Deepak Chopra has gained worldwide acclaim as a teacher and writer in fields as diverse as mind-body medicine, Ayurveda, the nature of God, and the path to success. Time magazine called him one of the one hundred icons of the twentieth century, "the poet-prophet of alternative medicine." The author of more than thirty-five books and one hundred audio, video, and CD-ROM titles, Dr. Chopra has been published on every continent in dozens of languages. More than twenty million copies of his books have been sold worldwide. He is the founder of the Chopra Center in Carlsbad, California.