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Tan, thanks. I was a commune member at that time. There was definitely something fishy about that day’s video going on, it was even announced that the video would not be shown for technical reasons. I can only quote you Max Brecher’s words which have the ring of truth to me. (Page 222) He says: [...]

Something was published from that day, much watered down but it did not represent the original lecture. Lectures were always videod so the whole commune could watch them in the evening, but this video was conveniently lost. There were about 40 sannyasins in the lecture, mostly Sheelaites but a few from the household. It is [...]

It can also be said that Osho died of natural causes, as I remember a Heart attack was mentioned on the death certificate. Not so uncommon in men of 59 who have lived a life largely without exercise. Osho was a great Master as you say Alok, but I dont think he was interested in [...]

Shantam, A “Religion” was created during the Ranch period, it was called “Rajneeshism”. It was Sheela’s suggestion. She rationalised it by saying we needed a recognised religion to give Osho the status of a religious leader, which would allow him to stay in the USA indefinitely. After Sheela left the commune, the Book of Rajneeshism [...]

Bingo, it is not in this case me who is saying that the Ranch had become a fascist type place. It was Osho – and the discourse in which he most alluded to it was destroyed. I lived through this period as a commune member. It was not so marvelous. Many, like me, felt we [...]

I sleep well. Maybe you misunderstood SD. I dont experience this as a problem but I can see those I would call devotees struggle with their common sense, and also with the grains of calvinism that is endemic in their devotional psychology. How can the Master be wrong? or perhaps misled by his advisers, etc?? [...]

It is a very difficult matter Satya Deva for a disciple, and even more so for a devotional disciple. After all, Osho himself believed he had been poisoned by the US gov, and it seems that he also thought for whatever reason that there was poisoning of his milk by the Sheela gang. Osho never [...]

This is going slightly off-topic which is a more general theme. No-one here has for example discussed Osho’s view in September, 1985 that his milk had been poisoned by Sheela’s gang. The micro politics of the situation in 1984/5 at the Ranch was going completely crazy. Puja the Head Medical person reporting directly to Sheela, [...]

Alok it is not fair to say this subject has been overvisited. It was never actually mentioned until 1999 except by outsiders such as myself and Prem Paritosh. It was only after Devageet’s article in 1999 and other articles from the dental team in Viha Connection magazine did it ever even get discussed as such. [...]

Good point Prem. Clearly in India whatever drug “Soma” was in the ancient times, was then used by many spiritual adepts three thousand years ago. The issue seems to me to be whether Osho wanted this activity to be a public activity, and if so, why has this been suppressed for over 20 years? Many [...]