Deepak Chopra

Born in 1947 in New Delhi, the son of a prominent cardiologist,
Chopra studied medicine before moving to the US in 1970. In Boston
he established himself as an endocrinologist, then taught at Boston
University and Tufts medical schools. He was Chief of Staff at the New
England Memorial Hospital.
The transformation from specialist to guru was assisted by meeting
the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, a holy man who came to America in the
1960s to popularize meditation. Chopra's subsequent involvement in
the transcendental meditation movement was matched by a renewed
interest in the Hindu healing philosophy Ayurveda, and he founded the
American Association of Ayurvedic Medicine.
In 1999, Time magazine included Chopra as one of the "Top 100
Icons and Heroes of the Century," a "poet-prophet of alternative
medicine." He has spoken at the UN, the World Health Organisation,
and the Soviet Academy of Sciences, and his 25-plus books—including
Quantum Healing (1986), Ageless Body, Timeless Mind (1993),
Creating Affluence (1993), and How to Know God (2000)—have been
translated into over 35 languages. He has edited a collection of
Rabindranath Tagore poetry and written a novel, The Lords of Light.
The author is based in La Jolla, California, where the Chopra Center
for Well Being runs courses and events.