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Building a life on New Age nostrums is like constructing the national highway system out of marshmallow. The pretty white path may look lovely as it stretches off to the horizon. But with your very first step you find yourself mired in goo. Deepak Chopra inadvertantly shows us why:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":92,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3053","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\nOuch<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Building a life on New Age nostrums is like constructing the national highway system out of marshmallow. 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