https://www.abebooks.co.uk/book-search/author/juliet-forman/

Meditators may try to refuse it,
Spiritual folks may try to eschew it,
Hustlers my try to confuse it
Enlightened ones may even abuse it,
But as long as you still have to choose it
It`s gotta be ‘use it or lose it’!

Still expensive, but a mere snip at £72 on Amazon U.K.

https://goo.gl/UDEum6

It is some kind of Gurdjieffian thing. Apparently, he used to sell his books for a very large amount so that only people who really were ready to read it would buy it. Perhaps that`s why it`s so hard to find.

I think the next one for me to digest is ‘Glimpses Of My Master’ by Veena.

Yes, I call it a problem because you have somehow become obsessed with the notion that I am some kind of ‘evildoer’ and you are just the knight in shining armour to put me in my place. It’s bullshit.

I believe Osho came up with these book titles that his intimate circle disciples wrote at his behest.

I don’t think Existence speaks all the time through this or that great orator of spirituality-related subjects.

Present management has gone even one step ahead to tame the ox and turn it into a bull.

‘The Godfather–Parts 1, 2, & 3′
An innocent rural boy arrives in America to escape big troubles in his corrupt mafia homeland, settles in the New York area. Soon finds the New World is just as corrupt as the old one, and starts using the tactics of the enemy to create his power base, developing an ultra loyal “family” who engage in criminal activities to fund their enterprises: prostitution, booze production during the 30s prohibition era, money laundering, strong-arm extortion tactics.

The godfather Vito gets shot on one of his rare drives out of the family compound, and it’s war – “us against them” – to the mats, fear, paranoia, violent strategies are hatched.

Good son Michael tries to be the clean “new man” in all this dirty business, but gets sucked into the drama. Ends up taking over as the new godfather, and goes west, to Las Vegas and Reno, desert oases (prostitution, drugs, booze, instant marriages, gambling) to go legal.

Doesn’t work out – more violence, lies, in-family jealousies, problems with the politicians who baulk at being bought off. Michael has his own brother killed, and former loyal friends turn State’s evidence against him at congressional hearings. Goes to meet with Hyman Roth, the Jew who helped bankroll Vito back in the day, but ends up killing him – “just business, nothing personal.”

The family continues to disintegrate–Michael gets divorced, goes back to the old country, has remorse and confesses to a red-robed cardinal in a private therapy session, cries a little, thinks he’s absolved of his sins. Goes back to Vito’s old Sicilian village to watch his son in an opera about treachery and violence.

The audience applauds, but Michael’s daughter is murdered on the post-play steps of the theatre.

The aging godfather Michael dies alone in one of the mafia compounds, falling off a chair from a heart attack apparently.

Post-performance notes:

The Godfather films go on to win Oscars across the board, though the players were mostly young unknown actors and actresses. It was considered to be an entertaining and concise overview of American culture: power, religion, capitalism, family loyalties, corruption – all captured on film for never-ending profits and entertainment.

The producers hit the jackpot: Al Ruddy won an Oscar, and his wife, Francoise, who provided the funding, became the president of the Osho neo-Sannyas movement in Oregon and India.

Marlon Brando had his faltering career revitalised, won an Oscar for playing Vito Corleone, and died in 2005. His private Tahitian atoll has just recently been transformed into the Brando Resort, a business enterprise open for for anyone wanting some “recharging of their batteries” in the middle of the Pacific Ocean.

The director, Francis Ford Coppola, who, btw, also wrote the screenplay for ‘Patton’, continues to be seen at film festivals with the surviving cast members of his trilogy – now in their late 60s and 70s – reminiscing about when they made the movies. Will probably make it to the Director’s-Cut DVD.

No “Freudian slip” with “he”, btw, it’s pretty clear that’s what Osho wanted her to do, to fight for their rights, confront perceived injustice, persecution. But I guess ‘their’ would do as well.