--- In [email protected], "authfriend" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> --- In [email protected], Vaj <vajranatha@> wrote:
> <snip>
> > I also have the highest respect for Chopra, he's a fine man with  
> > great integrity IMO.
> 
> Who allowed his name to be put on a book that was
> written by others?

First, we don't know that's true about the ayurved book just because
some mov't docs say so.  Second, it's done all the time and it has
nothing to do with integrity if that's how the contract between the
parties reads.  If it was done unethically in some way, it's an easy
lawsuit for the real authors.

It's well known Chopra used the santa fe ex-purusha guy to help write
many of his original books.  Chopra supplied him with an outline of
each chapter for the book, the ghost writer writes the chapters, and
then Chopra edits the final draft.  Both parties were very happy with
the arrangement.  MMY blessed the arrangement so that Chopra would
have more time to promote M-ayurved on the lecture circuit - so Judy
should question MMY's integrity as well for encouraging it. (I got the
above from a close friend of the ghost writer who seemed sane).

I'm not a huge Chopra fan - I'd be more open to anti-Chopra ghost
writing bashing if he didn't really understand the substance of the
books, but it's clear from his seminars that he knows the stuff.

PS - Who knows the details of how MMY and Vernon Katz collaborated to
write the Gita??

> Who tried to push the "revisionist" untruth that the
> Beatles were thrown out of MMY's ashram because they
> were doing drugs?

The drug rationale has been around in the mov't for decades - it's a
way for TBs to cope with the MMY-Beatles breakup, it doesn't jibe with
95% of what people who were there say.   Chopra apparently heard it
while in the mov't and passed it on at that time.  How it got into a
2006 Indian article on the beatles is still a mystery to me?







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