Rajneeshpuram Site: Then Paul Harris, Getty Images Rajneeshpuram Site: Then Between 1981 and 1988, Wasco County, Oregon became home to a religious community known as Rajneeshpuram. Following the words and teachings of Rajneesh (later known as Osho), the makeshift town’s members all dressed in...
Several years after the death of the legendary Bhagwan Rajneesh, I continue to find that most of his devotees are still unable to even begin to contemplate the possibility that their guru might have had something to do with the treacherous escapades of some of his closest disciples. During a ...
At one point during a local election cycle the Rajneesh bussed thousands of homeless people into Wasco County from around the nation to affect the outcome of an election. Their plan failed so the cult just released the homeless into the various small towns of the area leaving the relocation ...
Joy is a state of transcendence. One is neither happy nor unhappy, but utterly peaceful, quiet, in absolute equilibrium; so silent and so alive that his silence is a song, that his song is nothing but his silence. Joy is forever; happiness is momentary. Happiness is caused by the outsid...
Though Rajneesh is the center of his religious movement, the most compelling player in the saga is Ma Anand Sheela, his secretary and early disciple whose relationship with Rajneesh sours drastically by the end. She is calm, collected, and well-spoken on camera – both in the present and in...
Is The Guru Dead?The fact that many spiritual teachers have fallen into financial and sexual scandal raises important questions. What are the causes of corruption? What is true purity? Includes interviews with The Guru Papers authors Joel Kramer and Diana Alstad, and Brother David Steindl-Rast....