If Wicca has become the bush leagues of the occult, as I often maintain, then the slow pitch soft ball league has got to be the sad and silly New Age industry embodied by scumbag grifter Deepak Chopra. This little niche occupied by Chopra, and several other authors who should be absolutely ashamed of themselves, services the aging trophy wives and bored baby boomers who make up significant portions of sub-urban hipsterdom. What they sell is easy to attain “enlightenment” which one receives by reading some overpriced books, attending some expensive workshops and learning to regurgitate platitudes no one really understands. And when you don’t these 50+ year-old Yentas shake their head sadly and tell you to read the next book on Oprah’s book club list.

This version of the New Age is worse than role-playing because the people involved don’t know that this is a fraud. I have little sympathy for people too stupid to realize enlightenment can’t be purchased from some cretin who pimps his books on MSNBC but I do think selling spirituality the way Chopra does is disgusting. He charges people money to tell them what they want to hear (like the hooker he is) which in turn keeps these idiots from growing spiritually. He makes a living helping stunted people devolve into the douches you see lecturing people about genetically modified foods at organic groceries and who will tell you cancer is brought on by the cancer victim’s “bad karma.” And yes, I have witnessed both these things.

And to prove he is indeed a slug I bring you, via Gateway Pundit, his take of the recent earthquake which killed several people. From his Twitter account:

“Had a powerful meditation just now — caused an earthquake in Southern California”

I’m sorry? People just died in an earthquake and you’re trying to take credit for it Deepak? That’s just evil.

According to AOL News Chopra explained himself thusly:

And then, to clarify: “Was meditating on Shiva mantra & earth began to shake,” he tweeted. “Sorry about that.”

Really? People died in a disaster, people lost their homes and businesses and you take credit for the disaster and throw out a “sorry” even as people are burying their loved ones?

Look, we all know Deepak Chopra not only can’t cause an earthquake, but he probably doesn’t even really meditate on a regular basis. Like the con artist he is he sought to impress his followers with his supposedly supernatural abilities, but all he ended up doing was exposing how self-involved he is.

Using a disaster to pimp your get enlightened quick business is wrong, doing so when people die in it is evil. If Deepak Chopra really believed he caused this earthquake accidentally, that the earth responds to him alone and his very stray thoughts moves mountains, he’s insane. It’s one or the other.

But Chopra fans will say he really did cause the earth to move with his meditation. Then he murdered several people if you’re correct. If that’s the case he is evil, especially since his reaction is not to give a crap about the people who died.

No matter how you slice this one there is only one conclusion to draw, Deepak Chopra is either insane, evil or both. Stop buying his books and grow up.