--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Peter <drpetersutphen@> > wrote: > > > > --- authfriend <jstein@> wrote: > > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, > > > "curtisdeltablues" > > > <curtisdeltablues@> wrote: > > > > > > > > That was fantastic! Chopra has gained many points > > > in my estimation > > > > for the humanness of this piece. > > > > > > It's a fascinating piece, but I'd recommend > > > a salt shaker to accompany your reading, > > > particularly with regard to the details of > > > the medical emergency and Chopra's role in it. > > > > Why? In my personal interactions with Chopra many > > moons ago he always came across as a pretty straight > > shooter. > > He's just a *little* too much at the center of the > story he tells, and he's just a bit too good of a > story teller, too smooth. It set off my B.S. > detector. > > But more specifically, he's been quoted in published > news stories telling two competing versions of why > the Beatles left Maharishi: first, that they had been > using drugs and MMY threw them out; and then that there > were rumors of MMY coming on to a woman at the ashram, > and the Beatles left in disgust. Both accounts have > been posted here, the first one awhile back, the > second since MMY died. > > I think most of us here were surprised to hear him > telling the drugs version. Some suggested he was > trying to repair his relations with the movement > by telling the version that reflected MMY in a > better light. > > Whatever, he appears to be playing some kind of game, > and I just don't trust him not to make up details > that reflect *himself* in a better light. >
Or, more likely, putting himself in the center of the story when itw as someone else who did specific things. I wouldn't doubt that MMY was under the care of Chopra's father at some point. I wouldn't doubt that he was seriously ill, even apparently dead or in a coma. And the worry of his nephews sounds about th right. I India, even more than the USA< appearance is everything, it seems. But you're right, it does sound a tad "neat" that Chopra was there for every single aspect of that incident. Lawson
