by  Sahajananda

Wednesday evening Leadership in Time and Quantum Seminars had joined forces to get one of the most popular speakers of today to spend an evening with a numerous Danish audience in Falkonér Centeret.
Deepak Chopra has been called ‘the poetic prophet of alternative medicine’ by BBC. Wednesday night he qualified himself to another title: ‘the voice of the spiritual mediocre’.

It seemed like he wanted to find that language, that attitude, and that way, which will bring the message through the limitations of the individual mind and into the spirit.
Deepak Chopra calls this method for cognitive therapy: A way of dissolving peoples predetermined beliefs about themselves and about life, and bring into play new astonishing thought patterns which opens the mind towards cosmic and quantum dimensions.

To be the voice of the mediocre spiritual has of course both its challenges and limitations, which is a perfect match with Deepak Chopra´s own challenges and limitations. To have that degree of popularity as he has, indeed puts the content of the message to its test. During the evening Mr Chopra constantly edged between loosing his audience in the discontinuity of infinite abstract concepts and scientific quotes and making a banal joke with entertaining spiritual shoplifting from various esoteric traditions.

While he himself was slandering around on stage, he encouraged the audience to experience the depths of meditation. But only for 2 minutes at a time. Considering his level of knowledge he claim to have about the human psyche, such an exercise seemed just to be casted in order to produce a dramatic effect making people leave an evening with Deepak Chopra with the belief that they had been meditating.

Most scientific researches of meditation admit that at least 25 minutes is required to create a process of deepening the experience of human consciousness. This kind of compromises is what steals the real opportunity from curious newcomers and supports the impression created by most main stream media, that meditation is just to close your eyes in sitting position. Consulting any serious practitioner they would most certainly not support this widely spread social belief about meditation.

And it was unfortunately not the only compromise Chopra made during the evening. Meanwhile his on going cosmic tale about the development of human consciousness took its planned course, Chopra few times stepped into his own personal meetings with the mysteries of the human consciousness.
His personal stories were painting colourful eastern epics about the multi dimensions of reality, like when he and his brother decided to leave significant messages in the office with death scrolls for the future generations of his family and thus pointing to the cyclic nature of reality. Yet in few moments during the evening he seemed to step a little aside his role as a professional spiritual mentor in his expensive Soul of Leadership Workshops, as when he attempted a cheap laugh about His Holiness The Dalai Lama´s daily practice of 4 hours of meditation on the moment of death (known as the famous phowa in the Tibetan yoga), and compared it with his own ‘couple of minutes of daily meditation’; thus indirectly - though surely not intended - the political correct Chopra tried to ridicule the entire Tibetan spiritual culture, which has always been aiming for reaching spiritual liberation in the moment of leaving the physical corpse.
When Chopra was explaining social and scientific matters he indeed seemed on solid ground, and he was dancing elegantly with the mental body of the entire audience. But when he moved into explaining metaphysical phenomenon his mental navigation suddenly became more foggy and weak. As when he confused an out of body experience with the Revelation of the Supreme Self. Any mid-range spiritual practitioner or even an intellectual person who have only read about the revelation of the Supreme Self knows that it is an entirely different process and significant experience, than what Chopra described as his spiritual breakthrough. Compare for example different explanations about the revelation of the Self from our contemporary Eckart Tolle or the 18th century yogic master Sri Ramakrishna with what Chopra presented.

Beside talking about human consciousness and its startling potentials Chopra also briefly schemed his political agenda: Climate chaos and global warming, terrorism and war, economical instability and social injustice. Unfortunately Chopra´s emphasis on exactly these problems seemed not any different than any supporter or member of the global elitarian network of freemasonry. He mentioned his own dedicated involvement in several humanistic charity organisations and the Alliance of New Humanity focused on solving the so called emerging problems of humanity, by creating a critical mass of higher consciousness.
Again his errind became questionable:  As any loyal sympathizer of a global materialistic government and spiritual enslavement, what he did not mention about our social, economical and environmental problems became significant. He did for example not mention that the problems of today in fact is created by the same elite who sponsors different charity organisations (UNESCO, RED CROSS, WHO) and whose only purpose is to cover their own rapid development towards their final goal: Total control over any social structure on the face of the planet.
Deepak Chopra indeed fulfills his role as being the voice of the spiritual mediocre. On one hand he seems to opens up people to the mysteries of life and consciousness which is indeed good, and yet when you look a little deeper at the social phenomenon Deepak Chopra, it is hard to find the logic between the spiritual message represented and the way he has been casted as a popular mentor by his publishers, the medias and his own organisation.
 
    
 

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