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prior to beginning scouring the web foreverything to knowabout Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh (a.k.a.
How did Bhagwan become a guru?
Ostensibly, a guru was born by the time he was 21.
They want to justify their guilty consciences, to justify their guilty acts.
It was the perfect storm from which Bhagwans image as lord of the hedonistic manor took unshakable hold.
What, exactly, was Bhagwans free-love philosophy?
In archival footage fromWild Wild Country, longtime Rajneesh spokespersonMa Prem Sunshine(a.k.a.
Sunny V. Massad) coyly suggested that there simply was no single set of rules.
Im against marriage from the very beginning, he explained.
He goes on to describe a neurotic society populated by couples having duty-filled sex.
What about the children of Rajneeshpuram?
But what was it like to be raised against your will in Rajneeshpuram or any out-there commune?
Bluestone recalls working the land more than hitting the books, and getting lectured by Stork (a.k.a.
for avoiding her obligations.
Movie night strucka similar tone.
More distressingly, there were unconfirmed allegations of childrenbeing sexually abusedon the compound.
Were Sheela, Bhagwan, and Jane the only ones convicted?
Longtime Rajneeshpuram mayor Krishna Deva (a.k.a.
David Berry Knapp) didnt get off scot-free for flipping on his pals.
Meanwhile, another of Bhagwans secretaries, Ma Anand Puja (a.k.a.
Suzanne Pelletier), Ma Yoga Vidya (a.k.a.
Ann Phyllis McCarthy), Ma Anand Su (a.k.a.
Susan Hagan), Dhyan Yoginia (a.k.a.
Alma Peralta), Swami Anugiten (a.k.a.
Richard Kevin Langford), and Ma Prem Samadhi (a.k.a.
Where did Bhagwan get all that Rolls-Royce money?
As explained above, Bhagwan benefited financially from his wealthy followers blind faith.
But they werent the only ones carrying the load.
Upon swallowing Antelope, Oregon, Rajneeshpuramraised original town residents property taxes.
As one sannyasin hassaid, Most of us gave whatever we had.
Also, that groovy disco on the ranchs premises?
A cool $50 cover charge to dynamically dance the night away.
Was the Ashram in Poona film really that nuts?
(This footageis neither safe for work nor recommended for sensitive viewers.)
Bhagwan probably relished the prospect of his Oregonian adversaries going pale bearing witness to his flocks behavior.
But objectively, anyone not under his sway would be by turns skeptical and appalled.
Did Bhagwan have a will?
Swami Prem Niran) and Dr. John Andrews (a.k.a.
Swami Amrito, ne Dr. George Meredith).
But rival Osho preservationists from the Osho Friends Foundation cried foul and forgery.
In 2014,a Swiss court agreed, suspending the offending board members and voided their entrusted privileges.
Two years later, an Indian court asked that thecontested will be sent overfrom Europe to facilitate possible prosecution.
What did Rajneeshees do in their pre-Bhagwan lives?
But there were less spotlighted individuals likeRajneeshpuram municipal judgePrem Homa (a.k.a.
Michele Therese Mannel), who ditched her career as a New Jersey music teacher to bask beside Bhagwan.
By and large, though, early Western Rajneeshees were highly educated and had money to burn.
One1985 survey of defectorsrevealed that one-fifth of its participants held masters degrees.
Nowadays, spiritual and professional wanderlust have overlapped.
