--- In [email protected], "curtisdeltablues" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > ffia1120, > > Did they pick you up in a limo at the airport when you went to to get > your Chopra technique? Nice touch. That was really a funny move on > MMY's part letting him teach techniques without a puja. He did a long > induction first with my eyes closed, I remember that. It was a mix of > techniques like a yardsale package. Some A of E technique, a nightime > technique and a magic word for health. After leaving the movement I > felt it was particularly sketchy selling a magic word for your health > cloaked in the respectability of a doctor's office. They say "don't > tempt an honest man". When Chopra saw us all lining up with our fists > full of dollars (I remember it had to be in cash) he must have thought > to himself, "Popa needs a new pair of shoes!" > > I think Chopra's story was a way of distancing himself from his > association with MMY. Making it seem like he got techniques from the > Shankaracharya was like padding his resume. He blew his own cover by > being too specific about how he did the techniques.
Chopra's techniques were not meant to be consciousness-raising per se, but on the physical level of health, so a puja wasn't relevant, or such has always been my take. And way back when, Chopra would accept checks made out to the Maharishi Foundation, and only accept room, board and expense money for himself. Ironically, when he did THAT, no-one respected him in the New Age movement, but now that he charges many times as much as he used to, he brags about donating 10 percent to charity and everyone who denounced him back then oohs and ahs about his generosity. To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
