Deepak Chopra Quotes
Don't censor incoming data through denial.
Chopra, Deepak, and Rudolph E. Tanzi. Super Brain: Unleashing the Explosive Power of Your Mind to Maximize Health, Happiness, and Spiritual Well-Being. Harmony Books, 2012.
He was officially hanged for his offence of blasphemy. See {619712}. His execution, which raised considerable concern, was the last execution for blasphemy in Britain.
The Irish Catholic Church had covered up the predatory child abuse behavior of many priests. The Vatican did also. At first they denied that priests had molested children. Then when the facts were becoming public, they argued that it was the behavior of an isolated priest here and there. Then they were faced with the fact that there were many priests who were pederasts, and the church castigated the individuals and denied that the Church officials knew what was going on and covered the crimes up, But many high officials of the Church knew that it was happening. They thought that the harm that would be done by loss of faith and trust in priests if the sexual oredation became known would be worse than if they tried to control the problem quietly inside the church. What they were accused of is just what had happened. Even Pope Benedict XVI when he was a mid-level Vatican official had refused to defrock a perverted California priests who the American church officials had wanted to get rid of. Even when the enormity of the abuse had become public, many Catholic officials denied that there was serious, traumatic harm done to the victims. Archbishop Martin was a leader in facing the issue squarely, admitting the behavior and the effect and trying to make amends and change. He was not at all popular for this among the Irish prelates and the Vatican officials, However, he managed to preserve some trust and support for the Chuch which had a major reform task ahead,
Spinoza’s ideas were considered so radical and dangerous that he was the only man in history who was excommunicated by the Catholics, the Jews and the Muslims. However, we see in Spinoza the observations and foundations of what would become American and then international views of human rights.
Islamic modernists like Serageldin are many among the educated Muslims but their views are often drowned out by the violence and extremist statements of the fundamentalists.
Wales was the founder of Wikipedia, the greatest source of information yet in world history. He mande this statement in reaction to the Erdogon Authoritarian President blocking Wikipedia from the Turkish Internet. The Oresident had objected to an article on The Turkish Armenian Genocide in 1915. Even a century later Erdogan did not want his people to lean the hidotry of what Turkey had done.
Deepak Chopra is an Indian-American author and alternative medicine advocate. A prominent figure in the New Age movement, his books and videos have made him one of the best-known and wealthiest figures in alternative medicine. His discussions of quantum healing have been characterised as technobabble - "incoherent babbling strewn with scientific terms" which drives those who actually understand physics "crazy" and as "redefining Wrong".
