>
> --- In [email protected], "authfriend" <jstein@> wrote:
> >
> > --- In [email protected], Rick Archer <fairfieldlife@>
> > wrote:
> > >
> > > on 5/27/06 6:09 AM, sparaig at sparaig@ wrote:
> > >
> > > > Blatant revisionism, or just Really Bad Reporting?
> > <snip>
> > > >
> > > > http://www.sundayherald.com/55707
> > > >
> > > > "Chopra showed similar persistence with his writing career.
> > > > Nobody would publish his first book, Quantum Healing, so
> > > > he did it himself and hawked it around bookshops until a
> > > > publishing agent picked up on it.
> >
> > > A talented team of Purusha publicists got his first books on the
> > > best seller lists.
> >
> > And "Quantum Healing" wasn't his first book, it was his
> > third, after one he self-published (can't recall the
> > title) and "Return of the Rishi."
> >
> > You can't "hawk around" a book to bookstores unless it's
> > actually been typeset and bound. It is possible to get
> > a self-published book on the shelves that way, and for a
> > publisher to pick it up if it sells well.
> >
> > Chopra might well have done this with his first book, but
> > to the best of my knowledge it was never picked up by a
> > publisher;
>
> The self-published version may have been picked up
> by a *distributor* if it had sold well enough.
>
> and "Return of the Rishi" (again to the best
> > of my knowledge) never went through the self-publishing
> > stage.
>
> In other words, he sold the ms. directly to a publisher--
> most likely through an agent--rather than self-publishing
> it first.
>
> "Return of the Rishi," which was published by
> > Houghton Mifflin, sold well, and obviously by the time
> > he wrote "Quantum Healing" he was well enough known that
> > he would have sold the ms. directly to the publisher.
>
> He probably sold "Quantum Healing" on the basis of a
> proposal and sample chapters, as opposed to the
> entire ms.
>
He sold QH on the basis of the promotional work done by Purusha, Clarla Linton (Brown)
and so on. QH was a commissioned book. Ironically, if you search inside the latest version,
there's not a single mention of "Maharishi" at least using Amazon's search engine.
Return of the Rishi has been republished with a slightly new sub-title. Don't know how
much, if any, of the text was revised. QH and Perfect Health have been completely
rewritten over the years. QH was a study in Chopra's relationship with the TMO and
Maharishi. The more he distanced himself, the more revisions were made to the book.
I just did a search on pubmed and scholar.google.com. There is STILL no published
research on the efficacy of Chopra's Primordial Sound Meditation technique.
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