‘Out of the Ordinary: True Tales of Everyday Craziness’.

A review states:
Ronson explains in the preface that he wanted to write about how people create bubbles of credibility in which they, sometimes they and their cohorts, are convinced they are rational while everyone else is crazy or do and say plainly irrational things as a consequence of “one thought leading to another”.

I found the pace and style of writing pretty engaging, as easy to read and as interesting as his other more bizarre topics such as military scams, conspiracy theorists and paranoia in such books as The Men Who Stare at Goats and Them: Adventures with Extremists.

The real talent emerges in both accounts like that in the postscript to his piece on the Jesus Christians where he admits first becoming convinced of his own villainy by a deluge of obsessive e-mails and then uncovers the same sorts of manipulation and mind control adopted by cults operating a private nursery.

He could well deny that he knew, for whatever purposes of legal and other positioning, but he had figured it out afaic. So anything he might have said after figuring it out could well have been for show, just to provoke her. Thus, the whole drama of asking Amrito to get some suicide drugs could have just been for Sheela, which possibility would make Shanti B’s whole reaction completely unnecessary.

I would even go so far as to say that Osho might even have known they might try to do something to Amrito, but he plays a dangerous game. Apparently, according to Shanti B’s book, Amrito went through that drama (of her murder attempt) in a very surrendered and non-blaming way.

a man:he is a perfectly amiable cove

Origin:

mid 16th century: perhaps from Romany kova ‘thing or person’

We will be repeating the same mistakes over and over. Get used to it. Get better at it. Ok DR?