Yep Dr. Chopra.

Gotham has your back sir!

Peace

To be fair it was an "opinion" piece. The medical industry is an opinion based industry and look at the state of the nations health. You would think it would be based on fact since chemistry is fairly predictable. The reason it is opinion based is nobody can be held accountable and the obvious thing is that they don't really know.

People resort to opinion when they don't really know.

Columnist Dorothy Rabinowitz criticized Dr Chopra saying he is too quick to blame problems on America and that he fails to mention the "fanaticism and sheer mindless gullibility" that she believes to be the root cause of Islamic Fundamentalism.

" Mindless gullibility"!

A Newsweek poll found 55 per cent of Americans believe "that before the world ends the religiously faithful will be saved."

In the same vein, a binational Ipsos Reid poll by Andrew Grenville found 46 per cent of Americans agreeing: "The world will end in the Battle of Armageddon between Jesus and the Antichrist." (There goes your vow of non-violence, Deepak)

Do not 50% of the American population believe the earth is 6000 years old?

And didn’t Bush go to war because God told him so?

Keep up the good work Dr Chopra, but please go easy on the supernatural and the paranormal. :-)

A few indoctirnated and highly misguided muslims by waging terrorism are a serious blot to Islam. They are in fact giving opportunity to others to put forward their agenda. Basically Islam is a religion of Peace and except for a few disgruntled, who are out to give Islam a bad name, the rest of the adherents are all peace loving citizens.

I quote Muhammad Mustafa al Maraghil - Grand Shaykh of al Azhar, who way back in 1935 in a forward written for the Book "The Life of Muhammad' by Hykal has this to say, and how true, it is proving to be.

'In the process, the strongest protagonishts of Islam, may well be its strongest enemies, whereas its present alien antagonists may be Islam's adherents and defenders. As in the early period the strangers (Medinites) have supported Islam.....'

Muhammad (SA) was persecuted by his own kinsfolk. All rational thinking people, no matter, to whichever faith they belong, are becoming aware of the correct teachings of Islam, thanks to the extensive penetration of Internet around the world.

Deepak,

I fully agree with you that ideologies have to be dealt with. A section of Islamic minds need to be rebuilt. This is more important as large population of the world is muslim. I think this shall be first priority agenda for the everyone dealing with globalisation of terrorism.

At the same time, why are you perturbed by Robinowitz or WSJ. You or Gautam are criticizing Dorothy the same way she criticized and blamed you.

I would have liked to see you and Gautam educating Dorothy or WSJ further clarifying your perspectives.

This is what essentially you are talking about; educating closed minds and not reacting to them.

Deepak,
Yes why are you perturbed by Robinowitz or WS?

I find that former defense secratary, Bill Cohen's remarks show that one can be objective, unbiased, truthful and compassionate without professing to be philosopher.
See http://www.foxnews.com/video2/video08.html?maven_referralObject=3229642&maven_referralPlaylistId=&sRevUrl=http://www.foxnews.com/hannityandcolmes/index.html

Actually, Deepak's controversia CNN interview is also opinion-based not all fact-based. That is why it got such a response.

I can understand why WSJ responded the way they responded. I find that Deepak's root-cause analysis and non-violence-vow taking movement is also beginning to go crazy. Some who have taken these vows and practise searching their souls to see the cause of violence cannot see the difference between the mindset of terrorists going into buildings to KILL people and police going into those buildings to SAVE people. These vow-takers who have the experience of "oneness" do not see violence but only frustration in the hearts ands minds of those whom we call terrorists. But they see "subtle violence" in the hearts and minds of the people of Mumbai because the self-professed spiritualists have the insight!

I did not catch any of your CNN interviews; but, I did access your link to her WSJ interview (with the *journalist* who was so clueless that he mispronounced your name.)
Seriously, the woman could use some happy molecules in her life; plus, she came across as someone so comfortable with her own opinions that she would not be open to anyone else's alternatives.
Good for Gotham, for wanting to defend his father.
But, in retrospect, did her sarcastic comments need or deserve a Chopra response? I see it as giving attention to negative behavior.

aloha syamala

If you are familiar with Deepak Chopra's work you will know there is always a entanglement. In his book Peace is The Way he shares about the Stanford Prison Experiment, http://www.prisonexp.org/ To untangle the entanglement of blame is knowing there are just events in life it is our thoughts about the event that imprison us. And that is what he was explaining, "someone dropping a bomb can be perceived as terrorist. It is important to attack the terror not the terrorist. It is like attacking a image in a mirror vs. acknowledging the frame always stays the same. If you haven't read Peace is The Way, give it a try as it is a enlightening read. Deepak and Gotham will be able to detach with a Love that is inclusive as you and I will for a new world is rising.

love patty

Dear Deepak,

you have suggested a new way for so long, and in so many areas of life, that you should be used by now to receiving this kind of reactive response. I'm sure you know aggression is considered normal by those who respond aggressively. I believe that your written response here is a further attempt at opening eyes, at making someone aware that their behaviour is not healthy. Thank you for your kindness.

Dear Syamala,

your post #8 makes me wonder if you wish to continue our discussion from the Ten Questions thread. Do you think it could help create some peace between the "crazy" ones and yourself?

Michelle Haimoff: My Uncensored Interview with Deepak Chopra
Posted December 3

I recently wrote an article entitled "Deepak Chopra on Mumbai: Too Controversial for CNN?" about Chopra's November 26th interview on CNN, which CNN had possibly edited. Within a week of the interview, Dorothy Rabinowitz of the Wall Street Journal wrote an article entitled "Deepak Blames America," and Elisabeth Hasselbeck of The View called him "Glitter glasses whatshisface" and mumbled "Go light a bowl of incense." On December 2nd, I interviewed Chopra by phone and gave him the opportunity to speak candidly about censorship in the media, the new patriotism, and latent anti-Muslim racism in the United States. The unedited podcast of the interview will soon be posted on MichelleHaimoff.com/Interviews.

Chopra started off by clarifying[...] Read on...

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/michelle-haimoff/my-uncensored-interview-w_b_147960.html

About gullibility.

Have you noticed it is always the other guy’s religious convictions that are gullible? Our ‘talking snake’ is ok, but your hero riding to heaven on a ‘flying horse’ is gullibility. If one had to chose a religion, old age or new, that appears a closer approximation to the truth than others, it would have to be Deepak’s “Consciousness Umbrella”.

It answers, wonderfully and miraculously, our longing and our conviction that there has to be something, some supernatural deity or God, but that is no reason to call it the truth, or accept it without skepticism.

But at least it does not ask us to deal with the bizarre and often violent stuff in the Bible and Koran.