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From: Deepak Chopra
To: Jeff Epstein <jeevacation®gmail.com> 
Subject: Fwd: Scientific American Letters to the Editor 
Date: Fri, 11 Nov 2016 19:57:11 +0000 
FYI 
Deepak Chopra 
2013 Costa Del Mar Road 
Carlsbad, CA 92013 
New Book: 
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From: "Shattuck, Aaron"
Date: November 10, 2016 at 6:19:52 PM EST 
To: Deepak Chopra 
Cc: Carolyn Rangel 
Subject: Scientific American Letters to the Editor 
Dear Dr. Chopra, 
We will be publishing your letter sent in response to the September issue of Scientific American in the January 
issue. Due to space and style constraints, some editing was necessary. I have pasted our current version 
below. Please let me know if we have created any errors. 
Thank you for your time, 
Aaron Shattuck 
Scientific American 
In "At the Boundary of Knowledge" [Skeptic], Michael Shermer argues that physics disproves, or reduces to the vanishing point, 
the possibility of paranormal phenomena. Instead of beating the dead horse of scientific atheism, he should have considered a far 
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more amazing current trend that places so-called supernatural phenomena on the same playing field as natural events: that in 
physics and biology, a crisis of knowledge has developed when attempting to account for the fundamental definitions of time, space, 
matter, energy and life. In a cosmos ruled by dark matter and energy, where no empirical evidence exists about the origin of time, 
the multiverse is pure conjecture and no one knows how the fundamental physical constants emerged from the big bang, Shermer's 
stubborn physicalism is not true to the current situation in science. 
A growing cadre of investigators has opened the door to a once forbidden subject: consciousness. Until we understand how 
consciousness comes about, both nonnal and paranormal events are equally mysterious. Two observers, one claiming to see 
angels, the other to see nebulae and galaxies, derive their experience from totally unknown processes by which the brain, using 
completely ordinary electrochemical activity, produces a three--dimensional world. 
Max Planck declared, "All matter originates and exists only by virtue of a force.... We must assume behind this force the 
existence of a conscious and intelligent Mind. This Mind is the matrix of all matter." Werner Heisenberg asserted, "The atoms 
or the elementary particles themselves are not as real [as phenomena in daily life]; they form a world of potentialities or 
possibilities rather than one of things or facts." It's time for Shermer to read these seminal physicists so that instead of relying 
on a primitive belief that all phenomena come down to the interaction of particles, he gets into the game when it's finally 
becoming interesting. 
Deepak Chopra 
University of California, San Diego, School of Medicine 
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