An endocrinologist by specialty, he is a former chief of staff of New England Memorial Hospital. But Chopra, a long-time Transcendental Meditator, is also a practitioner of the ancient Indian system of healing, Ayurveda, and is currently the Chief of Staff of the Maharishi Ayurveda Health Center in Lancaster, Massachusetts. His latest, Unconditional Life , has stimulated great public interest. He is also a much sought-after lecturer. In the last year, Dr Chopra has been invited to speak at several prestigious medical establishments, including Harvard Medical School in the US, to say nothing of the myriad New Age fairs at which he is a featured guest.
Spiritual awareness is the only way that healing can occur.
By teaching a person the ability to have a quiet mind, to stand back and witness the whole thought process. That insight, at a deep level of awareness, is enough to cause a change in one's consciousness, and a spontaneous change in one's biology. It's possible these days to talk in medical terminology and convince people that the shelf life of molecules is very short. Ninety-eight percent of all the atoms in my body are gone by next year. The physical body that I'm using to speak with you right now is not the one I had last year.