I ASK Deepak Chopra what are the two most interesting things he has seen or learnt over the past 24 hours? He pauses for a moment and considers his answer.
We’re sitting in a room of his office space in downtown Manhattan. Plastic swivel chairs, bare walls, a large screen for conference calls.
“This morning . . .?” He thinks about this. This morning he has risen at five, as he always does, and done two hours of yoga and an hour of meditation. No breakfast. Deepak eats only one meal a day – a late lunch or an early supper.
He has conducted an interview for his YouTube channel with, as he puts it, “a presidential candidate [who’s] not going to win” – Marianne Williamson, who’s running for the Democratic nomination on a platform calling for an end to the war on drugs and the creation of a US department of peace.
Deepak then walked the five minutes from what his publicist calls his “state-of-the-art wellness apartment”, where he lives with Rita, his wife of 53 years. The couple have two children, Gotham, a media entrepreneur, and Mallika, an author and motivational speaker. They also have three grandchildren.
Crossing Union Square, he says, he passed a sign he sees every day.
“It says we have five years before climate change becomes irreversible. Nobody stops to read it. I am the only one who looks at it. It looks like we’re sleepwalking to extinction, just with that one thing: climate change, and climate-driven change – conflict, war, terrorism, nuclear weapons – that will take over and put everything else in the background. So that’s
