Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Audio talk with Chopra... talks about peace, TM movement, etc

[Rick Archer]

Title: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Audio talk with Chopra... talks about peace, TM movement, etc





on 10/30/06 7:40 PM, Peter at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

--- sparaig <[EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:sparaig%40yahoo.com> > wrote:

> --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com <mailto:FairfieldLife%40yahoogroups.com> , ffia1120
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > I believe Chopra hooked up with MMY in 1985 or
> '86. Certainly not 
> > before that. He was working at a Mormon hospital
> in the Boston area 
> > before he got invloved with the TMO.
> 
> Return of the Rishi, his autobiography, is copyright
> 1987. He learned TM quite a few years 
> before that. He met Triguna in 1981 after he started
> TM, IIRC, though a skeptics website 
> claims it was before he learned TM.

He hooked up with MMY in 1981. I saw and spoke with
him  in Washington, DC when Purusha just started. He
was just a regular joe back then. Very open and
friendly. I had no idea who he was. I just sat down
next to him for lunch and chatted. All these claims
about learning techniques from the Shankaracharya in
1980 are BS on his part.

I taught Deepak’s intro TM course with Ted Weisman (Ted initiated him) in the fall of, I think, 1980, just before we went off to the Vedic Science course in New Delhi. I lived in Deepak’s parents’ house over there for two months. We got Deepak and his parents into the hall to see MMY, but they didn’t get any face time with him. I think TM was Deepak’s first serious foray into Indian spirituality. I probably would have been aware of any interaction he had with the Shankaracharya around that time, as I also visited him at his house several times after we got back from India. I don’t recall any mention of the Shankaracharya.


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