in the wind. It’s just a tiny drop of water in anendless sea.

Folks, all we do crumbles to the ground, yet we refuse to see. It is also dust in the wind.
Don’t hang on, because nothing last forever, but the earth and sky. Seriously, it slips away and all your money won’t another minute buy. It’s dust in the wind. All we are is dut in the wind.

[Maeglin]

@Gangster Octopus

Chopra is really crazy, the truth is entirely different. I close my eyes. Only for a moment, but the moment’s gone. My dreams pass before my eyes in curiosity. But they are just dust in the wind. All they are is dust in the wind. It’s just a tiny drop of water in anendless sea.

Folks, all we do crumbles to the ground, yet we refuse to see. It is also dust in the wind.
Don’t hang on, because nothing last forever, but the earth and sky. Seriously, it slips away and all your money won’t another minute buy. It’s dust in the wind. All we are is dut in the wind.

Dude, the people are crazy in California. In Kansas they are supposed to be normal.

[Baldwin]

If I recall, tidal effects caused by a celestial body are directly proportional to mass, and inversely proportional to the cube of the distance.

Doesn’t Chopra also preach against materialism? And live in a really big house, paid for by the incredible amount of money he rakes in?

[Pashnish_Ewing]

@Gangster Octopus

Don’t hang on, because nothing last forever, but the earth and sky. Seriously, it slips away and all your money won’t another minute buy. It’s dust in the wind. All we are is dut in the wind.

YOU’RE MY BOY, BLUE!

[Stranger_On_A_Train]

@Maeglin

Dude, the people are crazy in California. In Kansas they are supposed to be normal.

You haven’t been to Kansas, have you?

Stranger

I don’t think we’re in Oz anymore, Otto.

[tdn]

@Gangster Octopus

Chopra is really crazy, the truth is entirely different. I close my eyes. Only for a moment, but the moment’s gone. My dreams pass before my eyes in curiosity. But they are just dust in the wind. All they are is dust in the wind. It’s just a tiny drop of water in anendless sea.

Folks, all we do crumbles to the ground, yet we refuse to see. It is also dust in the wind.
Don’t hang on, because nothing last forever, but the earth and sky. Seriously, it slips away and all your money won’t another minute buy. It’s dust in the wind. All we are is dut in the wind.

Oh oh oh oh oh. You don’t have to go. Oh oh oh oh.

[Muad_Dib]

@Trunk

I blame people from California. There’s no bullshit so offensive that they won’t stick their collective tanned noses in a take a huge friggin’ whiff.

Sorry.

[QuickSilver]

@tdn

Oh oh oh oh oh. You don’t have to go. Oh oh oh oh.

I’m afraid he does, because you see,
He’s Crazy, but that’s how it goes. There are Millions of people living as foes. Maybe it’s not to late, to learn how to love and forget how to hate.

Still, the mental wounds are not healing and life’s a bitter shame. So he’s going off the rails on a crazy train.