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Yes, thanks, SS.
I think he, Arun, like many, is someone overidentified with certain periods in Sannyas. In his case, Poona 1. He went to the Ranch, but very briefly, and did not like it at all, apparently.

I […]

I agree it has always been one of Osho’s weaknesses that he ‘believed’ in western medicines, and thought little of other medicines. This was also the case of science where he often took over scientific lines and […]

No. I stayed the course as a commune member before and after Sheela’s leaving, and wasn’t unhappy inwardly.

You, on the other hand, have to admit that Amrito has made your life very uncomfortable and you left […]

Good stuff, SD.
If Shantam can understand that leaving a commune can have as much value as joining one, it might be an amazng advance for him. And he might finally get rid of wanting to recreate Pune 2 into a […]

Seconded, Lokesh.

Thanks, SS.

Shantam is obsessed by Amrito. Amrito travels around from country to country without any fear like Sheela of prosecution.

Maybe you should ask why Sheela has not travelled out of Switzerland in […]

We have had different moderators over the years at SN.

My own view on the Ranch story, and also the wider history of Sannyas is the same as it was in 2000 when the site started, and I always expressed this as […]

Thanks, Anubodh.
It was a surprise that people in other countries could not access this through youtube. Do you know anything about their policies, etc, or are individual states like India banning them?

Dean, cannot understand your comment. Please supply a post or poster from the last ten years which you think we have banned, and for what?

My friend was so ashamed of what happened to him he did not “come out” with the full story until the Ranch collapsed.

I had no dreams of an alternative society, but felt at some level that to actually ‘be’ […]

I agree, Arps.

Much totalitarianism was in place in Poona One, but less evident, and it was very easy for people to simply leave if they felt something untoward was going down.

I personally knew people who […]

Not sure you ever went to the Ranch, but if you did you can speak from your own experience. That is not hearsay, and there are a number of us who were there writing at this blog.

For example, a close friend of […]

I think I have an understanding of the whole Ranch episode, and how it developed from the beginning. If the Existence gives me time enough I will write it down before decease.

Why I return to it is that I see so […]

Sad to say, Frank, Osho himself ‘believed’ in western medicine and often recommended it and used it himself. I have found this common amongst the Indian elites.

I myself have major doubts, as you seem to have, […]

Well put, SS.

The thing around AIDS I had almost forgotten, yet it shows how crazy they had become by that time and Sam (Prem Paritosh) was certainly right to underline it in his book. It is an indicator that […]

I trust what Surita says, and also even more so her dedication in having served Osho’s work from beginning to end.

People sometimes forget that the Sheela cabal actually announced that
they were “leaving the […]

Thanks, Dean.

I may try and write to him about the story you were told.

Some people around this story still suffer delusions of grandeur and consider it more important than it was, as it was so central to […]

Thanks, Dean.

But do remember all sorts of things are made up around such things. Personally, I would have doubts about this story.

Sheela and her two closest companions got very light treatment, and if one […]

I find it important information that the film makers did not approach Amrito.

They gave an enormous amount of time to Sheela and Shanti Bhadra who admit trying to murder him, so why not approach him and get his […]

Arps,
Thanks.
The experience I had was mine, and I do not dismiss it at all. Many fantastic experiences, and loving relationships without dependence.
Whatever Sheela was doing was all outside of that, that was […]