Comments on: New York Times Review of “Wild, Wild Country”

By: satyadeva

satyadeva — Wed, 21 Mar 2018 21:38:24 +0000

P.S:
Haven’t seen ‘Holy Hell’ yet.

By: satyadeva

satyadeva — Wed, 21 Mar 2018 10:39:37 +0000

Because it’s such an extraordinary, fascinating, real-life story, well within living memory and very well-documented, with much sensational content, and apart from the ‘entertainment factor’, one that raises serious social, political, psychological, religious and spiritual questions.

So I’d have thought people might well have been queuing up to cover it on the screen, not only in print.

By: sannyasnews

sannyasnews — Wed, 21 Mar 2018 07:44:42 +0000

Ah, yes we remember you from times past. Good to see you back. But as we remember, you had never been to the Ranch??

By: Kavita

Kavita — Wed, 21 Mar 2018 06:12:16 +0000

Thanx, Klaus, for this interview link.

It seemed that Mark Duplass is into Osho, his lingo suggests that.

Though wonder how much truth does history have!

By: Lokesh

Lokesh — Tue, 20 Mar 2018 21:47:46 +0000

Seriously, though, SD, why are you surprised that it hadn’t been done before? There’s lots of good guru hanky panky stories out there. Did you see ‘Holy Hell’? Now that even makes Sheela look tame. Oh, golly, I do so love a guru scandal documentary. Pass the popcorn.

By: Lokesh

Lokesh — Tue, 20 Mar 2018 21:42:50 +0000

Part 5 could well have been titled ‘War of The Roses’. Osho managed to retain his sense of humour to the point that he was quite serious about it. Niren comes across as a good guy. Meanwhile, Sheela and the gang are eating Wiener snitzel and that Australian bird, who stuck a spike in Devaraj’s ass, is giving big laughs to show what a good time she is having.

You couldn’t make this shit up if you tried, but it’s not as good as ‘Homeland’, it’s better.

By: madhu dagmar frantzen

madhu dagmar frantzen — Tue, 20 Mar 2018 21:25:56 +0000

Hi Oshobob,

Welcome to the Chat here.

By: bob

bob — Tue, 20 Mar 2018 21:09:56 +0000

Oshobob.

By: sannyasnews

sannyasnews — Tue, 20 Mar 2018 20:28:03 +0000

Niren, who seems to have been somewhat used by the producers of these documentaries, has issued a new statement, 20th March:

“Certainly not the story I would have told. They de-emphasized Sheela’s fascist criminality, didn’t use all the material supported by facts that I gave them where the government admitted that it had no evidence that Osho was involved in any of Sheela’s crimes. US Attorney Charles Turner admitting, “We were using the criminal process to solve what was really a political problem.”

The real issue was stated in Governor Atiyah’s public admittance that he “wishes the Rajneesh followers would leave Oregon.”

And in the end, after the Community was destroyed, the Oregon Supreme Court found that the City “did not violate land use laws,” the basic contention of those who opposed the creation of a city from day one. This then led to the residents of Rajneeshpuram becoming involved in the city of Antelope in the first place, the basic cause of the confrontations that followed!

By: Parmartha

Parmartha — Tue, 20 Mar 2018 20:20:29 +0000

I watched the 3rd documentary tonight (I am not a binger!).
It strikes me, as it seemed to strike Lokesh, as beginning to go beyond a joke… Sheela was the pop star, more so than Osho by 1983/4.

No-one is saying that Sheela was not a good orator and had spontaneous abilities in front of the TV camera. Great oratory and totalitarian tendencies have very often been linked through history. She also had charisma, which in some people’s minds at this time seems to have outshone her Master’s.

Not surprising also that from the conclaves of such power totally crazy schemes began to emerge, bussing in homeless people, almost 6,000 of them, and refusing to accept that she was in America, and not India, where she could have no doubt bought the officials of Wasco County.

Once I had been asked to get something in a remote part of the Ranch. Suddenly about a mile off I could see what I rightly took to be Osho’s car.

I pitched down to the road and just namasted from the side of the road. I knew I was not supposed to do so in such a place. But then amazingly he slowed right down, such that I thought he was going to stop. That wave of energy that seemed to pass over me is still with me to this day.

For me, that connection was the only reason I was ever on the Ranch. I can see through these documentaries many seemed to have lost this, but I was not fully aware of this at the time.
When he reasserted himself from the end of 1984, Sheela and others actually began to lose interest. People forget that Sheela and her entourage did choose to ‘leave’ the commune, no-one had said they had to.