Return of the Rishi: A Doctor's Search for the Ultimate Healer - Hardcover

Chopra, Deepak

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0395455162 ISBN 13: 9780395455166

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1988

Synopsis

A remarkable first-person account of a young doctor's spiritual journey. Chopra guides us from his beginnings in India, through the conventional training of a Western physician, to his discovery of the ancient traditions of India's Ayurveda and the dimension of the mind in medicine.

About this title

About the Author:

Deepak Chopra, M.D., Founder and CEO, The Chopra Foundation, Adjunct Professor of Executive Programs at the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University, Adjunct Professor at Columbia Business School, Columbia University, and Senior Scientist with The Gallup Organization. www.choprafoundation.org

From Publishers Weekly:

In 1980 Chopra was a chain-smoking Boston physician schooled in Western ways, proud of his beeper, attending to heart and asthma patients. But a meeting with Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, founder of the Transcendental Meditation movement, rekindled his interest in the Ayurvedic medicine he knew during his Indian boyhood. How the author gave up his prestigious hospital career, practiced TM and became a leading exponent of the Ayurvedic system in the U.S. is the thrust of this reflective if self-infatuated autobiography. The ancient Indian system of herbal and mineral cures stresses balance with nature and calling upon the patient's inner resources. As Chopra shuttles between growing up in India, medical school (where a holy man was buried alive and survived) and encounters with the ill, one longs for more detail about how Ayurvedic medicine works, and rather less about the guru whom he reveres.
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About this edition

• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Company
• Publication date: 1988
• ISBN 10: 0395455162
• ISBN 13: 9780395455166
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 212