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...next nine years, Gray traveled everywhere with Maharishi, eventually becoming the guru's personal assistant. Along the way he picked up a bachelor's degree and an M.A.--in the Science of Creative Intelligence--at Maharishi International University; most of the credits came from such "projects" as helping Maharishi set up his teacher-training programs. (Wonder how he earned the right to call himself "Doctor"? He earned his Ph.D. in a correspondence course in psychology and counseling offered by Columbia Pacific University in San Rafael, Calif.) He was a meditator par excellence, he recalls, and would hear angels singing...
...Gray maintains that he also learned from Maharishi's mistakes. "His movement became all about him," he says. "What I try to do when I'm onstage and my gift is shining--and it is very impressive to people--[is to] reveal parts of me that aren't so shiny and impressive." This is, in part, his justification for spreading his seed, as it were--for selling his name and methods to others...
...Though Gray says Maharishi told him, "In 10 years you will own this movement," Gray eventually left TM and moved to California. By then, as Gray is fond of saying, he had been a "celibate monk" for nine years. "Sex became my new ecstasy," he says. After a few months of sleeping with a lot of women, including the woman who is now his wife Bonnie, he married his first wife, Barbara De Angelis, who has herself become a self-help guru, the author of How to Make Love All the Time, among other books. The two began giving...
...Gray was not healing people as quickly as he wanted to. "Fifteen years ago," he explains, "I prayed to God, 'Is there something I could teach that wouldn't take 40 hours to get results, that would literally help the quality of life for the people who came?'" A month later, De Angelis left him for another man. Gray says he was "devastated" by the failure of both his marriage and his career as a relationship guru. But soon after, he pulled himself together and returned to Bonnie, with whom he says he had been in love all along...
Though John Gray is now rich beyond even his dreams, he believes he has won this wealth for a reason--"so that I can understand how money is made and managed" and eventually help redistribute it. For Gray is just getting rolling with his master plan. "I feel it's in me to help negotiate peace in the world," he announces. "I know it will happen one day." And now it's time for that quiz. Where, exactly, is John Gray from...