caravanserai

In the old days, mid-seventies, Kailash was still fresh in the minds of a few people who were in Poona One. Over time it started to enter the realm of myth….if you’d participated you gained insider status. Shiva, Hugh Milne, was there from the start and it was probably round about then that his personal [...]

I see it like this. Sannyas was once a very alive and exciting game…what that game consisted of seems to have been a very personal matter. When I look at people who are still hanging in there with the sannyas game they usually have some investment in it, financial, career, sentimentality, fear of the unknown, [...]

Shantam, the question of inner and outer sannyas IS judged in fact in your paradigm, it is judged by the “Master”. In some schools of sufism the Master him or her self is very difficult to find, or even identify, and the bond with the disciple is a rather secret thing. It may well be [...]

Shantam, like all things have a fashion. In the seventies the master/disciple paradigm was all the fashion. It was arguably a great game. From the demise of the Ranch (1985) Osho was emphatic we were his “friends”. Maybe he knew a little bit more, but a fresh maturity was needed from our side to avoid [...]

Sam.Ba. — I looked at that book some time in the late 90s, when I was investigating the ‘hidden history’ of the human race along with a secret and motley cabal of Internet dudes. We were heavy into Sitchin, Velikovsky, Bramley, the Annunaki, etc. I even went with a friend to Sedona, where we camped [...]

Martyn — you sound like you had a bad trip in Devageet’s dental chair. But you are a ‘Prem’ (as am I), so your lesson is to forgive. Or something like that. Alok — “I was in Pune for the three weeks up to and including Osho’s death. I was there when Osho spoke about [...]

Teertha wrote “Re Osho and the ‘malefic sorcery’ just before his death, what do you think of that whole matter? Some ‘out there’ things have been suggested, including one wild theory that the guy who used to run the Tibetan Pulsing group, Dheeraj, was actually responsible for it. I stumbled upon this article several years [...]

Martyn — you’ve got some comic-writing prowess. Should consider a novel spoofing the whole spiritual trip. Something sorely needed with all the seriousness we get into. Incidentally, does anyone know what is happening with Devageet’s book? I heard rumor of its impending publication, but that was a while ago. Back in 1984, I was roommates [...]

Alok — “Re heroin addiction….Is not arrogance a form of stupidity?” Have you never known an intelligent person who also was capable of showing arrogance on occasion? Intelligence is not synonymous with perfect humility. Osho himself was not exactly humble, and judging by his own account of his youthful years, was clearly capable of manifesting [...]

In Papua New Guinea sorcerers, mainly men, are often murdered by members of the public. But the state does sometimes prosecute under the Sorcery Act. For example, in 2006 two brothers were accused of practicing sorcery to cause the death of another man. Lae District Court found there was sufficient evidence including materials and witness [...]

PS Cohn wrote in the 50s and 60s I think. He was in US. He may not have known that the books I mentioned existed.
Also I think it was politically impossible then, as it is now, to say that there really were some women who considered themselves to be witches.

Teertha, Briefly Re heroin addiction….Is not arrogance a form of stupidity? Re child died of neglect…..this was from a TV documentary…..I am not expert. I am sure you are right about modern Wicca being largely a harmless New Age cult You write : “Prior to the 20th century there is no good evidence that organized [...]