>
> --- 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?
> > >
> > >
> > > And he used to charge $10,000 per lecture + expenses and
quietly donate the
> > > $10 grand to
> > > the Maharishi Ayurveda Fund. These days, he donates 10% of his
income and
> > > brags about it
> > > and everyone hails him as a humanitarian. Sheesh.
> > >
> > >
> > > 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.
>
> With a little help from myself and a group called "Friends of
> Chopra"... His VERY first book was called "Creating Health" and he
> wrote it before he learned TM, as far as I know. Certainly, before
> he met MMY.
Only shortly before--he met MMY in 1985.
> It was also a Houghten Mifflen book, at least in the
> edition *I* have, and that's hardly "self-published."
OK, I got it wrong in my post, then. I didn't realize
Houghton Mifflin had republished it.
So the article has the title wrong. Also, it wasn't
"self-published" in the current sense; it was published
by Vantage Press, one of the old "vanity presses."
There are four different editions of the book listed
on Amazon, each with a different subtitle. The Vantage
Press edition's (1985) subtitle is "The Psychophysiological
Connection"; the first Houghton Mifflin edition (1987),
"Beyond Prevention, Toward Perfection"; the revised
Houghton Mifflin paperback edition (1995), "How to Wake
Up the Body's Intelligence"; and a 2005 edition from
Ebury Press (a division of Random House UK), "How to
Attain Perfect Health and Feel Ever Youthful."
> He may have had to promote it to book-sellers himself
That would have been the "vanity press" (Vantage) edition.
, but that's hardly the story given.
> That was probably a decade before he went on Oprah.
Close. He first was on Oprah in 1993, I think.
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