Haven't been following this thread, so my apologies if what I have
to say is redundant.
Dr. David Simon is the doctor/former-TM governor who invited Dr.
Chopra to La Jolla and who has worked with him in partnership since.
Around 1994 or 1995, David Simon told a friend the following: When
Dr. Chopra first came out to California, he and Dr. Simon were
referring their clients to the tmo to learn TM. But clients would
come back complaining about the high price (what was it, about $1000
back then?) So then Dr. Chopra and Dr. Simon would advise them that
there were TM teachers in the area willing to teach TM for less and
give them names. After awhile, they received a letter from tmo
national saying that they were circumventing the tmo and going
against mmy's wishes, and perhaps, after all, it was a good thing
that Dr. Chopra had severed relations with the tmo and mmy, and
would they please stop recommending to people to go to TM teachers
who were not working through the tmo and not charging the full
price. It was after this that the two doctors decided to develop
their own meditation so as to fully sever the relationship to the
tmo. I believe that what they taught involved the use of a mantra
chosen from a list of 108 mantras based on nakshatras. They called
what they were teaching Primordial Sound. This was an interesting
coincidence, considering that Dr. Chopra was teaching a Primordial
Sound technique when he was working under the auspices of the tmo.
On being asked about this coincidence of technique name, Dr. Simon
responded that nothing that Dr. Chopra was teaching since leaving
the tmo had come from Maharishi. Whether or not that was true, it
certainly identifies how Dr. Simon, and probably Dr. Chopra felt
about the situation. Maybe it is not so coincidental that mmy never
tried to resurrect the primorial sound, bliss technique or
psychophysiological techniques that Dr. Chopra was teaching through
MAPI. Maybe Dr. Chopra had more ownership or authorship of them
than mmy did in some way. But, in any case, there were not 108
primordial sounds when they were being taught through MAPI. So
something had changed, if not the name.
anon
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What I find interesting about Chopra is that when he left the
Movement
he went down on record as saying: No, I don't want to compete
with
Maharishi and I'm not interested in teaching meditation.
Had he stuck to that, I would have had a lot of respect for
the
guy.
Chopra's version is that he and MMY agreed he should work more
independently due to too much infighting coming from the inner
circlers against chopra plus Chopra would have more credibility
promoting ayurved if he was not directly employed and associated
with
the tmo. Then a week later, bevan sends out the message to all
centers declaring chopra persona non grata within the tmo and
generally promoting all the spin and rumors against him. Chopra
couldn't get MMY to rein in the negative campaigning so he felt
had no
responsibility to promote tmo's programs.
I can certainly empathize with Chopra vis a vis his own programs
and
whether or not the Movement -- and the Upper Snots -- acted like
pricks with him, which they probably did. And I have no problem
with Chopra promoting, selling and making oodles of cash off of
those programs.
I do have a problem with him creating and then selling his own
brand
of TM which from all appearances he has done, particularly since I
have seen a quote from him at the time he left the movement that
he
had no interest in doing so. I wish I could find the quote and
reproduce it here.
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