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Frank, I said grandkid, not son.

Funky!
I get off more on that than a poke in the eye with a plastic daf or an earbashing from a twelve foot lizard.

Apologies for the fake news here.
The dinosaurs did not help to build the Pyramids, they helped construct Stonehenge.

Why do people believe in this or that?
Why do they practise this or that?

Ha:
Because they get off on it.

Tony Joe White – I get off on it

Yes, yes, this is over-simplistic.

The free festival at Castlemorton in 1992 became a huge event which attracted up to 20,000 people.

Although it was originally set up and organised at the last minute by travellers who were finding it difficult […]

Here`s another koan for anyone with “highly unusual cognitive capacities” at the Finger and the Moon theme-pub quiz night:
Why did the chicken cross the road?

Yes, which came first, the zen or the egghead?

The question is also:

What was first, the hen or the egg?

Was “enlightenment” the result of his “highly unusual cognitive capacities”?

Or were his “highly unusual cognitive capacities” the result of “enlightenment”?

Yes, I heard BL refer to Osho as “a great master”, although he made it clear their ways were very different (thankfully).

Er…if you mean Barry Long, I have heard that he did consider Osho enlightened (he certainly also attracted a lot of sannyasins in the 80s) and was apparently quite impressed with Osho’s intelligence and […]

Wasn`t that `big cranium` idea just a bit of a gauche intellectual way of saying he was a bighead?

I think he got the idea from one of the biologist Lyall Watson`s books where he theorised about a very large […]

He certainly was born with some highly unusual cognitive capacities – I agree with Calder on that one. I mean, the photographic memory – his abilities to speed-read five to ten books per day and amass a […]

We`ve been over all this before. But re Osho`s drug-taking habits, remember that in his own words (to be found in ‘Autobiography of a Politically Incorrect Mystic’) he describes how he did experiments with […]

“Rajneesh was born with a highly unusual brain”.

Would mean he was some freak of nature. Any proof for this?
His photographic memory?

He certainly is an oddball – and not only because he believes that someone’s consciousness is something to with the size of a person’s brain; and that was why Osho had such as huge consciousness – because of the […]

There is also the story of Neem Karoli Baba being fed a massive dose of acid by Ram Dass – enough for several people – and showing that he was able to function perfectly normally.

Yeah, everyone has heard the […]

I agree that Osho probably consumed a fair amount of the nitrous oxide – but how much, the exact frequency of the sessions and how often over the Ranch and Poona period, isn’t clear.

But the way I expect it […]

Christopher Calder is an odd one. He wrote some interesting stuff but he always sounded to me like he was a bit on the spectrum.

He`s into UFOs now, according to his […]

One thing is for certain, Osho did consume a lot of laughing gas. It is an old topic and a bit worn out, but just for the record I will share the following. On the ranch, Mexican Rupesh, the brilliant […]

Christopher Calder writes, “Osho loved nitrous oxide so much he had nitrous oxide tanks and spigots installed by his bed at the Oregon Commune, a fact verified by the police, the press, and various political […]