It was a labour of love.

They didn’t just grow vegetables but reared chickens and they had a herd of cows as well.

Any other plans for the future?

I have seen other groups of people come together, some of them take their clothes off under the sun and grow most of their own foods organically and live close to Nature. But these were people living in simple means, with perhaps solar panels as the only technology.

The red and orange crews were different. They had cement mixers and road building equipment. They built their own helipads and airport. They had their infrastructure and their own telephone system. There were watchtowers around the perimeter reminiscent of the towers around Worthy Farm- except the guards had machine guns.

The other thing. They had no childbirths there at all for five years.

Thanx for the read-suggestion.

Priya Huffman (Boulder) has left some beautiful reviews in Oshonews about her time on the Oregon ranch and otherwise, and maybe you´d like to read it, as it is an integrated piece from a mature and an experienced being.

She is meanwhile an author (poetry), artist (pottery), a Jungian Therapist and a mother.I love her deeply and owe her much gratefulness in so-called Pune I and especially so-called phase on the Ranch. Her review is trustworthy (if you are interested).

You don´t have kids of your ´own´, I presume, Kavita, so your long list of prescriptions you added then at lunch break time will all serve yourself very well, I guess. And thank you for sharing.

Madhu

The list is endless, thank God again I was saved the trouble!

People who are interested in doing post-mortem of short-lived history of Rajneeshpuram should ask, “Who were the beneficiaries of Sheela´s departure?” Most probably these very people must have created a rift between her and her Bhagwan!

Sometimes really I thank God for not having me during the Rajneeshpuram phase, especially since they worked for 18 hours as I was told by sannyasins who were there at that time.

As far as I remember, he called the Master/disciple paradigm a passage, is it not? It is not the end.

Certainly all organisations fail because they belong to the world, to the momentary. They don’t belong to the eternal.

For whatever reason, the paradigm of ‘Master/disciple’ was mainly fully encouraged, and was mistaken. Within the organisations it can so easily be reduced to ‘obedience’.

That is why I would think that Krishnamurti, UG, and also J, and Barry Long, and quite a few others discouraged ‘organisations’ around them, and especially those based on grandiose notions like a ‘Master’.

The idea of a Master is a sop to those who need a psychological security which does not in fact exist. A large part of it is based on a need for a paternal figure who is fault-free and has an answer to everything, not a friend who together explores and mutually shares issues with one. This latter is the best human model, and also the most elusive!

Some forms of Sufism, I feel, are based on this, and I am very sorry to learn that the mosque that was blown up in Egypt overnight was basically inspired by a Sufi vision. Just the sort of thing that really upsets fundamentalisms in all their guises…and would explain why it was attacked and many, many killed.

All the more reason to stay underground, and cloak oneself in apparent convention, whilst inwardly living one’s private and mysterious life, and seeing those conventions are rubbish.