Barry: Next time you snip something from one of my posts, would you please be kind enough to put "<snip>" there?
Thank you. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB <no_re...@...> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "shempmcgurk" <shempmcgurk@> wrote: > > > > I like a lot of what Chopra says and writes. And then > > there's stuff he is just stupid about. > > > > What i object to about him is his "Dauphin" airs, a > > kinda arrogance about him. > > As I've said before, Chopra was "after my time" > in the TMO. I've never read any of his books, do > not expect ever to read any of his books, and > have no real feel for him other than articles > that have been quoted here or published on the > Web. That said, there does seem to be something > both attention-seeking *and* stupid about him. > > But what I find more interesting is the enduring > hatred that long-term TMers seem to aim at him. > Whatever they claim on the surface, the bottom > line of it always has struck me as them being > *jealous* of him for *making* money by parroting > the same unoriginal, recycled spiritual dogma > that they had to *pay* money to parrot. > > The average TM teacher or TM camp follower has > spent thousands to hundreds of thousands of > dollars learning and then parroting "knowledge" > that Maharishi himself (as far as I can tell) > was doing nothing more than parroting from other > sources. Chopra's main "sin" seems to be that he > figured this out and decided to cut out the middle > man and keep the parrot-money for himself. >
