His credentials as a professional psychologist were questionable to some, as he held degrees from the Maharishi International University (from 1995 Maharishi University of Management) in Iowa and obtained his Ph.D. Throughout the 1980s he worked as a “spiritual counselor” and conducted relationship seminars. The marriage ended in 1984, the same year Gray self-published his first book, What You Feel You Can Heal. Together they began a business that specialized in weekend sex-and-relationship workshops. In 1979 he left the movement and moved to California, and in 1982 he married Barbara DeAngelis, who also became a best-selling self-help author. Gray took a vow of celibacy and traveled with the guru for nine years, learning firsthand the necessary attributes of a charismatic leader. John Gray, (born 1951, Houston, Texas, U.S.), American self-help author and pop psychologist who built a business empire out of his most famous book, Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus (1992).Īs a teenager Gray became involved in the Transcendental Meditation (TM) movement and eventually became the personal assistant of TM founder Maharishi Mahesh Yogi.

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